27-07-2003 03:01									#1
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I started a game selecting the middle land-coverage setting for archipelago, but so fra I have found 6 of the 8 known civs on one "island" spaning 80% of the way from south to north and 30-50% of the way east-west. Not excactly an arcipelago, so I tried creating a number of games and using the Civ3MultiTool revealed the terrain. What I found was that archipelago does not seem to mean "a group of islands", but more like "interconnected-islands-continents". I then created a game with 3G years and one with 5G years, in both cases I got continents.

Is there a setting that ensures islands with room for 1-2 starting positions? I prefer to have development time before running into and dealing with neighbours. Call it peasfull early expansion.

	27-07-2003 06:02									#2
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I don't think there is any way to ensure an archipelago turns out to be an actual archipelago.


Try setting land coverage to it's lowerst percent, that should make the islands smaller.

	27-07-2003 09:09									#3
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ya hte creation itself is random... the computer does its best to mimic an archipelago... lower land percentage would definitely help

	27-07-2003 10:16									#4
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Seems that map size may play a part in this? You guys that use the editor, could you determine if that is true?

I have better luck getting a scattering of islands with a world size HUGE/Small land size/Archipelago. Good for Naval Warfare!

Standard world size or smaller always gives me a bunch of linked landmasses on Archipelago.

	27-07-2003 10:24									#5
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	27-07-2003 21:59									#6
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Bigger maps are better generated.

	27-07-2003 23:22									#7
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quote: Bigger maps are better generated.

Yep. Same algorithms but a better result.

Try playing a bigger map or just use the editor to generate one and then if you like the look of it play it. I know that takes away from the fun, but if you really want to ensure that the game is archipegalo then you have to look at the map.