Concept: Explore. Expand. Exploit. Exterminate. Conquer the Star clusters of Fade & Pure Blind, utilizing the ancient stargates or the high tech Jump Bridges.
Each circle/square is a star system, linked by an interstellar gate. Special interstellar gates called jumpbridges (coloured lines) link far off places. No starting positions, or anything overly fancy - just a map I think would make for a very interesting game. If anyone has any idea what kind of bonuses would be appropriate, and how they should be split I'd be grateful for the expert help. So far I was thinking hi-tech station systems [squares] give an extra bonus, and then dividing up the reset of the map by colour and having bonuses for the different areas.
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I'm not sure if this has been suggested before, but has anyone tried to replicate the layout of the regions in eve online? It seems like they are plans just waiting to be made into boards.
Let me show you a few examples of the Jumpbridgemaps from the north of eve online. All created by players btw.
http://map.hirr.net/northernjb.jpg
This next map is of Pure Blind and Fade.
Bear in mind that for the adjacent regions of vale, cloud ring, tribute and deklein it does not show all systems, only the ones with a jb line/entrances. The map only shows Fade and Pure Blind in full.
http://eve-wtf.com/maps/jbmap-fdpb.gif
link: http://map.hirr.net/sirius.jpg (even bigger map)
There is an even bigger map again which includes the Drone regions as they are called ingame... but theres no point in posting that... the drone regions are a messy maze of systems bigger than Russia. (edit: here it is just for fun: http://nc-jb-map.appspot.com/)
All of eve is available publicly from this website : http://evemaps.dotlan.net/universe
The Dotlan maps are ugly but would be miles easier to make a map from - This map here: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Pure_Blind#const is the same Region as the Second map above - just without the jumpbridges and again in a different style.
Right so what are you looking at =S, let me explain... the coloured lines are player constructed gateways, so you can ignore them, or have them as special routes etc. The non-coloured lines are normal gate jumps. There's a key on both maps so you can read that lol.
In eve these maps are used as actual maps to navigate our jumpbridge networks. Jumpbridges can and frequently are moved, so the maps get updated fairly often. Some maps are based off the ingame map (like the first map I linked) and some are based off the ombey/dotlan layout (like the second map I linked). The numbers you see next to the circles are the names of the systems, like "LC-307". The smaller numbers on the edges of the coloured lines indicate to a pilot where a jumpbridge is in a system, eg. 8-1 would mean planet 8 moon 1 is where the jumpbridge portal is. I know most people are going to be scratching their heads at this - so just have a look at the maps and imagine them as CC maps. You don't need to know what they are otherwise used for really.
Before people go "aaah copyright" etc... these maps are all made by the players((Also I know Sage Evo (and his map is based on dotlan anyway), and I'm not very close to the other cartographers who make the big maps... not that it matters since the maps are outdated/updated almost every second week.)), and the jumpbridges (playermade gateways) are planned by players also, and not part of the developers regional design.
So has anyone tried copying a specific region of eve? (I know that whole of eve and even the north is way too big)
And is it possible to make a map with the design of these regions, or would it not work gameplay wise?
What do you guys think? Impossible? Am I mad to think I could try a project like this?
A very different alternative would be to use a political map of eve atm. Something like this: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/ ... 050610.png or http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/ ... luence.png or http://www.eve-files.com/media/corp/CRII/Latest.jpg
For Draft Purposes I really have my heart set on the Fade/Pure Blind map (http://eve-wtf.com/maps/jbmap-fdpb.gif). It's big enough, and complex enough with the jumpbridges to make a good map for CC.
What I'm thinking in terms of gameplay is either bonuses based on constellation (see the dotlan map) or based on holding the jumpbridge lines (see fade/pureblind map) - also if you notice some systems are circles and others are squares. Squares designate Station systems (hence more valuable) and could give bonuses. Of course there would have to be some changes to cut off Tribute nicely, still this is just brainstorming, and I'm not going to commit any work until theres some feedback. I'll put up a 840x800 size version later. =P
So please tell me what you think.
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