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Melious

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Can't generate a new world.
« on: September 25, 2008, 05:03:34 pm »
I've tried messing with the seed count, and tried using all world sizes, but no matter what I can never get a map accepted. I stopped trying after on my 5th attempt, at over 4000 rejects, or over 7000 in total.


Somehow, that doesn't seem right.
This is a brand new laptop operating Vista, if that helps.
I've never encountered this problem before.
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Re: Can't generate a new world.
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2008, 05:05:20 pm »
What does the log rejects file say?
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Derakon

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Re: Can't generate a new world.
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2008, 05:19:12 pm »
After 500 rejects with the same reject reason, the game should pop up a window saying "I'm having trouble making your world because I'm not meeting X criteria, which depends on A, B, and C". For example, being unable to generate enough civilization sites, which require mid-level elevation in non-deadly temperatures, or being unable to generate enough peaks, which require high-level elevation.
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Melious

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Re: Can't generate a new world.
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2008, 06:08:31 pm »
Alright,I went grocery shopping and let it run the entire time.
At 17,000+ rejects, still nothing.

Log states 3 seperate reasons, frequently alternating between them.
The reasons being:
Rainfall not evenly distributed
Not enough low altitudes after shift up
Not enough peaks

I don't think it would be generating 17k+ maps with those same 3 problems..
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Re: Can't generate a new world.
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2008, 06:40:25 pm »
And you don't have any custom paramaters set? Have you tried re-downloading?
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Melious

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Re: Can't generate a new world.
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2008, 08:22:40 pm »
I've only downloaded the character/graphics set I used to use, shouldn't have changed anything.
In any case, I'll try re-downloading tomorrow and see if it fixes the problem.
Thanks.
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Re: Can't generate a new world.
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2008, 03:45:36 pm »
There's obviously not enough elves to kill.
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Re: Can't generate a new world.
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2008, 07:43:00 pm »
What version is this? It really SHOULD pop up the message about rejects.
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Re: Can't generate a new world.
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2008, 03:12:53 pm »
Quote from: Nite/m4re on September 27, 2008, 07:43:00 pm
What version is this? It really SHOULD pop up the message about rejects.

Your avatar perfectly demonstrates why dwarves are better.

Puny elves use GLASSES! Dwarves just QUAFF!
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