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United States of Baseball

Postby Industrial Helix on Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:53 am

No way we could do this without breaking about 30 copyright agreements, but man, it would be a cool map and a great break from the usual north american maps.

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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby theBastard on Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:57 am

IĀ“m not fun of baseball, but the map looks great.
and has many possibilities. National League (NL), American League (AL) maybe NL East, NL Central, NL West, AL East, AL Central, AL West...
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby AndyDufresne on Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:42 pm

I'm not a baseball fan, but it would be an interesting map---if we could ever pass the copyrights.


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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby The Bison King on Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:28 pm

This is an interesting idea. How would things connect through the unincorporated territory.
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby Industrial Helix on Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:41 pm

Either impassable or maybe connect Rockies with Twins and Mariners?
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby MarshalNey on Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:18 pm

What a great map... standard gameplay I assume?

You know, you could do a Japan map based on the same idea...
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby Industrial Helix on Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:34 am

Standard gameplay indeed... the trouble with this and any other sports team based map is that there's a huge copyright infringement. Though I'm trying to think my way around it... we could always ask the MLB for their permission to use the team names...

OR we could just use the city names and perhaps rip off, though not identical, name fonts. If you use the identical logo you'll get sued, which is apparently what happened to Obama during his run for senate.
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby Evil DIMwit on Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:47 pm

If you've worried about copyright, you can always use some generic, vaguely related, and/or conquer-themed stand-ins.

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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby AndyDufresne on Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:59 pm

Yes....yes...and Japan too!


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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby mviola on Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:08 pm

The Bison King wrote:This is an interesting idea. How would things connect through the unincorporated territory.

You could expand the territories bordering the unincorporated territory by asking people who live in certain areas what teams they root for. Specifically plabes like Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, and Wyoming.
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby carlpgoodrich on Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:11 pm

Awesome! A lot of things to work out, but could be great.
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby the.killing.44 on Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:12 pm

If I had a penny for every time this map was posted hereā€¦
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby Evil DIMwit on Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:06 pm

...You'd have a nickel?
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby jrh_cardinal on Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:18 pm

this is the best idea that has ever set foot in the foundry =D> . Anyone a lawyer :lol:
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby the.killing.44 on Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:19 pm

Evil DIMwit wrote:...You'd have a nickel?

Well no, I'd have around five pennies!
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby Evil DIMwit on Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:12 pm

Of course, if we started this map now it'd be done probably around January...
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby jrh_cardinal on Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:54 pm

Evil DIMwit wrote:Of course, if we started this map now it'd be done probably around January...

just in time for the 2011 season!!

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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby Yojimbo28 on Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:15 pm

I heard you lose two armies at the start of your turn if you own the Orioles or the Pirates.
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby Tassidar on Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:44 pm

I just had a breakthrough with this but NFL, thought I was original and then saw your post =( Amazing idea though, great minds think a like! :D
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Re: United States of Baseball

Postby Industrial Helix on Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:58 pm

Tassidar wrote:I just had a breakthrough with this but NFL, thought I was original and then saw your post =( Amazing idea though, great minds think a like! :D


Ah, i can't take the credit for this map... I stole it from Nike or something. But another sport is an interesting idea...
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