The Maps page
Every map to play: search, filters and sorts, a map’s card and page, and what you can do with it.
Opening it
- The main menu’s MAPS, or its own page, maps.html, whose address keeps the search and the map open.
- Choose a map… in the War Council opens it to pick one: Use this map takes it back to the lobby.
Finding a map
- The search reads a seed, a seed map’s number, a name, an author or a tag. 20 maps a page.
- Quick filters: Seeds, Custom, Small, Medium, Ranked and, signed in, My maps and Favourites.
- Filters sets ranges (Provinces, Gold mines, Water %, Forest %, Castle distance, Match length (min)), the least fairness, the least plays, an author, and older versions too.
- Sort by Newest, Times played, Seed, Provinces, Gold mines, Water, Forest, Castle distance, Fairness, Match length, either way. Newest first lists the players’ maps before the seeds.
- Tags: islands, rush, long, rivers, forest, open, maze, symmetric, asymmetric, small, medium.
A map’s card
Its picture and title (“Seed 201”, or a player’s map’s name and version, by its author), badges (size, Seed or Custom, Ranked, Wilds when its author laid lairs, Retired, Older version), and its numbers: provinces, mines, water and forest, the castles’ distance, fairness, times played and the average match.
A map’s page
- Its picture, zoomable, and its numbers: size and base seed, provinces, gold mines, land and water, forest, the castles’ distance, fairness out of 100, each side’s share.
- How it plays: times played, the average match, Blue’s and Red’s wins, the record against the bot, replays.
- Its versions, its latest counted matches, and the best players on it.
What you can do
- Play this map: a private match on it (anyone, guests too).
- Test vs bot (signed in): Bot-Easy, Normal or Hard on it.
- Favourite (signed in, up to 500).
- Copy in the editor (a player’s map) or Open in the editor (a seed’s): the map editor on it.
- Share copies its link.
- Report (signed in, someone else’s map): offensive name or description; the map is broken or unplayable; copied from someone else's map; something else.