bug: problems with random map generator - gilligan's curse

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Was playing a random map where only myself and one other group had cities on a small strip of land separated from the mainland by water. After destroying the other group and completing all the available quests on our small strip, I found that I had no way of getting off the piece of rock to the mainland (no access to raise land spells).

 

We had to eat the skipper.

 

cheers,

zeak

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

If you have a save I'm sure they'd love to see it.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top


I had this happen to me once, except it was a much smaller island that only had enough room for 2 settlements, and there were no other opponents on the Island. Thankfully there was about 3 champions on the island, 2 of which had the merchant + earth spellbook abilities, so it wasn't a real problem that game (quite the contrary in fact!). This was back in 0.983 mind, I had saved the game before landraising my way to the mainland, but the save files have since been... gone.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

alas, I keep restarting new games using the same save game name.  Should be easily repeatable however - any random map generated which has continents on it that folks can settle on will automatically land lock someone if they don't have access to the earth spells

 

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

The fact that you got continents is an extremely rare occurrence (but it does happen). I can tell you from approximately a thousand maps I have generated and used maphack to see the entire map (as part of modding stamps), I have never once seen a map divided into continents. 

That is not to say it doesn't happen. CLEARLY it happens. But being so rare is why it is hard to replicate, which is why they'd want your saves.