Suggestion: A Map/Mission Editor

[The Burnt Dreamer]

As someone who is more into the RP/Storytelling aspect of AOW4, I want to suggest adding a map editor for making custom scenarios. It could really help me elevate the storytelling potential of this game. I think it would be fun to create missions for your friends to play through down to the little details.

I'm also in the process of worldbuilding a setting for our DnD group and I'm thinking of using AOW4 to dynamically create a history for my setting. A map editor would help TREMENDOUSLY with this, as I can then map empire locations and significant points of interests as I need them placed.

[TriumphJordi]

Hey Burnt Dreamer, it's already possible to create your own Story Realms with specific/consistent World Generation through the available tools. The old school map editor we have hasn't been used during the development of Age of Wonders 4, so it doesn't work with any of our new systems. Using the Map Tools from Story Realms will allow you to create specific maps.

[BBB]

Guide?

[Anmaril]

Originally posted by TriumphJordi:

Hey Burnt Dreamer, it's already possible to create your own Story Realms with specific/consistent World Generation through the available tools. The old school map editor we have hasn't been used during the development of Age of Wonders 4, so it doesn't work with any of our new systems. Using the Map Tools from Story Realms will allow you to create specific maps.

That is too bad. This kills any interest in ever purchasing this title. The map/scenario editor is a MUST. The game was always an engine for me to build my own maps and play them. Guided generation isn't cutting it. And frankly, it also explains why the maps look so generated in the screenshots.

So, AoW3 for all eternity it is.

[Waschbär42]

I also think it is pitty that there is no real map editor anymore. I'd really like to have a map which doesnt consist of water and mountains 50%. The comparison to handcrafted maps of aow2sm f.e. clearly shows what map generation in aow3 and 4 is missing IMO.

But I also dont know the referred map tools yet - where can I find them?

[Anmaril]

Originally posted by Waschbär42:

I also think it is pitty that there is no real map editor anymore. I'd really like to have a map which doesnt consist of water and mountains 50%. The comparison to handcrafted maps of aow2sm f.e. clearly shows what map generation in aow3 and 4 is missing IMO.

But I also dont know the referred map tools yet - where can I find them?

AoW3 has a map editor.

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by TriumphJordi:

Hey Burnt Dreamer, it's already possible to create your own Story Realms with specific/consistent World Generation through the available tools. The old school map editor we have hasn't been used during the development of Age of Wonders 4, so it doesn't work with any of our new systems. Using the Map Tools from Story Realms will allow you to create specific maps.

plz bring back map editor for the next game, the maps you could make with it were so much better than randomly generated maps

[Waschbär42]

Originally posted by Anmaril:

Originally posted by Waschbär42:

I also think it is pitty that there is no real map editor anymore. I'd really like to have a map which doesnt consist of water and mountains 50%. The comparison to handcrafted maps of aow2sm f.e. clearly shows what map generation in aow3 and 4 is missing IMO.

But I also dont know the referred map tools yet - where can I find them?

AoW3 has a map editor.

Right. As well as a IMO pretty bad generation for maps - which was what I was referring to.

[Anmaril]

From what I have been seeing, that generation looks fancier in AoW4 but has the same core issues. It does not make sense. It's gamy. It's missing the human touch.

[velasquezt43]

I'd love a map editor too. I'm an old time wargamer (and an old-timer too!) who'd like to try and recreate maps from various wargaming sources or just realistic terrain or my own created maps. That's probably a bit niche but it would be nice to be able to do.

[꧁༺๓คɭ༻꧂]

Definitely need a mountains slider... been needed for so long... this is land map with overgrown and the amount of mountains on it is always the same. Ridiculous. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3113118308

[DesiredPotato]

Just here to pile on that the auto generation is a major buzz kill. Why are the maps 80% mountain when I put every setting towards have a lot of open space? Why are there always multiple city states within 10 tiles of me when I put it on low population?
Those map settings are just false advertisement at this point.

[BBB]

AFAIK mountains are used to create "zones" for the players, sort of a sub division of the map, more like making a game board than a "realistic" map, if that makes sense.

[DesiredPotato]

Even if it was meant to create zones it failed immensely. Just look at Mal's screenshot, that's how I start as well, with mountains surrounding my city and no real space to expand. And once you find some open space there will be another player or city state there. Buzz. Kill.

[Anmaril]

And then there should be an option to create a more realistic setting as well.