A question concerning the map creator

February 28, 2009 3:01 PM from

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I can't seem to find a good tutorial or what the things mean. What are the "chances of phase lanes". What is really the difference between just pick a random small map and creating this yourself considering I can't figure out for the life of me how to adjust where the phase lanes are. I was disapointed to find out I can't create phase lane locations where I please and between what planets I please. Why would I want too? to create choke points. makes the game fun when you concentrate on one area to defend. I can't seem to do this with more than one planet per a character. There is a lot of features that say "min and max" but when I preview they don't really change anything. Some clariffication to how this works would be nice.

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Reply #1 February 28, 2009 9:06 PM from

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There is a program called Galaxy Forge that lets you design your own maps. It's available from the downloads section. As for difference between random maps and map designer: very small, designer just let's you set the values by which the random map is generated.

Reply #2 February 28, 2009 9:50 PM from

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Galaxy forge isn't working currently because the game changed the map formats, but a new version of galaxy forge that creates the new format hasn't yet been released.

Reply #3 March 1, 2009 5:14 AM from

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the latest galaxy forge is out and working called galaxyforge3.rar on the downloads page

I have used it to alter a map I had updated with the sins map updater, but at present these tools do not add maps to the galaxy manifest for entrenchment

harpo

Reply #4 March 1, 2009 2:21 PM from

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So the answer is that Galaxy forge prgoram allows and gives better features but a entrenchment version is not out yet? Ok thanks. I'll keep an eye out for the entrenchment version.

Thanks

Reply #5 March 1, 2009 3:19 PM from

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the maps are compatible, the only thing is the manual edit of the galaxy.manifest and increase the count of lines at the start of the manifest

harpo

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