Seeking map or need advice on making it

[Targa]

If I had to guess, looks like ~140 land provinces (for anyone interested). Also, if you look on the far-right-top edge, that's a pic of the real stonehenge.

Zen: Yeah, saw that (river). Actually, the map doesn't look like this at all. I saved it, then added the 3-D effect and anti-aliasing and made a copy for the web site. I can't do 3-D until Last, but I wanted to post an attention-getter since that may be the Last update before it's finished. Will tweak that bot-left river.

Water nation access: Should I put that to a vote? Connect sea provinces to the inland lakes (via swimming upriver)? Opinions welcome. Dunno what's up with the whirlpool, it just appeared by itself... hehe, J/K. I think the water looks too boring so I pasted that in there while experimenting. I need to add wave/whitecap grafix somehow.

Kris and DS: Thanks!

Edit:
I have yet to play R'lyeh or Atlantis, so I'm definitely gonna need feedback on that question.

[ February 05, 2004, 22:28: Message edited by: Targa ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Targa:
Water nation access: Should I put that to a vote? Connect sea provinces to the inland lakes (via swimming upriver)?

Yes. And yes!

Everything that connects within one river. Should work. But you should also note that it does cause Atlantis and R'lyeh to have a more defined advantage the more provinces they have access to from one point. In order to limit that a little you might want to change the size of the river province so they take up a little more space along the river.

[Gandalf Parker]

You cant really make a province both water and land. Either it will be water access or it will be land access. The only way to do it AFAIK would be to do a #neighbor link from the sea to the lake. It would be an instantaneus trip.

I always thought the water nations were pretty powerful already.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I always thought the water nations were pretty powerful already.

I don't know about Atlantis, but I must admit R'lyeh can be pretty powerful, in spite of illithid's drawbacks as discussed in other threads.

[Targa]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
You cant really make a province both water and land. Either it will be water access or it will be land access. The only way to do it AFAIK would be to do a #neighbor link from the sea to the lake. It would be an instantaneus trip.

I always thought the water nations were pretty powerful already.

That's what I had in mind. I made a quick drawing here:

http://www.techno-mage.com/~targa/webmap2.jpg

That shows approximately what I'm thinking (if I were to do it), regarding how the #neighbors would be. The other option, of course, is to just let R'lyeh/Atlantis start somewhere in the sea and have to hike overland to gain access to the lakes.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Targa:
Today's sneak preview:
http://www.techno-mage.com/~targa/webmap.jpg

The 3D effect is nice. But, I have two suggestions...

1) Reduce the intensity. Looks like the lakes all have 20-meter cliffs...

2) What would it look like if you removed (or blurred) the cloth-effect from the water? Hmm, maybe I'll try it and tell you=)

...like this:

http://www.geocities.com/saber_mario...ry/webmap2.jpg

(The lake near the skull)

Note that you cannot click on the link, you have to right-click and download to view it, for some reason.

[ February 05, 2004, 23:41: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]