Map Name: Gran Colombia
Mapmaker(s): psxws
Number of Territories: 37 (WIP)
Special Features: Supra-continents
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: Interesting gameplay and historical value
Map Image:
This is a very early WIP I knocked up today. It's a map showing the 37 provinces of Gran Colombia, the 12 departments they composed, and the 3 districts (Venezuela, Nueva Granada, and Ecuador, map says Cundinamarca by mistake).
There's lots of errors in the map and it looks pretty bad, I know. Pretty much everything will need to be overhauled, but I'd like some feedback as to gameplay and bonuses (I tried setting them sort of balanced but it's tentative). The idea is to have an extra bonus if you control the whole district also. Please suggest bonuses or different placement for rivers, bridges and mountains (mountains and rivers are decently accurate right now but gameplay trumps that)
As it stands, all Ecuador gives you 9 (and is fairly easy to hold), all Venezuela 11, and all Colombia 17. That seemed fair.
Another issue is the fact that Gran Colombia had 37 districts, but that's a bad starting number. I wouldn't like to cut any out, so I've been thinking of ways to swell that number, if that's super important. Maybe ahistorically split Guayana, Jaen y Maynas, and Casanare (as the 3 biggest provinces, which were least sparsely inhabited and later split) and add a boat in the pacific and one in the caribbean, for the magic number of 42. Or instead of splitting, add the district capitals of Caracas, Quito, and Bogota, plus the 2 ships. I'd be open to suggestions or leaving it at 37 if it's not that big a deal.
Thanks!