Map Suggestions

Okay thank you. I have created a new thread for this 2 player map, have a look and see what you think. http://www.dominating12.com/forum/?cmd=topic&id=1434

I would like a map with 80 or 81 territories and possibly a 'normal' gameplay. We are missing that size. It's a good size, useful for 5 players with 16 terries, 6p with 13t, 7p-11t, 8p-10t and 9p-9t. I haven't any specific subjects in mind, but I'm thinking a map of Canada or another city of the U.S. like Chicago or Los Angeles could be nice, or also a European city like London or Paris or even Moscow...

Okay good ideas The_Bishop, I'll put a couple together and see if they suit!

Rome would be nice, especially ancient rome. It's also much more an interesting city than, for example, Paris. [size=10](Though I guess there are ppl (possibly even non French) who disagree with me)[/size]

I don't have graphic design skills, but I'd also love to see another ~80 territory map. How about the Middle East? Seems like there would be lots of potential there. [spoiler][img]http://daltonthomas.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Map-Middle-East-Persian-Gulf-Southwest-Asia.gif[/img][/spoiler]

Yes, Middle East would be good! However I have a smaller idea of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Middle_East_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg But also a map of my country (Italy) wouldn't be bad. I'm planning how to do it... Maybe too much extended from north to south, can be rotated a bit and/or shrunk?

I will use the ideas you have above, Ancient Rome, Middle East, Italy with an 80 / 81 territory map. I was looking to start Ancient Rome last night, but it's more or less the same regions as Mediterranean States. Anyway, for now I have made an 81 territory map for The_Bishop which is a completely fictional map, all hand drawn. I call it Melee as it is what I consider to be "a confused fight"! The thread link is: http://www.dominating12.com/forum/?cmd=topic&act=view&id=1445

I think with "Ancient Rome" people are referring to the city, not to the Roman Empire.

I was defenitely referring to the city yes, not the ancient roman empire :) Not sure if it would make for good gameplay, but if we have a map on a modern san fransisco, why not ancient Rome?

Yes, the Ancient Town of Rome it would be nice and attractive. I have found an image that looks nice http://www.the-colosseum.net/images/maps/oldromemap.jpg I suggest not to consider the purple line, the walls of the city are orange/red, the purple line I don't know what it represent. Look for comparison also this: http://taras66.tripod.com/roma.jpg The problem is that I have just realized that maps of cities are hard to do, as a game play, I mean NYC is fine because there are rivers, canals, bays, islands, but a normal city with only one river in the middle... Plus in NYC are airports to connect from one side to the other, not in the ancient Rome! But really I have some ideas for it. As for Italy, please aeronautic, wait for my draft. If you want we can work together on it. I mean I draw the map and you care about graphics because that's too hard job for me. Another interesting size it's for me 52 territories, we already got 2 (Japan-Korea and Eastern Asia) but it wouldn't bad to have some more.

So if I have an idea (n00b here) and graphic design skills, can I just draw one and post it here?

[quote=cbt711 - Jan 23, 10:16 PM]So if I have an idea (n00b here) and graphic design skills, can I just draw one and post it here?[/quote] You should read these two posts: [url=http://www.dominating12.com/forum/?cmd=topic&id=589]DXII Guide to Map Making[/url] [url=http://www.dominating12.com/forum/?cmd=topic&id=782]Example first post[/url]

Thank you for that. I have some serious 3D and 2D graphic design skills, and am addicted to this game. Have also been using photoshop and corel photo-paint and draw for over 15 years, added GIMP to the skill set about 5 years ago. I think it would be awesome to have our solar system, which seems impossible and segregated in concept alone - and has most likely been attempted. But some combination of "not to scale" and perspective should make it at least plausible. Like this perspective: http://annesastronomynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Artist-impression-of-the-solar-system-by-ESA.jpg With this scale: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/12/Our-Solar-System-Montage1.jpg Roughly. Then adding space ports like the ports in some maps already if needed to get more continuity between planets. Random thought: [It could even have some of the major moons, with a bonus for controlling all moons. (Luna, Titan, Diemos, Photos, Io for example)] Groups of planets could be keyed together or single planets based on the feedback / size & layout. I love the support system you have for this process in place already. I guess if this is a liked idea, I would do some work on it, and give it a thread. Thanks for reading.

It sounds interesting, but you are certainly making it hard for yourself.

Going to try my hand at my first map so here it goes. How about a map of Australasia (South Pacific)? Australia would obviously be the big fish "continent". While places like New Zealand, Indonesia, New Guinea, etc would be your small to medium areas of control. Would be some work with all the islands, but plenty of possibilities with connection lines. Could even throw in Japan/Taiwan if you wanted additional territories/areas. Any thoughts or feedback would be greatly appreciated.