[Discuss] Any plans to introduce a new island?

[Dorian Gray]

On 9/27/06, Timothy Collett <danaris at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Vinnie wrote:
> > PS: Tom, I read on your CV that you hate manual processes and that
> > all of the neccesary manual things quickly find themselves
> > automated. Is automating much of the "make-new-map" process
> > impossible? So that all that would need to be done is drawing the
> > map and coming up with a list of region names...
>
> How, exactly, do you propose to have the computer figure out which
> regions are connected to what, which region types they have, their
> sizes, economy values, etc, etc, etc...without any human input?
>
> You think it can read the image and figure that kind of thing out?


Making an island is done so infrequently that the effort to build such a
system would exceed anything saved by having an automated system do it
instead of doing it manually. You might be able to build a system that,
given say region name, type and relative size, return semi-random
gold/food/population quotas, but that'd be the extent of it.
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