Hello all. I had to leave for a while, suddenly, so sorry for the slow response.
I'll try to give you all some attention :)
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Most importantly:
consistent naming.Murk, do you intend on using native city names whenever you can, using modern English names when available OR using English names used at the time, like Juq suggested?
For some reason, this was something I thought "I'll do it later" of, and then didn't. Now it's a mess, so thanks for all your suggestions.
If possible, I'd like to stick to historical, regional names, but for readability for most warlight players, in latin alphabet. So all suggestions/improvements for local names are welcome. I'll make that first priority today.
South America*State of Brasil vs State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão?
This division never existed. Might make them both united on one superbonus.
On all other of your suggestions, I'll take your word for it. This distinction, however, showed up often. I believe it was a short-lived distinction, but was made nonetheless. Is that a wellspread myth or something?
Assuming your goal is historical accuracy and not balancement (hinted by the standalone bonuses that are cities), the value of the cities seems off in every way.
True. It was a mix-up between accuracy/balance/ignorance here and there. I want to make it historically accurate for now (so follow your suggestions), but it might be necessary to change it later for balances sake.
Non-EuropeanYou have been very generous with the American colonies. The French didn't directly control so much and many tribes were still independent (remove them from the main French bonus). The Amazon wasn't really colonized at this point either. The African cities are also probably worth too much (although in a 7 years war scenario, the whole non-European controlled part would probably be removed with massive stacks).
Also, France didn't technically control Indian land. I think it would be wise to make those Indian tribes independent from France's colony.
This is all very true, and I should make it more clear that the "New France" bonus (as well as Prince Rupert's Land) is
Nominal control - it is also why I tried to give the tribes their own bonuses and names. From a European perspective, at that point, the land
was French, though it wasn't, of course.
I would say that in a slotted game, only the cities and forts are actually French, but for the map as a whole I wanted to show the French claims (and give North America a superbonus, too).
Would it help to give the native territories bonus colours other than blue, or would that become too sloppy?
The same goes for the amazon - it isn't really worth much in this map, but I think it's strategic value is still too big (you can pretty much attack all of South America from there). I wanted to prevent black spots, though. Suggestions welcome.
For Africa, yes, I assume that if you have a slotted scenario, Africa would either be neutral or very much decreased in value. I didn't want to give the impression that the world ended at Europes borders, though - which is something that happens a lot. The nations around the colonies might not be as strong as Europe, but they are very much there, and that means making them a valid starting position for FFA games.
India Nice effort on map.... but as an Indian, the lower right part of the map affronts me :P
I'll take time out this week to help you out on that part of the map... although I must admit, I am a novice when it comes to map making in Warlight
Gladly. Especially the Carnatic region might hold plenty of mistakes. It was hard to find which nawabs were independent, which weren't. Sometimes, the Carnatic is referred to as a kingdom of its own, other times it's only shown as "European influence", sometimes as a mess of independent fiefs. Feedback from someone who knows the history more intimately would be welcome.
Russia You're badly misusing the Russian provinces - either make them all just geographic sites, not administrative, or put in all the Russian provinces, don't merge.
I always prefer administrative to geographic. I also like the fact that Russia doesn't have to many territories, to prevent it from overpowering Europe (as often happens in maps like these). So, I'm cautious with wanting to add
all provinces - I do want to do Russian history justice, of course, so do you have any intermediate suggestions? :)
Scotland SCOOOTLAND (ALL SCOTTISH TERRITORIES IN SCOTS DIALECT) (THE MISSING LETTERS ARE GLOT-STOPS / UNPRONOUNCED Gs/Hs & REALLY IMPORTANT)
This... This requires some consideration. It is latin alphabet, and it might be accurate, but... Well. It seems unfair to all the other countries that do not get their own local quirks in the names. Let me think about it.
OtherReminds me of the War of the Spanish Succession map.
Only a 50 years difference, so, yeah, it's a bit bigger, but most countries have about the same shape. Especially the silly lines between the colonies are similar. Something I want to work on.
Although the map is very nice, the borders can be a little less choppy.
it looks like a fun map to play but its a bit ugly
Yup. I didn't want to improve aesthetics when there's a good chance I'll have to do borders over, yet. Would be redundant work. Once I think all the historical borders are OK, I'll start cleaning them up.
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Alright. I'll start working on name consistency (something that really is long overdue). Might take a day or two to get it all in line. Suggestions still welcome. Thanks for the help so far, everyone!
