Popularity of the Faerun Map?

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by PvK:
I haven't seen the new Version, so it's hard to know which I would prefer. They sound like they both offer different things, but the newer one is more refined and balanced. The larger one will probably still have its appeal thanks to sheer enormousness. Also I wonder how the black stars for flags will will look. Part of the appeal of the map is that it's very nice to look at, and clarity at the expense of black stars all over the place might be something I'd like to be able to turn off. If it's the same image and pixel size, though (is it??), players could just use the un-starred TGA.

Myself, I look forward to a somewhat lower province count, but even more, I look forward to the black stars on the map: The current map is incredibly hard to play races like Vanheim, Caelum, CotW Marignon and others with non-standard movement. Others are bad enough, because Illwinter hasn't done the minor tweak to allow the color of the neighbors filter to be changed, and the lines are almost invisible on much of Faerun (and a couple other maps).

But trying to do ocean movement, or flyers - Caelum's / Pangaea's flying scouts - is frustrating in the extreme currently.

Hrm. If Illwinter put a Question Mark sigil in place of the candle for "unknown" provinces, that'd help too - after all, most maps you can see the provinces via the borders drawn on the map anyway.

Anyways, looking forward to the new map.