[Abandoned] - Time and Place Map

[mibi]

except for Pangea, this kinda looks like the same map repeated over and over again.

How would you go about showing the earth from the beginning to the end then? I could make Eschaton look more like Extreme global warming with most of the land gone and in Past have the continents closer together and still not fully formed.

Well i think its your time scale thats mess up then, Pangea was 250 million years ago, and all the other time periods are within a few thousand years. I like a time shifting map, but perhaps it should go by eras or periods instead. Like prozaic, jurassic, cretaceous... this would give some time for the maps to actually look different.

[john1099]

reverse Pangea!
It's bound to happen (Pangea goes around the world, and collapses backwards again)

[WidowMakers]

except for Pangea, this kinda looks like the same map repeated over and over again.

How would you go about showing the earth from the beginning to the end then? I could make Eschaton look more like Extreme global warming with most of the land gone and in Past have the continents closer together and still not fully formed.

Well i think its your time scale thats mess up then, Pangea was 250 million years ago, and all the other time periods are within a few thousand years. I like a time shifting map, but perhaps it should go by eras or periods instead. Like prozaic, jurassic, cretaceous... this would give some time for the maps to actually look different.

reverse Pangea!
It's bound to happen (Pangea goes around the world, and collapses backwards again)

These are both great ideas. I will rework the PAST to be more prozaic, jurassic, cretaceous......and.....rework Eschaton to be more reverse Pangea/Global warming.

[insomniacdude]

I think you should work in a handful more countries. Just ten more would put you at 60 countries, which is one of the magic numbers.

[unriggable]

reverse Pangea!
It's bound to happen (Pangea goes around the world, and collapses backwards again)

Pangea ultima

[Coleman]

I noticed WidowMakers giving love to other topics so here's to hoping for an update here.

[WidowMakers]

I noticed WidowMakers giving love to other topics so here's to hoping for an update here.

Honestly. I started this map first (of the three I now have out there) But as the other two got going, my mind kept working on them. There were issues and fixes for those maps that came to mind fast. So I kept working on them.

Don't worry, I will get back to this map. Eventually

[bryguy]

i like it, but what the heck is eschaton?????

[Coleman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschaton

Basically it means 'the end of everything'.

I prefer to call it heat death, but that's an unproven theory.

I'd assume in this case it would be a short time before the sun goes nova and the earth is no more.

[klinlin]

why does australia dissappear?
i can find no basis for this theory as a part of continentel drift

[Coleman]

We got tired of the upity Aussies and nuked it out of existence.

That or everyone realized it actually doesn't hold any value and at a certain point in history people just stop going there.

[WidowMakers]

why does australia dissappear?
i can find no basis for this theory as a part of continentel drift

It is a game.

[jasnostj]

I really like the idea of connections in time, but I agree with DiM, Mibi, Riggable and Klinlin that this map would make more sense if it followed the commonly accepted theory on continental drift, with more or less regular intervals leading from Pangaea through modern Earth to Pangaea Ultima. Is everybody aware that somebody is working on a Pangaea Ultima map somewhere else in the foundry?

[Gnome]

why does australia dissappear?
i can find no basis for this theory as a part of continentel drift

It is a game.

I agree with WidowMakers...This is a map that needs some fantasy...If you make a war map or a land map than it's important where you put everything...But in this case...how will you know that continents will really drift out? maybe the world will be destroyed before we even notice a change in land movement...Or maybe there will be no land left after all the ice has melted due to climatically changes...
Oh or a comet that destroys half of the world...
Oh oh or a giant spaceship that...
how Will we know...
I think widowmakers should make his map interested for gameplay and not geographically perfect...

[bryguy]

why does australia dissappear?
i can find no basis for this theory as a part of continentel drift

It is a game.

I agree with WidowMakers...This is a map that needs some fantasy...If you make a war map or a land map than it's important where you put everything...But in this case...how will you know that continents will really drift out? maybe the world will be destroyed before we even notice a change in land movement...Or maybe there will be no land left after all the ice has melted due to climatically changes...
Oh or a comet that destroys half of the world...
Oh oh or a giant spaceship that...
how Will we know...
I think widowmakers should make his map interested for gameplay and not geographically perfect...

or (creationist point of view) God could smash the world....
or (evolutionist point of view) some type of animal could evolve into some land eating monster and eat all the world (hehe jk)
or gnome could be sent to the middle of the earth attached to a nuke, and the world get blown up that way
or that could happen to someone else
or this board could get mined and sent to the middle of the earth and obstruct the worlds magnetic field, causing everything to go haywire
or the laws of physics could suddenly stop working
or.....(add another horrible way for the earth to end here)

[klinlin]

We got tired of the upity Aussies and nuked it out of existence.

That or everyone realized it actually doesn't hold any value and at a certain point in history people just stop going there.

whooo boy AMERICANS believe AUSTRALIANS to be uppity and of no value we must be BAD



nah it's cool I enjoy the idea and will love the map

[max is gr8]

I doubt this will work if linear. However there is a possibility for this to work...

If we get a good idea of how people can transport between times it could work

[babinecz]

i love it, great idea and i hope to see it in play soon

[Coleman]

i love it, great idea and i hope to see it in play soon

I agree.

[ParadiceCity9]

i love it, great idea and i hope to see it in play soon

I agree.

[kagetora]

i think this would be a cool map

[Aspect]

um, I think it's kinda obvious that Australia is blacked out because it doesn't hold any influence...

it's not that it's been smashed into the sea by god, it's just that is has been of negligible importance. It has had close to 0 influence on history up to this point, perhaps it will go that way in the future too! You guys don't have any complaints about how an entire continent is made into a citadel (you mean like 1 giant city) but you complain about australia. typical.

so anyway, I don't think it's a linear map, it has 3 dimensions! Normal height and width, and time. the entire basis of this map is that it ISN'T linear. That's why it's a cool idea. sheesh

[WidowMakers]

OK here is version 2

[yeti_c]

Glad to see this one back Wid - this is an awesome concept...

C.

[edbeard]

1. I wish half the threads weren't stickied in the scrap heap subforum

2. in the present, there's an E above the Europe label but no shadow behind it

3. I always thought this idea was cool but I always didn't like how hard each country was to hold. But, I guess those are mostly meant to serve as a extra way to get a bonus and the main focus is to grab a time period? Only 'problem' is that those are hard to grab too.

only easy bonuses are 1. Australia 2. Eschaton 3. Pangea

After that, all the other bonuses seem very hard to grab. The lack of a middle ground is what I don't like.