NES World/Regional Maps III

[jalapeno_dude]

That's really amazing!

EDIT: I can fit 11 cities on the Isle of Man. I can die happy now.

Now if only we could get a map like that for the entire world...

 

[LittleBoots]

I can fit 11 cities on the Isle of Man.

Sweet, I can't wait to write up next turn's jalNES orders

Actually, I'd probably get a rebellion or a tsunami in the Irish sea that destroys/submerges the Isle if I tried

 

[Erik Mesoy]

This is originally an image with multiple layers, so you can drag stars, starlanes, grid lines, and even the black background around, choosing which one you want on top. However, my favorite layer image format (xcf) isn't supported, and I was forced to make it an animated gif.

If the animation bothers you, press "Esc" in Firefox, and I don't know what to do in IE, because I try to stay away from that piece of bloatware. I suppose the Stop button works. F5 or Refresh/Reload should get it running again, or right-click and select View Image.

 

[Kozmos]

Wow awesome. The Esc thing too....how do you start it up again?

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Edited in answer above. Hopefully you saw it.

Here are two more maps; one demonstrating how I can shift all the stars a little bit around so that a map isn't a dead giveaway to location, while at the same time I can add colors and let players with similarly colored stars be close to one another; the other was me drawing a Galactic Arm over the screen, adding sectors, placing stars in sectors by closeness to arm, then placing connects byt sector in top-down fashion. For reference, the above map was bottom-up design, starting at Earth, the only one with more than five connections.

Enjoy! (Both are animated, so I didn't embed them; that would get bandwidth problems fairly rapidly.)

These take me about 15-20 minutes to make, so I do requests!

 

[erez87]

A map I'm working on (I got an empty one of course as well to add Nations for later..)
Suppose to be for a world with some history (2 races I made up totally and humans in there but if it ever becomes more than a map I'll let you know what are they...) Magical.
It's called Maggi right now but may be changed to Maji or something, not sure yet.

What you guys think? should I quick mapping once and for all ?

 

[erez87]

Done with the Geographic map Yay.

If anyone wants an empty one just ask ^-^. I'll do countries on it for now (my ones) and may post it... Enjoy!

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Cool map! But you should add some more islands in the north and southwest. Also, what does "corrupted" mean in terms of terrain?

 

[Thlayli]

Cool map! But you should add some more islands in the north and southwest. Also, what does "corrupted" mean in terms of terrain?

Probably blackened, twisted, Mordor-esque terrain.

Btw, that map looks really cool erez.

 

[erez87]

Dark corrupted evil terrain. Where evil roams... can be easily changed to more plains in a none magical NES...

as for islands... Dunno... gonna be hard adding stuff to the two maps now ...

I'll try doing a map with the kingdoms and some names of areas maybe.

 

[erez87]

Well... That won't be any NES start (since this is not the time I want this world to actually begin being a story from...) But this is when the Adevii Empire breaks into three factions (Timed is not one of them) And just before the Homans take advantage on it and go to build their grand empire...

How do the borders and cities looks, thats my main interest right now...

 

[jalapeno_dude]

I don't like that way of doing capitals--I prefer a t-shape with a 2*2 square of black and white around the edges, like this:

-ww-
wbbw
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Also, I like one-square borders. Then you can have two-square borders when two nations intersect.

 

[erez87]

Yeah yeah, it just looked better at the second about the capitals.. cause there are big cities and small ones. But oh well.

and I despise 1 square borders, they destroy the beauty of maps... it's either no border or 2 square... and I did it only for now with the 2 square in none border between countries areas. Dunno why ^-^

 

[jalapeno_dude]

How does this look? I added some islands (creatively stolen from the world map). Do you like it?

 

[erez87]

Agh the Philippines...

it's Ok the map is pre-planned... and it's not the whole world... no worries about islands. I'll edit the map around, change borders and such... I'll show soon.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Agh the Philippines...

Well, that's part of it, but there's also some Canadian islands, part of the Caribbean, and the Azores.

 

[erez87]

Well thats it for now.. and me gonna sleep.

btw yeah I will probably add an island to the north-east, I forgot I wanted some pre-planned island there... oh well.. after sleep ^^

 

[Splime]

OK, there was always something that bugged me in the widely used NES world map with England, specifically, the non-existence of the body of water between Wales and England. I modified this for RfMK, and here is that updated map:

Spoiler :

 

[Israelite9191]

Great! That always bothered me too, especially since I will need that division between Wales and England for my alt-hist.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Looks good to me.