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NPC99 said:

Occasionally the border movements get bugged. Normally, changing the numbers in module.ini to something approximately correct and reloading, unbugs it, allowing movement of the borders again in the editor. Also, remember the B key in selection mode toggles map bounds on and off.

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NPC99 said:

As I said: 1 pixel in the colour map for 1 triangle in your warband map.
If your warband map is say 400x400 triangles, use 400x400 pixels in your colour map.
I don’t know what map size you’ve specified in Thorgrims configuration file.

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NPC99 said:

As I said: 1 pixel in the colour map for 1 triangle in your warband map.
If your warband map is say 400x400 triangles, use 400x400 pixels in your colour map.
I don’t know what map size you’ve specified in Thorgrims configuration file.

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kalarhan said:

you are under the impression that a bigger world (read more places like towns/castles/etc with longer travel speed) must follow Native Warband rules, which is not the case. Native is just one game, one ruleset. The mod can do whatever he wants with his own game rules.

There is no reason to have quests that make you travel the world for little gain, unless the modder wishes for that or the game is bad balanced. It is not a map problem. Its a design problem.

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NPC99 said:

The importer on Thorgrim’s Map Editor determines the predominant colour/terrain for each triangle. If go go from a high resolution colour map to a very low resolution warband map, you are asking for trouble. It works best with one pixel in the colour map for each triangle in the warband map to avoid confusion. I recommend you reduce the resolution of your colour map and reimport it.

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kalarhan said:

but why? Unless you are talking about a badly balanced mod that forces you to travel around the world, which is beyond the point, as that is not about the "size" of the map (read number of regions/towns/castles available + travel time/speed).

Lets say you have Europe as the map. You can spend your campaign inside England, doing some attacks/raids around France and Ireland/Scotland. You dont need to go to Spain to do quests for lords there, or Italy, or Poland ... those regions would be there for future campaigns or as places you can lead the royal army for wars, or places you can lead your warband for raiding before going back home (viking style )

As mentioned earlier and also above its about the design to make the campaign not a grind experience.

Of course if you define a fun end game as a map where you can conquer 100%, then yes, having a massive amount of places to conquer would be a drag and and you should avoid those kind of mods.

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kalarhan said:

is that a problem tho? You dont need to conquer the entire map, and it adds replay-ability by letting you try different regions of the map. So it is up to the player goal, as if your endgame = conquer all, then it is not a mod you will enjoy. But if you are fine with ruling one nation and fight wars with neighbors, send raiding parties to distance lands, or join a crusade or two, then the huge map works for that.

the quest issue could be solved by a different design that takes distance under consideration. Mod has its own rules for a quest and can do whatever they want with them, from removing, editing to adding new ones.

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