*** January/February 2024 VOTING: Before & After ***

[Ifrix]

January/February's Challenge was to make a map showing a land before and after an event.

View the Entries Here!

Voting will end on Tuesday 5th March after which we'll be jumping straight into another 2 month challenge for March and April.

Vote for as many entries as you want, and don't forget to rep those you felt deserved it.

On a side note, how have people found the two month challenge compared to the previous setups?

[The Elderly Cartographer]

Two-month challenge:
The extended dead-line does make it easier to participate and allows for delays that life throws at you. I probably could not have completed my map in one month unless I really crammed for it.

[wminish]

Two-month challenge:
The extended dead-line does make it easier to participate and allows for delays that life throws at you. I probably could not have completed my map in one month unless I really crammed for it.

I completely agree with this, the extended time widow was really nice. I didn't find myself working for longer than I usually would on the entry but having more choice as to when I worked on it allowed me to fit it in around busy periods (February in particular was very busy for me).

[ChickPea]

Some super maps here! Well done to all the participants.

[Turambar]

Great maps everyone!

On a side note, how have people found the two month challenge compared to the previous setups?

I think it was fine for me. But would be much better if there were also simultaneous Lite Challenges happening regularly.

Also, if they are going to be two months long in the future, I hope there will not be gap months.

[Bogie]

"On a side note, how have people found the two month challenge compared to the previous setups?"

I think it was fine for me. But would be much better if there were also simultaneous Lite Challenges happening regularly.

Also, if they are going to be two months long in the future, I hope there will not be gap months.

Sorry I haven't been around much, I retired and closed my office in September and it has been a lot more work than I expected.
That being said, I liked the 2 month window better as well. I should be able to start up the lite challenges again soon.
My question to you guilders is "should I start March 15th and run until May 14th (with the regular challenge going on March 5th to May 5th or should I
Start April 2nd ish and running until May 31st?

[Turambar]

Sorry I haven't been around much, I retired and closed my office in September and it has been a lot more work than I expected.
That being said, I liked the 2 month window better as well. I should be able to start up the lite challenges again soon.
My question to you guilders is "should I start March 15th and run until May 14th (with the regular challenge going on March 5th to May 5th or should I
Start April 2nd ish and running until May 31st?

That makes sense. Glad all is well and congratulations on retirement!

As for me, I am all for sooner as I have the itch to map lately. However, maybe it makes sense to align with the Mapping Challenge so that there is always one or the other happening at any given time.

[Straf]

Sorry I haven't been around much, I retired and closed my office in September and it has been a lot more work than I expected.
That being said, I liked the 2 month window better as well. I should be able to start up the lite challenges again soon.
My question to you guilders is "should I start March 15th and run until May 14th (with the regular challenge going on March 5th to May 5th or should I
Start April 2nd ish and running until May 31st?

I do like the overlap but that's because that's what I'm used to. I know I was AWOL for a couple of years but since getting back into mapping I've somehow picked up some silvers. I see the silvers as a great way to push one's boundaries whereas the golds are a showcase as well as pushing boundaries. I like when a triple silver or a golder joins in the silvers as a sort of pace-person. In both ways (concurrent and overlapping) can help those who have commissions, or looking for commissions, to manage multiple projects with defined deadlines.

My concern, though, is for those poor kids that Robbie keeps sending down the guild mines for the silver and gold required to forge those compasses. Diamond himself has amassed quite some body count We should map those guild mines


As for retirement - I'm still a few years off that for now but from what I hear it can become rather frantic for a while. There are plenty of 'trunked' projects that need to be finished as well as adjusting to the "well now you're retired you have time to..." stuff.

[Naima]

Voted, I usually limit myself to 1 but I was really undecided, so I voted 2 though I would have voted even 4.

[Tiana]

I like 2 months for the big one and 1 month for the Lite. Technically I DID do a map (it was actually 3! Before, after, and after 1 more thing!) for this challenge, I just didn't post it because I couldn't figure out a way to present it as a single whole map in a nice way, and by then several people had very nice presentations of their completed work. I may post it at some point on the main forum, dunno. Although it doesn't look like the Lite challenge has happened in a while. I feel like many of the frequent participants already have gold.