Fan Content Tile Number coordination

[SephHawkins]

Currently, the tools that support the Uncharted Space tiles and Discordant Stars faction tiles all represent them in different ways, which prevents generating a map using one site and using it in another.

Proposal:

• Each set of content gets assigned to a block of numbers, with room for expansion.
  • I'd propose giving each one a block of 500 or 1000.
• Within a block, ordering should be well-defined with no gaps.
  • For factions, I'd propose either "release -> alphabetical" or "release -> num planets (min to max) -> alphabetical by faction name"
  • For non-factions, something like "back (blue -> red) -> legendary -> num planets (min to max) -> alphabetical by top-left planet name"
  • For the sub-ordering of empty, red-backed systems, I don't have great ideas, but there should be something. Could be "empty -> wormhole -> asteroid -> grav rift -> nebula -> supernova" and anything that has more than 1 element would use both - so an asteroid + grav rift would be after any empty asteroid fields, but before an asteroid + nebula.

Concretely, I'd suggest putting the DS factions in the 1001 - 1999 range and the Uncharted Space tiles in the 2001 - 2999 range. I don't currently support the Eronous tiles, but I'd map those to the 3001-3999 range.

Context:

I'm the creator of TI Assistant. I'm not that picky about what tile numbers fan content has, but I'd like them to all be the same (or at least non-overlapping). Currently, the tiles in the 4253 - 4260 range are ambiguous between this Map Generator and the Milty Shenanigans tool, so I can't properly handle both.

DS Faction Tiles

• This Map Generator: 3201 - 3235 (skips 3225, ordered by "release", not sure the ordering within a release)
• Milty Shenanigans: DS_factionname
• TI Assistant: 1001 - 1034 (ordered alphabetically)

Uncharted Space Tiles

• This Map Generator: 4253 - 4276
• TI Assistant: 1037 - 1060 (also supports 4237 - 4260 to handle the Milty Shenanigans maps).
• Milty Shenanigans: 4237 - 4260

[Lazik10]

Hi, I am creator of https://www.ti4ultimate.com

(Note that it is not mobile or small screen friendly for now, so if you will browse the website, it is best to use a display with at least 1920px width support or larger.)

so If I may, just a few cents to this topic, since I myself created a website that can generate maps and I tried to follow Keegan's naming. I would stick with what the homebrew crew created and their numbers:

1001-1036 for DS faction tiles (they are a little bit ignorant to the need of creating and ID for them, but I found out they are usually named from 1001-1036) 4253-4276 for Uncharted tiles

Eronous tiles were updated and changed their order, also they are now in sequence and does not contain a gap of two numbers like before. (Er73 and Er74 were missing). So the current tiles in Keegan;s generator are out of date. Er01-Er127

It would be good to have it unified throug all custom tools that is for sure, just for the sake of players using them.