Others were not real weaknesses but different design choices. The biggest was that it was of course limited to 2607 provinces, which were just not enough.Īnother one was that it took no account of what became the so-called "Holy rule" of map design. But as beautiful as the E3 map was, it soon became clear that it had severe weaknesses and that was not exactly what we had in mind for our own game. Our map originally started as the E3 map, as many of you already realized from the screen-shots.
Now let us have a look at the things you can see. At one point, I even felt schizophrenic, but now, we do feel better. Map design is now frozen until release (to ensure a proper game balance and the implementation of other features), but this doesn't mean that it won't change in the future.Īll combined, these three major specifications brought us on the verge of insanity more than once, especially when you compare them with our methodology and our desire to achieve the best possible map in terms of geography, history and realism. This point has never been fully consensual in our team and has evolved along the overall concept of the game, but combined with the other two specifications it gives the map its current look. It also means that some areas would have more attention than others, so you'll find far more provinces in North Africa than in Sub-Saharan areas. This means that whenever eras borders would conflict, borders from the world wars era would prevail. Third, we were asked to put emphasis on 1914-1945 era. If it proves impossible to comply with article 1 without breaking all you have done previously, skip article 1.A province shall not have more than six connections with other provinces.The Holy Rule can be summed up in two articles: For instance to ensure fluidity in the Belgian front, Lille has seven connections instead of six. Nevertheless, this rule admits arbitrary exceptions for gameplay reasons. After some jokes among the team, this rule became known in our team as the Holy Rule. Each time where a province had borders with seven or more other provinces, we suppressed extra connections, either on geographical grounds (major obstacles such as mountains, escarpments, lakes.) or by redrawing it slightly to make the absence of connection "visually acceptable". Second, given that military artificial intelligence may have trouble with handling fronts with too many connections (that is, when attackers could come from too much sides), it was decided that no province would have more than six connections with its neighboring provinces. It was soon discovered that only the actual number of province IDs used had influence on game performance, which allowed us to put the province number limit to 10,000 (or even higher for future modders' use) as well as to suppress all other limits regarding map modding. After many discussions during the preliminary phases of map development, three major specifications were established.įirst, in order to keep consistent with the massive improvements made by Martin with game speed, it was agreed to keep the overall number of provinces below 3,000. The first issue that we dealt with was to establish specifications that would make sure that our map would not completely break the game balance, especially regarding artificial intelligence capabilities. Knowing the community's (and our own) fondness for historical realism, and at the same time the needs of the Europa engine to provide an enjoyable game, we had to resolve the same dilemma with the map. The basic problem with game design is to find the best compromise between simplicity and realism.
Resident evil x reader ao3.It is Monday, and as promised, we are going to reveal a little more about Darkest Hour.īut let us start with a few words from Eric 'Eginhard' who defined most of the concepts of the main map (used in the grand campaigns).
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