by pepperonibread on Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:05 pm
Hi guys, I'm the hopeless revamp artist
I posted something here a few months, the topic "Germany Revamp", but this works fine too. Any help from Germans I can get is great.
Anyway, while you guys comment, I'd just like you to keep the restrictions of a revamp in mind. Here's the explanation I posted on the 1st page of my thread in the map foundry:
pepperonibread wrote:Hey everybody. More than other maps, revamps like this have certain restrictions on how they are developed. One of the most important of these is that a revamp cannot change the "gameplay" of the map being revamped. Basically, which territories border which other territories and which continents they are contained in must remain the same as in the original map.
Take the light gray continent Preussen (the red continent Prussia in the old map). If you take a look at the two maps, you can see that each territory on the old map directly corresponds to one territory on the new map. For example, Potsdam on the old map, bordering three territories of other continents and two in its own, is equivalent to Magdeburg on the new map, which has the same border configuration. Dresden on the old map, which borders three territories in its own continent, corresponds to Potsdam on the new map, which also has these borders.
Here are a few more examples to clarify:
Old map's Donrath = New map's Koblenz
Old map's Erfurt = New map's Zwickau
Old map's Augsburg = New map's Bayreuth
Old map's Niedersachsen = New map's Bremen
etc.
In this way, while names have been changed and border shapes have been altered, the gameplay of the map remains identical. So if I want to make the map more accurate, I have to make sure that there are no gameplay changes while I edit it.
If everyone could try and make sure that their suggestions don't break any of these "rules", that would be great

Quick Summary: Basically, no changes to the original Germany map's
gameplay can be made. Unfortunately, this somewhat limits how far the new map can be changed for the sake of accuracy. Things are certainly not set in stone how I have them now though.
So thanks in advance guys for any suggestions you might have. And sorry for the English. Maybe someone could translate the gist of this post?
Anyway, thanks again everyone

