[Ski Anderson]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Very nice. Did Cartographer generate the map with all those trees and mountains? Or is it more like a paint program with terrain-type brushes?

The colors are alittle painful for me. I would pastel it abit. Lighter water and less bright grasslands. Make everything kindof meet closer to the middle.

It's more of the latter than the former. CC2 doesn't really do any of the work for you, but it makes some of the drawing aspects easier. It has a range of built in "decorations" like the trees, mountains, and so on. It can make your coastlines more jagged, which is helpful too.

I definitely agree with the suggestion about colors. Most of those colors in the map are the defaults for CC2. The actual default ocean color they use is a bright cyan. I darkened up the water (sounds like I darkened it too much) but didn't darken up the grassy color enough.

I don't know if I'll go back and change the colors on this particular map, but I'll work on it for any future maps. I sincerely apologize for anyone that gets blinded by the Farthing map.

On another note, are there particular map styles that players are wanting people to make? Are there gaps in the available maps that need filled? For example, I think I'm going to try to make a small map suitable for just 2 people because I just don't know how many small maps are available right now. What other kind of maps do people want?