I could see hexagons working just fine. It would make it a little interesting because every country except the ones next to the ocean would have 6 borders, so players couldn't just hole themselves up in one place without having to defend a lot. On the other hand, it wouldn't be too chaotic because ...

Me and sfhbballnut are in if there's still room.

"Why not have every country be able to attack every other one?"

hmm... That might be a good idea. It would be really hard to hold continents, though. Every place would have to be fortified, and that might add a different level of strategy, but it also might be incredibly annoying. I'll look into ...

This has the possibility of being an insanely awesome map. Just a suggestion, if you made the board marble on a wooden background, with black and white marble for the squares, it might help with the color problems. That could make it hard to see the colors on the black squares, though.

Yeah, I would definately have to change the structure of the map some. It would probably end up sort of like the "Space" map, with wormholes and warp gates. I'm not quite sure what it's going to look like, but I have a couple of ideas.
First of all, it might be good to take out the land bridges ...

I'm in.

yeah, it looks like it could be a really good map once you get those graphical problems that they were talking about fixed. BTW: I think it looks pretty good, even with the shadows being weird.

A computer map... That's an interesting idea. You could have the motherboard divided up into a couple things, have the drives as one continent... I'm a little short on other ideas for continents, though. Any ideas?

Hey, I'm thinking of making a map that looks a lot like the normal RISK map, but with airports, so that there are places from which you can attack any other country with an airport. Let me know what you think. I'll have to look up the major airports, but I think it has potential to be a great map.

Dude!! That's pretty awesome. I would love to play that one when it comes online. It actually gave me an idea for another map that I can make, too. The poll's probbably going to be called something along the lines of "flying map" when I can make it.