Topic: Lesser Ring: Another attempt at creating an interesting, large, balanced 8-player map

Basically the same ideas and principles as in my Ring map, but smaller. I consider this map to be more suitable for typical games.

The map can be found at http://pholia.tdi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~philipp/widelands/

As Ring, the map is based on the following aspects wanted to see in it:

• Somewhat realistic division of geography - rivers flow glaciers in the mountains through hills and finally plains to the sea.
• Somewhat realistic distribution of resources: Different resources often found at some distance to each other.
• Gold is valuable, and thus rare, especially in the early game.
• There are places of strategic importance, such as river crossings, that military action focuses on.

Philipp

I updated the map for build 18.
The map has seafearing (and was made from the beginning with efearing in mind), but seafearing is not a dominant feature of the map.

Philipp

P.S.: So far I also like how the AI behaves on the map in build 18.

The map has been updated for the current develpmetn version of widelands and uploaded:

https://wl.widelands.org/maps/lesser-ring/

Philipp