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More map variants or increase RNG chance!

PeenutsButt3r
PeenutsButt3r Member Posts: 695
in Feedback and Suggestions

some old maps have like 4, 5 variants and mostly new maps have like 1 or 2. Chances will favor the old maps and it's kinda boring keep seeing those map again and again. I know I can use offering to get what I want, but what I say is overall chance without offering

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  • Deadeye
    Deadeye Member Posts: 3,627

    They have 5 variants and they also were added from time to time. Not sure if they started with 3 maps or 4, but they were extended at least once. Same like with Badham, that started with a single map and was reworked to have 5 different maps. Which is a little bit different, because it just changes the layout, these 5 maps don't have each their unique main building, they are just shifting arond the tiles a bit.

    The five maps for Cornfield, Autohaven and MacMillan have each a unique design and main building, so they are basically all unique maps but with the same base set of TL walls etc. For a long time I even thought Crotus Prenn and MacMillan is the same realm because they both use the brick walls.

    Should mean, you can't increase the RNG on this, we just have a bunch of unique maps that are randomly chosen. You can't increase RNG to make for example Ormond more varying, they would simply have to create completely new maps that use the same key elements of the Ormond realm. You just can apply RNG to which windows are open and which pallets are placed etc.

    And, to be honest, we have 14 realms with 34 maps. That is a 14,7% chance (5/34) to get a MacMillan map. That isn't too bad in my opinion. Sometimes you just can be unlucky and get 3 (n.b. 3 different) corn maps in a row. Unless you don't say "I don't want corn, auto or MacMillan maps twice in a row" which would be ~45% chance. But in that case I would say, yeah, then you would have to go for map offerings. Because I could also say "I don't like Crotus Prenn, Ormond, Saloon, Badham or indoor maps and want to see different maps more regularly". If you just list a bunch of maps which make half of the game, you will simply see those maps every second game. Only solution to this would be, pause playing for two years, then we have enough new maps by DLCs to lower the chances for the first three realms (which contained so many maps to bring in variety into the game in the early days, btw)