ANCIENT ERA OF CHINA MAPS

by **LieCheatNSteal** on Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:49 pm

HI GUYS I M DOING A DRAFT MAP OF ANY ERA OF ANCIENT CHINA.

ANY SUGGESTIONS AND IDEA R WELCOMED.

CURRENT IDEAS:
1. THREE KINGDOMS ERA 三国
2. The Spring and Autumn 春秋战国
3。ANYTHING ELSE?

by **Raskholnikov** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 12:48 am

Your best bet for a fun playable game is the Three Kingdoms' Era, 220-580 AD.

A close second would be Nationalist China under the Generals' Rule, 1928-1937

by **LieCheatNSteal** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:01 am

WOW WHERE DID U GET IT FROM ? R U CHINESE ? I'LL TRY A RAW DRAFT IN THIS FEW DAYS

by **natty dread** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:22 am

First of all, stop posting in all caps.

by **Raskholnikov** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:10 am

Glad you like them. I look forward to your draft.

by **RjBeals** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:39 am

didn't gimil already make the 3 kingdoms map?

by **the.killing.44** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:40 am

RjBeals wrote:didn't gimil already make the 3 kingdoms map?

Yeah, and he plans to get it back up too…

by **LieCheatNSteal** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:50 pm

did some 1 also making too? any links?

by **Raskholnikov** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:18 pm

check in dead projects it's there.

by **LieCheatNSteal** on Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:42 am

well should i continue to make a mine version or do something else....????

by **Raskholnikov** on Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:44 am

idk up to you.

by **cairnswk** on Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:57 am

LieCheatNSteal wrote:well should i continue to make a mine version or do something else....????

The usual protocol is to PM the other mapmaker and determine if they are still going to make their map :!:

by **Raskholnikov** on Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:55 am

Ah! How nice! Well thank you that is so very helpful

by **LieCheatNSteal** on Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:58 am

well after i studied his artwork... his map has many inaccurate and strange parts....

1. some of the location are not actually historically bordered. (example : hanzhong and wuling had a distance gap of near 1000 km in reality)
2. those locations are all mixed with CITIES, STATE and even COUNTIES...(example: chendu, jianye are cities; bing and yong are countys; nanman is the accurate name of the light green area while jieting were just a open plain which have important strategic value its not a state nor city)
3. some of the locations were imputed wrongly like xu-chang isnt at south of xiapi. its west of it. etc etc

my 1st draft will be focus on gameplay design cause my friend is helping me with the artwork and will be begin helping me at the near of the month

hope i can make a better 1 for u guys. thx..

by **Raskholnikov** on Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:14 am

Good luck!

by **LieCheatNSteal** on Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:57 am

Click image to enlarge.

this is the draft of location and movement and teritorry bonuses
what info should i supply next ??

by **natty dread** on Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:15 am

Territory names and bonus area names, Impassables, any other gameplay features. Title.

Also, use the [BigImg][/BigImg] tags when you post images, don't just post a link. You'll get a lot more comments. (people are lazy, they don't like clicking links!)

Like thus:

[BigImg]http://url.of.image/image.jpg[/BigImg]

by **LieCheatNSteal** on Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:26 am

the thick line represents movements and will be removed after the hills had been added and the bottom right is the territory bonues

by **natty dread** on Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:15 am

I kinda dislike those lines showing connections. Makes the whole map look like it was torn and stitched back together... rather, remove those lines, and add impassable walls between territories that you don't want connected.

by **LieCheatNSteal** on Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:24 am

Click image to enlarge.

by **Raskholnikov** on Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:53 am

Hi,

Good work so far. A couple of queries:

1. If this is the 3 kingdoms era.... where are the... ahem.... 3 kingdoms?
:lol:

2. Mountains look good, but you removed the territories' boundaries so they have no purpose now.

3. Overall I get what you are trying to do, but I dont think this idea of replacing territory boundaries with names and connecting the text of names to each other works. I think you should put back in each teritory boundary, leave mountains as impassables, and also introduce the main rivers as impassables.

Good luck with continuing to develp this!

R

by **Industrial Helix** on Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:46 pm

Interesting... but you got to get rid of line to name connection and put in Individual territories. I think the whole point of a map game is that the game play is easily visualized.

by **neanderpaul14** on Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:35 am

LieCheatNSteal wrote:
Click image to enlarge.

Ahhhh I hear the haunting theme music from those Romance of the Three Kingdoms starting up in the back of brain.

by **captainwalrus** on Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:11 pm

Yeah, the one you have doesn't really have a feel of three kingdoms. What are the 3?

by **eigenvector** on Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:26 pm

This is really nice!

Like other folks I say: (a) where are the 3 kingdoms? (b) please return the territories' borders.

Also a suggestion: how about spreading some artifacts and adding some sort of an "Imperial" bonus for the holder of all/part of the artifacts?

Keep up the good work!