Quote Originally Posted by SteffenBrand View Post
This is probably one of the most stunning maps I've ever encountered on the internet. Truly amazing work, very detailed and very good executed so far. I'd love to see this finished! I btw know exactly how it feels to have a file so huge that you nearly can't work on it any more. I have one myself I'm currently working on. About 400 layers, text, colors, effects, etc. make it nearly impossible to export (or at least takes about 15 minutes). Keep up the good work, all the best wishes for this project! =)
since i moved the background elements to their own file, and just the map itself in another file, i've found thigns have gotten a lot quicker. changing to an SSD and CS6 made a huge difference too though the files are still annoyingly large. I'm having to rasterise and merge all text layers as it would be insane otherwise. thousands of layers. the time i checked before i merged the layers i was on about 1,800 text layers and that was a while ago...

work is annoyingly slow though as i hate just adding labels without knowing any background for them. otherwise it would have been aeasy-enough to just add random names all over the map.