Formerly the Map Ideas Thread, now CLOSED

Coleman · Post by **Coleman** » Tue May 29, 2007 6:42 pm

Index to New Map Ideas Thread

This is a simple alphabetical index of the Ideas that appear in the New Map Ideas Thread....for your convenience! As such, it is a continual work in progress. Click the idea you have an interest in to jump to that post.

A
Ace Combat
Amusement Park
A New Zoo
An Old West Map
Ant's Nest
Atlanta
Axis & Allies

B
Battle of the Bulge
Bermuda Triangle
Black Cauldron Map
Boardroom Wars
Bosnian War

C
Casino Map
Caucasus
CC Racers
Celtic Lands
Coagulation Stage of Halo2
Coliseum
Colonization
Computer Keyboard
Constallation of Stars

D
Dante's Hell!
Darkage Britain
Dartboard
Delhi
Dragonlance
Dune (Frank Herbert's)

E
Eastern United States
European Parliament

F
Falklands War
Foosball
French and Indian War
Futurama USA 4000

G
Galaxy
Gallic Wars
Gangs of New York
Gotham City

H
Halloween Hollows (Abandoned)
Heaven & Hell
Hockey
Holy Wars
Houston (Harris County)

I
Iberia: dark Ages
Ice Age
Isaon Islands
Indian Ocean
Invasion!
Israel
Ivalice, Map of

J
Jurassic Earth

K
Kenya
Korean Peninsula

L
lackattack's Super Continent
London Underground
Lord of the Rings
Los Angeles
Lunar Base

M
Magic Eye
Mappa Mundi
Middle Earth & Valinor
Moscow Subway
Motor Bike

N
Native American Tribes
Native Tribes
Napoleaonic Europe (Castle Risk)
New England & New York
New York City

O

P
Phoenix
Planet of the Apes

Q

R
Raymond Feist Maps
Reconquista
Roman Civil War

S
Simple World of Kyvid
Sino-Russo-Japanese Wars
Soccer Stadium
South Asia
Southern Redneck
Sports Teams or Stadiums
Sudoku
Summer Camp

T

The Ancient Kingdom
The Aztec Empire
The Mall
The Old World
The World of Apocalypse
Turtle Dove's 2nd Great War: American Front

U

V
Venetian Lagoon

W
Wales
War for Independence
War In The Pacific
Western Europe
Western United States
World Islands in Dubai
World Now: and Then
WWII Invasion of Italy
WWII Operation Market Garden
WWII South Pacific

X

Y
Yugoslavia

Z

Eyelidman · Post by **Eyelidman** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:08 pm

This is a really awesome idea. You should put the legend under Europe since there would be no other use for the space there. What are the six colonies and where are their landing sites? I count UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, and one native american colony

tenio · Post by **tenio** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:28 pm

Great idea!!!

It sounds great.

Also if the XML can work, maybe only allow to deploy armies on the european countries.

Coleman · Post by **Coleman** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:32 pm

Eyelidman wrote:This is a really awesome idea. You should put the legend under Europe since there would be no other use for the space there. What are the six colonies and where are their landing sites? I count UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, and one native american colony

I'm going to try to be historically accurate without compromising game play. So I'm still kind of researching and sketching at the moment. Like I said in the topic title, very early development.

I was planning on two native groups so every game isn't exactly the same while still preserving everyone only starts with one territory (except for 3 player).

Right now as far as natives go I'm either going with Iroquois and Aztecs/Maya or Lakota and Maya. I wanted Aztecs and Lakota but they start way too close together if I don't want to flip history the bird.

Evil Pope · Post by **Evil Pope** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:38 pm

Great idea.. I think it'll work.. I was thinking the same thing yesterday.. I stumbled upon my previous attempt at a "New World" map and read some suggestions(essentially suggesting something along these lines (i.e. small inclusion of europe)) and got to the same point as it seems you have as far as how the map would go.. Anyway, good luck.

dominationnation · Post by **dominationnation** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:41 pm

this sounds like a great idea!!! i cant wait for the rough draft

Coleman · Post by **Coleman** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:51 pm

I'm not too clear on this. Were the Inca still around when the European nations started colonizing? Inca's birthplace is in the south western part of South America and would be more ideal then the Aztecs or the Maya as far as starting location for a native tribe.

I would really love to just have them all in and be able to say something in code like (of these 9 territories make a random 3 neutral) but I don't remember if lack was going to code that in or not.

Oh, and I promise I'm better then this, but since someone asked for a general idea of where people start this took 10 seconds:

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:56 pm

Cut off anythign above today's montreal and below today's peru. Don't ask. Just do.

KoolfuZ · Post by **KoolfuZ** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:59 pm

Can you make it play "Jine the Cavalry" too? plzplzplz...

Coleman wrote:I'm not too clear on this. Were the Inca still around when the European nations started colonizing? Inca's birthplace is in the south western part of South American and would be more ideal then the Aztecs or the Maya as far as starting location for a native tribe.

Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incas, using their own extensive network of roads against them. That's all I remember from 6th grade Social Studies.

Coleman · Post by **Coleman** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:00 pm

unriggable wrote:Cut off anythign above today's montreal and below today's peru. Don't ask. Just do.

WidowMakers and I are already in correspondence via PM over him possibly taking over for the art after I get a good sketch done. I may very well do what you are suggesting.

johloh · Post by **johloh** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:25 pm

WidowMakers and I are already in correspondence via PM over him possibly taking over for the art after I get a good sketch done. I may very well do what you are suggesting.

i think you should try and give it a shot coleman before you outsource the art...

WidowMakers · Post by **WidowMakers** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:33 pm

johloh wrote:
WidowMakers and I are already in correspondence via PM over him possibly taking over for the art after I get a good sketch done. I may very well do what you are suggesting.
i think you should try and give it a shot coleman before you outsource the art...

Fine with me. I don't want anyone to feel I am taking over your maps Coleman.

Give it a shot. Let see what you can do.

I think the idea is great and could definitely have some interesting game play.

riggable · Post by **riggable** » Tue May 29, 2007 10:34 pm

sounds like medieval total war 2

Herakilla · Post by **Herakilla** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:13 am

that sounds awesome! go for it!

the comment about cutting off unnessesary stuff on your map was a good one though. i dont know if your gonna use those parts but if you dont, cut them

nagerous · Post by **nagerous** » Wed May 30, 2007 6:06 am

Coleman wrote:

QUENCH! I kid this looks like a really good idea and I look forward to seeing how this map develops, especially if a strong bonus system is produced. It could almost be like games like civilisation where you have to build up resources in order to collaberate greater bonuses

hulmey · Post by **hulmey** » Wed May 30, 2007 7:52 am

How are you able to decide where people's starting position's are going to be ....I thought that was completely random???

The Random One · Post by **The Random One** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:30 am

I like that idea. It's something different. Hooray for new XML features!

Y'know, I've seen some map ideas that start with several neutral territs and the goal is to conquer them. Maybe one day they could be considered a different mode of play, like, "Conquest".

Coleman · Post by **Coleman** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:11 pm

hulmey wrote:How are you able to decide where people's starting position's are going to be ....I thought that was completely random???

Things will be clearer when I get my decent sketch done. Which will hopefully be by sometime later tonight.

Update: I completely suck at drawing. It's extreme sadness. Tonight isn't looking very likely now. I can't decide on a layout and for some reason I can't make the territories big enough even when I only have 25 or so.

tenio · Post by **tenio** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:55 pm

If you want an extra country, try russia. I think they had a few settle meants in the West part of the country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... th_America

Coleman · Post by **Coleman** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:38 pm

tenio wrote:If you want an extra country, try russia. I think they had a few settle meants in the West part of the country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... th_America

I think I'm going with an earlier suggestion to cut out most of the frigid north and the southern area of South America.

This allows me to make the map wider instead of taller, which Andy tends to favor, and to focus on the more important areas of the colonial period.

Wisse · Post by **Wisse** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:37 am

is this a map in history or right now?
because if it is a history map i donno if you must keep new york to england or the netherlands because the netehrlands owned it first (called nieuw amsterdam)

Suicufnoc · Post by **Suicufnoc** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:21 pm

concept picture for you

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:25 pm

You forgot the yucatan belonged to the spanish.

Ban · Post by **Ban** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:10 pm

wheres yucutan

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:12 pm

Ban wrote:wheres yucutan

Nice first post: it's the thing on mexico that looks like an erection.