How many nodes does the average territory has?

If it's only text and illustrations, shaving off another 1.5 MB would be difficult but not impossible. I'd be happy to take a look as well.

Also, keep in mind 4500x4900 pixels exceeds the map dimension limit anyway - I hope your territories are large enough to still fit armies after you shrink them?

His territories don't have a lot of nodes. There are two lakes on the map that have over 500 nodes, and every background object copies those nodes. Deleting all those nodes from the background shaves off another ~100kb, so it's a tad insignificant.

Oh, good. If the file size had been in territory nodes, you'd basically have to start over. Since that's not the case this should be doable.

Murk I didn't see in the map requirements a limit of map size in pixels, if my map is 4500x4900 it won't be accepted for sure? That would be a problem because, as I said before, some of my territories are large enough to fit just the minimum space necessary for a two digit number so I can't shrink the map more than this. Anyway I can send the map to you as well if you want to take a look at it. If the problem are the texts maybe it can be fixed using a "simpler" font? I don't think deleting all the texts is a good idea because they make connections more visible. What do you think Farah?

If you're making a super large map, note that the maximum map size is 3330x2400! (https://www.warzone.com/wiki/Creating_the_SVG#Getting_Started)

can't wait to see the map published

Oh well, that's a really big problem, I'll have to change some territories that will become too small

It is the same if I do it vertically? I mean 2400x3330 instead of 3330x2400

I dont think it works if you turn your map like that, unless you rearrange the territories to fit within the 3330x2400 box.

I dont know how much territories and bonuses your map has, but the limit for both of these is 3200.

I shrinked the map to 3330x2400 and I'm trying to rearrange the territories differently since at first I setted it vertically. I did a quick check of the territories and the size shouldn't be a problem I hope, some territories don't fit perfectly the 20x20 circle but in a tutorial I saw once the guy said that 18x18 is good as well

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JK_3 I have about 1400 territories and 400 bonuses so it won't be this the problem

I've taken a look at the .svg file as well.
It's definitely doable. I'll walk you through some steps that help.

Most problematic are indeed the texts.
It's a nice font, so you don't want to touch the big titles, names and headers too much.
Instead, I gave each of the small texts (the street names and mountain names etc.) one ctrl-L.
Not all at once! Just selected each street name, pressed ctrl-L, selected the next, etc. Doing this one time for each street name separately keeps the font mostly similar (for the small text you'll barely notice), and the big text can stay as it is.
For me, this lowers file size from 3.16MB to 2.35MB.

Next, combine (ctrl-K) everything that has the same stroke and fill. Select all the small, black text (Edit > select same > fill and stroke helps) and combine it. Then do the same for all the small, white text. Then the big white text. Then select all the dashed lines (mountain routes?) and do the same. If you want to be thorough, you can even do the same for all the black arrows leading to the street names.
For me, this lowers file size from 2.35MB to 1.94MB.

Another thing you could do - but would be a bit more work - is redo the green background. Right now, every group of territories is "cut out" of the green background, so to say. This isn't necessary: territories will always show over background in Warzone anyway.
Instead, you could only draw the outlines of the green background and fill it green (and put it on the bottom of the layer for easier working). That would save a lot of nodes.
If you want to keep the black lines in between (not sure) you could just add those manually.
Not sure if I explained it well.
I tried it out, which brought file size down to about 1.88MB.

Then some smaller things:
Giving the lakes one ctrl-L each is another 0.01MB
Removing the "stroke paint" from each territory (Warzone will give them a stroke anyway) is another 0.02MB
Removing the "fill colour" from each bonus link (Warzone will give them a colour anyway) something similar.

All together, should be enough to get you well below 2MB without changing how the map looks in any significant way.

For future project, I'd advise to keep lines a little less wriggly (the dashed mountain paths, for example), to use octagons (or more) instead of circles and to pick a less fancy font. It would be a shame to have to redo it all at this point, so I hope the above is enough.


If all else fails, https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ is an amazing minifier.
Unlike the minifier JK_3 recommended, this one allows you to give really detailed settings about what you want to remove and what you want to keep.
It's been a while since I used it, so I don't know the exact settings you need any more. You'd have to play around with it a lot (and make back-ups!!!), but once you've got the right settings you can pretty much half the file size without changing anything about its appearance.
Always do this last, because it makes making changes very difficult.


Also also, please keep in mind most of these are tricks to lower the file size. They won't make the map run faster: in practice, I'd say the opposite.

Let me know if everything makes sense.

Edited 10/12/2020 15:57:26

Now THAT'S a proper explanation.

yeah

I don't even understand this but thanks murk

longest, most complicated, explanitory, forum post i have seen

and i understand none of it

Well, if I ever have an SVG that’s too big, I know how to solve it now

that's probably cause i did not read and i am not specialized at computer stuff

This should be in some sort of manual. Thanks for the info!