Kingdom map editor

[Siegebreaker]

Are we going to get a map editor for countries and counties?
That would be awesome, and would allow for a very high replayablity value.

Plus user made maps and mods would add long legs to this game and community. :cool:

[LordMatthias]

Originally posted by Siegebreaker
Are we going to get a map editor for countries and counties?
That would be awesome, and would allow for a very high replayablity value.

Plus user made maps and mods would add long legs to this game and community. :cool: Indeed. I would definitely consider building a website with an extensive database around custom maps.

[Pioneer]

One thing to put alongside an editor would be a randomised scenario feature so that a player could chose to play with all valued and ahistorical. It would give much of the replayability of an editor but without the effort that daunt the lazier, time constrained or casual player.

[Huwie]

Posted in the FAQ:

"We are using a very powerful editor to create the world of Knights of Honor. Of course we would like to share this editor with the community, but we first want to be sure that it’s easy enough for everybody to use."

[Kevin]

Originally posted by LordMatthias
Indeed. I would definitely consider building a website with an extensive database around custom maps.

That would make the community bigger! This is so great!

[Siegebreaker]

Originally posted by Huwie
Posted in the FAQ:

"We are using a very powerful editor to create the world of Knights of Honor. Of course we would like to share this editor with the community, but we first want to be sure that it’s easy enough for everybody to use."


Cool!! :cool: :D

[BLOODUK]

nice :)

[Moorkh]

Originally posted by Pioneer
One thing to put alongside an editor would be a randomised scenario feature so that a player could chose to play with all valued and ahistorical. It would give much of the replayability of an editor but without the effort that daunt the lazier, time constrained or casual player.


Could we have an answer to this connected question, too?

[Frank Fay]

Regarding the editor. It has not been decided yet if the editor will be shipped with the game or not. It depends on how much time we have left to polish the editor actually.

The answer to the random map feature I have to postpone to a later date.;)

[Moorkh]

Thanks. We can wait - a little. ;)

[hase957]

I hope editor will come, even if I have to wait for it a little bit longer!!!

[Siegebreaker]

Yes, the editor is what keeps a game in the hard drive. There is little you can do after you have played the shipped map for x amount of time.

I don't mind waiting a little longer for the editor.

[Pioneer]

What I mean is just something that allows unhistorical randomised values for populations and so forth or some sort of editor lite that a lazy player could move a set of sliders to alter the main values for each country. This game might not work so well with a random map feature though would be good too. Unless a player confined himself to doing something like altering the population of one particular town or a few towns, creating a fully released scenario would take a long time particular given the scale of the game.

[Carcassone]

I know that without a map editor Stronghold would have been a dust collector much quicker than it already was. However, KoH is far above Stronghold from what I've read and understand, it's everything and then some that in whcih Stronghold should have been.

But hey, map editors map the community happy

[Spudster]

maybe, like onthe 1503 AD site, we could have a GAMEBULANCE...somwhere where people share saved games and maps....

[Frank Fay]

We know how much you like it, but we would prefer to ship an editor which can be used by everybody and has been tested well. However, we cant confirm if with editor and which featureset it will have. It is more or less a publishing decision.

[Spudster]

Originally posted by Siegebreaker
counties?

????? why counties...did you mean countries???

thanks Frank...it makes more sence your way:eek:

[Moorkh]

Originally posted by Spudster
????? why counties...did you mean countries???


I strongly assume what he means is this:

county = fiefdom; one single territory on the main map. It has a certain population, income, structures etc.

country = domain of a ruler; all the territories (counties) that are under the control of the player or an AI side, as well as the armies, alliances etc that correspond to it.

[hase957]

In the editor it would be grate, if you can change the lanscape, but it is even ok if you can chance castles (where they are, how many,...).

[Spudster]

oh..i didnt think he was talking about the game....hehehe....sorry...