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Age of Empires Random Maps aren't random - probability demands at some point you'll play the same one twice. Let's check it out.

1:08 What are map seeds?
2:06 Scripting (very brief explanation)
2:40 Why 32,768 seeds?
3:12 Does map size and player number affect the map layout?
4:00 Total number of possible maps and time needed to play them all
5:00 Birthday paradox
6:53 Birthday paradox applied to AoE2 map generations
8:18 Applied to the whole community
9:23 Voobly's 4,294,967,296 map seeds?
10:05 Pondering the big questions in life


Link to Age of Kings Heaven Random Map Scripting Guide:
http://aok.heavengames.com/blacksmith/showfile.php?fileid=11773

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Game: Age of Empires 2 HD with Forgotten Empires, African Kingdoms, and Rise the Rajas expansions
Category
Strategy Games
Tags
age of empires II, aoe2, aoc
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