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Impending Doom

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Generating a totally screwed-up world
« on: November 25, 2008, 07:03:23 pm »
Yeah, like the title says. I've been trying to create a world in which Mother Nature has taken the laws of physics, stuffed them into a great cosmic blender, and mashed the 'puree' button until it broke. I want scorching deserts smack in the middle of freezing glaciers, huge mountain peaks in the middle of the ocean, etc. But every attempt I have made has ended up with either infinite rejects, or a world that looks entirely too... normal. Can anyone point me in vaguely the right direction? Any help is much appreciated.
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Re: Generating a totally screwed-up world
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2008, 07:27:11 pm »
Well, infinite rejects can be solved by turning off the rejection conditions (all of those "minimum _____" lines in world gen)

I'm not sure if the world generator will be willing to do that, though, since it tries to be realistic. I suppose you could set all the variances to maximum and hope for the best...
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Re: Generating a totally screwed-up world
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2008, 07:36:54 pm »
Turn off all those, and then...  Break the worldgen numbers by hand-editing the worldgen file.  I have a world with 200% volcanism - an entire ocean boiled away as I watched, steam constantly forming on the borders.
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Re: Generating a totally screwed-up world
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2008, 08:09:34 am »
Set all variance to max, that should go a long way.
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