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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted July 02, 2009 07:59 PM |
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Random map generator failure?
I was playing a game on my friend's laptop with one other guy. It was HoMM III Complete and we used the RMG to make a map. After exploring around for about a week I realized that my area had no exits; it is impossible for me to reach the other players. 
I was just wondering, how is this possible? I thought the RMG was programmed to make sure everyone always has an exit.
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They can take my swamp, they can take my town, but they will never take my FREEDOM!
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 02, 2009 08:26 PM |
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It is possible,I've seen many random maps like that.I don't know of any way to keep this from happening...
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zamfir
Promising
Supreme Hero
Allez allez allez
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posted July 02, 2009 08:34 PM |
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The RMG has some problems.
In a map, I had almost no goodies around, and my opponent was bathing in gold.
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angelito
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
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posted July 02, 2009 10:42 PM |
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The RMG has some problems.
In a map, I had almost no goodies around, and my opponent was bathing in gold.
This is no RMG problem, it was just created to be like that (3DO templates are mostly horrible balanced...)
And sometimes it is possible to be blocked by mountains all around, but this also happens mostly when playing the original RMG.
Custom made RMG's hardly create any maps like that...
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Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
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TmacV
Hired Hero
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posted July 03, 2009 02:04 AM |
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I had this not too long ago and I was hoping for fly/dd to be able to escape. Around Week 3 someone dimension doored in and I thought/hoped that heroe would just have a scroll. To my luck he ran away before I could fight him with main. I did not wait for another chance on that map.
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted July 03, 2009 04:35 AM |
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Yeah I guess I'll just have to get some templates rolling. 
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They can take my swamp, they can take my town, but they will never take my FREEDOM!
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SAG
Promising
Supreme Hero
WCL owner
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posted July 03, 2009 07:30 AM |
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I have never seen such bugs on custom-made templates. However on some huge original templates (XL+under) where there are 30+ zones RMG has problems with zone connections, it uses many-way monolith, when there are no more many-way then it uses one-way monolith and perhaps later it just places no monolith at all...
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KaiserYoshi
Hired Hero
It's clobberin' time!
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posted July 03, 2009 09:21 PM |
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RMG is notoriously buggy. Zones with no entrances or exits are pretty common. And I can't count the number of times it's screwed me over with a stack of Rust Dragons or some other L7 junk between me and my sawmill.
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 03, 2009 10:32 PM |
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I rarely play random maps now because of such bugs...
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angelito
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
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posted July 04, 2009 10:39 AM |
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I rarely play random maps now because of such bugs...
Use custom made templates....
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SwampLord
Supreme Hero
Lord of the Swamp
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posted July 04, 2009 05:58 PM |
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Can you direct me to a link that explains how to edit templates? I understand the gist but not the specifics.
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They can take my swamp, they can take my town, but they will never take my FREEDOM!
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angelito
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
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posted July 04, 2009 07:45 PM |
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Can you direct me to a link that explains how to edit templates? I understand the gist but not the specifics.
Here, 6th post from the top.
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