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Native Australian Animals

Postby greenoaks on Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:59 am

Map Name: Native Australian Animals
Mapmaker(s): greenoaks
Number of Territories: 26
Special Features: None
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: It is a different way to divide Australia to the states and railways already on this site.

Map Image:
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The animals are:
1 Koala
2 Cockatoo
3 Emu
4 Wallaby
5 Quoll
6 Wombat
7 Possum
8 Sugar Glider
9 Kookaburra
10 Kangaroo
11 Echidna
12 Gecko
13 Goanna
14 Platypus
15 Bush Rat
16 Rainbow Lorikeet

i am working from this childrens jigsaw puzzle
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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby greenoaks on Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:59 am

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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby AndyDufresne on Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:48 pm

Well, I can honestly say I never would've thought of this idea.


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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby Campin_Killer on Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:50 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:Well, I can honestly say I never would've thought of this idea.


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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby Campin_Killer on Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:51 pm

Something I want to know is:

How would you incorporate bonuses into this map? I'm not really seeing a way to do so right now
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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby cairnswk on Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:13 pm

I can see some shapes in there that kinda represent the some animmals...i like the idea of using the shapes

Perhaps the shapes could be smaller, and you could use some of the river systems as impassables between regions.

Issue being i wouldn't want to include an animal in any region where it wasn't found i.e. platypus in WA or NT

anyways just some other ideas in the pot...., i look forward to see what becomes of this!
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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby koontz1973 on Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:51 pm

[Moved]

greenoaks, moving this to ideas as it does not meet the criteria for a draft.
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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby greenoaks on Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:25 am

AndyDufresne wrote:Well, I can honestly say I never would've thought of this idea.


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tbh, i didn't do this all by myself. i was doing a wooden jigsaw with my daughter on the weekend of this and thought it could be interesting as a map here. Image Image
Campin_Killer wrote:Something I want to know is:

How would you incorporate bonuses into this map? I'm not really seeing a way to do so right now

what i was thinking is the larger animals could be territories much like states or provinces traditionally are. the kangaroo, wallaby, osterich and koala would contain 3 or 4 terits and most other animals 2 with the bush rat only 1 terit.

that would give about 36 terits and 15 bonus regions.

cairnswk wrote:I can see some shapes in there that kinda represent the some animmals...i like the idea of using the shapes

Issue being i wouldn't want to include an animal in any region where it wasn't found i.e. platypus in WA or NT

in a way that already happens here. the image of the koala is not in a map of africa and the image of the osterich is not in a map of south america. all the images are where there are found (broadly speaking), which is australia. :D

as for moving them around i am a rather terrible artist. that image in the 1st post took me 6 hours and i was following natty's GIMP Basics guide at the time. the way i see it is if one animal is moved then others will have to be too, and reshaped, or replaced - in order to get the australian coastline with no internal dead space. that is beyond my meager skills.
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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby Gillipig on Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:30 pm

I like it! Bonuses and borders would be simple but the map would stand out and be enjoyable for sure.
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Re: Native Australian Animals

Postby x-raider on Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:02 am

Gillipig wrote:I like it! Bonuses and borders would be simple but the map would stand out and be enjoyable for sure.

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