With the EBPEdit™ map editor, you'll quickly design new game maps playable on your computer with EB Pronto (EBP) or to print and play as a board game. Edit existing maps, too. Screen shot

There's no need to create the whole game: you position cities within desired terrain and indicate where loads are supplied. The editor can then create demand contracts for you, or make your own. Add events if you wish. It's a point and click interface. You can create a brand new map ready for initial playtesting within an hour.

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Editing features include:

• create/edit game maps in the .ebm standard text file format for maps
• Mileposts: normal, hidden, mountain, alpine, city, desert, swamp, water, tunnel, jungle, forest and xspot
• Cities: 14 different shapes and sizes: small, medium, major, oval, jumbo, triangular
• Draw: rivers, ferries, teleports, ocean coastline, volcanoes, borders, barriers
• Contracts: auto-create, edit individually, as a group, or text import from other sources
• Set all payoffs with different weighting for distance and build cost, plus random variance
• Events: Derailment, Earthquake, Fog, Shortage, Snow, Storms, Strikes, Meteor Strikes, Revolution, Special Demands, Tax, Congress, more
• Locomotives: create up to 10 locomotives with custom speed and load carrying

• full color transparent icons for loads and events
• background image import (JPG, GIF or BMP)
• set colors and fonts as you prefer
• for early playtesting, EBP will let you play upon your map even before you have icons and a background image

• city supply and value
• load demand, availability and value
• milepost statistics
• Rail Corridors: shows the most popular places to build, based on supply and demand
• impossible contracts: % for which build cannot be afforded on starting cash

• version control permits over 1000 variations of any map
• find best trip for any set of demand cards
• find best starting city for any set of demand cards
• copy, paste, move, find
• check map for errors
• auto download and install program updates

• print map, across multiple pages if desired (photo of assembled 6-panel print after lamination)
• close up picture
• sample USA map as printed by EBPEdit to single-page PDF
• print payoff chart, loads chart
• print contract and event cards

• watch as the AI bots play your map against themselves, see which routes they like best
• run EBP in Continuous Mode overnight, the fast bots can play millions of turns and show you the stats
• tweak your map with the editor to refine it
• play vs. the AI bots yourself and see if you can beat them on your own map
• if desired, print your map and play it with your board gaming buddies

DOWNLOAD HERE	EBPEdit.ZIP (approx. 1.4M; 3.9M after installation)
EASY INSTALL	Experienced computer users can simply unzip the download file into the subdirectory containing the EBP.EXE game program or into a new subdirectory, and run EBPEdit.EXE. Or, see the detailed install instructions. After installing, to run the program, click on the program's icon on your desktop, or find EBPEdit in the Windows list of "All Programs". For other basic information, view the README-E.TXT file.
DESKTOP ICON	If the program's icon does not appear on your Windows desktop, create one manually: right click on an empty area of your Desktop, and select New, Shortcut. When Windows prompts for the location of the item, enter the path to where you installed the program, such as C:\EBP\EBPEDIT.EXE
REGISTRATION BENEFITS	EBPEdit's registration fee is $20. Registration entitles you to the following benefits: use of the program past the free, initial 30-day trial period on that device a copy of the EB7 USA/Canada/Mexico game map a 12-month Support Plan
MISSING DLL	In the rare event that Windows reports a missing DLL or component when you attempt to run EBPEdit, do the following: 1) download VBRUN60.EXE (approx. 1000k) 2) run the downloaded copy of VBRUN60.EXE and answer Yes when asked "Would you like to install the Visual Basic 6.0 run time files?"

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