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Thx.

Adding that The problem seems to be the memory. If going to build big kingdoms (by population), a player must limit the size of landmass, and use it efficiently. This means that maps tend to become rather uninteresting, unimaginative square-ish circle blobs, lacking much aesthetical beauty. Forget large, ever expanding archipelagos, forget large meandering maze-like structures, forget multiple separate cities with wide wilderness ranges inbetween them. Hell, it seems that you have to avoid even building lakes as they seem to be someway more memory consuming map-feature than just placing piers on the coast of the sea.

"Ugliness" of the map becomes from the fact that it seems to be very hard to build both populous and aesthetically pleasing kingdom same time.

A player is not free with his map making choices, if going to aim also to a maximally populous kingdom. And, They are not that tiny in practice btw, most of play time goes to long lags and to scrolling around a map.

A game can suddenly end with crash, probability for that ever increasing. After some pop. 2000-2500, every move you make can be easily your last. The sudden death end is gonna be because of either 'Memory access out of bounds' or 'Table contents out of bounds', and that's the end of your kingdom (of maybe 20 hours of playing) with no possibility to take any screenshots (other than error messages). That's why I compose these maps from screenshots when I can. You get at least something lasting from your efforts, even if always losing some 'progress' to the crash...

Nevermind, I love this game. Much!

PS. Someone asks this anyway. How to "save" your progress? Answer is simple, don't close your browser, keep Tiny Kingdom -tab open, and let your system go passively sleep/dormancy without interruptions. You come back, and just continue. The entire game is in the memory when playing with browser, and doesn't require even internet access after first launched. You can always continue your game, if the game tab is kept open. Never refresh the game tab... Game saved!