is pymouse still around to do the maps?

[Tzyder]

When dom5 came out there were no maps due to all the changes from 4-5 making the past maps unworkable. The map generator was still a work in progress but luckily we had Pymouse, who contributed a couple maps to release though its not clear if he got any revenue sharing. Will there be Pymouse maps with the Dom6 release? Is there a plan to have some dom5 maps ready for release? My understanding is that the plane/underground changes have broken mapgen.

[Mormacil]

Pymous has been active on various discord servers. So he's still around, I have no idea about the map status on release as the game isn't released yet.

[Sombre]

What do you mean by mapgen?

[Nukular Power]

Personally I almost always use random maps myself now - Ilwinter knocked it out of the park with the random map gen in dom 5. One of the things I'm most excited about in dom 6 is being able to use images as templates for maps. I doubt this will be an issue given that feature

[Tzyder]

I heard the map generator for dom 6 wasnt functioning and this was causing testing difficulties. While the map generator for dom5 is great now it certainly wasnt working at release and remains quite user unfriendly when compared to pretty much any other game out there.

[Nukular Power]

Hmm, not sure about that myself, but I would certainly expect it to be working by release, at any rate. How could it be more user friendly, though? you just click generate and you are done..

[Sombre]

Originally posted by Tzyder:

I heard the map generator for dom 6 wasnt functioning and this was causing testing difficulties. While the map generator for dom5 is great now it certainly wasnt working at release and remains quite user unfriendly when compared to pretty much any other game out there.

It's functioning.

[Tzyder]

Originally posted by Nukular Power:

Hmm, not sure about that myself, but I would certainly expect it to be working by release, at any rate. How could it be more user friendly, though? you just click generate and you are done..

There are a lot of features hidden in command line commands. Important ones like setting the number of caves and rivers And at the end of the day its still the same generator from like dominions 3? There is a meta gaming issue with developers relying on uncompensated community contributions and given how maps are vital to playing dominions I'd like to see mapmakers on the payroll or the map generator more casual user accessible so the games vital functions arnt dependent on uncompensated labor.

[Mormacil]

Originally posted by Tzyder:

Originally posted by Nukular Power:

Hmm, not sure about that myself, but I would certainly expect it to be working by release, at any rate. How could it be more user friendly, though? you just click generate and you are done..

There are a lot of features hidden in command line commands. Important ones like setting the number of caves and rivers And at the end of the day its still the same generator from like dominions 3? There is a meta gaming issue with developers relying on uncompensated community contributions and given how maps are vital to playing dominions I'd like to see mapmakers on the payroll or the map generator more casual user accessible so the games vital functions arnt dependent on uncompensated labor.

Then you're going to be disappointed because I don't see them putting anyone on the payroll. Not mappers, modders or sprite artists. If that's a breaking point for you I suggest walking away from the series.

[Selgeron]

I will say that I was disappointed in the maps in dom 5 on release. Dom 4 had a plethora of beautiful maps already in the game.

I also think that illwinter's mapmaker makes ugly and weirdly impassible maps with weird peninsulas and rivers. I survive entirely on mapnuke.

[Sombre]

I don't know which maps (if any) the game will ship with, but the game comes with a functioning map generator (which is quick and easy to use) and I think maps beyond that are largely regarded by Illwinter as supplementary rather than essential.

I agree it's not really a strong point of the series.