[MENTION=1802]Heroquoia[/MENTION] Nice changes. I still feel that Far Toyou can be broken apart into numerous islands, each capable of being a nation in its own right. Japan is probably the most popular Asian ethnicity that can be played, and having that ethnicity monopolized in one nation because there's only one geographic region that mirrors the real world prevents us from getting more Nipponophiles into Toyou. At least, potential Nipponophiles, who's to say whenever we'll get one.
[MENTION=635]Sikandara[/MENTION] I definitely don't want to lose an active neighbor with history as tied into Yujin as Sikandara is, since if that happened I would have no reason to play Yujin anymore aside from what reasons I give myself. It's a goal to increase the border we share, potentially have you as the "India" to my "China", though again I aim to remake Yujin into something that doesn't monopolize Chinese culture but instead forms a subset, to allow other Sinophiles to play as well.
[MENTION=1679]Sixia[/MENTION] I agree with the black and red. I feel the green could be interesting and stimulate RP, if occupied by an active. Similar to Hormuz for Iran stimulates real life stuff. That said, any country which occupies an obviously strategic geographic region should be smaller in size - you claim something high value, you get less pixels.
[MENTION=11]Carentania[/MENTION] Actually, with the map as-is, we could say that Islam originated on the island between Himyar and Near Toyou and expanded in both directions, spreading with it Arabic-ish culture in both directions. You can relegate Near Toyou to Central Asian (Turkic), Persian, Afghan and Indian ethnicities, while north Himyar can be Semitic and North African. Go with a "the Caliphate was a thalassocracy" style thing. Which would also pair with "Islam spread by trade"
[MENTION=635]Sikandara[/MENTION] I definitely don't want to lose an active neighbor with history as tied into Yujin as Sikandara is, since if that happened I would have no reason to play Yujin anymore aside from what reasons I give myself. It's a goal to increase the border we share, potentially have you as the "India" to my "China", though again I aim to remake Yujin into something that doesn't monopolize Chinese culture but instead forms a subset, to allow other Sinophiles to play as well.
[MENTION=1679]Sixia[/MENTION] I agree with the black and red. I feel the green could be interesting and stimulate RP, if occupied by an active. Similar to Hormuz for Iran stimulates real life stuff. That said, any country which occupies an obviously strategic geographic region should be smaller in size - you claim something high value, you get less pixels.
[MENTION=11]Carentania[/MENTION] Actually, with the map as-is, we could say that Islam originated on the island between Himyar and Near Toyou and expanded in both directions, spreading with it Arabic-ish culture in both directions. You can relegate Near Toyou to Central Asian (Turkic), Persian, Afghan and Indian ethnicities, while north Himyar can be Semitic and North African. Go with a "the Caliphate was a thalassocracy" style thing. Which would also pair with "Islam spread by trade"