Formerly the Map Ideas Thread, now CLOSED

[seamusk]

Not my preferred sort of sport map but certainly workable. There have been some attempts in the past. The most recent that I recall along these lines was a college football map that had a lot of potential but looks like it was abandoned. There is a hockey map in progress but it is different (focused on a generic arena with stands and ice and such. The demand for sports maps is high on the site. Good luck!

[lozzini]

what about a 'stadium' map, a single stadium? with bonuses for ares of the stands, pitch, royal box etc.

[rocky mountain]

what about a 'stadium' map, a single stadium? with bonuses for ares of the stands, pitch, royal box etc.

been tried many times... if you think you can make one that will work though, go right ahead.

[War Dog]

i just finished amking a rough draft of my map and i cant figure out how to save it to a gif, jpeg,or png format. can somebody help me.

P.S. I use GIMP.

[bryguy]

i just finished amking a rough draft of my map and i cant figure out how to save it to a gif, jpeg,or png format. can somebody help me.

P.S. I use GIMP.

do the following:

FILE: Save

then it will come up with a box with links to things like your applications folder, desktop etc, i always click the desktop one


Then change the area that should say Untitled to what you want to name it, like MAP 1 and add to the end .png, then click save

[Joodoo]

I've seen tons of WWII maps here...
is anyone interested in developing a WWI map?

[BrianHoef]

Eastern Hemisphere is set in 1910...

As far as a WWI map in the style of Qwert's military WWII maps, I haven't seen many posts about that. There's been some interest in Gallipoli.

[Joodoo]

but WW! was mostly in Europe...
Eastern Hemisphere is Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Africa...
therefore, WWI would be more detailed geographically

[Androidz]

I was thinking a map about Dojos?? Maybe china verry long time ago. Each dojo with a real dojo owners. Bonus for them...such things..is it done already?

[Joodoo]

Dojo is Japanese...

[Androidz]

hehe look how dumb i am;) well japanese then=)

[Joodoo]

it's okay, I'm also thinking that a map of the "stan" countries might be good. I could be called "Central Asia" or something like that,

[jeliot]

I thought it would be fun to have a Disney Land map where you can take over all the sections of the park, i.e. frontier land, etc. I have no idea how to make a map and I think you guys would do a better job even if I did:) It would be cool though, to work in the haunted mansion, the matterhorn, pirates of the carribean, that sort of stuff. Just an idea!:) Thanks!!

[Androidz]

i like the idea altough...

Dont know why the copyright issue keep comeing into my mind:O

[wcaclimbing]

Dont know why the copyright issue keep comeing into my mind:O

Its because Disney has copyright over disney-related stuff.
For a disney map to be made, you would have to contact the people in charge of Disney and ask them for permission to make the map. And they will probably say no.

[jeliot]

Yeah, I should have thought of that. Oh well, it was a thought

[Androidz]

Dont know why the copyright issue keep comeing into my mind:O

Its because Disney has copyright over disney-related stuff.
For a disney map to be made, you would have to contact the people in charge of Disney and ask them for permission to make the map. And they will probably say no.

i know m8;D i was being ironic. It dont show as good as i would be if i said it infront of you. This message system suck at sarkasm. Anyway i liked the idea and if you ever get copyright then it can be fixed i doubt they say yes tough.

[The Neon Peon]

Save the Rain forests map

My idea is basically a map that is based on pollution and saving the earth. It is a map of the world where The territories are divided into three types: the rain forests/the polluted areas/extreemly polluted areas. Rain forests receive +2 auto-deploy. The polluted areas receive a bonus of -1 per turn while the extreemly polluted receive -3 per turn. There bonuses will be in addition to the continent bonuses.

Victory is gained by holding all of the rain forests. (The Rain forests should be where they are in real life which is the entire equator making them open to attack from both the North and Southern Hemisphere while keeping them relatively hard to obtain since they are spread out across the whole map) [there will be at least one rain forest territory per continent]

The map should be about the same size in the # of territories as the World 2.1 map (probably a little smaller, but not as small as the classic map)

[wcaclimbing]

Save the Rain forests map

My idea is basically a map that is based on pollution and saving the earth. It is a map of the world where The territories are divided into three types: the rain forests/the polluted areas/extreemly polluted areas. Rain forests receive +2 auto-deploy. The polluted areas receive a bonus of -1 per turn while the extreemly polluted receive -3 per turn. There bonuses will be in addition to the continent bonuses.

Victory is gained by holding all of the rain forests. (The Rain forests should be where they are in real life which is the entire equator making them open to attack from both the North and Southern Hemisphere while keeping them relatively hard to obtain since they are spread out across the whole map) [there will be at least one rain forest territory per continent]

The map should be about the same size in the # of territories as the World 2.1 map (probably a little smaller, but not as small as the classic map)

Its an interesting concept, but it might run into a few problems.

If it was to be W2.1 size, that would be very difficult to win by taking all of the rainforests. The game would probably run just like a normal map, because it would most likely be easier to just take over the entire map than cross the map and only take the rainforests.

[l3eater]

How about an Africa Collection map? There could be North, South, East, West and Central Africa.

Example could be North Africa, where Western Sahara could have no bonus since it's not a recognized country. Northern Dafur, located within Sudan could have a negative bonus of -1 since rain falls rarely.

[rocky mountain]

so kinda like what WidowMakers is doing with the U.S. map? only with the Africa one?

[l3eater]

so kinda like what WidowMakers is doing with the U.S. map? only with the Africa one?

In short, Yes

[Johnny Crow]

Interested in your idea on the Hell map. But, I think Dante's cartography would be problematic if you just had rings and rings and rings going down. Just wanted to throw out some ideas for your consideration.

Dante had only one city in Hell; Dis in the Fifth circle. Milton's "Paradise Lost" had Pandemonium as Lucifer's capital, but I am not sure where in hell it is. (ha, ha).

The Malebolge (Eight Circle) was divided into ten concentric ditches (making for interesting troop movement...) but did not actually touch the Ninth Circle (there being a gaping abyss, and guarded by Titans). You actually reached the Ninth by using bridges from the edge of the Seventh Circle that spanned entirely over the Malebolge. Note: some of these bridges were broken by Jesus' "Harrowing of Hell" and do not reach all the way across.

There are five rivers in Hell that could provide impassables: Archeron- separating the "Ante Hell" areas from Limbo (First Circle). Ante-hell areas have been called variously; the Vestibule and Erebus. Styx- separates the Fourth and Fifth Circle. Phlegethon, the River of Boiling Blood, separates the Sixth and Seventh Circle. The River Cocytus at some point flows down to the very center of Hell where Lake Cocytus is, not sure what levels it runs by. The River Lethe (also called Ameles) runs across the Lethe Plain (lethe pedion) [old Greek philosopher who wrote "Frogs"...can't remember name]and is drunk from before being reincarnated...not sure what Circles it runs by or through.

The Ninth Circle of Hell (Treachery) was divided into Antenora, Ptolomea, Canea, and Giudecca. I would assume that Pandemonium would be down there at the center/bottom. Of course Lake Cocytus is also at the center.

As for hellmouths (Buffyverse) or other avenues to get to earth, the Greeks had Nekromanteions that they thought were gateways to hell. Some in Greece, or thought to be in Mount Etna, or even in Ireland (St. Patrick).

Names for areas of hell for bonus designation? Hades, Infernus, Archeron, Sheol, Tartarus, Gehenna, and Abaddon have all been used at various times.

Lastly, cause I know I'm boring the hell out of you...reinforcements and bonuses. On reading different literature about hell, it's always about huge numbers. This demon has 36 legions at his command, that one 22, etc. For the Risk game part, what if all the calculations were "ten-tupled", it wouldn't actually effect gameplay, but wouldn't it be cool to get your base 30 Legions of Demons, instead of a "mere 3", as reinforcements. To have 360 Legions hacking it out against 272!!!

Thanks for indulging my muse. Hope some of it was helpful.

Johnny Crow

[normatti]

Assyrian Empire map?

[wcaclimbing]

Assyrian Empire map?

There are quite a few maps that cover that same area already. Probably not such a good idea.