Where are the f*cking caves?
Some national troops can be hired only there.

Great map, upvoted.
I would like to support the request to remove the blue tint from the land tiles: especially in winter, the cold tiles look similar to the water.
Thanks!

also I'm not sure if you are still working on this but would you consider adding caves? They are critical to the economies for many nations.

Heya Das could we get a version number for this on the info pop up..I dont know if my current version is up to date or not

The map looks nice and rather balanced in terms of provinces, but placing of 'nostarts' is terrible. The map has not a single coastline start, which harms several nations. I personally wanted to try this as Phaecia (there are a couple of nice islands), but was placed in the middle of land.

For some reason the files for this map were set as executable. Odd.

Great looking map Das!

Beautiful map, just wish the water was a bit more blue and the cold areas a bit more white like snow or something, as it is they are so similar at a glance.
Anyway I'm enjoying the multiplayer game videos, good luck Das!

Hi guys, Just to answer some questions...

The map is designed to be a backdrop to the units and UI of the game itself and this is why it is so faded. I play-tested different colour schemes until I was happy with the soft effect. I wanted the map to be there but not to be the main focus. I hadn't wanted the map to over-power the game at all. So on that score it is WAD - sorry. :)

I'm not sure about the 'Only Online' requirement, sorry. I can't see anything I can do about that from my side. Please let me know if there is a setting I can change that will fix this.

And no, there were no cave areas created. When the map was generated I thought the highland provinces were caves and it wasn't until I was a long way in that I realised they weren't.

Guys, if you like a more saturated map, you can always customize the image files with Gimp or another free image editing tool. Look for "saturation", "hue", and/or "contrast" settings. The map files themselves are in your Steam sub-directory. I can't remember where exactly, but ask on the forums. Just copy those files to your own local map directory and you've got your own version of the map to edit. I've done this myself with several maps that I wanted to tweak.

Also - are there no Caves?

I cant play this map in Steam Offline mode..

The "Only Online" requirement is really annoying. Another slap in the face (we are way past beneign neglect) to non-MPers.

I agree with CrabNicholson. It is too faded for me. A bit darker and richer colors would do a lot for it.

Is the map supposed to be super faded-out? It kinda hurts my eyes to play on.

Thanks very much DasTactic for the link to the files to use them offline. If not renamed by the user they perhaps can cause problems I guess with the workshop ones (Cannot test this during vacation right now). Please note that Johann wrote here in the steam maps thread that he may change the Download procedure in a future patch so that the maps are directly downloaded when clicked in workshop to the dom5 maps folder or something like that. That would prevent having maps with the same name in D5 maps folder and the workshop content folder if I understand that correctly.
Have a great day and Thanks again for that beautiful map!
Cheers!

A few more changes. Needed to add in some throne locations for the upcoming game.
Also added instructions on accessing the map files in the description for those who have been looking for them. May cause a conflict though if you don't delete the workshop files (I haven't tested this).

I'm not sure why some of the starts have caused crashes. The only time I've had crashes is when I have more than 9 thrones and I'm assuming the extra thrones are being placed in starting locations. I haven't had that crash since adding the extra locations. Keep in mind the maximum players the map can house is 8 land nations and 1 water nation. There are now 14 throne loactions specified on the map and any more than that will spawn randomly across the map.

Thx Das!!

Hi DasTactic,
Can you please be so kind and publish this great map in a thread so that it can be downloaded and installed manually? I started a sp with this map that is very interestening but I can't play it offline thanks to workshop (at least as far as I understand). Would be cool to play it during my vacation and I won't be able to be online there (at least not often).
Would be really cool if the workshop maps would be published also generally per thread so that everyone can install it the way they like (even if it is a bit more effort).
Thanks for your great work!
Cheers and greetings from Germany!

Another couploe of changes to the map to try and balance out the start positions:
- Forest at 62 changed to a swamp.
- Small plains at 85 changed to plains.
- Swamp at 92 changed to a small forest.
- The plains at 99 changed to large plains.
- Swamp at 106 changed to a large forest.
- Forest at 124 changed to a swamp.

have to say i tried Erytheia on this map and had a horrible start position. Granted, I only tried once, but the map didn't feel all that friendly to the coastal nation. Perhaps there were too many coastals rolled. Love the style though, I think i will try again with someone else!

having startpos issues with the map >_<

Hey Das on your sixth line down on your last comment you typed comress not compress, just wanted to give you a heads up.

THX DAS

Awsome map I like the lakes when I play LA Jomon

Wow, this is really outstanding.

Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments. :) To answer some of the questions/statements...
- Link to YouTube now fixed. Thanks for that. :)
- I'll have another look at the small map. I thought there was an issue with it but I should be able to upload that as well. I built that one before the game was launched.
- There were a number of livestreams on YouTube to build the map. I may see if I can comress these down.
- There are only 2 wastes on the map and no caves unfortunately. The underlying itself was randomly generated and originally I thought the highland provinces were caves.

are there Caves and Wastes?

Das did a stream showing how he made the map. Check out his site.

so beautiful

Lovely graphics.

This map is pretty cool, but as a simple request could you also post the map from your EA rus playthrough? It looks like a pretty nice map for duels.

Just going to point out your link is broken and consided bad juju. Great map though

Thanks

Wahoooo!

Thank you Das!! Amazing Map!

YES!