@myhandisonfire Were Lola and Lula twins? Seems you might know.

I'm suprised that I've made it this long without anyone telling me that this is the worst idea ever. Perhaps everyone is still in shock. I'm just hoping that I don't finish the whole thing only to have Fizzer tell me the territories are ALL too small.

is the original map baldur's gate?

this looks like a very promising map :)
you might want to add some more visual stuff so that the harbour is actually recognisable as a harbour.

Thank you, Sewerrat, for the encouragement. Indeed it is a map of Bloomridge, though at this point I've taken some liberties with it for the sake of making a better game.

I'm still debating what I'm going to do with the river/bay. I think I want to keep the black background for everything else, so I'm not sure yet how to depict the water without it looking like a big blue blob in the middle of the map.

Anybody have a suggestion?

I checked it out, I think you might want to add some indication of the streets, if you hadn't already planned to. Perhaps that is something you were going to add at a later stage, if so, sorry. Without representations of the streets, it just looks unappealing as a blob of houses.

Would something like [this](http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=8794) look better?

I think the last one looks better, now you can see that the 5 houses in the middle are actually an island! And what about my idea of making the middle ring houses with boys names?

I like the additional streets. Would those be throughout the whole map? Also, I obviously don't have time to check, but is EVERY territory name a different girl's name? Jaysus.

I think I'm going to stick with the plan of naming them all after girls. :-)

I hadn't put in a background image yet because I was worried that with my skill level it would look too stupid or that the connection lines would be harder to see. After giving it a try though, I see that even something simple adds a lot of context to it and the lines show up quite well. Thanks for the prodding guys. I'll add roads throughout the whole thing as I re-group and set the bonuses.

Perhaps I am a bit crazy for taking this on, but I'm getting excited for this map. I think it'll be quite interesting.

I have a few questions for anybody who is more familiar with Inkscape.

1. Is it possible to 'lock' an object so that it can't move? I repeatedly drag the background image around without intending to because the warlight editor is click-and-drag but Inkscape is scrolling only.

2. This is a very amateur question, but I'm curious. Will inkscape always recognize different colors as different objects? It would make sense to me if it did, but it would be nice to be able to map all the background objects together (i.e. without a million nodes) to lower the file size. Simplify rounds too many corners, and the union and combine functions inherently give the objects the same fill.

Also, the original link to my map preview no longer works, as I've switched to a duplicate after adding the background. The new [Bloomridge Map](http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=8794) is now the working link. Thanks in advance for any help!

P.S. Busy week this week, probably going to be next weekend before I'm close to testing, in case anybody was waiting.

I will help test

Looks like it'll be fun, I'll make the first tourney when the map is done :)

looks like a great map. Ill help test it once you are ready :)

i can help test

I can help test.

My next question is: How do I invite you guys to test my map? I've never played a game with most of you and I don't expect you to give me your email addresses.

All you have to do is click on our name to the left to get on our profile. just to the bottom of the photo theres a button that says "add to invite list" that will put us on your invite list so you can add us to a game

:)

Thanks for that, I didn't know.

I've still got a few things to check before I start them, but there will be testing games set up before the weekend. Unfortunately, you'll all have to play the game before the game, called "Where the hell are my territories?" :-(

Oh well, we'll see how it goes.

did someone say testing?
if you need more people, invite me, I'd love to play on this map

Im up for testing!

http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=9022 Last time I swear.