South Africa [I'll come back to it eventually] [Vacation]

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:19 am

Working on this s-africa map. Good idea?

Telvannia · Post by **Telvannia** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:16 pm

have you got a picture we could look at?

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:29 pm

uh... it's still majorly in progress. but if you want i can try to get one up here.

AndyDufresne · Post by **AndyDufresne** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:43 pm

Get a picture up, even if still majorly in progress. Otherwise I will just merge this with the thread at the top of the forum.

--Andy

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:58 pm

i'm trying. it should be up tomorrow sometime seeing that my photobucket account is having troubles. or just the website. or my computer. somrthing like that.

gavin_sidhu · Post by **gavin_sidhu** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:39 am

Its good to see you gave up your Wisconsin map.

I really think you should make an ancient egypt map. Your riverboat idea would work really good with that.

If you were going to make a South Africa map, what would you do about lesotho and swaziland? It would have to be grayed out. All maps of a country dont include territories of other countries (eg. Canada doesnt include greenland or alaska, Brazil contains no other country same with USA). A South Africa map by itself does not have much appeal, but if you set it in the arparthied period that would change. Maybe you should make a Southern Africa map and include nambia and stuff.

But i really really think you should make an ancient egypt map with the boat idea.

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:51 am

yeah... i was thinking about all of those, but right now i'm doing modern south africa. the apartheid era would be ok, but the bophuthatswana homeland was so split around... and there was only four states: natal, orange free state, transvaal, and cape. the original map i started had lesotho on it, but i deleted lesotho.

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:00 pm

which is a better name for central free state: welkom or virginia? both are large cities in the area

Telvannia · Post by **Telvannia** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:04 pm

welkom

virginia sounds too american to be in south africa

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:27 pm

virginia was a common name for places at the time, because of a name of a powerful english company that was the virginia company and whatnot and administered a lot of places. so a lot of places are called virginia. but i agree welkom is better

Marvaddin · Post by **Marvaddin** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:31 am

Where is the image?

Telvannia · Post by **Telvannia** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:16 pm

im waiting for that too before i vote

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:42 pm

it wont let me on photobucket... i'm trying ppl

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:48 am

Suggestions?
34 countries, 9 continents (Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Natal, Free State, Northwest Province, Northern Province, Gauteng, Mpumalanca)

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:50 am

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... its too small

gavin_sidhu · Post by **gavin_sidhu** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:36 am

happysadfun wrote:grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... its too small

Why dont you just give us the link to where you posted the image?

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:12 am

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/ ... ricacc.jpg

Ronaldinho · Post by **Ronaldinho** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:50 am

dude i aint go super vision, i cant see try and get a better image up.

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:59 am

trying, may be a bit pixelly

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:02 pm

Marvaddin · Post by **Marvaddin** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:46 pm

How beautiful! Gigantic countries without reason, and some tiny countries with the name in a legend...

Ok, its a bit unusual, 9 continents and 34 countries... I think it can be interesting, but add at least 2 more countries and remove a continent, dont you agree?

And when you have a bigger image, we can comment more about playability.

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:04 pm

yeah... but which state/province do you suggest i merge? and i like the idea of two new countries because with 36 there would only be neutrals with 5 ppl!

gavin_sidhu · Post by **gavin_sidhu** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:45 pm

ugh the colouring scheme. Free State and Northern Cape colour schemes are two similar. I dont get why you put continents of similar colours next to each other (eg. Mpumalanga and Northern Province, Northern Cape and Free State, Eastern Cape and Natal).

What are those symbols you have on Mkuze, Cape Town and Umtata.

Is North West povince worth 4 even though it only has two countries? Is Northern Province worth 3 even though it only has three countries? Your worth of your countries seem to be abit inflated.

My biggest problem with your map is i swear that animal at the bottom left of your design is a koala. Koalas arent from South Africa.

Since your going to have to redo this map again (the minimum you have to do is make it larger and you would have to create a new one to do that or youll have a long time fixing the pixels up) I think you should make an ancient egypt map. This map doesnt even have a river and a river boat.

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:19 am

gavin_sidhu wrote:ugh the colouring scheme. Free State and Northern Cape colour schemes are two similar. I dont get why you put continents of similar colours next to each other (eg. Mpumalanga and Northern Province, Northern Cape and Free State, Eastern Cape and Natal).

What are those symbols you have on Mkuze, Cape Town and Umtata.

Is North West povince worth 4 even though it only has two countries? Is Northern Province worth 3 even though it only has three countries? Your worth of your countries seem to be abit inflated.

My biggest problem with your map is i swear that animal at the bottom left of your design is a koala. Koalas arent from South Africa.

Since your going to have to redo this map again (the minimum you have to do is make it larger and you would have to create a new one to do that or youll have a long time fixing the pixels up) I think you should make an ancient egypt map. This map doesnt even have a river and a river boat.

actually, the reason they're inflated is because upington and mafikeng are separated from their continents by a river, see? it just didnt show up well. the only way in is via target. then there's the river between ermelo and nelspruit. the symbol, also on upington, is a target. target countries can attack each other. sorry its not listed. northern province will be changed. the whole animal design was from the milwaukee zoo. it fit perfect so i put it in. i'll get rid of the koala for you

Marvaddin · Post by **Marvaddin** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:44 am

Post a bigger image and we will give a better feedback. Im interested, but I need see the map.

South Africa [I'll come back to it eventually] [Vacation]

Is a South Africa map a good idea?

South Africa [I'll come back to it eventually] [Vacation]