Riamus
Well-known member
I haven't used CP, so I don't know how they have their POI set up. Sometimes people mark POI as wilderness even though they really don't belong in the wilderness, like your mall example. It's easy enough to fix that in Teragon, but if you have a lot of them that are like that, you may not want to bother with it. You can remove the POI Property List for CP and then you'll only get CP POIs in towns, which might be closer to what you like. But there will probably be many POI that are wilderness-only that you will never see that way.
As far as spawn limit, "total spawn limit" is the setting you should be changing for spawns. If you change the value on the Basic tab, you are changing the Total Spawn Limit on the Create Region POIs command... as long as you are not using multiple Create Region POIs commands. Everything on the Basic and Advanced tabs is just a mirror to the Expert tab and are not separate settings. You may unknowingly be setting 300 in the wrong field. I've done that once myself.
If you are getting more POI than you think you have it set for and you're sure you have the 300 in the correct field on the Basic tab, then that should not happen. The first thing I'd ask is that you run a new map generation with those settings (300 as you said and default values in the spawn limits in Create Region POIs). Then, switch to the console tab before the Create Region POIs command starts and watch what appears. At the end of the list of POIs being placed, you should see a total POI count listed. See if that count really is more than 300. It may be that it just feels like a lot more considering RWG doesn't place that many POI even when set to Many... at least, I don't think it goes that high. I think Many on an 8k map might be somewhere around 100-150, though I've never counted to find out.
If the count is greater than 300, please post your preset so we can test it out and see if there is a bug in Teragon that needs to be fixed. I've never seen the number go over my spawn limit, but that doesn't mean there still isn't a bug that might occur only in certain situations.
Yeah, custom maps are likely to be better than random maps when you look at POI placement. There is only so much you can do when trying to mix randomization and non-randomization. Tiles and districts help significantly, but they can only do so much. When you make a custom map, even if you were to start out with a randomized map, you are able to change POI placements that you don't want or like and edit other things to look they way you want.
Custom maps are great and many people prefer them for those reasons. For me, I like random maps, even if they might occasionally have POI placed in odd locations. That doesn't really bother me.
