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    Hi there! This is the latest incarnation of a map for a campaign setting I created a while back. The map details the Inner Solar System and the colonies mankind has created.

    I'm looking for any criticism or tips you may have

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    Looks like it got terraformed to me. Quite a sweet map there.

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    Very cool. I love the political relationships.
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    That's great work; very clean and precise, and (most important) easily readable. You do have a lot of 'empty space' that you could fill up in some way. Maybe with the flags of the various political entities?

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    Thank you all for your comments, I really appreciate each and every one!

    I tried adding a line of flags to the top to help "fill the empty space". I'd love some feedback on it. I have another line of flags I could add but I'd rather know if the first looks acceptable before I go to the effort of resizing the remaining flags.

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    The flags are a great touch IMO they might look better if they were centered along the top. You could move the map title to the bottom of the map.
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    I agree with jtougas r.e. centering the flags and moving the title to the bottom. Also, there are some space stations etc. that seem to be independent; what about putting their flags next to the actual entity in the map itself, rather than along the borders? It might add some more visual pop to the whole project.

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    Sweet map there. I love the addition of the "Island 3" type orbital colonies.
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    Looks pretty good, and mostly makes scientific sense.

    However, I don't know why anyone would build colonies on Venus and Mercury, since on Mercury hospitable temperatures could only exist very near the poles, and Venus destroys robotic probes within a couple hours (Not to mention that launching a rocket from Venus would be extremely difficult. The thick atmosphere would create massive drag forces.

    Colonies orbiting Venus might be possible, but I don't understand why anyone would want to build them there, since there's plenty of perfectly good empty space at Earth distance or greater.

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