Random Maps or pre-made?

[Rye Encoke]

Are the maps procedurally generated or pre-made?

[PQube Community]

Hi thanks for checking! There are 3 x maps currently in the game (1 for campaign mode and 2 for freeplay mode). All the current maps are pre-made.

[carmamir]

Originally posted by PQube Community:

Hi thanks for checking! There are 3 x maps currently in the game (1 for campaign mode and 2 for freeplay mode). All the current maps are pre-made.

Do you plan on adding random map generator?

If you worry about quality, you slap that random maps might not be of a quality. Believe me every player prefer to have any random map generator that will generate so so quality vs hand crafted maps.

[PQube Community]

Additional maps as well as a map generator have been requested a lot! We're looking at our options at the moment but agree that this would add a lot in terms of replay-ability. We'll have some news this week in terms of what we'll be adding next, so stay tuned for that!

[Legata Flavia]

Not every player. I prefer perfected maps, but yeah, random maps are fun too.

[楪 いのり]

Originally posted by PQube Community:

Additional maps as well as a map generator have been requested a lot! We're looking at our options at the moment but agree that this would add a lot in terms of replay-ability. We'll have some news this week in terms of what we'll be adding next, so stay tuned for that!

If you will really add complete random maps, please pay attention to enough ressources
In the one random map with the start of the small island it's not good balanced imho
You can easy take the 2 islands below and 2 east of you without beeing hated by everyone if you know how to do (i will not say it, it could be a spoiler).

You've one island with sugar, cotton and chicken +50%
One has coal and wild boar.
I'll not say it's bad, but it looks a little bit unbalanced when you need one island only for farms and the space for the people

Probably it would be better to patch it that goods will delivered to the warehouse also and not only to buildings with the production chain if they're in range before you add maps, because of crossbuilding it will be a bigger problem with bigger cities (you'll need 30 houses on one island and 300 on the other one for the chains)

[Paraleo]

@nightcore Islands being so vastly different because of the bonuses is one of the unique things that separates them from anno.
If you meant only to boost some of the traits and not make all islands the same I agree.
We could also use some ways to boost the final goods producers for the needs/wants.

[楪 いのり]

no no, it's not what I meant, that the islands should be the same

it's just that the goods needs more balanced, will show you below what i mean:

It's free game:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3285678682

This Island will probably have only farms, there are 3 very important goods wich need farms.
Farms need a lot of space and a huge amount of people
So I need a really, really big space for people, but that's midgame.
I do not have the highest workers and not really the 2nd highest,
How will the Island look when I've 30k people?

The space is not enough because you have to split the space in 3 kinds of farms


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3285678656

What should I do with this island?
Build meanwhile 11 wild boar hunters everywhere, because there isn't an other bonus.
Coal isn't important, it needs not really space, because you're lack on iron.
Probably I can build 30 there, nothing else.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3285678633

What to build here?
One Iron mine and... then?
Used it for cotton, could build 60 cotton farms but for what?
The Island is really big, I could plant everything there.
Oh wait, hemp and potato aren't good and aloe vera isn'r really needed.
So, I've space for... ?
No wild boar, no sugar, and hemp and potato is half production.

Use the Island for the production chains, mean, build a lot for final products there.
This island would definitively need another +50% boost for something or remove the -50% for potato or hemp to balance it more.

[楪 いのり]

that's the main land, just to complete it

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3285692733

Hemp AND wild boar looks imho useless on this island, because it's too small for both
Used it for main productions of clay, iron and steel, because it need a lot of space and lot of people

And also because of the reason to avoid production chains on ONE island, till they will update it that depots will bring ressources to the global store and not only to the production building next to the farm

[Paraleo]

I only played the campaign map, but from what I can tell when you have poor traits on an island that is probably meant to house population and late game factories, those traits you got there are just for you to get the beginning of the game going, but at the same time they could use the starting island to boost some of the late facilities.
Let's wait for the roadmap which was supposed to get out last week if I remember correctly, now its for this week apparently, we should also get a patch also at the same time, one would hope with some balancing.

[Iron Dice]

Originally posted by PQube Community:

Additional maps as well as a map generator have been requested a lot! We're looking at our options at the moment but agree that this would add a lot in terms of replay-ability. We'll have some news this week in terms of what we'll be adding next, so stay tuned for that!

Great to hear; this is the main thing I can see keeping this from long-term replayability on my game shelf. I'll toss my vote for procedural generation, too.

[SwampENhIEM]

To be able to choose what island you would like to start on at the beginning stages of free play would be a really nice feature.