The desert seems awful green

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Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

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The desert seems awful green #6179

Open spirillen opened 11 months ago

spirillen commented 11 months ago

Describe the bug This is a very old bug, that have last for month

When you chose desert in random game, you get the most beautiful green fields...

To reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Choose random game
Choose desert

Expected behavior A big desert to the gardening center...

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Version:

OS: Ubuntu 22.04
Widelands Version: A very old bug, not related to a specific release and I have no records for when I first spotted it, as I was thinking you have spotted this one for your self.

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frankystone commented 11 months ago

I don't think this is a bug. The setting "Desert" means only that terrains from the desert are used, which corresponds to the fourth tab in the editor place terrain tool:

desert_terrains

As you can see there are some green terrains. Additionally: Trees will grow only on those greenish terrains. If the map is covered with only sandy terrains the resulting map is not playable.

spirillen commented 11 months ago

If the map is covered with only sandy terrains the resulting map is not playable.

Agreed, but there are no sands, only a few pith here and there.

Another note regarding the balance with quarts... there are not enough, as finding stone mines are hard and they contain to few quarts, result, I was only able to build 3 towers and 1 fortress, even I owned more than 50% of the map.

tothxa commented 11 months ago

Another note regarding the balance with quarts... there are not enough, as finding stone mines are hard and they contain to few quarts, result, I was only able to build 3 towers and 1 fortress, even I owned more than 50% of the map.

Empty stone mines should give quartz with 15% chance (1 in 6 to 7 tries on average), higher than empty iron mines of any other tribes. Have you built any, or did you only build them where quartz was found?

I see that you set resources to high. If that didn't give enough mineable stones, then I consider that a bug in the random generator, because that affects at least the Empire too (and to a much smaller degree, Atlanteans).

spirillen commented 11 months ago

did you only build them where quartz was found?

I only found two stone mines at all... so yes I did build there. However, I didn't take the 15% into consideration, as the mines was empty...