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Very interesting. So, it is possible to have the two kinds of river, just by making a sufficiently sophisticated ruleset+tileset? No need to patch the freeciv c code? I already have a terrain generator that can easily make small and big rivers; It simulates waterflow, so all I need for river sizes i...

Currently, there is only one type of river in freeciv. I think two sizes makes for more interesting terrains: Small river (same as the current river) Useful for irrigation Only small boats, like triremes Bridge building tech needed to build a road across the river tile All land units cross the tile ...

I upgraded my extended terrain types so they work with freeciv 3.1.4. Extended terrain tiles and a ruleset (civ2civ3) using them is available from: https://github.com/Hafting/freecivstuff The freeciv terrain generators will use the features (extra hill types and volcanoes) when the toonhex+ graphics...

Made some volcanoes. I don't know a way to make them erupt. They are high reward in that they provide lots of production - volcanoes bring unusual stuff like sulphur to the surface. And they are a bit difficult in that they don't allow roads.

Making new terrain turned out to be easier than I thought. Well, as long as I don't need to be a graphics artist. (New hilltypes is simply the hold hill, but with the color modified to match the base tile.) hilltypes.png Here are some deserts with desert hills in them, as well as tundra hills and sn...

The "Desert Hill", "Forested Hill" and "Arctic Hill" would be functionally the same as a mountain? Movement cost is different though. Mountain is 010, same as desert, but can't be irrigated and doesn't produce trade when road is built (does get +1 productivity from rai...

Interesting comparison of maps. If you want more city-friendly terrain, consider increasing the "temperate" parameter. That way, you get less icy regions. Obviously, increasing the land percentage will also help. For example: tergen testmap 0 0 160 90 0 40 30 70 The 40% land setting thicke...

Low land has many types (swamp, forest, grass, plain, desert, jungle). But there is only one hill, and one mountain. I have made a heightmap-based terrain generator, and find this limiting. A desert or forest isn't always flat, for example. Proposed terrain types: desert hill Barren like the desert,...

I have fixed some bugs that gave flat continents with isometric topologies, as well as some other bugs. If you want mostly landlocked cities and realism - well, the real world has about 71% oceans. If you want to keep a realistic amount of oceans too, you need to make rather large maps. Or you could...

Here is a working sincosf(). void sincosf(float x, float *sin, float *cos) { *sin = sinf(x); *cos = cosf(x); } As for terrain realism; I agree that my terrain is not perfectly realistic. I have some ideas for improvements, but I also have real work to do. It could take some time. When you say that m...