A question on map-making

[Reckall]

I have a doubt. I do not have "Aide de Camp 2", so I'm limited with the maps given with the basic program. But, should I "import" a scenario made by a third party who used AdC2 (let's say to simulate an attack on Grozny, complete with an accurate map of the city made with AdC2), would then his new map be available to me too for my scenarios, or new maps are "tied" to their respective scenarios, and so are not generally available to downloaders to be re-used for theirs?

[Don Maddox]

I contacted Scott and here is the answer:


Actually, scenarios are tied to maps. Which means whenever someone makes a map, it can be used freely for new scenario creation by anyone that he gives it to (or everyone if it is posted publicly). So, in this example, the gamer asking the question could play all of the scenarios offered by the original map-creator, plus make as many of his own as he would like using the custom Grozny map.

This also means that if someone creates a new map and makes some scenarios on it, users must have that map on their hard drive to play those scenarios. So the map will need to be distributed along with the scenarios (but only once - after a player has the map he doesn’t need to “get it again” with each additional scenario unless it has been changed in some way specific to that scenario - and in effect has become a new map).
Hopefully, we'll start to see a lot of maps out there after scenario authors have a chance to get working.