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Rename Rouen to Ratumacos and make it circular
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Authored by elexis on Mar 1 2017, 4:12 PM.

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Rename:
According to the english wiki article about the city:

The Gauls named the settlement Ratumacos

So maybe this is a better name than the modern Rouen. Perhaps someone who speaks french can also find a gallic name for the river, rather than a latin one.

Circular Map:
Square maps should be avoided where possible. So let's start with the Rouen map, because all four corners of the provided heightmap are uninteresting ballast, so we can safely cut them off.
The starting positions have to be adapted though. This was done by starting atlas editor, deleting all trees by selecting them with Alt+doubleclick and pressing the delete button,
then placing civic centers so that their territory boundaries are equally spaces. Notice this resembles the radial placement, but we can't use the generic radial placement algorithm, as that doesn't consider the river.

While at it, reduce the number of trees slightly.

Test Plan

Ensure that the mapgen works with both placement patterns on tiny map sizes (stronghold only active for normal and larger).

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elexis created this revision.Mar 1 2017, 4:12 PM
Vulcan added a subscriber: Vulcan.Mar 1 2017, 4:59 PM

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Possible description: "Players start on the banks of the River Sequana (Seine) in Northern Gaul near the settlement of Ratumacos. Destined to become one of the largest and most prosperous cities of Medieval Europe and one of the Anglo-Norman dynasty capitals under the new name of Rouen, Ratumacos is still a peaceful land - but not for long."

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Grugnas and Hannibal convinced me to keep the old wood balancing, so the only thing to review here is whether the player placement works on tiny mapsize and whether the uploaded preview looks good.


Grugnas added a subscriber: Grugnas.EditedMay 6 2017, 12:27 AM

The circle version of the map definetly looks nice, while the square versop offered some unused corners eventually used for a well hidden trade route.

Normal size: Despite the corners didn't have relevant resources, rounding the map reduced the gap between the upper-left river traversal and the left border of the map while the traversal on the bottom-right side of the map has been partially cut off but still traversable. There are 5 passages to pass the river.
In team games players are placed on the same side with their ally preventing unwanted placements surrounded by enemies.
The wood "tons" density is aestethically more attractive due the presence of straggler trees which kinda complete the map.

Tiny size: While in tiny size there is no passage cutted off, the tiny river is nicely preserved but trees density is quite concentrated (if not entirely concentrated) in the mid of the map under the influence of half players in a 8 players game

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