I have a somewhat unrelated question, prompted by the image of the map editor. In that screenshot, the whole continent looks completely flat except for the mountains. It looks pretty fake, actually! And yet, I think in other screenshots I've seen hills... Will there be hills? Are there hills in that screenshot and I just can't make them out because they're too small? If they're there, you should make them bigger! More/bigger hills would spice up the world a lot, I think.

Edit: Never mind, partially. I just saw this screenshot and this video. Clearly hills, and even rolling hills (not just individual ones) are handled quite well. Hopefully the randomly generated maps will use them well, as the screenshot in the OP here does look distressingly flat.

Ha, Civilisation V doesn't have Dragons, and Dragons always beats no-Dragons.  If Elemental had Ninjas and you were able to either have a Ninja VS Dragon battle, or combine the two units into some kind of Dragon Ninja, we'd never need another game.  Ever.

What about the dinosaurs? Dinosaurs rule!!!

Well that screenshot is likely just an example of a user generated map. It does look on the small side for a full map, so it is more than likely that it is a minor island that doesn't really have room for hills.

I wonder if the editor can be used for implementing a time travel spell for the sovereign.

Does the game keep a record of what happened in the previous turns that can be accessed by other features, like spells?

Nice, thanks for the linky, Thrawn.

Also, looks pretty impressive.

AWESOME!! I would like to see something in this fashion...

have the Karma!

So the tile editor covers units too? Like, say I did make a dragon tile, does it -have- to be stationary or can I do things to make sure it is a moving monster?

Monster editor idea and animation

I know that in the world of 3d animation, you need to give a squeletton to 3d modelsand then animate it. WHich mean that in a monster editor like I expalined above, you would need to select a preset animation model since you do not want player to manage their animation. Here are some example solution:

You would have varous tyeps of creatures: Huimanois, Quadruped (dragon), Inverted bipede (T-rex), Inverted quadruped (horse), rampant, floating, etc.

If we take the humanoid model, you would get various animation model possible:

walking/running: Like human

Swimming: Sea creature

Levitating: Legs stand still while moving

Flying: Draconian, Vakyrie,

All these creatures above are humanoid, but their movement patterns will not be the same.

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Off topic: Dragon-ninjas, that is a cool idea I never thought about. Still, considering the size of the dragon, you would have to forget about stealth. Unless you sneek other dragons.

It's got room for snow-capped mountains and forests. It has room for hills. Frankly, I'd like to see the generator have a tendency to surround mountains with hills (foothills). It'd make the world look more believable. Not the end of the world, of course, but it'd be a nice touch.