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Old February 27th, 2004, 03:06 PM
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I too downloaded the map but was unable to play any games on it due to the way it looks. It's not only ugly, but as Tacticus said, borders between water provinces are damn hard to see (if they even are there, couldn't tell).

I'm not complaining though, since it's an additional free map. There are enough maps to choose from, no-one's forcing anyone to use it.
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SATAN'S SPAWN PLEASE STOP YELLING !!
It took me 1 min to d/l the map, but can play with it for hours !
But you're right it's uberugly...
I've tried to improve it with my very modest graphix skills, but after repainting the sea in dark blue game crashes 'cause I must have erased the sea provinces center mark ...
Too bad ...
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Old February 27th, 2004, 03:55 PM

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You can play it for hours ? Your kidding, right ?

Try The Kingdom of Karan map. Once you do, you will never torture your eyes again playing World Map.

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Old February 27th, 2004, 04:17 PM
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The world map is not that pretty... but I prefer the XL maps. The larger maps usually means you'll see larger armies and battles. For the game I'm playing right now on this map... ERMOR has 950 units sitting in his capital.
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Old February 27th, 2004, 04:49 PM

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You can play it for hours ? Your kidding, right ?

Try The Kingdom of Karan map. Once you do, you will never torture your eyes again playing World Map.
Eye candy is not the determining factor in the playability or fun of scenarios for everybody. Personally, while I like looking at beautiful maps, I tend to value the actual setup and gameplay higher, and the worldwar scenario has a very nice setup.

That does not mean that I would not appreciate a more beautiful worldmap, of course, but it is not essential to my enjoyment.
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"The world map is not that pretty... but I prefer the XL maps. The larger maps usually means you'll see larger armies and battles."

Personally, I tend to play small to medium map only. I feel XL maps mid games/late games require too much micro management. You have an incredible amount of armies to move around. I guess it depends of the type of player you are...
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You can play it for hours ? Your kidding, right ?

Try The Kingdom of Karan map. Once you do, you will never torture your eyes again playing World Map.

>>>THE HORNED KING<<<
Yeah, kidding, referring to your 2 hr d/l - 2 min delete
In fact this map is really ugly, but its size and setting would make it interesting if done correctly - half of the sea surface is useless, colors to redo, better res, ..

BTW for Dom1 there was a good IMHO Europe Map, can't one port it to Dom2 ? Thx
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I've put up an edited Version of the world map at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/Dominions/World.zip where I've changed the colour of the sea to a flat blue rather than the mess it was.

As an added benefit the new download is substantially smaller - 9 MB compared to 31

I have not drawn the borders between the sea provinces - someone ought to do that, but it'll have to be someone with more patience than I.

Whoops - almost forgot; there's a preview up at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/Dominions/world.jpg

Anyway, seems as I'm too late. Torvak's new world map looks quite a bit better IMO.

[ February 29, 2004, 14:36: Message edited by: Leif_- ]
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I've put up an edited Version of the world map at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/Dominions/World.zip where I've changed the colour of the sea to a flat blue rather than the mess it was.

As an added benefit the new download is substantially smaller - 9 MB compared to 31
Can you place a link on your own web page to this file?
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Can you place a link on your own web page to this file?
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