Urgent Help Requested

[DNA Cowboy]

Hey All

I found your guild after doing some research on cartography and the design and development of interactive maps.
Our particular problem is Kickstarter-funded rpg The Shroud Of The Avatar by none other than Richard 'Lord British' Garriott.
For anyone who doesn't know RG he almost single-handily developed the role playing game both paper and computer iterations.

However, there be mutiny among the crew over a sudden and what look likes to be a permanent change from a fully-interactive zoomable 3D map to a paper map basically (very) similar in concept but extremely poor in execution to the Game Of Thrones opening sequence, the problem is that it completely throws the player out of game immersion.

With this in mind I wonder if you might look at the maps and offer some comments about what can be done to improve what looks to be a childs idea of a map.

Many thanks


current map

previous prototype


Shroud of The Avatar Map Debate