Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [Quenched]

[Gillipig]

In the right corner of the map you've written a couple of territory labels that are not part of the playable map. I think Russia, Persia and Central Asia should stay, but not Burma and Siberia! They're a bit too far away to be included and it doesn't look good to have territory labels on the right side of the legend. Let that area of the map be a mystery .

The sea route looks much clearer now btw.

[The Bison King]

In the right corner of the map you've written a couple of territory labels that are not part of the playable map. I think Russia, Persia and Central Asia should stay, but not Burma and Siberia! They're a bit too far away to be included and it doesn't look good to have territory labels on the right side of the legend. Let that area of the map be a mystery .

The sea route looks much clearer now btw.

I don't know, I mean I don't really feel like they're hurting anything. Most people probably won't even notice them until the 2nd or 3rd time they play the map.

[RedBaron0]

Looks like we're finally out of nitpicks

[Gillipig]

Looking forward to be playing this on beta !
Regarding the subtle names I still feel the same. A bit distracting with Siberia and Burma. Don't feel like they need to be there and they certainly don't add anything to the map even if they don't subtract much either.

[natty dread]

=D> Looking forward to be playing this on beta !
Regarding the subtle names I still feel the same. A bit distracting with Siberia and Burma. Don't feel like they need to be there and they certainly don't add anything to the map even if they don't subtract much either.

No one cares if the names are there or not.

[ender516]

I actually like those names. It was a tiny pleasant surprise to realize that India was completely masked by the legend. I have nothing against India, it was just a matter of recognizing the size and position of these places. Sort of "Well, what do you know about that?"

[The Bison King]

Looks like we're finally out of nitpicks

Hooray! feels good to be in the forge.


Ender516 last time I checked the XML it looked ready to be sent off for approval, do you agree?

[Gillipig]

I actually like those names. It was a tiny pleasant surprise to realize that India was completely masked by the legend. I have nothing against India, it was just a matter of recognizing the size and position of these places. Sort of "Well, what do you know about that?"

I like the three west of the legend. The two east of the legend looks a little out of place though. I didn't realize India was covered at first either. Came as a little surprise .

[ender516]

Looks like we're finally out of nitpicks

Hooray! feels good to be in the forge.


Ender516 last time I checked the XML it looked ready to be sent off for approval, do you agree?

I think we are ready to go. I posted a version here, and I don't think anything that has changed since then would affect the XML. So I think we can go with Colonial_Africa_2.4.xml.

[The Bison King]

Sweet! ok XML submitted for approval.

[The Bison King]

Still awaiting XML stamp

[The Bison King]

[ender516]

It was kinda fun watching your avatar dance to that clip, TBK. Of course, playing this map would be better.

[AndyDufresne]

It was kinda fun watching your avatar dance to that clip, TBK. Of course, playing this map would be better.

Agreed.


--Andy

[The Bison King]

Ok it's been over a month now, since I submitted the XML for approval. I'm hoping I'll see a stamp in the next couple days.

[isaiah40]

Ok it's been over a month now, since I submitted the XML for approval. I'm hoping I'll see a stamp in the next couple days.

Have patience, tnb80 has been extremely busy in Rl, and with natty not doing it anymore ...

[vodean]

i think this must be about the perfect resource for you. sorry about posting it so late in the process, but i think it should give you some inspiration and maybe help you make the map a little more historically accurate. it has many tribes, battles, and colonies, and shows their borders year by year. you may want to do it circa 1900, at which point things are mostly settled, or else do it circa 1870, before the scramble.
good luck!

[ender516]

To what are you referring? I see no link.

[The Bison King]

Who knows...


XML stamp please.

[AndyDufresne]

Thumbs up for this map.


--Andy

[vodean]

To what are you referring? I see no link.

soory, forgot the link.... thats strange... i copied, pasted, and then deleted it... strange.
here it is


really good map otherwise!!!

[The Bison King]

To what are you referring? I see no link.

soory, forgot the link.... thats strange... i copied, pasted, and then deleted it... strange.
here it is


really good map otherwise!!!

DUDE!!!!

That's really cool. Thank's for posting that.

[vodean]

To what are you referring? I see no link.

soory, forgot the link.... thats strange... i copied, pasted, and then deleted it... strange.
here it is


really good map otherwise!!!

DUDE!!!!

That's really cool. Thank's for posting that.

thank IB, but more importantly my awesome history teacher
no problem. glad to help

[guttorm]

just double-check what you see in that map. It has lots of errors.

It seems even universities have a problem understanding that the berlin conference was no treaty representing true political, military or economic control.

small example: Congo free state didn´t conquer Katanga/Garanganze until -91 but this map pretends CFS of -86 was almost as big as DRC which is completely ridiculous. Large parts were still unexplored and certainly not officially CFS.

..but I´ve seen much worse - lots of lies and propaganda in colonial maps that doesn´t reflect actual history.


the easiest thing is of course to skip forward a couple of decades and pretend that the european version of history is the correct one..

[vodean]

just double-check what you see in that map. It has lots of errors.

It seems even universities have a problem understanding that the berlin conference was no treaty representing true political, military or economic control.

small example: Congo free state didn´t conquer Katanga/Garanganze until -91 but this map pretends CFS of -86 was almost as big as DRC which is completely ridiculous. Large parts were still unexplored and certainly not officially CFS.

..but I´ve seen much worse - lots of lies and propaganda in colonial maps that doesn´t reflect actual history.


the easiest thing is of course to skip forward a couple of decades and pretend that the european version of history is the correct one..

really? the reason the BWAC was called was in part due to Belgian expansion in the CFS, and to decide how to "deal with" human rights violations... even if they were unexplored, they were technically CFS. If the CFS was not that large and threatening, the BWAC would not have been called. I have seen maps where in 1884 the CFS was almost the same size as the DRC... i dont think that you can reasonably say that this map or Brown are either misinformed or evil.

This map is:
a. incredibly detailed including battles and year-by-year expansion
b. accurate as far as any map possibly could be: there are conflicting historical accounts. Not just african vs. european, but conflicting european, and conflicting african accounts.

choose to think that this map is BS if you want, but its pretty damned accurate, and a great source.

Also, being that you are in sweden (or your IP records you as being there), you seem to be one of the evil racist white people you are complaining about so vehemently.