are the new pregen maps good?

[KromeHWI]

ive always played on navezgane.
has this been updated in a19?
are the new pregens good?
is it better to do random?
are there still any issues with random?

[Shurenai]

Pregen is just a pre-generated 8k random map. May as well do pregen imo (if it's been updated) than to wait to generate a new random map, when you already have 3 pregens.

[Lady MacBeth]

I played pregen 1 a bit it seemed fine. ITs just an RWG map they pregenerated for people that were having issues generating maps in the past.

[KromeHWI]

ah, that is good info. thanks. so navesgane is still the only handcrafted map?
are random maps better than navesgane? do they all have the same pois?

[Lady MacBeth]

Originally posted by KromeHWI:

ah, that is good info. thanks. so navesgane is still the only handcrafted map?
are random maps better than navesgane? do they all have the same pois?

well navezgane is 6kx6k where as rng is 8kx8k. navezgane is hand made so everything is always in the same place. RWG as I'm sure you understand random the worlds different every time.

[Ihateeverybody]

I like Pregen 3 the best of the Pregens. Pregen 1 seems a little too Spotty, Pregen 2 meh. Depending on your entry point your opinion may differ. 1 and 2 I spawned near Rect or Hugh so that pissed me off right away.

Perspective (I played up to level 40+ (20-30 days on each during Experimental).

[KromeHWI]

turns out making a random map can take as long as 45 minutes to build the first time. luckily once you build it the load is muuuuuuch faster. it also take a few minutes to load the first time for anyone joining your game.

[KromeHWI]

ill prolly give pregen 3 a shot then, thanks.
also nevesgane is different and rebuilt from the last version, so its actually still worth running again. the overall landscape appears to the be the same, but many buildings have been moved around (including the traitor joels). im a little sad though because they took away the huge corn field by the farm :(

[RLeeErmey]

I'm playing one of them and its good. It has a lot of towns, a large ocean on the east side. It has a lot of open areas too.

Could be better this game still needs a lot of work when it comes to the roads and such in random gen. But overall lots of pois and places to go.

[KromeHWI]

did notice when i made the rando map that there were some much larger cities/towns than in navesgane. and they were more organically formed rather than just a grid of buildings. the rando maps are HUGE (and surrounded by water, or was that just the one i rolled)!

[THARN]

if you have 20 minutes-- pregen one of your own some time...one aspect of the game i like is you dont have to play on same maps all the time.

[Toka Ghado]

I tried to play on all 3 pregens and even a lot of nitrogen maps.. but idk, Navezgane is the best IMO.. not a lot clunky buildinds from prefabs like ovnis and really ugly buildinds, and also the world makes sense..