FAIRLAND(6)

FAIRLAND(6) — fairland, the Empire land generator 💖

✨ NAME ✨

fairland — Empire land generator. Short name, big main-character energy 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fairland [option]...  nc sc [ni [is [sp [pm [di [id]]]]]]

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

Okay bestie, so fairland is the program that creates land for Empire. Run it after files has been run and before emp_server has been started — timing is literally everything, no cap ⏰

Run-order reminder: after files, before emp_server. That's the vibe check.

It creates a specified number of start islands ("continents"), and spaces them evenly across the map. It makes all of them the same size, and makes sure that they don't meet. It gives each start island exactly the same distribution of resources and the same number of mountains. Different arguments produce quite different kinds of maps — so yes, your lil' choices matter 💅🗺️

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -e configfile — use game configuration in configfile.
• -h — help. Print brief usage information and exit.
• -i — islands will crash into each other and merge.
• -q — run quietly without printing anything to the terminal.
• -R seed — use seed as seed for the pseudo-random number generator. This can be used to reproduce a previously created world. The seed used to generate a world is printed along with the map.
• -s script — write script to add countries and sanctuaries to file script (default "newcap_script").
• -v — print version information and exit.

🫶 OPERANDS 🫶

• nc — number of continents.
• sc — continent size.
• ni — number of additional islands (default nc).
• is — average size of additional islands (default sc/2).
• sp — land spikiness (in percent, default 10). Low values result in rounded islands, high values result in tentacles 🐙
• pm — how much of each island is mountain (in percent, default 0).
• di — minimum distance between continents (default 2).
• id — minimum distance between additional islands and continents (default 1).

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ken Stevens <children@empire.net> — the icon behind the land magic 🫶

Bye bestie — that's the FAIRLAND(6) Games Manual page, source/version footer vibes and no date included, mwah 💖✨🦋