1 .TH FAIRLAND 1 "7 Aug 1995" "fairland 1.6"
4 fairland \- Empire land generator
39 is a program which creates land and ore for Empire. It
42 has been run and before
44 has been started. This is a land generator for empire that creates a
45 specified number of continents, and spaces them evenly accross the
46 map. It tries to make all of them the same size, and makes sure that
47 they don't meet. It gives each start island exactly the same
48 distribution of resources and the same number of mountains. You can
49 get nearly any kind of map you want by choosing the right arguments.
53 mark the continents with a * so that you can tell them from the islands
56 islands will crash into each other and merge
59 do not set the resources. If you use this flag, then you will need to
60 run some other program (for example the
62 program) to set the resources.
65 run quietly without printing anything to the terminal
68 writes a script for placing capitol to the file
70 (If you don't specify this argument, then the script will be written
76 to use the game configuration specified in
78 (by default, the file "econfig" in the data directory is used)
87 number of islands (optional, default = nc)
90 average size of islands (optional, default = sc/2)
93 spike percentage: 0 = round, 100 = snake (default = 10)
96 the percentage of land that is mountain (default = 0)
99 the minimum distance between continents (default = 2)
102 minimum distance from islands to continents (default = 1)
105 Ken Stevens <chidren@empire.net>