Arduria map + a new one in the works

[Crandaeolon]

Is the final Version ready? I'll put it up tonight anyway.

I've been testing it for a few days, might as well put it out since I can't find any glaring errors. Here's the new mapfile (1.1): mapfileonly.zip

This will probably be the final Version, unless something really drastic is spotted. Knock on wood...

Updated the zip too.

[Crandaeolon]

Got the semester wrapped up, and I'm thinking of putting a new map into the works. It will probably be larger (around 250 provinces or even more) and a _bit_ less watery. I'm also toying with PvK's ideas about water regions.

Creating the map will be done similarly compared to the previous one, so that's about as pretty as it can get.

Now (again? )would be a good time to chime in with comments, suggestions and/or feedback on the previous map.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Crandaeolon:
Got the semester wrapped up, and I'm thinking of putting a new map into the works. It will probably be larger (around 250 provinces or even more) and a _bit_ less watery.

Wish I had time for developing x-large maps.

Definitely looking forward to this next map !! The really large maps of 300+ provinces are rarely created. I believe the largest map available for download from Illwinter's website right now is the WorldMap of 339 provinces.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
Definitely looking forward to this next map !! The really large maps of 300+ provinces are rarely created. I believe the largest map available for download from Illwinter's website right now is the WorldMap of 339 provinces.

While I do love large maps, the problem with them is that, at least as of 2.08, the nation overview display would corrupt when an overly large number of provinces was listed.

Also, maps should be MORE watery! There's already not enough water for our water nations to play in, and Illwinter is rumored to be introducing a third water nation. We need MORE water, not less!

[Crandaeolon]

Arduria has 34 underwater provinces out of 188. The ratio will probably remain about the same. There will be landlocked seas and large lakes, a couple of oceans etc... I'll include "support" (start location placement & balancing considerations) for the rumoured 3rd nation right out of the box.

It won't take a horribly long time to create the map with the pseudo-random, fractally-generated and filter-prettified method I'm using. The tedious parts are drawing the borders and checking neighbour connections, the rest is all fun.

It's done when it's done.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
While I do love large maps, the problem with them is that, at least as of 2.08, the nation overview display would corrupt when an overly large number of provinces was listed.

I would gladly sacrifice using "the nation overview display" for a map of 300+ provinces. I love the x-large maps which usually has enormous armies marching around. In one game Ermor(computer AI) had 1,200 troops on a single province.

[Crandaeolon]

Well, the new project just ceased to be fun - I had drawn about 3/4ths of the borders when PhotoShop complained about "corrupted pixels" due to a "disk or SCSI malfunction" when loading the image. And sure enough, there were large discolored and garbled stripes across the map.

I had saved the image frequently, but all the borderwork was done on the same file, and now it's corrupt. Bugger that. Any ideas on how to recover from that? Scandisk reported nothing to fix, BTW.

Knowing myself, I probably won't restart the work unless the summer is _really_ boring. So, if someone wants to carry on the torch, give me a holler and I'll make the original available.

Here's a preview (the original is 4600x2300 pixels):