A few map ideas:
1)Gibraltar - I think this'd be a fun traditional style map
2)Maybe a city map, something like New York / London / Stockholm, a traditional style map, but in the shape and form of a real city as oppose to a country or region, i know there is a city map, but it is fictional, so what about a real city map?
3)In the field of Abstract maps, how about a Casino? It could have large bonuses that are applied either a)randomly or b)every so many turns, simulating that of a random payout. Regions could be things like slot machines, roulette table, blackjack table (which could have something that added 1 to the bonus e.g. Card Counter)
4)The wildcard of my ideas / geeky idea - A particle accelerator?
just because i'd love to play a map for an Accelerator. I work at ALICE, UK so if you need general schematics etc., could do that, though it'd probably be better to make a more well known one like LHC. each region could be an experiment / beamline, and there be a bonus for the ring itself5)A pangea map? - Earth 225 Million years ago? traditional tap map again
6)Another in the field of abstract ideas - a computer motherboard - regions could be things like Graphics Card, RAM, Processor, that lose screw that annoyingly shakes everytime you move your laptop, yet doesn't seem to have come from anywhere
7)Bit of an unoriginal idea - outer space map, we have a space map, but it's mostly a localised one, i.e. planetary size, i was thinking more galaxy, blackholes (Which could make all territories adjacent fall to 1) or maybe even include the great attractor (which could autodeploy 1 to all adjacent territories) the emphasises being on use of space phenomena to alter game plays with lots of things that alter deployments, meaning the terrain would have to be used more tactically
Not so sure how you'd do it, but a map of Operation Pedestal (i.e. the Ohio delivering fuel to Malta in the 2nd World War)9)Geometry map - could be designed to look like it's on a school notebook, and territorys that are connected, instead of using lines could use bits of stationery i.e. a pencil, rubber etc. to connect them, and regions would be defined shapes split up into regions, sort of the graphical stylings of Doodle Earth, the continents be a bit like a 2d version of King of the Hill, but with different shapes. I think if deisgned well this would be good
10)Time map - fight for different important regions of history / future so, the regions could be things from: Cracking the Enigma code, The Technological Singularity, The impact of the asteroid at the Yucatan Peninsula (The one that allegedly wiped out the dinosaurs), and in order to 'travel' between regions, you either need to travel from a time machine (of which there are various numbers in each sector, or through a middle area, which is the manipulation of time, and because it's 10am and i'm half asleep and can't think of a better name, i'm just going to call it the time vortex (stolen from Dr. Who) as a middle region?
11)my friend insists i include a 'Guerilla Warfare' type map, don't know what ideas he had for it though
12)A divided germany map? with the Berlin wall being a barrier of neutrals, all with 7. and bonuses for owning the most territories in the east, and west.
13)Equation - an abstract type map, with a bunch of equations on it, not necessarily related, each country becomes a term in the equation, each continent is owning all the terms in one equation, and terms attack adjacent terms, and extra borders can be added using arrows
14)Another traditional map - Lesotho?
I'd make them myself but I have no clue how to use XML, and am terrible at making graphics, and i struggle for time sometimes. Let me know your thoguhts or if there are any kind map designers out there that would be intrested in taking any of these on as a challenge.
Epideme
