It's supposed to be like that, though. I'm more for realism than anything else. Choke points are good for strategies, considering European powers will be able to colonize continents from outside the choke points, this becomes a bit less of an issue.

Mmk... thanks I'll keep in mind however I'll keep them as is unless you tell me otherwise.

Update :
Almost finished north America... just the northern islands are a little hard to do.

Update 2:
Is it built so that Europe can't really fight and they basically fight for control the work other than Europe because if you make based on europe it'd be an utter bloodbath at the start people trying to kill each other off at the start.

Update/Question 3 :
I really want to put in the great wall of china as some destroyable buildings... is this okay?

Update/Question 4 :
For the map I'm going to include north coast of Russia (which is fine) but this means i have to include northern Canada which around the time your suggesting is a total death trap except for Baffin island which has some Inuit

Update: Americas are pretty much finished except for the islands

Post has been edited 6 time(s), last time on May 11 2012, 3:32 am by Tempz.

IMO you should just do what looks best to you, tempz. You've already put in a huge amount of effort, for no personal gain whatsoever. After you've finished it would make more sense to tweak it then, or JehZirO could alter it himself - he knows what he wants to put on the map and how it's supposed to play out, so it should be much easier for him to do the final tweaks than to try and communicate them to you.

@Lanth
I know... and thanks Lanth for that speech but a little tweaking is fine as long as he doesn't work me like a slave I'm fine with helping him for almost no gain.

@JehZirO

Update 1:
Maldives is not possible to put since they are just a small collection of islands and if i were to put it in there it would be inherently big next to India and Sri Lanka

Update / Question2:
I had a really fun idea of putting a polar bear on the top of Canada's polar islands would that be alright with you?... maybe include a Easter egg for it lol.

Update / Question 3:
Europe is way to small... should i make it bigger?... since I've stopped working on Europe until you tell me.

Update 4 :
Finished 2/3rd the map and spent about 18 hours on it... shaved off 2 hours because i found a more efficient technique of terrain-ing... although i still expect to clock in at at least 25 hours spent doing this map and if i really tweak it to your specifications i could clock in at well over 30 hours. So remember this It is a privilege that I'm doing this for you and please only tell me to tweak things if either i ask a question about it or i tell i finished the map sorry if i sound angry I'm really tired right now with my insomnia. And i am trying to get off sleeping pills since i was pretty much addicted to it lol.

Update 5 :
About 3/5th the map finished the map clocking at about 21 hours of work... I hope you can truly appreciate how hard this is... I shrank panama (south America to north America) same with suez (egypt)

Update 6 :
Vanuatu and Palau are going to be taken out for sure... all other if not all the other islands will be put in.

Update 7 :
I am completely re-doing Australia as it doesn't look quite right (4 major revamps) and several minor revamps for Australia alone; I just don't like the look of it. I am doing something i have never done before... I'm going making it into sectors than carefully carving it out. So far its very time consuming but its worth it because you get such precision and accuracy. If i were to sector out the rest of the map it might take me 30+ hours so Australia is probaly the only thing i'm going to sector it out.

Post has been edited 13 time(s), last time on May 11 2012, 2:46 pm by Tempz.

I'm pretty much finished everything except for 3 islands... 2 in the northern Russian coast and Japan... I'll it finished probably by tomorrow since i need a break working over 30 hours this week.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on May 13 2012, 6:01 pm by Tempz.

Sure, should I put Tempz as the creditee?

yeah that would be fine.

It took me about 20-25 hours to make the FF7 world map when I made a RISK map for it- I appreciate the difficulty and applaud your determination

Of course, the most depressing part about that one is that I made land bridges to connect continents, which covered up a lot of the fine detail of the coasts!

Thank fritfrat... Hopefully in the future i can do more of these world maps... i plan on doing a final fantasy and avatar last air bender map along with some other real life maps.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 15 2012, 1:17 am by Tempz.