Okay so in the past few days, I have had conversations with Gigantus, and Muizer, who both are presumably going to join this discussion.
Basically, our current map whether its the smaller version or blown up version, isn't really that great. There are a lot of issues with terrain, and placement of mountains. Also, our experiment to blow up the map has not gone well, as Gigantus and I concluded this morning (sorry Emodude, it's just not looking right, and the ai will be effected as well :/). Muizer also has some ideas. Basically it seems as if the best idea is to make a new map, but is that what we want to do? Here are some key features that it'd need to have regardless.
- Stretch to Western India & Tarim Basin so Saka have an impact. We have to include the Saka, Xeofox has dedicated a lot to this mod specifically for them, so the map needs to extend to where they were.
- Have proper projection in Eastern Portion of Map
- It needs to extend south to include all of Arabia as the trade was so important back then, and I'd like to emulate that in RTR.
- I vote to keep my regions, which Gigantus and Muizer both seem to agree on.
- We have the resources researched by Suppanut on TWC, shouldn't be hard to port, they were made for the Fortuna Orbis Map.
- Even though EmoDude isn't as active, he put a lot of time into the climates as well as the textures for the map. I'd like to keep those as best we could. Also, because of our climate building feature, we need to keep them as intact as we can.
- What do you all think on having the major rivers Navigable?
Here is an example map that Muizer showed me today.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?495095-Ozman-s-WorkshopOkay, so Gigantus, Muizer, Emodude.. The floor is yours. Let's do what is best for the team and make sure we have the best map possible.