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NES Map Development & Requests
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I think that using more closely associated colours with their respective countries would be a better choice. If we coloured by relative importance, colours would require frequent changing due to the different settings in each NES, and changes in nation status over the course of an NES.
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More importantly, however, it makes national recognition tricky in the case of althistories. However, yes, in specific, limited timescale situations, assigning colours by importance would work. However, the only real situation I can picture this in is in a realistic modern NES.
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Closely-associated color for me: If I look at the Americas and want to say, find America, my mind will immediately look for something blue (i.e. the color I associate with the country). SMEP SexxiColors for HoI2 got me thinking that AI America conquered Canada once, just because I passed over Canada and saw that it was blue (USA turned out to be a seemingly-random green).
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Angst
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Subscribing to this thread, and I prefer the second map since it's easier to have an overlook of.
The only thing that came to mind was a Zombie Outbreak NES (either traditional zombies or World War Z-esque zombies). State borders become unimportant when its humanity vs. zombie, and knowing where your transit lines could be cut or where your military concentration is could be helpful.
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I would think that a scale that allows for more exacting detail would be of greater use when players have more direct control over their militaries, i.e. a Toukon NES arrangement. As it is, operational control is somewhat discouraged most of the time, and is in fact rather silly to attempt on a year-by-year basis anyway...so while I wouldn't personally have great use for it, somebody else might.
I prefer map 2 from an aesthetic standpoint and don't see much value noting "importance", whatever that is.
And while some nations may have certain colors associated with them, I have no problem with england being yellow if a plaayer want it that color.
I do like the maps and the natural terrain, but need to ask, how hard is it to move the borders around the way they change in NESing?
Can the terrain be easily cut to fit imaginary land shapes so if one had a non earth fresh start, you could find areas on earth cut and paste that terrain into the new lands? And do it with software like gimp?
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Well it would make a good map for industrial and later wars/war reporting, as you paste brightly coloured army movement arrows on it (similar to some of Dafts art from DNES:Celtic Warmongers). As for other maps I'd suggest a West Pacific map of 95E-160E by 60N-45S, possible extending it out to 60E for a full on Asian war.
Fuschia
A Little Odd
I would definitely use a map somewhat like that for my next NES, when I actually get the time to start working on stats and the like, although I would probably also want an expanded map specifically of Germany and some parts of the surrounding nations (Austria, some of the Balkans, Poland, the Benelux, eastern France, and a bit of northern Italy).
Not that that's a request. I'll make a request when I actually start getting to work on it.
foolish icarus
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This one. While the particular shade demonstrated for America is perhaps too 'frosty' -- wherever it bunches up on the coastline it implies icy terrain to my eye -- the general idea is sound.
human-slaughter
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Hey everyone, I'm looking to get a map of the continental U.S. (don't care about Alaska or Hawaii) Similar in creation to Symph's Europe map in post #5. One with the Modern cities would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Could someone make me a map of the Indian Subcontinent of around 1861 (Symphonic style, preferably)? I've tried, and so far all I've gotten is a complete mess.
EDIT: And by that, I mean as in the ones in the Mapping the Past thread.
EDIT: And by that, I mean as in the ones in the Mapping the Past thread.
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I find it difficult experimenting with fanschy-schmancy border effects like the glow/blur ones above with the map posted in the Map thread, so I'm requesting the NK-style Winkel-Tripel map with rivers not plotted/erased. Since that's an easy one, I'm also requesting a terrain elevation map, because those are muy awesome.
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human-slaughter
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Scaled larger please, hopefully you can expand to include the parts of California, Washington and New England that have been chopped off. As for style I'd like white base with black borders, North King looking, waterways are fine as they are. If cities could be black with state capitals being red. Oceans would be best as the blue of North King's other maps. And Mexico and Canada can be Grey as a base instead of White. Thanks Symph
