As much as I'd love to have a large world map.. this one looks more like it deserves the name 'politically correct world map'

Incidentally, Serbia doesn't connect to Croatia or Bulgaria.
Although that means I've deserved an honourable mention, I'd rather not be mentioned, because, frankly, I agree with Moros, Richard, and Perrin.

What Moros meant, by the way, was that there is a connection, but that there is no line depicting it. That is necessary for any serious map.

"If people really want me to divide the big areas up, I will, it was just supposed to be a political map of sorts."

you really need to consider what makes a good map good (or even a playable map playable). the idea of making an earth map the same size as east asia or africa or something similar is a good one, and i think it would be quite popular if done right. but your map is very unbalanced in terms of territory and bonus size, the metabonuses are too signifant and maybe unnecessary when the actual bonuses arent so large.

i dont understand some of the choices you have made regarding what countries to include, a good example as someone already mentioned is hawaii, which has four territories, as well as alaska and puerto rico having their own entire territories, while the 'lower 48' are all together. even in the normal earth map, america is split up into east and west, i think 14 terrtiories altogether, with hawaii and alaska are seperate 0 bonuses. you include the tiniest islands in canada, but then have one huge territory covering about 80% of its area. if youre going to include 'west antarctica', a territory so small you can hardly notice it, you really need to go the whole way and include the pacific islands, split up russia into about 30 territories maybe, etc etc etc. then the metabonuses would make more sense. its like youve taken the regular earth map, said 'im going to split this one territory into 20 territories, and merge these 15 territories into one territory'.

another thing is that you have, for example, the maldives connected to reunion island, and yet no connections from east to west.

if you fixed all these things, your map would be less ugly, although i think it would still be somewhat confusing aesthetically. i think matma rex posted some advice on this to the forums before. i dont know what it is exactly, but you should try to copy the design of your map from a pre-existing one.

good map but some territories aren't even worth it u should hav put hawai islands together north turkey and turkey e.t.c so need joining or removing.And why is a Philippians a bonus makes no sense u should have made it whle one and jioned it with far east bonus or make no bonus

also u added kuwait and some less know places and u didn't add Qatar.

I agree with many of what people said. The division of some of the smaller areas, ie the Philippines and Hawaii, while keeping the much larger countries together is senseless. I would have expected from the title an exact copy of the Earth map with further division in areas with large territories such as Brazil and India. Try combining the smaller islands with a larger territory to make them stand out more. Add connecting lines to indicate non-consecutive territories do connect. This map has a lot of potential, but it needs a bit more work.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. I'm taking it all into consideration. I'll divide america, russia, and china, and combine some islands. I'll post an update when I'm done.

if u are going to split Russia split it Europe Russia Urals Siberia and maybe more

Update 1.2:
Features:
+Sardinia and Qatar.
Removed continental bonuses. Felt they were a glitchy distraction.
+Russian districts.

Fixes:
Russia.
(Some) small islands.

Next Update:
Division of US, Canada, and China.
And the dreaded fixing of the small territories...ug.

Keep posting missing links, territories, and suggestions. Appreciate it.

Change middle earth to Central Asia or Caucas region (there is no region called middle earth)

I like the idea, and the design is nice and different from regular. I agree about enlarging it though, and tinkering with the tiny nations as it's mostly unplayable now.

@lakerman
Ehh....ok.

@Francisco
Thanks; currently working on said problems.

Alright guys, I took all your concerns in and made all the changes I thought the map needed like...
- Bigger size.
- More territories.
- Big territory division.
and etc.

I added the names to most of the people who helped in the bottom-left corner. Just sent the map to Fizzer, hopefully this time it's up to par. Thanks for all the help.

Preview: http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=8266

in northwest africa, guinea doesnt connect to gambia.

Not supposed to since senegal completely surrounds the gambia in real life (he's going for a political map) so his map is fine connection wise

there are two bonuses named angola. gabon and equitorial guinea do not connect with each other. this is on just one continent.

@lakerman, i dont know what countries border the gambia off-hand, very few people would. looking at the map, those two territories clearly border each other. if the missing connection is correct, the map is drawn wrong.

also, the maritime connections are quite confusing. the lines are almost as wide as they are long in some connections, it makes the map look bad. and then, there are no lines between some islands. just glancing at the map, it appears that the entire nunavut bonus is one territory (which would make a lot of sense but whatever). same goes for hawaii, philippines, vancouver island etc. there are no lines showing connections to jamaica or from alaska to russia. there is a connection between french polynesia and chile, but no connection between french polynesia and samoa or tuvalu. this map is purported to be political, but 'north[ern] ireland' belongs neither to ireland nor britain. would be fine if wales and scotland were seperated, but they arent. and no palestinian territories, no seperate territory for tibet. nunavut has 13 territories while india (pop 1.2 bn) has 1.

once again geography understanding is needed

1) the two "angola" bonuses is technically correct since the province of cabinda is part of angola and should be considered part of it (although he should rename it to cabinda or just join the two)

although i agree with your statements on tibet and palestine in that they should be seperate and there are many other inconsitencies (also i don't know why he made north africa and northwestern africa when he could have just made north africa which is the mediterranean coast, west africa which is the atlantic coast going from mauritania south and use the traditional ethno-geogrphaic divisions of africa)

and yes your other statements are all correct, and the map needs some work yes, but i still believe he could make a decent political world map

some bonus still need enlarging u will discover in the testing phase u will not be to fit a single digit on most

I really like what you've done to change this. Though there are quite a few things that I think would make it a great map (ie, more playable, more demographically/culturally accurate), instead of just an artistic yet historically/geographically/culturally inaccurate map:

- I dislike your Far East bonus: (1) China as 1 separate bonus (including Taiwan -- to end the Chinese Civil War!); (2) Japan-Koreas as 1 bonus of 4 territories
- Australia as 1 bonus. Oceania as another; (3) [redraw China using China Proper as 1 territory please](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_proper) -- it'd look better than your random lines and would be more historically/culturally/geographically accurate
- I very much dislike 'The East' bonus: (1) Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia should be a separate bonus (river systems, tonal languages, history, religion, cultural similarities all make them distinct); (2) Pakistan should be in a bonus with Afghanistan and Iran, not India; (3) India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma should be a separate bonus called 'The Subcontinent'
- Middle East/Muslim world: try to do a better job of dividing these countries up! How I'd divide these countries into bonuses: (1) Oil States (worth 1: United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait: connect the latter two); (2) Arabian Peninsula (worth 1: Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia); (3) [The Levant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant) (worth 2: Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel); (4) Middle East (worth 2: Turkey, Iraq, Iran); (5) Afpak (worth 1: Afghanistan, Pakistan)
- Your Caucuses: take out Turkey & make it worth 1
- Russia: divide it up into (1) European Russia; (2) Asiatic Russia; (3) Russian Islands; and (4) Russia (a bonus for unifying Russia)
- Your 'North Europe' is Central Europe in real life
- West Europe could be divided into three smaller bonuses, 2 based on language (Romance West Europe, Germanic West Europe), 1 based on geography (Islands: Iceland, Irelands, Britain).
- Britain: Scotland, England, Wales?
- South America is too big & simplistic: (1) Andean states are distinct in many ways; (2) Brazil as its own bonus (worth 1-2); (3) Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Falklands as 1 bonus; (4) French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana as a bonus (worth 1); (5) Columbia and Venezuala as a bonus (worth 1)?
-Africa is a mess: (1) in real life, North Africa tends to mean "Africa along the Mediterranean and north of Sub-Sahara Africa'(you mix the Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan worlds!); (2) the rest of Africa is just a geographic, demographic, religious, linguistic mess (more so than in real life!): if I were you, I'd study how most people tend to divide Africa (based on languages, religions, regions, topography, etc.) and find something more suitable and playable; currently, how you divided Africa is not playable or realistic (making it entirely arbitrary)
- Azores: (1) no need to make it a part of any bonus (like Japan on Fizzer's ladder map); (2) connect it to Cuba! (the Spanish Empire was connected in this way)
- Puerto Rico as part of Caribbean bonus: no need to make it part of the US (you didn't add other American territories, so why add this one? Keeping the US limited to the states and not adding the territories would make your map more playable)
- US: (1) please redraw the borders in the continental US (Europe looks nice, Africa looks nice, US looks ugly); (2) make Texas its own territory (it is distinct from 'The South' in certain ways; this would also help make your other borders look nicer); (3) I'd limit the US bonus to 'Continental US'; and (4) have Alaska & Hawaii be a separate bonus worth 1
- Hawaii = 1 territory (and connecting to Marshall Islands: Hawaii is a historical naval base, we Americans took it bc we wanted to expand into Asia, and Guam is another important US naval base -- talks of redeploying troops from Japan to Guam are off and on, while Guam's naval base recently was expanded).