[Freeciv-Dev] Re: mapgen 5

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:22:29PM -0400, Karen Yeats wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> 
> > I would like to commit your fractal mapgen patch.
> > Would you please post a patch against CVS?
> >
> > -mike
> >
> 
> Here it is.  This version has been tweaked a bit from the one I sent in
> previously.  The only change that is not incredibly minor is that it more
> strongly tries to naturally keep continents away from the poles.  This
> means that with separatepoles off only sometimes will continents happen to
> attach to the poles, they won't be rather prone to flattening against them
> as before, and with separatepoles on the results are prettier since the
> brute force separation in "make_passable" is only occaisionally needed.
> These changes are strongly inspired by some suggestions from Ross Wetmore.
> 
> I hope you like it.
> 
> Karen

I can report that it is already being used quite frequently.
About 20 times on civserver.freeciv.org.

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Reinier