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  1. This was the most painful map creation experience in 7D2D for me, since I bought the game in 2013. But I'm very thankful that we have Teragon to be able to do this. I hadn't played for a few months and wanted to go back into action with 20.6 and the Compo Pack 48.6. So I learned that we have a new tool, Teragon, but this is not easy to use. I used your beautiful created vanilla 10k map ini as base and started from there. Goal was to create the same map, with the Compo Pack 48.6, all-inclusive + vanilla. Took me 2 days and around 15 to 18 hours, more than 50 creation runs that failed, to finally get a result that looks playable. First problem, I ran into, was to get Teragon to use the Compo Pack POIs. After I finally managed to get that working, the city number and size was the next problem. Each adjusting run, was around 17 minutes and at first, I had a lot of crashes until I figured out that displaying the POI names on "Updating Preview" causes Teragon to crash when the new POIs are used. So I unchecked that and got to the next step. Now all other POIs were generated and for some unknown reason, your ini had the setting of over 300 to 1000 POIs per biome, which flooded the whole map with several thousands POIs. Took me several runs to tune that down, up to the point where I allow only 25 POIs per biome (initially it was set to 300-1000). Next step were the main roads. Took around 1:40 hour to generate them, just to find out that I forgot to remove the checkbox for "Display POI names" for the other "Updating Preview" tasks... It crashed again. After another 1:40 hour I got to the next step, side roads. This was the most painful process, as it progressed, it became slower and slower. Teragon also failed for unknown reason, to create the preview JPG and PNG, even so the setting for it was correct. That is the reason I have only screenshots from Teragon itself. The final result was had still way too much wilderness POIs, so I had to adjust the number further down, to only 5 per biome. The first picture above, shows the result from the first full run, the other 2 pictures show the result from the second full run. So another over 4 hours wasted. The final run was 4:19 hours and the result good enough to stop at this point and try to play the map. If anyone wants to give this map a try, download it from Dropbox. You need the compo pack 48.6 in your mods folder! https://www.dropbox.com/s/wdrdeyx2v2uis8u/Teragon %26 Compo Pack 48.6 All inc Vanilla - 10k V2.rar?dl=0
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