While We Wait: The Next Generation

[North King]

Or Africa... Or the USA, for that matter, which was a little surprising.

 

[Thlayli]

When it became apparent that the New York-New England border was a diagonal, you knew something was wrong.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Yeah, a revised map (but not as big in actual size as Symphony's) would be nice.

 

[das]

Re: the Race: I believe someone has started a supposedly ordinary WWII NES once, then immediately alienated (no pun intended) most of his player base by having the lizards attack as per book. I think it was Grandmaster?

Re: map: yes, yes, yes. There are too many things wrong with it to list. As I already said, you need to simply put some borders from a historical map on it to see how hideously and inevitably wrong it will all be. The Russo-Qing border is yet another example of this being bad, and I'm not a huge fan of the Rhine valley 1914 borders either. Also: Iranian Azerbaijan.

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Or the USA, for that matter, which was a little surprising.

Wouldn't say so. Almost every large landmass is full of wrongness, so I'd say it's a systematic flaw that overrides all knowledge and (if that's what you're implying ) bias.

 

[North King]

Re: the Race: I believe someone has started a supposedly ordinary WWII NES once, then immediately alienated (no pun intended) most of his player base by having the lizards attack as per book. I think it was Grandmaster?

I think this was Sheep.

Re: map: yes, yes, yes. There are too many things wrong with it to list. As I already said, you need to simply put some borders from a historical map on it to see how hideously and inevitably wrong it will all be. The Russo-Qing border is yet another example of this being bad, and I'm not a huge fan of the Rhine valley 1914 borders either. Also: Iranian Azerbaijan.

And Africa... Yeah, that's the part I'm currently converting.

Wouldn't say so. Almost every large landmass is full of wrongness, so I'd say it's a systematic flaw that overrides all knowledge and (if that's what you're implying ) bias.

I'd just figure American mapmakers would spend more time on America. Goodness knows the first thing I fixed on the world map was Michigan.

 

[Dachs]

Re: the Race: I believe someone has started a supposedly ordinary WWII NES once, then immediately alienated (no pun intended) most of his player base by having the lizards attack as per book. I think it was Grandmaster?

Communisto started his, went for two updates (maybe one?) and it died, then he came back multiple years later and tried a Race reboot that failed instantly along those lines. Sheep mighta started one of those like you said but I think that the whole Race thing was explicit at the beginning. I forget the exact circumstances.

 

[flyingchicken]

Speaking of maps, I was just 6 hours into editing the HoI2 map into something fun-NES-able by removing all those iffy province lines (while retaining those that corresponded to rivers), and was done with Western Europe, then suddenly as I was saving my work my USB got loose and BAM.

Frig-a-doodle-doo, as they say.

 

[Dachs]

What about the NESer Civilization IV mod?

 

[flyingchicken]

Well, my usual mercurial disposition gave Crezth the benefit of the doubt (that he'll be doing most of the modding) quickly after I was intent on taking on the project with much vigor, so right now my only investment in the thing is pimping up Churchill's suit; that will probably change soon, though, especially given the zero real output of the mod thread!

 

[Angst]

Well, we should merely make a proper mod thread with an OP not being depressed all the time, having the energy to invest his time into stuff. So, yea, someone host a proper thread please.

 

[flyingchicken]

Well, we should merely make a proper mod thread with an OP not being depressed all the time, having the energy to invest his time into stuff. So, yea, someone host a proper thread please.

What is that I hear? Excuses with a dash of angst? Also, who hosts what is inconsequential as long as there is no PROGRESS to go around.

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The more I think make conjectures on the basis of assumptions based on leaps of logic from BirdNES about it, the more I suspect [person] of being [some other person]!

 

[Kraznaya]

fc, here's a scotch. You should go chill for a bit.

 

[Abaddon]

I wonder how many people will read this single post. BUT. As a NESer, I find the fixed size PM box very restrictive when editing and writing out orders.

Till has scripted greasemonkey to do away with this, and i must say it is fantastic.

Check the link for more info. Its 1-click to install!

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

I remember the last civ mod for NESing. Was NES series for civs and the city names were the players who were in each of them. Interesting to see how a new one shapes out. Religion would be a fun toy. Make "Board/Storyist/Simulationist" be the religions. Then we can have a holy war or two as it should be.

 

[Kozmos]

Well there is always emails, I wondered why we never used that.

 

[Ekolite]

All the FFHNESes use email to send orders and stats between player and mod.

 

[Kraznaya]

This is perhaps the most epicly awesome flag ever. Everyone agrees with this. Yes you do.

 

[Abaddon]

Needs something just to the right of the moon..

 

[bombshoo]

Needs something just to the right of the moon..

It is nice. I'd just increase the size of the moon 10-15% maybe and see how that looks.

 

[Kraznaya]

The problem is that it's a real flag, I don't have artistic license to change it.