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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:28 pm
by EvilOtto
KEYOGI wrote:I agree with Lt. Valerian, but I feel those names are going to be too long. You want nice short names for your territories... like KEYOGI.

As language evolves, a lot of words/names get shorter, so why not create shortened versions of the country names:
California -> Forna
Mexico -> Mexo
Ontario -> Taro
Or come up with eco-political re-naming:
California -> West Disney
Columbia -> Starbucks
New Zealand -> Weta Studios
Japan -> Top Fun Manga Land
or things like that...
USApocalypse did a great job changing names to reflect the passage of time, suggesting what happened between now and then. Come up with some stories (wars, merging countries/cultures, aliens invade, we genetically engineer cats giving them the ability to speak...) that will help decide the names. Maybe humans have largely left earth and it is now a museum/park? Maybe they try to use old names for things but get some wrong? Maybe the legend could look like the map they hand you when you come to visit earth?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:48 pm
by unriggable
EvilOtto wrote:KEYOGI wrote:I agree with Lt. Valerian, but I feel those names are going to be too long. You want nice short names for your territories... like KEYOGI.

As language evolves, a lot of words/names get shorter, so why not create shortened versions of the country names:
California -> Forna
Mexico -> Mexo
Ontario -> Taro
Or come up with eco-political re-naming:
California -> West Disney
Columbia -> Starbucks
New Zealand -> Weta Studios
Japan -> Top Fun Manga Land
or things like that...
USApocalypse did a great job changing names to reflect the passage of time, suggesting what happened between now and then. Come up with some stories (wars, merging countries/cultures, aliens invade, we genetically engineer cats giving them the ability to speak...) that will help decide the names. Maybe humans have largely left earth and it is now a museum/park? Maybe they try to use old names for things but get some wrong? Maybe the legend could look like the map they hand you when you come to visit earth?
I dunno, both ideas are goofy, I suggest you jsut go with the general region name.
I just realized how 'off' this map is...there would be so many more mountains in real life if this were to happen! Confusing....
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:56 pm
by Gabrioche
Your ideas are all very good! I don't know what to do...
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:08 pm
by KEYOGI
Ruben Cassar wrote:Btw what is Keyogi?
Just made it up.
Back on topic... while I don't hate the straight lines, I think the territory borders would look nicer with some curves.
As for the names, I think they're okay as they are, it's just a few of the longer ones that need to be reduced. Instead of having names like Eastern America Basin, you could give them names of cities or states in the area.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:22 pm
by hulmey
yeah but we want to create a futuristic map...so place names will not be the same as we know them now!!!
Lets think and not rush this.....
What will happen to europe, america or ussia in the next 100 or so years... I for one know that in 50 years time the town i live in will be under the water due to global warming....
Lets not be boring and have a good think of what the future will be like in 250,000,000 years time
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:30 pm
by Gozar
Who is to say their is even a species capable of naming things 250,000,000 years from now?
What if giant wasps rule the earth!?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:34 pm
by hulmey
Ur on to sumthing there Gozar....Let me think!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:40 pm
by Gozar
Waspopolis?

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:03 am
by KEYOGI
I doubt there'll be much left of the earth in 250 million years from now.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:34 pm
by unriggable
KEYOGI wrote:I doubt there'll be much left of the earth in 250 million years from now.
It'll be a cool Earth. A bit radiated, but cool. Smoker's paradies, assuming hemp doesn't dissapear.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:11 pm
by para
actually geographically the americas would actualy in the future move toward the other side of asia
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:51 pm
by Bad Speler
para wrote:actually geographically the americas would actualy in the future move toward the other side of asia
there are different theories of what would happen, this is just one of them
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:12 pm
by unriggable
Bump: Any progress?
BTW Pangea ultima is a possibility. It's not certain what will happen.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:21 am
by Samus
You should let the map authors do the bumps. If there isn't any progress or reply from them, there's no point in bumping it to the first page for all to see.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:07 pm
by Dmunster
Prettiest map ive seen on this site and I love the concept. Replace USApocalypse with this map NOW!
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:08 pm
by wrightfan123
bump! good map
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:05 pm
by Sargeant_Pepper
I don't like the Madagascar bit. I thought Africa joined with S. America, not N. America the way you have it.
I really like the map colours, textures, etc. Nothing wrong with colours, fonts here. Keep it up. I was about to request a Pangea map, but Mr. Search helped me out before I got flamed!
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:38 pm
by unriggable
Sargeant_Pepper wrote:I don't like the Madagascar bit. I thought Africa joined with S. America, not N. America the way you have it.
I really like the map colours, textures, etc. Nothing wrong with colours, fonts here. Keep it up. I was about to request a Pangea map, but Mr. Search helped me out before I got flamed!
250 years in the future, not the past.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:57 pm
by Turtle Power
This is an awesome looking map, what happened did it just never get coded?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:00 pm
by Pain Killer
look very good! but the bonus in madagascar is quite of or make it +1, or give the +2 bonus if another continent is held (see alcatraz, san francisco map

)
visual its very good!

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:19 pm
by unriggable
Pain Killer wrote:look very good! but the bonus in madagascar is quite of or make it +1, or give the +2 bonus if another continent is held (see alcatraz, san francisco map

)
visual its very good!

He agreed to remove the bonus
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:29 pm
by Unit_2
why did you make it go on vacation? its a realy cool map and its allmost done. if you work some more on it then it will proble go into Final Forge. theres not much more to work on it so get your lazy butt up and finsh the map!
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:35 pm
by Koronna
hey, great map, just that the bonuses are too meager...so much territories for so little bonus
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:03 am
by paulk
Koronna wrote:hey, great map, just that the bonuses are too meager...so much territories for so little bonus
Suggestion:
N. America 5
Africa 7
S. America 4
Asia 8
Europe 4
Antarctica 3
Oceania 4
Madagaskar 1
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:33 pm
by unriggable
I don't think he's coming back dudes...