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I think this would be essential to a Supreme Ruler 2030.

All of the things you can do with current modding, but more. Upload a flag, merge nations, select nation types, diplomacy, etc. Write a scenario, create Orbats, all within an in-game menu, basically picture the world map of the game, and have the editor present.

Great idea!In my opinion,adding an option to trade a nation's territory will make this game interesting.In addition,allowing players to build new cities (metropolis,large city,village,or business sector ,and so forth )is supposed to be added in the next generation.

a map editor esp for fan made customer sceniros would add to modibility. Im guessing a set sized map u can then specify land types, population place industries roads and what not. And create youre own world map ( map sizes from small to massive) would be a oood idea.

I definately agree with all u guys said!

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Tbh, I would like to know how they've created the original ones for the game
With that knowledge it "might" be possible to edit/create ones without the Goats releasing their own editor

We used an editor but often to make it capable of task #3 we had to break its ability to do task #2. It's in bad shape ATM.

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Chris Latour
BattleGoat Studios
chris@battlegoat.com

Well then can't you at least give us a link to the map editor the first for f #3 the other for f #2 or is it do f #3 and f #2 won't work?

The tool is no longer capable of certain functions. It's not something we're going to release.

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Chris Latour
BattleGoat Studios
chris@battlegoat.com

Aww... well what about modders having a go at it? You think it's possible?

I suppose it's possible for a modder to do it. However that means full knowledge of the system files that are required, a full design of a stand-alone editor, not to mention being more than proficient in C++.

Ontop of that, bug hunting, releasing the application, more bug hunting, re-releasing a different version, rinse and repeat.

Thats a lot of work for a modder. If you got a few of you doing it, then it's more plausible.

If it means editing the engine code, that would require written permission from BG. I vaguely remember a post a long while ago, and it mentioned BG not making the engine code public, so that's another obstacle to overcome.

I apologize for the negativity. Sometimes I'm a realist.

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I would be willing to give this a try, if I could get some cooperation from BG.

The most important information that I would need is the structure of the .MAPX file. If the current map editor is written in C++, then this information would be stored in the .H "header" files for the program.

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I think most think of a user friendly editor and one that you can edit everything on the "map" through a graphical "map"/interface in the editor. Well for those people, keep dreaming, I don't think BG will put resourses to build such a editor. But what I would be more than satisfied with would be a simple Map editor where you could do some border/resource changes, in code(might not even have to be in the editor itself), and then the editor would display the new map/changes.

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