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    So it's been a long, long time, but I finally got around to doing enough work on this to allow myself to upload a new version.
    It's seen a lot of changes on account of my perfectionism and a nasty hard drive crash; I've sharpened it up a lot and improved the heightmap and colors. I have to say, the data limit on attachments really hampers the quality (I had to halve it just to upload), but I think I'll try to find a better host for the final version (one with zoom!)

    I'm particularly interested in what people think about the banners. I'm not so sure about them; I can put a flag in that empty half.
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    You might want to consider DeviantArt, a bunch of us use it as an alternative to upload larger, higher-rez versions of our maps. Plus it's free
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    This is a great map! Well done. I like the banners, even if they block the view on more of the map. I hope to see more of this world. Care to share more detail on the world's history and such things?

    Oh and I agree with Sapiento... ss is much more convenient than that funny looking double ss that looks lie a B-derivate
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    @ Eilathen: The region is known as Waldenburg, and it's earlier history is a lot like the Holy Roman Empire. There was a bigger empire that is still pretty huge, but the areas at the southern tip of the continent have become a collection of duchies, margraviates, and kingdoms, dominated by Saxe-Blünder Augsburg and Paloni. Nearly all of the countries have been heavily effected by the massive civil war which tore apart the old empire. Saxe-Blünder is a lot more powerful, more populous, and more stable than most, but it is stable in a 'corrupt Latin American country' way. The bureaucracy (full of people from criminal families) runs the country in a way that maximizes their own profit, and for this reason the vast majority of the country is backwards and the only modern part is a small enclave in the center of the capital (the only part of the country where you can drive without a chance of popping a tire) where the bureaucrats, bureaucracy, and super-rich dwell.

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    Hi Javen,

    Really nice map, you are to be congratulated. I'm trying to do something similar, and wondered how you made the mountain textures?

    Thanks,

    Jamie

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    Jamie,
    I made the mountains from a heightmap in Photoshop and Wilbur, then I brought them back in and selected only the high points so that they'd show up.

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    Now this quite a lovely may, escpecially like the mountains. Repped.

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    Nice job Javen, I hope that one day my maps will look the same

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    After several months of aggravatingly boring city naming, I think it's almost done. I consider this the penultimate draft, barring the potential addition of road or rail lines, but I'm content at the moment with the density of cities.


    I apologize for the huge file size, but it was the only way of achieving lossless compression so that people could still read the tiny text on the city names.
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23147859/Sax...20Augsburg.PNG
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    Looks very good. Did you use a name generator for the towns?

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