Kingdom of Karan and Targa

[Zurai]

Originally posted by The_Duke:
Personally I like Huge maps also.

Targa, since you wont have that much time, you could consider taking Kingdom of Karan and make it a wrap-around-world by adding border provinces to make the wrap look smooth.

Great Work.

Looking at it, he won't need to. It appears to have been designed with wrap-around in mind; all the boundaries match up. He would just need to add borders to the provinces on the current edges.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Some peoples ideas of tactics and strategy all involve things they have thought up before the game even begins. My playing style relies on making better use of whats thrown at me than the other guy. Hence my love of random. Random maps, random placements, random events, luck, etc.

I'm not so much a fan of randomness, but rather, unpredictability. We have saying about randomness on our site, but it's kind of an inside joke and nobody here would get it.

Unpredictability, on the other hand, is fun. While it's all fine and good to think of strategy and tactics before the game starts, the element of unpredictability provided by human opponents will insure that no plan survives first contact with the enemy.

[st.patrik]

I'd like to make a request not for a huge map, but smaller maps. perfect game, to my mind, is with 4 or 5 opponents (enough for a crowd) and a little bit of space. This way you have a chance of actually finishing the game rather than getting bogged down in huge micromanagement issues.

I think everyone likes the sound of a huge game with hundreds of provinces and tons of nations, but in fact after a limited number of turns it just becomes tedious and most people start something else - the 'epic' element quickly becomes 'mind-numbingly-tedious'.

[Tricon]

Lovely map, Targa. Stay with us and create more! So you're a GM kind of guy, that's cool, we need more like you!

I prefer large - huge maps. 200+ provinces , for the same reasons, Gandalf Parger mentions.

Some of his random maps don't look too shabby btw. With a bit of work they could be modified to look more then decent, I think. Too bad, I'm rather lazy in that regard....

[Tricon]

snip, double post, sorry ... any way to delete a post btw?

[ March 05, 2004, 16:35: Message edited by: Tricon ]

[tinkthank]

Hello,

I would also like to say "thank you" very much.

I just downloaded your map after reading this thread. I hadnt done so before because to be quite honest, I just loved Orania so much I didnt want to try out fan-based stuff after I had taken a look at a very small one (Talis I think it was). Yours looks very very promising and I cant wait to try it out asap.

I also just wanted to say that I bow my head to your Thief site, which I checked out from the link in your reply. I love Thief2, it is definately one of my top 3 favorite games of all time (if that makes sense as a concept; I also liked Planescape Torment, Fallout and Deus Ex as megaFavorites). I think I will try out Thief II again (it hasnt been out of its box in ages) after seeing your site.

Well all the best to you and hats off.

Oh wait PS the "vote": If possible, I would also appreciate a fine "smaller" map, perhaps in the "style" of "Cirlani".... but whatever.

[Targa]

Thinktank: Thief 3 is supposedly in stores this Spring! *drool* check out the official website:
http://www.thief3.com/main.html

It's one of my all-time faves also. I hope Thief 3 lives up to expectations.