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NO POSTING MAPS!

returner wrote:

Doug R. wrote:

returner wrote:Any up and coming map-makers out there? Perhaps we could start a new thread rather than going much off topic..

I have two living characters that made a good map of (different) deserted areas that won't get much use, most likely. Other than that, my famous ones, Braddock and Seadrake, are long dead. I have no doubt that if I hadn't unsubbed, everyone would be using the Seadrake World Atlas by now. She was very particular about matching scales, and sailed between points of Shai, Treefeather, and Cantr to make sure the scale was correct. The week she died, she found a map to Omeo. Had she gone there, she'd have found the vast array of foreign maps, no doubt sailed to them and connected them to the English zone, and would have completed a very large world map which would have everything on it except the Hislands (which only one out of all my characters has ever found a map of, and none a map to) and Kishnakotis (never found directions to it, but lots of maps of it). Imagine being able to take a map, and using a protractor (OOC of course) plot a direct course between two points anywhere in the world. That would be sweet. I'm done fanboying my own characters now.

Well...

Many thanks to Egil Örnklo, whose maps allowed me to compile a map of my own.

Maps are for sissies!

randognsac wrote:Maps are for sissies!

You have fun then...

Most of my characters use maps, but I had one character that swore they were traps. He wouldn't ever look at them. That guy was lost, he never wrote down town names or anything. Just wandered around aimlessly. Until he unfortunately ran out of food in a deserted mountain town and slowly starved to death!

Snake_byte wrote:

randognsac wrote:Maps are for sissies!

You have fun then...

randognsac wrote:Most of my characters use maps, but I had one character that swore they were traps. He wouldn't ever look at them. That guy was lost, he never wrote down town names or anything. Just wandered around aimlessly. Until he unfortunately ran out of food in a deserted mountain town and slowly starved to death!

Sounds like you had fun indeed. Unfortunately I often know regions from an OOC perspective so it would be difficult to get lost unless you avoid looking at the in-game map image and finding out town names. It would be kinda neat if things were described in text so that the graphical map became unnecessary. For example that you can see two roads leading north-east but you could tell which one of them is on the north side and which one is on the east side. Or you were walking down a road and when you pass over from a grassland polygon to a forest polygon, it would say "You have entered a forest", and on the previous tick it could've said "You see a forest ahead". And on the way back it could say "You see grassland beyond the edge of the forest" or something like that.