Collapsing World

[bartmoss]

Taking a short break from the Earth 2174 map work, I was going to draw a map for the battle challenge, but instead I felt compelled to work on this one. I do have an issue with Inkscape choking on this map, though. When I found "The Edge", a shared world being worked on at The Piazza, I decided to steal their methods create Collapsing World v2.

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Not much to say about this, yet. This is the surface world only. As you can see I decided to scale down the collapsed areas found on my original map, and instead add more breaches. This should make for much more interesting terrain in the long run.

I created the template in Inkscape, but decided to draw the actual maps in Paint.NET. Later maps will be a combination of Paint.Net and Inkscape.

[bartmoss]

Update - these are the collapsed areas; the dark gray is basically the debris - the "new continents". The blue thing in the west is the last remaining surface ocean.

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[bartmoss]

Alright, we're getting somewhere. Current WIP:
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I've added a bunch of general notes with Inkscape, most should be fairly self-explanatory.
The "Last Civilization" area is a remnant of the once flourishing civilization of the surface world; the guys in this area resisted falling into anarchy long enough to build a series of dams; rainfall in the old continent to their east flows down in rivers and is kept here in a gigantic reservoir, allowing them to irrigate a large area.

[Jaxilon]

This is a cool layout. I have been planning to do a map using this sort of layout but I haven't gotten around to it myself. Glad to see it, keep up the great work you are doing.

[bartmoss]

Thanks - yeah this map is fairly fun to draw so far (unlike my Earth 2174 map which is hard work).

Updated WIP:
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I just spent 90 minutes adding that south polar region.

Other than that, the only thing I did iirc is shrink the "last civilization" sea.

[bartmoss]

Alright, finished another update of this map. No huge changes; basically filled in the empty parts of the map with more ancient continents. I'll let it sit for a while, maybe fill in a few details here and there, but for the most part I think I will call this "done".

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[ravells]

This is looking really good bartmoss! I really like the simplicity of the design and the colours.

[bartmoss]

Thank you. What I learned from this map is that the fact that I can't add too much detail (there is a fixed resolution) makes progress much faster. I'll probably use raster images more in the future.

[bartmoss]

Uploaded final version with slightly more detail, this map is done. See Final Maps thread.

[bartmoss]

Bah! I discovered that I messed up my template. So I just spent about two hours fixing the map for the new, corrected, template. Anyway, now thi s map can shine with a hex grid:

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Phew.