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I'm at the last, and most difficult of stages: islands, rivers, and lakes. Should be done with it tonight, though.
Ideas and Development--Story NES
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Poet Jester
Oh Goody, your the best NK
das said:
We all know this is the most effective method but we definitely would need someone to record things down (NK
) so that people who look in here can separate the stories from the flames. After all, based on previous experience flames regarding reality and all that jazz last anywhere between 5 to 7 pages (*cough GoobNES cough*)
Jason The King
Deity
no one claims a country...so there will be no reason to be unrealistic for one nation to win...
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OK, I have to admit I engineered this map a little for the result we wanted (
). Das, the main civilization I envision as starting on the northernmost continent, in the twisty river valley that emerges out of the great lakes type region. This would be the start of civilization, anyway, and another civilization on the fringes could take up their mantle and start the world dominating thing--anyway, a civilization in that area has mountains framing the various river valleys, a nice little isolated sector of the world, and the shape of it promotes unity--a unified civilization with a heavily productive area the size of China or Europe!
But you can have the main civilization wherever you want--just note that the growth of civilizations on the non-main continents is highly unlikely at first, due to their shape and climates--not very conducive to growing civilization. You will also note the extreme absence of large isles and such--promoting, again, unity.
So basically, this world is designed so that there is a good chance for a massive, dominating civilization--but not so much that said civilization cannot break apart. Potential for unity, and for disunity.
Enough pontificating:
). Das, the main civilization I envision as starting on the northernmost continent, in the twisty river valley that emerges out of the great lakes type region. This would be the start of civilization, anyway, and another civilization on the fringes could take up their mantle and start the world dominating thing--anyway, a civilization in that area has mountains framing the various river valleys, a nice little isolated sector of the world, and the shape of it promotes unity--a unified civilization with a heavily productive area the size of China or Europe!But you can have the main civilization wherever you want--just note that the growth of civilizations on the non-main continents is highly unlikely at first, due to their shape and climates--not very conducive to growing civilization. You will also note the extreme absence of large isles and such--promoting, again, unity.
So basically, this world is designed so that there is a good chance for a massive, dominating civilization--but not so much that said civilization cannot break apart. Potential for unity, and for disunity.
Enough pontificating:
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Poet Jester
Mazing, simply amazing, the cartography on the islands, wow, your awesome
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Great map, NK!
Just trying to get an idea of the world size here...would that central island be roughly the size of Australia?
Just trying to get an idea of the world size here...would that central island be roughly the size of Australia?
das
Regeneration In Process
Nice map... I'd preffer some information on climate, terrain and the like though as well. One problem with this map is that a large empire dominating the northern continent is unlikely to have much of an incentive for expanding across the seas. Frankly the world looks better for several boring continent-spanning stagnant land empires/civilizations, not for a single great empire. So perhaps some modification is in order (perhaps all we need is a large island/small continent in the central, "inner" ocean - such an empire would easily be in position to defeat the more backwards old empires of the continents and build a vast colonial empire - larger than it can properly digest)?
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Actually, yes. 
EDIT: Hmm... That can be done. Japan style, or England style?
EDIT: Hmm... That can be done. Japan style, or England style?
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
I'd think England, Japan's topography promoted isolation IMHO. Of course, the climate will be much more equatorial.
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Poet Jester
What if... what if.. The great power were to arise from the central Big island, and take ove those wo side continents, anfd the big northy was made up of several middle powers, all vieing for supremacy, but kept in check by the Big Empire?
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das
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I was having something more central in mind, but this will do just as well if not better. Still, what is the climate in these regions?
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Israelite9191
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Late coming into this, but one question, why is the eastern edge of the map so bare? The eastern portion could be either turned into a Polynesia-like region consisting of numerous independent islands vying for power against larger multi-island kingdoms as well as both against outside colonizing forces, or it could be a larger continent that acts as a weaker counterbalance to the western powers, perhaps adjoined in culture to the long continent with the north-south axis, or as an in-between with a series of large islands vying for power in a sort of Polynesia meets very blown up Hausa city states.
As for the time period, why are we so intent on being in the early 20th century? Personally, I owuld think something earlier would be more fun. My favorite would be colonial (17th century), but anytime from the 17th-19th centuries is good.
On yet another note, I would say that I like the proposed idea where, in order to bring the timeline up to where we actually start, each person take a different region or group of people and develop from there. Of course there would have to be people (ie das) working to make everything blend together (especially with people like Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great coming along), but it would probably end up a much more vibrant and exciting world with people much more interested in their stroies if such a system for writing the timeline were implemented.
As for the time period, why are we so intent on being in the early 20th century? Personally, I owuld think something earlier would be more fun. My favorite would be colonial (17th century), but anytime from the 17th-19th centuries is good.
On yet another note, I would say that I like the proposed idea where, in order to bring the timeline up to where we actually start, each person take a different region or group of people and develop from there. Of course there would have to be people (ie das) working to make everything blend together (especially with people like Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great coming along), but it would probably end up a much more vibrant and exciting world with people much more interested in their stroies if such a system for writing the timeline were implemented.
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That's simply the empty ocean. Since both poles are water, less water is retained in the form of ice (since land glaciers take up much more ice than those floating on the water), so sea levels are higher, ergo fewer isles--ergo the Empty Ocean (which is a good name for it, actually ).
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Israelite9191
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Still think it seems weird, but whatever suits your fancy.
Symphony D.
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It's not all that weird, given things like Panthalassa. That small southwestern continent is awesome.
das
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Only one last quip about the map - the two deserts, and the rivers therein, are quite odd (firstly they are all too similar to each other, and secondly, just how many rivers can there be within one normal desert?).
