3 fairland \- Empire land generator
18 is a program which creates land for Empire. It should be run after
20 has been run and before
22 has been started. It creates a specified number of start islands
23 ("continents"), and spaces them evenly accross the map. It makes all
24 of them the same size, and makes sure that they don't meet. It gives
25 each start island exactly the same distribution of resources and the
26 same number of mountains. Different arguments produce quite different
31 Use game configuration in \fIconfigfile\fR.
34 Help. Print brief usage information and exit.
37 Islands will crash into each other and merge.
40 Run quietly without printing anything to the terminal.
45 as seed for the pseudo-random number generator. This can be used to
46 reproduce a previously created world. The seed used to generate a
47 world is printed along with the map.
50 Write script to add countries and sanctuaries to file \fIscript\fP
51 (default "newcap_script").
54 Print version information and exit.
64 number of additional islands (default \fInc\fP)
67 average size of additional islands (default \fIsc\fP/2)
70 land spikiness (in percent, default 10), low values result in rounded
71 islands, high values result in tentacles
74 how much of each island is mountain (in percent, default 0)
77 minimum distance between continents (default 2)
80 minimum distance between additional islands and continents (default 1)
82 Ken Stevens <children@empire.net>