New Map Suggestions

kingwaffles · Post by **kingwaffles** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:15 pm

I'm bored and seem to have a rather large amount of spare time on my hands as all my games seem to be crawling, so I decided I wanted to make a new map. But alas I can't decide on what to do....I was thinking the moon or some other planet might be interesting or maybe the whole glaaxy or something like that. Any suggestions?

dagreatbroomhead · Post by **dagreatbroomhead** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:22 pm

Africa, but that should be saved for someone who knows Africa well, no offense but i don't know how much you've studied Africa.

perhaps a map of our school? or a random school in general?

perhaps a map of the foods i like? i could help there....mmm cookies

perhaps a map of the funny page on Sundays

perhaps map of Boston(i always get lost there, and i hate cows for doing that to me, i hope somebody gets this reference...)

Spicy! · Post by **Spicy!** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:48 pm

Nobunaga · Post by **Nobunaga** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:23 pm

... There are endless possibilities. Ideas I've had include post Roman Britain, Medieval Japan, China prior to unification under Qin . . .

... Japan is problematic. It's too damned long and narrow - avenues / attack routes between territories would be quite limited. Not to mention you've got to turn the whole map 90 degrees sideways to fit it o a playable area.

... In the fantasy genre, Middle Earth would be interesting. I've seen maps of such already, actually.

Pedronicus · Post by **Pedronicus** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:40 pm

Don't limit yourself to a map as you know it - make one up

johnnyrotten · Post by **johnnyrotten** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:43 pm

Berlin, maybe. Or Stalingrad.

johnnyrotten · Post by **johnnyrotten** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:44 pm

Leningrad's a possibility, too.

johnnyrotten · Post by **johnnyrotten** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:50 pm

The Normandy beaches, Poland, El Alamein...

lackattack · Post by **lackattack** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:08 pm

You know, you can define overlapping continents in the XML file. You can define a single-territory continent to have a capital city bonus, for example.

dagreatbroomhead · Post by **dagreatbroomhead** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:20 pm

mmm, overlapping contentets....

SprCobra · Post by **SprCobra** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:39 pm

Make a World War 2 map
GO ON!
any side could win in risk could be very intersting(itll be fun so plz make a map i probaly couldnt or could i?hmm)

Marvaddin · Post by **Marvaddin** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:01 pm

How about a Russia map?

medwards · Post by **medwards** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:11 pm

i really like the world war 2 map idea.

Derwiddle · Post by **Derwiddle** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:12 am

Marvaddin wrote:How about a Russia map?

That would be interesting...

Moscow, Bashkortastan, The Ural Mountains... Siberia... I'd play it!

kingwaffles · Post by **kingwaffles** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:52 am

Hmmmmm.... Maybe I'll try and learn some more about Russian goegraphy.

RLeary06 · Post by **RLeary06** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:03 am

Ever play Castle Risk? You should make that :-)

kingwaffles · Post by **kingwaffles** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:03 am

Castle Risk? What might that be?

johnnyrotten · Post by **johnnyrotten** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:30 am

Here's some maps of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) that could work...

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/volgograd_1979.jpg

http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Rusko-Russia/Volgograd/map07.jpg

http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Rusko-Russia/Volgograd/map05.jpg

(the second and third ones are in Russian, just to let you know...)

Pedronicus · Post by **Pedronicus** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:12 pm

If you want to make a map of world war 2, make sure you give France a lot of white flags

AndyDufresne · Post by **AndyDufresne** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:06 pm

I tossed this out there in another thread...

"...maybe an interesting idea for a map would be The Brain? Different regions could be the continents, and various squiggly line seperations could become countries...who knows, hm...."

--Andy