Biddyn (84+9) (Wraparound) Thread - Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

Hello guys,

This is my second map for dom4, again hand drawn.
Biddyn (84 land + 9 sea) - Full wrap around

Screenshots (v1.1 left, v1.0 on the right)

Feel free to share comments/suggestions/ideas and report any bugs!
Thank you!

Download links:
Biddyn v1.11: Petit-fichier.fr
Biddyn v1.1 (old): Petit-fichier.fr
Biddyn v1.0 (old) : Petit-fichier.fr

Edited by: Pymous

Beautiful

What I love about these maps is how original the style is. We have pixel art maps, we have clean fantasy-art style maps - which are all beautiful, and then we have these maps which are like impressionist almost. I changed my mind Pymous, I want to play on this one instead! (I loves me my under-90 province maps).

Edit: What would be awesome is if the roads drawn on the map would actually have roads built on them in the game. Like quick highways to move around (especially through otherwise bad terrain) that would be strategically (obviously) important to control.

Edited by: MAurelius11

beautiful, beautiful map!

Awesome! Your map art has become my instant favorite of all the ones I have seen.

I love this! Really pretty.

Truly beautiful!

Thank you guys!
I plan to release an update of both maps (Biddyn + Atha Avin) to include more caves and new cave forests from the patch.

Ah, that would be great. We definitely need more maps with caves.

That's the third most beautiful map in existance.

Biddyn v1.1 is out!
download link: Petit-fichier.fr

Biddyn v1.1 Changelog:
- Improved art and some details addition
- Added 3 new caves provinces (total 4: 2 cave-moutains / 1 cave-forest / 1 cave-waste)
- Fixed some provinces neighbours
- Tweaks to improve map readability (small white stroke effect on borders + adjusted borders junctions)

Edited by: Pymous

Very beautiful!

Really pretty map. What it could use I think, is limiting the saildistance to 1.

Thanks for creating such lovely map for us mortals

This is a beautiful map - thanks for taking the time to create it!

I'm hosting a multiplayer game on this map now, and it is really great. I like how the plains provinces with roads drawn on them function like roads with the dom4 movements rules. I love the colored villages as well.

Beautiful. Would you ever consider releasing a version with solid province lines instead of dotted? Something about dotted hurts my eyes

This is a beautiful map, and I'm doing a SP on it.

I've noticed a glitch :
It looks like province 68 and 69 shouldn't be connected, but they are.

Thank you guys,

@Anduric: True!
Thank you this will be fixed for the next update!
- And 72 wasn't connected to 62, fixed too now.
- 75 connected to 89 fixed too
@elitesix: unfortunately I can't release two different version of the same map (or this will be a mess :p)

Small patch fix released:
Biddyn v1.11 : Petit-fichier.fr

Someone wrote: Biddyn v1.11 Changelog:
! Bug fix patch !
- removed 68-69 province connection
- removed 75-89 province connection
- added 62-72 province connection

Edited by: Pymous

Hey Pymous, is the updated map save game compatible?

Hi Maurelius,
I asked the question here: Indiedb.com
Looks like it should be. I had an old "testmap" savegame and it worked but I can't garantee the result. Like gp1628 said, this may be more problematic in multiplayer games where all players need the last map version but for solo play this should be safe.
If you don't want to take any risk, copy your savegame file, update the map and try if it works.

Edited by: Pymous

I have good news and bad news.
Good news, it should not affect game saves.
Bad news, it should not affect game saves.

As far as I know, a map updated with new connections wont be seen at all by a game already in progress.
At least, that was true in Dom3. I havent been able to actually test it in Dom4.

Well then I guess I shall not update while Bakemono Banzai! is going on. No point if the map doesn't actually update. It's been working fine for me now for...let me check...3 hours 45 minutes, and it doesn't sound like a few missed connections will be a problem.

Really enjoy playing on it.

Dominions only looks at the .map file when creating the game, and never again. After that the information is stored in the .fthrlnd file for that game.

A minor glitch : Province 92 has the design of a wasteland, but not the tag