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Author Topic: Map size - What size do you play on and why?  (Read 5373 times)

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Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« on: December 17, 2009, 04:21:39 am »
i would like to know on what size maps people play. The reason behind their decision and the must have features they have on them.

I use a 6x6 maps with a magma pipe, river, flux and is flat. (I build city forts)

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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2009, 04:46:45 am »
Just started a 16x16 map to see what I could cook up.

Has every feature EXCEPT Lake and Ocean and Aquifer and other town...
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2009, 04:49:40 am »
6x6. Because I'm a masochist.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2009, 05:11:49 am »
Quote from: Shaostoul on December 17, 2009, 04:46:45 am
Just started a 16x16 map to see what I could cook up.

Has every feature EXCEPT Lake and Ocean and Aquifer and other town...

Is it not super slow playing on a 16x16 map?

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And whats so masochistic about 6x6 maps?
« Last Edit: December 17, 2009, 05:14:05 am by mareck »
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2009, 05:17:36 am »
Quote from: mareck on December 17, 2009, 05:11:49 am
Quote from: Shaostoul on December 17, 2009, 04:46:45 am
Just started a 16x16 map to see what I could cook up.

Has every feature EXCEPT Lake and Ocean and Aquifer and other town...

Is it not super slow playing on a 16x16 map?

-EDIT-

And whats so masochistic about 6x6 maps?

I'm getting 100+ FPS constant, I get weird spikes here and there, but it doesn't bug me.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2009, 05:24:35 am »
Quote from: mareck on December 17, 2009, 05:11:49 am
And whats so masochistic about 6x6 maps?

Low FPS. Of course, I like to play maps with lots of z-levels... my current (6x6) map has 138 z-levels.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2009, 05:30:34 am »
Quote from: blue emu on December 17, 2009, 05:24:35 am
Quote from: mareck on December 17, 2009, 05:11:49 am
And whats so masochistic about 6x6 maps?

Low FPS. Of course, I like to play maps with lots of z-levels... my current (6x6) map has 138 z-levels.

OK. HOW THE F**K did you get that right?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?

TELL ME!!
My max i got was 50.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2009, 05:35:18 am »
Quote from: mareck on December 17, 2009, 05:30:34 am
Quote from: blue emu on December 17, 2009, 05:24:35 am
Quote from: mareck on December 17, 2009, 05:11:49 am
And whats so masochistic about 6x6 maps?

Low FPS. Of course, I like to play maps with lots of z-levels... my current (6x6) map has 138 z-levels.

OK. HOW THE F**K did you get that right?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?

TELL ME!!
My max i got was 50.
You just kinda find em... Normally you need to have "extreme cliffs" on the embark area. Maybe for 2 tiles would make that more so.

Just gotta get used to looking for em, I haven't seen anything extreme like that with a tiny mountain that you can cover with a 16x16 map like mine, I only have 50 on mine. You'll be connected to a mountain range most likely.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2009, 05:36:52 am »
I play on various locations from 3x3 to 6x6. Usually 5x5 though as it seems to provide the best size/fps ratio.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2009, 07:08:20 am »
I'm about to start on a 1x3 for the sake of my FPS.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2009, 07:18:23 am »
I start on maps as small as the available features will allow me. Usually no smaller than 3x4.

My forts tend to expand vertically and utilize the areas in the sky, so x/y dimensions are less important than z-levels.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2009, 08:19:55 am »
Usually between 2x2 to 4x4, to save my FPS.

Features, always depends on what I intend to do.  A challenge fort might be low timber and no magma.  I avoid flowing water if I want a large fort.

Old machine, so I have to optimise whatever it is I am targeting.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2009, 12:47:12 pm »
6x6, because it's default.  Though, I've grown used to it, so larger maps seem barren, and smaller maps feel restrictive.

I must have running water and a magma pipe.  Running water for power and magma because DF without magma is ... not.  I like making glass for projects, but if a map doesn't have sand, I Tweak it in in a reasonable way, so it's only a loose requirement.  I'm really starting to like my flat map for Swordbaldness, but I still enjoy height variations for the character.  Anything else is just icing.
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2009, 01:18:58 pm »
Quote from: Shaostoul on December 17, 2009, 05:35:18 am
Quote from: mareck on December 17, 2009, 05:30:34 am
Quote from: blue emu on December 17, 2009, 05:24:35 am
... my current (6x6) map has 138 z-levels.

OK. HOW THE F**K did you get that right?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?

TELL ME!!
My max i got was 50.
... Normally you need to have "extreme cliffs" on the embark area.



You'll find it in the Wiki pregenerated worlds archive, as Lathondur Minbaz

http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Pregenerated_worlds#Lathondur_Minbaz
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Re: Map size - What size do you play on and why?
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2009, 01:27:11 pm »
Thx alot. Will see if i can duplicate it on my side.

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