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Italics may work like that on skype but don't work like that on warlight forums

Edited 2/5/2015 19:52:35

It looks fine to me.

I think the colonies should go with the megabonuses, like "Dominions of the House Stuart" should include "New England" "English Settlements in the Bahamas" and "English Antilles"

thats cause it was in quotes

This isn't an actual quote, but is technically one. It also doesnt have any underscores in it and is italic because quotes are made italic (using the word quote in square brackets)

_Same as above, but with underscores, and looks the same_

This is normal text
_So is this_

Oh and I noticed your sneaky edit, you must have put [.i] before and [./i] after (ignoring the dots)

Edited 2/6/2015 02:26:50

I want in on testing!
Looks awesome.

Thanks, Tyrion.

TeeMee, I meant the thing I said looks fine.

And I said I noticed you had edited it, to change it from _was_ to was, and you were implying that it was in italics (coining the phrase 'it looks fine to me' usually meaning that you fully believe it is fine, or in this case in italics) when it actually wasn't, but you had changed it to be so it would look like I was wrong about it not being properly italicized

Edited 2/6/2015 18:03:27

Indeed, you are wrong. The edit was changing 'England' to 'Scotland' (James I was Scottish).

Well, you did that as well as changing it to proper italics syntax

Is it that important?

I will test.

beautiful map, good color coordination, good connections and good accuracy, i like it and would be happy to test
which colonies will go in all the lower boxes? maybe you could make a few more connections from europe to the north american colonies like connecting england to the english antilles and then the english antilles to the american colonies, also maybe a more direct connection from spain to say snato domingo, instead of having to go through the canaries and venezuela

I would like to do that, but if connections to colonies start to look very messy if too many are added, so I need to be careful where they go. Notwithstanding, I will be adding some more connections.

The third large box is Brazil and Guyana.
The other two Atlantic boxes are the Azores and the Gold Cost.
In the Bottom left, it's the East India.
The other two are India, one around Gujarat, and the other is the tip of the Peninsula and Ceylon

Remember to think strategically about where you put the connections e.g. not to create a place where you have a really effective choke point, as anyone on the smaller side of it would be more likely to win, which could happen if you don't have many inter-box connections

You didn't respond to my question about the Mega-bonuses

I don't like how you've named some of the British territories, a lot of places you haven't included had a larger population and were a lot more important back then. Also the positioning and bonuses of some places aren't correct:

England:
-Canterbury instead of Dover
-Colchester >> Harlow
-Chester >> Warrington
-King's Lynn >> Swaffham
-Cambridge >> Peterborough
-Lincoln >> Grimsby
-Basingstoke >> Alton (or I guess even Reading?)
-Wooler >> Alnwick
-Salisbury >> Southampton (Give Isle of Wight to Portsmouth)
-Coventry >> Birmingham
-You've placed Wales too far east, half of Newton should be English territory and Shrewsbury)
-Oxford >> Witney
-Aylesbury >> Oxford
-Brighton >> Hastings
-Durham >> Hartlepool
-Carnforth - Lancaster?

Wales:
-Wrexham >> Deeside
-Aberystwyth >> Borth
-Bangor or Caernarfon >> Holyhead
-I don't think Newton should be a territory. Half should eb given to wales, half would become Shrewsbury.

Scotland:
-Sanqhar should be Sanquhar
-Edinborough should be Edinburgh
-Stonehaven >> Aberdeen
-Stirling >> Dumfermline

@ Apollo, some of those towns you want to get rid of had a greater significance back then than they do now and some of your new suggestions have a lesser significance back then than they do now. For example, Salisbury used to be one of the largest cities in England (which is why it has the largest spiral cathedral in the country). Lincoln should stay ahead of Grimsby, the clues in the name of Lincolnshire. Lincoln is the county town of Lincolnshire, which makes it very evident of its greater historical significance than that of Grimsby.

I don't want to spend ages going through every example you've listed, but for historical maps, like this one, please try to ignore the modern significance of the towns in question and please refer only to their historical significance.

I'll think you'll find that actually it's the opposite way around. My suggestions are on the left not the right. Sorry it's a little confusing.

I indicated this by the first change: Canterbury Instread of Dover. For the following I added >> to replace "instead of", to save me writing it out every time. I thought everyone would recognise that?

Edited 2/8/2015 19:19:22

Ah ok, I just interpreted it as an arrow (i.e. going to).

Not keen on the bonuses of England either:

-Black county didn't exist until 1840s
-South Anglia? Is it?
-Midlands is a bit to low I think.
-Wessex? I don't think it was called that in 1600's. Maybe South West England and Hampshire?