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    Put simply, with tectonics there's no point to doing it AFTER drawing the map and no point to doing it 'part way'. The point of it is to make the arrangement of land and mountains on your map look realistic. Start from scratch, planning out the plates on a proper globe, with particular emphasis on their movement (as movement influences their shape) and only when you have that worked out transfer to a projected map. If you don't do that, your plates are going to be completely wrong anyway.

    Doing it on a map you've already drawn is pointless as you've already drawn it and all you can do is post hoc justification hand waving. Doing it without really understanding spherical geometry and applying it to your work is pointless because you need the spherical geometry to get things right enough for the tectonics to matter especially as tectonics requires an even deeper understanding of spherical geometry to get right than just drawing shapes since it's all about movement of shapes occupying large portions of the globe. You can't just work this out on a map.

    PS: Here are some Teutonic Plates
    Last edited by Hai-Etlik; 03-29-2015 at 04:11 AM.

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