Things that are beautiful are often also deceiving. A rose may draw you in but it can also cut you by its thorns. Like a rose, this world in its whole is seductive to the lords it holds yet each of them is a thorn to the other. Will you be the lord able to keep the rose without leting it wound you?
Author: Karl (United States), 22-04-2025 10:22 Like AI puts up a good fight - A Beautiful World I enjoyed the bounteous world. I spent 100 resources and 200 wood to get 50000 cash in month 3, but it was worth it. It's also fun to have the ocean so populated with treasure since a lot of worlds have none or the enemies get it first.
I really like that you only get one boat and one pair of water walking boots to start and have to figure out how to use them best.
Loved how the quest that asked for four Hydras was actually worth it despite taking your best units.
I think I also saw a quest reward that was giving the missing piece of a combo artifact where you already have the other two pieces, which is a cool idea.
The difficulty curve was very smooth and nice – I was never just sitting around blocked by hard battles, but I often had to choose to lose a few units to keep progressing fast. I decided not to use Town Portal for gathering units or defending cities and that made the end game more fun -- the AI took my capitol once and kicked me out of an area I'd conquered.
I didn't actually finish since Cartographer lets you know exactly how it will go, but it was fun. Too bad there are only two maps by this author.
Author: Dudu (Budapest, Hungary), 27-10-2024 14:58 Like near perfection - A Beautiful World One of the most enjoyable maps ever made.
Author: mom, 21-08-2019 22:48 well - A Beautiful World well
Author: Magick (Canada, QC), 01-02-2016 17:48 Beautiful map - A Beautiful World It s a beautiful map. It s enough rare for we forgive flaws. Most map are empty and/or ugly, simply because decoration need work and time. This map is an exception.
However, it s a bit easy map, author give us so much at start that playing at easy or impossible make few difference. You a load a troops for free. Monster on the map are simply overun. Add to this tons of treasury, and economic management is not a problem. Playing as barbarian, game finished in 132 days without real resistance. Like there is not a single AI only faction, map can only be normal or easy for difficulties, no more. It s an enjoyable one, but it s a pity Artefacts are not more restricted.
Author: Maria, 22-09-2015 13:26 tome flaw - A Beautiful World Fair game, but having the air tome by the conflux is a cheat, whoever gets it first gets the game.
the map is great, I am on 331 day, ready to get in, but can's understand how to get inside, how to do the air tome by the conflux? can you help with is?
Author: Yongsang You (Seoul, South Korea), 19-11-2014 07:34 Thank you i played this map more than ten times.
below is my opinion for difficult
easy : strong hold, conflux, rempart, necro
Noraml : town, dongeun
hard : castle, rampart
i have good time with your map last week.
very thank you.
Author: Marcin (Chelm, Poland), 17-04-2014 03:34 Excellent map Hello, i've just finished playing on this map and i'm glad of it. 647 days of playing and finally i won (i played as blue player). Here's one of my screenshots from this map: http://i.imgur.com/Z XpBFs5.png
If you are not sure what map you want to play i'll answer you - this map is amazing!
Author: Rick (Norway), 15-09-2013 04:51 Broken This map is broken:
1. No spell for getting a boat, i got stuck in my own land and no place to go. NO Shipyards wtf???!?!
2. Enemy armies fly randomly even they don't have fly!!! This happens to blue where they fly over to get level 10 creature dragons... i loaded game multiplayer to check..
3. Castle has way too OP regarding artifacts etc..
B writes:
15-09-2013 19:19
shipyard
I am at M2W3D7, Edgewater (In my case the most west city), builds a shipyard for me, I found a boat on the beach (In my case near the most east city).
And this has not happened for you?. I have not played any further yet, so i cant say if the notourius bug "Giving computing players fly" has happened in my game as well but so far no problems.
B writes:
17-09-2013 08:57
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About flying, i have now found Tome of Air magic, not so good, so fly is possible for that hero. But not seen any flyers that should not be able to fly, so no bug so far for me.
Author: yeu, 31-08-2010 22:22 :( Niciodata nu voi juca harti facute de romani...toti va dat in petec, injurand ca la usa cortului. Sa va fie rusine!
Author: S (Bulgaria), 14-01-2010 18:46 :) very well done! gz! still easy vs cpu but aestheticly very well. need to set artifacts more carefuly :)
Author: Aeon (Norway), 23-07-2009 03:37 Very nice But somehow I cant get Fly or Dimension Door. Have tried 16 buildings now. Town Portal + Expert Earth magic rules also tough. I know about the wind spell book with the conflux.
I like the large gigantic battle at the end. I also feel Conflux and Tower a bit overpowered as in their position.
The last batle was too gigantic armies and amazing heroes. Mine was level 30 got 30-40 in all slots. And figthing a equal oppoment. Won fairly buy just one implosion.
Author: Silentdragon (Canada), 30-06-2009 01:18 Seems good But I won't see the end of it.. As mentioned from one of the other posters:
The only slight negative is that a world so rich in creature houses gets a bit tiresome in terms of having to move minions around every day collecting them.
This is rather a big negative to me, too many creature houses, I find it hard how someone can enjoy this map with so much micromanagement each week..
Author: Fredrik (Norway), 03-06-2009 14:42 Very enjoyable Yes really good and loved the way things were detailly planned. One could tell alot of time and efforts were put into making this. I played it twice on impossible ( Castle, Dungeon) and have to say on dungeon it was particular awesome. Got Armageddon finally in a necro town. I wud suggest that the hardest must be fortress. Anyway, looking forward to your next one..
Author: Emperor Palpatine, 29-05-2009 16:55 For the necro- easiest map ever My first battle against a neighbour was when I had 300 liches, on the next week I had defeated the strongest heroes of my two neighbours and had more than 2000 liches. That was the moment I understood the game was over, but I played to the end when I had about 20000 liches, destroying any army on my first move. The difficulty I chose was impossible and I played a very relaxed game, requiring no skill at all.
Author: Chris (Australia), 26-05-2009 19:12 Loved It This map is very enjoyable I really enjoyed it, specially those little effects that give an extra fantasy theme, great attention to detail, flaws mentioned by other gamers but definately enjoyed the map. great Job
Author: Sontu Andrei Silviu (Bucharest, Romania), 24-05-2009 11:52 Like Thank you Thank you for the detailed comment, Cheshire! I ought to tell you that those aren't the only flaws in the map. I played it myself with every faction.
As soon as I get the chance (now is rather hard for me because it's during the exam session at college) I will fix these flaws.
Because of the positive feed-back I recieved overall for this map, I will start work on another XL map that is going to blow your mind away.. hopefully :P
Author: Cheshire Cat (Israel), 24-05-2009 03:15 Very good map Well designed, big and detailed. It's clear the maker put effort into it, and the result is definitely remarkable.
I like the versatility of the different starting point, the big selection of artifacts, and the general world design, that suits the maps name.
The AI also gets a nice chance to develop making the game challenging from most starting points.
The only bug I've found is the hut that asks to kill the liches. For some reason the hut keeps giving the quest (and not paying) even after the liches are dead.
Two points still worth working on, are related to the balancing. Unfortunately, the map has balance issue regarding the Conflux and Necros. The Conflux are the only ones on the map that get DD spell, and they get it easily. This makes the game easy playing them (even on impossible) because if you act fast, you can jump into other continents and steal artifacts necessary for their power combos, rending them handicapped. Also, the super dragon spots are basically handed on a silver plate to the Conflux because of that. With those facts added to the immanent power of DD, the Conflux are nearly unbeatable in Human hands.
The only power capable of standing up to the Conflux (not in AI hands) is the Necros. Thats because they get the Undead King's artifact. This tool in a necro's hands is the strongest force in game. In a few weeks (or even less if the hero fights a lot) the wearer gets astronomical numbers of liches. Basicaly, in the third month I already had thousands of them. This makes the hero unbeatable in 1vs1 combat, and later he can share the growing number of liches with more heroes.
Thas why I think the map is good and challenging for the other starting positions against the AI, or for multi-playing with restricting the Conflux and Necro. But for the map to be more balanced, the Necro and Conflux need top be weakened, for now they are too strong.
Author: Hellbaron (Hell), 19-05-2009 12:36 btw There were some heroes with "FLY" when in fact I did not find any angel's wings, tome of air or the spell fly in any mage guild or any in the map, how was that possible?
Author: Hellbaron (Hell), 19-05-2009 12:34 Well done It is a very good map, I personally recommend it for multi-player playing. I only notice some disadvantages or imbalance in the map, Dungeon towns in the underworld can be reached in 3-5 days from the nearest town compared to other town in the "not-underworld " (what is the correct term for this?) where you can just water walk from a town and get to the other side of the island and capture another town. heehee
With TP, Dungeon can be indestructible! (I fortunately played dungeon when I played your map!)
Enjoy playing everyone ^^
Author: Romeo Toodu (Brussels, Belgium), 16-05-2009 17:36 hary dont diss the map i like the map. theres no problem in that map. At least they're better than mine. i have a map unfinished and i will never finish it. btw i lost bit interest in making maps cuz my maps do suck.
Author: Valery, 15-05-2009 00:08 Both of you are wrong While I am honored that Hary likes my maps, I think both of you are wrong by reacting like this.
@Harry: a map is never a waste of time, the author spent some time to make you enjoy it...for free. A more constructive critic is always welcome.
@Andrei: Using words like that is not a way a mapmaker stands in front of critics. Welcome to the club. You will get your maps criticized and hated for sure, as we all. Your best response is to continue your work, for those who enjoyed.
Author: hary (Bulgaria), 08-05-2009 20:06 BORING and EASY finished in 6 months.VERY EASY map no challenge at all it is lika a ramdom map waste of time if you wanna see nice maps try EMPIRE OF THE WORLD 2 and 3,ANICONIC,ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Author: Maxim (Moscow, Russia), 26-04-2009 10:00 Maxim хз вообще что писать
Author: Julie Ehlers (New Jersey, US), 23-04-2009 08:40 A long, satisfying map I played on impossible level, and by the time I controlled the middle part of the world, various enemies had grown monstrously large armies. This made for a long, satisfying end game of maneuvering around them until the final showdowns.
The only slight negative is that a world so rich in creature houses gets a bit tiresome in terms of having to move minions around every day collecting them.
Author: Aleandra (Germany), 17-04-2009 12:07 Like Super I played it three times until now. Sehr schön.Bravo :-)
Author: Sontu Andrei Silviu (Bucharest, Romania), 05-04-2009 22:46 Like Thank You Thank you for your comment, John. I've been waiting for someone to tell me something about the map and I was growing curious as to what the long wait meant. I now know that it's I haven't spent my time totally in vain and someone actually likes it. Who knows? If I get any more comments like this one I might create another map.
By the way, sorry about the minor flaws of the map, like spelling and other such things. I've found some of them after I've had the chance to play test it a few more times.
Author: John (Aarhus, Denmark), 05-04-2009 20:15 Excellent map! One of the best maps i have played in a very long time. Very very well made!
Author: lapan (croatia), 01-04-2009 20:06 extract? where to extract these maps
Author: Sontu Andrei Silviu (Bucharest, Romania), 25-03-2009 18:11 Like great map! Well... it's my map, so i tought i should rate it just to get things started
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