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Old February 27th, 2004, 05:32 AM
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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!
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Old February 27th, 2004, 07:25 AM

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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!
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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PDF,

You can play it for hours ? Your kidding, right ?

Try The Kingdom of Karan map. Once you do, you will never torture your eyes again playing World Map.

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The world map is not that pretty... but I prefer the XL maps. The larger maps usually means you'll see larger armies and battles. For the game I'm playing right now on this map... ERMOR has 950 units sitting in his capital.
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