January 2024 Map Thread — Naughty Nikola

[Jydsken-Østveg]

January 2024 Map Thread!
Naughty Nikola Edition

Here is the update for January 2024! This one was a bit challenging for multiple reasons! First of all we're getting the first change in look and feel for the first time in I think about two years. We're moving away from the old WW2 typewriter attempted look. This took quite a bit more work than I wanted but the plus side is that because of this work I've also been able to streamline the file size even more. I think forever gone are the days of 30MB map downloads, I've now been able to get this baby down to just under 9MB.

Again as per last time, please be calculated and use the tools at your disposal before making map requests. That means...

1. Open a thread to discuss with your peers.
2. Create a draft wiki-page to help us understand the project better.
3. When coming up with a concept do a complete job and advocate for all of your project, even if you don't plan to have it mapped all at once.
4. Don't be afraid to ask for help.

Otherwise lets get to the changes...

• All of the text packages have been changed (this was the bulk of the work)
• Nations are now fully colored in and are represented in a more typical political map mode (this also took awhile)
• The filter intensity has been lowered even further
• Countries continue to be slowly and randomly greened
  • If your country was removed, you probably haven't touched it in close to a year, if not more. If so, you may apply again to get on the map again
  • Some countries that are ancient are still on the map!? Yes, it wasn't a complete job, but that's because they were too small for me to care to notice them
  • Some countries were greened because they have too many projects and those projects are also inactive. They are free to re-apply whichever concepts they want to keep, but please be polite and remove your inactive nations in the future
• The map file size continues to shrink!
• With the rather large amount of changes, please let me know if a random piece of text or something is incorrect

...and now for the old copy pasta info!

Someday Xen will bless us with something more official link wise, but for now, we meet pCloud.com servers again!

In regards to pCloud, many have complained about the links in the past saying they have to make an account! Nope! Not true! Make sure you read all the small print and if I remember right on mobile you have to click download. The file is perhaps large for phones though, so if you have a data plan on your phone that you have to worry about, don't say I didn't warn you! The file size can be found next to the file.

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[Remuria]

Nice! I really like the new look! Very bluntly sharp, like a Morgenstern to the jaw!

And I mean that as a compliment!

And Pope got a Monaco! Imperialist Pope is expansionist!

Edit: Exclamation marks for the exclamation throne!

 

[Imimoya]

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[Pelasgia]

A great job as always. Thanks for keeping Thrakia in place, I've occasionally brought it up in RP, so I won't have to edit those references

Also, I see Tephanon is back:

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[Jydsken-Østveg]

A great job as always. Thanks for keeping Thrakia in place, I've occasionally brought it up in RP, so I won't have to edit those references

Also, I see Tephanon is back:

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Hahaha... I just noticed myself. You'll notice the city there is in the old font. When some places get "greened" in the file I just flip a switch and make them invisible with the gut feeling they might return some day. I have several nations like this in the file. Pelasgia was one of them, and so when I flipped the switch a lot of the old assets return automatically without me having to re-map them so to speak. I didn't notice that area and so I didn't fix the font there.

 

[Thaumantica]

Please rename the South Thaumantic Ocean territory 'Cantigny' to Cantignia.

Thanks for the update and blessings be yours!

 

[Pelasgia]

Hahaha... I just noticed myself. You'll notice the city there is in the old font. When some places get "greened" in the file I just flip a switch and make them invisible with the gut feeling they might return some day. I have several nations like this in the file. Pelasgia was one of them, and so when I flipped the switch a lot of the old assets return automatically without me having to re-map them so to speak. I didn't notice that area and so I didn't fix the font there.

Seems like a smart approach tbh. All good with me, I'll include it in the map I'm working on

 

[Rheinbund]

Thank you very much for your work

 

[Angliarique]

Thank you for this ! 多谢
Luv the font

 

[Vannheld]

The area that remained of the island where the countries are ostveg,metsamaa and gutnish commune located
Country name: Vannheld
Capital:Køvebenhavn
Capital location: southern coastal city bathed by the waters of the Gothic sea

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capital
Major Cities:Oslo,gotenburg
Minor Cities:Bergen,Tórsnhavn,Vænir

 

[Vannheld]

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[Socialist Commonwealth]

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Name of Country: Commonwealth of Socialist Council Republics
Capital City: Svetograd
Location of Capital City: see above
Additional Major Cities (Max 2): Adony, Rijeka
Additional Minor Cities (Max 3): Vranov, Nicopole, Taronik
Miscellaneous: --

 

[Remuria]

@Tarusa Hey, pssst, do you want some of em fairy dragon magic pixels? Cause you're about to get some at your doorstep

 

[Josepania]

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Name of Country: Josepania;
Capital City: Palmira;
Location of Capital City: As on the map;
Additional Major Cities: Antioquía en Occidente, Los Santos, Las Venturas;
Additional Minor Cities: Río de Plata, La Paz, Valle del Carbon, San Fierro, Sion, Santa Fe, Puerto Cafetero, Monte Cobre, Costa del Ron;
Miscellaneous: Please remove the Montecristo physical landmark, as well as remove the San Jose, Calva Antrale, and Kanzane cities. Please add the states Yara, Cibao, Borinquen, Ozama, Santander, Zulia, Mojave, Cimarrón, Deseret, Costa Dorada, Valle Norte, and Isla Afortunada with the approximate borders as indicated on the map (emulating the style of the states in the Federation of Westernesse).

Additionally, if the southeastern archipelago comprising the states of Yara, Cibao, Borinquen, and Ozama could be labeled as the region Los Trópicos, the states of Zulia and Santander labeled as the region Baja Josepanía, the states of Costa Dorada, Isla Afortunada, and Valle Norte labeled as the region Alta Josepanía Occidental, and the states of Mojave, Cimarrón, and Deseret labeled as the region Alta Josepanía Oriental that would be perfect.

Otherwise, please consider Josepania fully independent from @Radilo, the archipelago of Nuova Hierosolyma is to be greened, all of Implaria and Calva (minus Calva Central which I hope will be greened) is to be absorbed, and the archipelago of Fenecia Occidentale to revert to Radilo's full control (he can follow up with details re: name changes etc). International and internal borders are meant to be following

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as closely as possible

Many thanks, and please let me know if there are any unclear or missing details I can provide further information for.

~Jose

UPDATED AS OF: 25/03/24

 

[Pelasgia]

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Location: Picture above
Name of Country: Esperian Islands (Pelasgia)
Capital City: Neolcis
Location of Capital City: Picture above
Additional Major Cities (Max 2): N/A
Additional Minor Cities (Max 3): N/A
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I'd like to make a colony application for a little thing I've been building towards in my RP. Comments are always welcome, it's a minor storyline so if people are really against it I don't mind greening it.

Otherwise, I intend to continue developing it.

 

[Jydsken-Østveg]

...archipelagoes of Nuova Hierosolyma and Fenecia Occidentale to revert to his full control (he can follow up with details).

As these places were put together for your RP, I do not see the necessity for converting them directly to Radilo on this basis. If Radilo wants these locations he needs to create the necessary colonial application for such a thing which requires a factbook and other odds and ends.

 

[Josepania]

As these places were put together for your RP, I do not see the necessity for converting them directly to Radilo on this basis. If Radilo wants these locations he needs to create the necessary colonial application for such a thing which requires a factbook and other odds and ends.

That is completely fair and I understand, hence why I indicated he should follow up with details, and my basis for this thinking was that, prior to me becoming Oltremare, he himself had applied for the islands (currently named Fenecia Occidentale) back in June of last year,

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The other islands of course are a somewhat different group he'd need to apply for on a new basis obviously. @Radilo

 

[Pelasgia]

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Location: Picture above
Name of Country: Esperian Islands (Pelasgia)
Capital City: Neolcis
Location of Capital City: Picture above
Additional Major Cities (Max 2): N/A
Additional Minor Cities (Max 3): N/A
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I'd like to make a colony application for a little thing I've been building towards in my RP. Comments are always welcome, it's a minor storyline so if people are really against it I don't mind greening it.

Otherwise, I intend to continue developing it.

Please disregard this application.

 

[Radilo]

As these places were put together for your RP, I do not see the necessity for converting them directly to Radilo on this basis. If Radilo wants these locations he needs to create the necessary colonial application for such a thing which requires a factbook and other odds and ends.

They were part of my rp as part of a broader Oltremare before Jose wanted just those islands. They're reverting back to that. I know I need to badly update my Factbook, but there are two active rps on those islands.

 

[Josepania]

They were part of my rp as part of a broader Oltremare before Jose wanted just those islands. They're reverting back to that. I know I need to badly update my Factbook, but there are two active rps on those islands.

This means then, I think, that the island group currently labeled as Nuova Palestina should be greened, while the island group currently labeled as Fenecia Occidentale should be reverted back to @Radilo and renamed as i Caraibi, with all cities removed and one added: San Giovanni on the southeastern coast of the island that has an iron deposit.

Does that sound accurate?