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Revision as of 22:55, 6 October 2024
When starting a fresh game there are several settings you can adjust. This page hopes to go over what each of them do and how they affect your game.
Difficulty
- Esquire (Easiest)
- Baron
- Viscount (Default)
- Earl (Normal)
- Marquess
- Prince
- Duke
- Grand Duke
- King
- Emperor (Hardest)
(Need to add what bonuses/malices the AI and player gets in each)
Map Type
You can select a preset or configure the map generation yourself.
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Indus
A balanced map with a realistic distribution of food, wood, and materials. |
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Globulous
A balanced map with two large continents and scattered nearby islands. |
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Northlands
A single continent full of trees, snow, and wild animals. Hunting will be more important than farming. |
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Great Lakes
A single continent with multiple inland seas. Temperate climate and resource nodes. |
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The Torus
A single continent which wraps around the globe. Or, a single landmass with two large inland oceans. |
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Tropical
A moderately sized continent surrounded by ocean and a few islands, with no colder regions. Food is more plentiful. |
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Heatwave
A continents map with much less rainfall. Food is reduced everywhere, and deserts are larger. |
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Generate New Map
These options are available when choosing to configure the parameters of map generation yourself (Which is the default).
- Map style
- Supercontinent
- Global Archipelago
- World Spine
- Four Continents
- Fractal Coasts
- Great Inland Ocean
- Continental Isthmus
- Twin Continents (Default)
- Map Size
- Tiny
- Small (Default)
- Medium
- Large
- Wrapped Map (Enabled by default) - If it wraps around into a cylinder or not.
- Seed
- Axial Tilt - How tilted the planet is. Earth generates tundra in the north/south and desert in the middle. Uranus does the opposite.
- Earth - 23.5 degrees (Default)
- Jupiter - 3.1 degrees
- Mercury - 0.0 degrees
- Uranus - 82.2 degrees
- Temperature
- Scorching
- Tropical
- Mild (Default)
- Boreal
- Polar
- Humidity
- Arid
- Semi-arid
- Humid (Default)
- Wet
- Monsoon
- Sea Level
- Dry
- Shallow
- Average (Default)
- High
- Global Ocean
Nation Settings
How many nations will spawn. The amount you can select depends on the map size selected earlier.
Note that as of version 1.0.3 there is a bug where the difficulty will not be set correctly if nations are added after changing the difficulty!
| Number of Nations possible | |||
| Min | Default | Max | |
| Tiny | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Small | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| Medium | 2 | 12 | 18 |
| Large | 2 | 12 | 36 |
Advanced Settings
- Turn Limit - Note that as of version 1.0.3 this will NOT change the speed of the game. Only when the game is forced to end!
- Brief (100)
- Short (300)
- Medium (750)
- Long (1250) (Default)
- Randomized Tech Draws
- Human Player Culling
- Vegetation
- Low
- Medium (Default)
- High
- Wildlife
- Low
- Medium (Default)
- High
- Ore
- Low
- Medium (Default)
- High