Map Question: Marakanda/Samarkand?

[PriestLizard]

Hi there.

First of all I'd like to say: RTR is a great mod indeed and I'm very impressed by all your work... I hope you go on like that and hopefully RTR 7.0 is going to be another masterpiece!

I already tried to find the answer for my question but I didn't find anything.

I'm just wondering about why there is no Marakanda on the campaign map. I already compared your campaign map with historical/current 'real' maps and I'm pretty sure, that your map should contain Marakanda... or is it more far to the north-east?

If you look on THIS map, you can see that Marakanda/Samarkand should be basically in the middle of the rivers Oxus and Jaxartes.

In general I'm a little bit confused if I compare the location of Merv-Herat-Taxila on that map with their locations on the campaign map.

However: I'd just like to see Marakanda on the campaign map, as I consider it as one of the more important settlements in that region (and at that timeframe).

So my questions: As RTR7.0 will have a quite larger campaign map, will Marakanda be included to that campaign map?
And is there a way to modify the current campaign map so that it includes Marakanda? I tried to find the matching entry in the TXT files but I wasnt successful with that. Also I'm not sure which settlement would be Marakanda?

Ok, thanks in advance and best wishes~
Bye Priest

[florin80]

Welcome!

I'm just wondering about why there is no Marakanda on the campaign map. I already compared your campaign map with historical/current 'real' maps and I'm pretty sure, that your map should contain Marakanda... or is it more far to the north-east?

There probably are a number of issues with the old RTR 6 map. The thing is that while we had people complaining about this being in that place or not, the RTR 6 map will not be changed. RTRPE is just a port of RTR 6 Gold to the engine of RTW v1.5. We didn`t do changes to that extent. Most of what was implemented besides the port are simple fixes. The big history/geography inspired changes will have to be done in RTR 7.

So my questions: As RTR7.0 will have a quite larger campaign map, will Marakanda be included to that campaign map?

RTRPE and RTR 7 are two different projects, you should ask this in the main RTR sub-forum. There is a pinned map preview thread there, but I should warn you though that the borders and provinces have suffered corrections since that preview was made so don`t draw conclusion based on it. A new map preview should be made to show the final status of the RTR 7 map, but I have no idea when.

And is there a way to modify the current campaign map so that it includes Marakanda? I tried to find the matching entry in the TXT files but I wasnt successful with that.

You could, but it needs more then text changes if you want to have it in a different location or the region to have different borders. There should be tutorials here at twc for that. Here is a link to the mapping sub-forum:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=351
Another thing is that there is a limit to the number of provinces ou can have and that limit(195 iirc) has been reached in RTR 6 Gold/RTRPE. If you want a new province you need to remove another.

If you only want to rename one of the existing provinces/settlements choose one and I`ll tell you how to do it.

[limes]

Big geography will be part of new AEE too. Check up new map of AEE 2.0 when it'll be released . You'll find all mentioned places there: Tashkent, Andizan, Samarkand (Marakand), Merv, Multan. ALmost all cities of Achemenid dynasty was relocated.
Old map is not bad. Very often location of cities depends on technical reasons (distance between them should not exceed 50 tiles, etc). Their names.... Hmmm .

[Darkarbiter]

Big geography will be part of new AEE too. Check up new map of AEE 2.0 when it'll be released . You'll find all mentioned places there: Tashkent, Andizan, Samarkand (Marakand), Merv, Multan. ALmost all cities of Achemenid dynasty was relocated.
Old map is not bad. Very often location of cities depends on technical reasons (distance between them should not exceed 50 tiles, etc). Their names.... Hmmm .

Yes was about to say... if you want to see changes to RTRPE then made a mini mod or suggest it to limes. AFAIK AEE is pretty much the only ongoing minimod for RTR PE atm.