continent size on island based map generator

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3plus4i
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continent size on island based map generator

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Is there a way to affect the size of the islands the island based map generator produces? Because for larger maps, it creates dozens of fairly small islands, leaving most of them empty. I'd rather have one larger continent for each civilization for a test game I want to run.
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Re: continent size on island based map generator

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Wouldn't you just use the continents generator and set it to one player per continent?
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Re: continent size on island based map generator

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Isn't that the island based one? It's somewhat confusing, because the options in the game (3.0.3) don't match the list on the wiki under server options. The former has 6 options, with two variants of FRACTAL and the latter only has 3. I guess I could try the "fair islands", though the continents don't have to be identical.
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Re: continent size on island based map generator

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If you hover over the dropdown, it gives an explanation of the options.
Random: equally spaced, small islands.
fractal: Earthlike, with one or more large continents, and some smaller islands. This is probably the one you want, with it set to one player per continent.
Island: Islands.
Fair islands: each player gets an identical copy of a master island
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Re: continent size on island based map generator

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You can use the

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tilesperplayer 
server option to give each nation a big island and then use

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landmass 
option to allow for some random smaller empty islands.
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