WORLD MAP - UGLY

Gandalf Parker · #1 February 27th, 2004, 04:59 AM

I thought the neat thing about the world map was that it started as an satellite photograph? Or was that the european one?

Arryn · #2 February 27th, 2004, 05:12 AM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I thought the neat thing about the world map was that it started as an satellite photograph?

It may have. OTOH, I have bunches of global NASA pics and this map doesn't resemble them at all, other than coastlines. What I think the originator did was take a real pic and then repainted the interiors of continents. Problem is whoever did it lost all the hi-res data of the original pic in the process.

st.patrik · #3 February 27th, 2004, 05:32 AM

I agree the world map is very ugly - which is a shame because it is very cool to play on the world, and I like the setup a great deal. If I knew where to find a high resolution map of the world I might try to make a replacement, but I don't, and I'm not really very good at that kind of thing anyway. However, if someone wanted to revise it they can count me in for 100% moral support!

Saxon · #4 February 27th, 2004, 07:25 AM

St. Patrick is dead on the money. I applaud the efforts of the map creator, acknowledge the hard work and encourage them to even greater efforts. However, the resolution issue breaks an otherwise wonderful idea. Should anyone want to give it another try, they have the support of a lot of lurkers!

I like the England map, it has a nice “flavour” and the resolution is decent. Perhaps that is an option to pursue, a world map scanned in. I do not own a scanner, otherwise I would be trying this out myself. I have a month of glorious vacation coming in seven hours and have some time to play!

General Tacticus · #5 February 27th, 2004, 10:38 AM

I love the world map and particularly the World War scenario. The author did a very good job of balancing the strength/weaknesses of nations with their starting position, of putting some very special sites where they belong, and of putting the nations themselves where their background would have them.

I must agree it is not very beautiful. Playing a water race is particularly painful, as it is very difficult to see how the water provinces are set up. But for me, the fun of playing it far outweights the visual shortcomings.

Teraswaerto · #6 February 27th, 2004, 03:06 PM

I too downloaded the map but was unable to play any games on it due to the way it looks. It's not only ugly, but as Tacticus said, borders between water provinces are damn hard to see (if they even are there, couldn't tell).

I'm not complaining though, since it's an additional free map. There are enough maps to choose from, no-one's forcing anyone to use it.

PDF · #7 February 27th, 2004, 03:32 PM

SATAN'S SPAWN PLEASE STOP YELLING !!

It took me 1 min to d/l the map, but can play with it for hours !

But you're right it's uberugly...
I've tried to improve it with my very modest graphix skills, but after repainting the sea in dark blue game crashes 'cause I must have erased the sea provinces center mark ...
Too bad ...