Allow map creators to better analyze their map
Currently map creators have to personally and manually analyze connection numbers, total territory bonus weighting, graph centrality and isolation, along with a slew of other bits that go into making a GOOD map. If the warlight map creator allowed the map creator to download a Graph Description Language (or DOT) file, or a Graph Modeling Language (GML) file that described their graph's connections, may open source tools could be used to help the map designer fix unbalanced maps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_%28graph_description_language%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_Modelling_Language
This obviously would need to be a file that is only accessible to the map developer, otherwise it could be seen as unfairly advantageous strategy planning for players of the map if only one knew how to use these tools.
This idea would greatly improve the quality of gameplay on many maps. If you need help coding this, let me know, I'm happy to help.
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anonymous commented
Anyone wanting their map analysed I can do it for them, just PM me :)
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hedekar commented
I should mention there are many possible output formats, I just gave two examples.