I think making it available only after X amount of turns will go a long way towards preventing abuse. You'd have to be absurdly patient to go in with three players, team-kill the other players, and then camp the game a hundred turns. Also, if the same group of people keep winning the same kinds of ...

Oh, for some reason I'd assumed he wasn't active anymore. In retrospect, I'm not sure why.

Gimli's ideas for regions map to my own concepts pretty well, and his specific territories don't seem like something I could improve on, either...Hrm.

What exactly happens if I win because literally every other player flakes out? Is it just like a regular win? I'm in a game right now where that might actually happen.

There was a map that looked like it was about ready to go for this here. But it's been vacationed since 2008. I really want to see this map done, and will probably do it myself if no one else will.

I see.

How important is it for a map to have odd gameplay mechanics? Is it possible to just have a map that plays like a normal Risk game? I want to start off my mapmaking with the Three Kingdoms idea, but I can't think of anything that fits the theme better than just a normal game of Risk.

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I notice there are Tamriel and Discworld maps. Did someone get the copyright for these, or is it allowed to use someone else's names so long as we don't use any of their actual graphics in our map?

Alright, does anyone know where I can get a good map of the Three Kingdoms era, preferably in multiple different years throughout? Even if it's copyrighted, it'll give me a good idea of what my final map should look like.

The XML for map creation doesn't look too overwhelming, just time-consuming. Not really sure about graphic design, though, particularly given that I don't own photoshop and it's crazy expensive to buy.

vikings, pirates of south Louisiana, an oil reserve map, a mariannas trench map, another mountain map like K2 or Everest, a streetfight map, A DFW airport map, a battle of okinawa map, a rape of nanking map, a lewis and clark map, a WWF map.

A few of these sound pretty good to me. Vikings in ...

I notice that we have a map of Tamriel from Elder Scrolls on here. That immediately made me think of other video games that could be easily converted into Risk scenarios. For example...

World of Warcraft and Guild Wars both have in-game maps that could be easily converted into Risk maps. There are ...