South Africa [I'll come back to it eventually] [Vacation]

[happysadfun]

Working on this s-africa map. Good idea?

[Telvannia]

have you got a picture we could look at?

[happysadfun]

uh... it's still majorly in progress. but if you want i can try to get one up here.

[AndyDufresne]

Get a picture up, even if still majorly in progress. Otherwise I will just merge this with the thread at the top of the forum.


--Andy

[happysadfun]

i'm trying. it should be up tomorrow sometime seeing that my photobucket account is having troubles. or just the website. or my computer. somrthing like that.

[gavin_sidhu]

Its good to see you gave up your Wisconsin map.

I really think you should make an ancient egypt map. Your riverboat idea would work really good with that.

If you were going to make a South Africa map, what would you do about lesotho and swaziland? It would have to be grayed out. All maps of a country dont include territories of other countries (eg. Canada doesnt include greenland or alaska, Brazil contains no other country same with USA). A South Africa map by itself does not have much appeal, but if you set it in the arparthied period that would change. Maybe you should make a Southern Africa map and include nambia and stuff.

But i really really think you should make an ancient egypt map with the boat idea.

[happysadfun]

yeah... i was thinking about all of those, but right now i'm doing modern south africa. the apartheid era would be ok, but the bophuthatswana homeland was so split around... and there was only four states: natal, orange free state, transvaal, and cape. the original map i started had lesotho on it, but i deleted lesotho.

[happysadfun]

which is a better name for central free state: welkom or virginia? both are large cities in the area

[Telvannia]

welkom

virginia sounds too american to be in south africa

[happysadfun]

virginia was a common name for places at the time, because of a name of a powerful english company that was the virginia company and whatnot and administered a lot of places. so a lot of places are called virginia. but i agree welkom is better

[Marvaddin]

Where is the image?

[Telvannia]

im waiting for that too before i vote

[happysadfun]

it wont let me on photobucket... i'm trying ppl

[happysadfun]

Suggestions?
34 countries, 9 continents (Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Natal, Free State, Northwest Province, Northern Province, Gauteng, Mpumalanca)

[happysadfun]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... its too small

[gavin_sidhu]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... its too small

Why dont you just give us the link to where you posted the image?

[happysadfun]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/cambellsmmmgood/southafricacc.jpg

[Ronaldinho]

dude i aint go super vision, i cant see try and get a better image up.

[happysadfun]

trying, may be a bit pixelly

[happysadfun]

[Marvaddin]

How beautiful! Gigantic countries without reason, and some tiny countries with the name in a legend...

Ok, its a bit unusual, 9 continents and 34 countries... I think it can be interesting, but add at least 2 more countries and remove a continent, dont you agree?

And when you have a bigger image, we can comment more about playability.

[happysadfun]

yeah... but which state/province do you suggest i merge? and i like the idea of two new countries because with 36 there would only be neutrals with 5 ppl!

[gavin_sidhu]

ugh the colouring scheme. Free State and Northern Cape colour schemes are two similar. I dont get why you put continents of similar colours next to each other (eg. Mpumalanga and Northern Province, Northern Cape and Free State, Eastern Cape and Natal).

What are those symbols you have on Mkuze, Cape Town and Umtata.

Is North West povince worth 4 even though it only has two countries? Is Northern Province worth 3 even though it only has three countries? Your worth of your countries seem to be abit inflated.

My biggest problem with your map is i swear that animal at the bottom left of your design is a koala. Koalas arent from South Africa.

Since your going to have to redo this map again (the minimum you have to do is make it larger and you would have to create a new one to do that or youll have a long time fixing the pixels up) I think you should make an ancient egypt map. This map doesnt even have a river and a river boat.

[happysadfun]

ugh the colouring scheme. Free State and Northern Cape colour schemes are two similar. I dont get why you put continents of similar colours next to each other (eg. Mpumalanga and Northern Province, Northern Cape and Free State, Eastern Cape and Natal).

What are those symbols you have on Mkuze, Cape Town and Umtata.

Is North West povince worth 4 even though it only has two countries? Is Northern Province worth 3 even though it only has three countries? Your worth of your countries seem to be abit inflated.

My biggest problem with your map is i swear that animal at the bottom left of your design is a koala. Koalas arent from South Africa.

Since your going to have to redo this map again (the minimum you have to do is make it larger and you would have to create a new one to do that or youll have a long time fixing the pixels up) I think you should make an ancient egypt map. This map doesnt even have a river and a river boat.

actually, the reason they're inflated is because upington and mafikeng are separated from their continents by a river, see? it just didnt show up well. the only way in is via target. then there's the river between ermelo and nelspruit. the symbol, also on upington, is a target. target countries can attack each other. sorry its not listed. northern province will be changed. the whole animal design was from the milwaukee zoo. it fit perfect so i put it in. i'll get rid of the koala for you

[Marvaddin]

Post a bigger image and we will give a better feedback. Im interested, but I need see the map.