Wisconsin Map Revealed!

by **gavin_sidhu** on Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:07 pm

I personally dont like the growing trend in the foundry of making maps of small insignificant areas (theres not even a city with over 1 million people, reminds me of that belgium state map, fleance or something).

Most of the criticisms i can come up with have already been said. Will need alot of work.

To Marvaddin: I like Indochina, its a nice clean map.

by **happysadfun** on Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:45 am

what do you mean, about the cities? we have montreal, nyc is in the making. they both do.

by **joeyjordison** on Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:33 am

continents are way too big

by **rocksolid** on Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:31 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:It will be one of the first to test the more than standard countries. Obviously tests should be done before hand, before creating a great map, and then having it be unplayable.

--Andy

Respectfully disagree on this one, Andy. Testing just isn't practical for most people, and I think the "results" of this sort of test are going to be very subjective anyway. Plunge, folks.

hotgun wrote:What on earth... why is this getting so much good feedback and helpful!... where were these people when me and cybertech were making the MN map... this is a state 2!, why is this getting better feedback than ours did... no one wanted ours so we didn't finish making it after all the work we did!

There are a lot more users on this site now than when you were working on the Minnesota map. I think that has a lot to do with it.

by **spiesr** on Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:25 am

Save yourself a wasted lifetime and stop now...

by **Boxcutta** on Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:12 am

spiesr wrote:Save yourself a wasted lifetime and stop now...

Wow. You're an ass, huh?

Listen man, if you want to make a Wisconsin map, it can certainly be done. Just take the advice that has been offered to you - it won't be "accurate" by individual counties. You'll need to combine some, and perhaps "explode" the different regions so they only intersect at certain points.

It can be done, it'll just take work. Good luck.

by **Hoff** on Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:30 pm

maps that are this specific generally unintersting to the majority of the people. I'm not a fan.

by **Boxcutta** on Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:06 pm

Hoff wrote:maps that are this specific generally unintersting to the majority of the people. I'm not a fan.

Thank you for speaking for the majority of the people. We appreciate it.

by **Hoff** on Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:45 pm

you really are an idiot

by **dussle** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:45 pm

This map is ugly and there are way to many borders between "continents and there are too many continents. No hope for it.

by **dcowboys055** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:04 pm

you have my support seeing as how im from wisconsin...so show everybody you can do it and that wisconsin is more than cows and farms

by **DublinDoogey** on Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:25 am

From Wisconsin too, near Madison, and I'm in support of a Wisconsin map so long as it's done well. I'd support a variation even more though, one of the Northwest Territory from back in the day. It'd be Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan (i believe) but that could be more interesting, especially since it'd be historical. Either way, as long as it's done well.

Oh, and don't forget about other rivers in Wisconsin besides the Wisconsin river, you could use those as natural barriers. You could also use trees as barriers in the North Woods.

by **happysadfun** on Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:11 am

also the part of minnesota east of the mississippi. and yeah, i live in kenosha countywhere we are proud to have the fourth largest wisconsin city, kenosha at 100,000. beaten by green bay (100,000) madison (250,000, technically the size of miami), and milwaukee (600,000, 1.8 mil in metro)

by **happysadfun** on Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:13 pm

LATEST EDITION! It's back with merged counties and bonuses. Color changing will be next, along with more rivers and uncrossables. I came up with a "river boat" idea too.

by **happysadfun** on Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:18 pm

crap it just got smaller for some reason. i posted it and it was bigger then i refreshed and it wasn't

by **sully800** on Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:57 pm

I really think there is no appeal for countries that are all boxes. If that is simply how your counties are shaped then maybe you should try another state because the squares don't make it very interesting.

by **gavin_sidhu** on Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:58 am

Happysadfun, you seem intent on making a CC map but wisconstant (thats the best spelling i can get) doesnt seem to be very map friendly as it is so linear. This map will probably end up like the montreal and crossword map if it gets through (rarely played).

Maybe you should make a map of somewhere else. I like the boat idea, maybe you should make an ancient egypt map, that idea would go wonderfully with ancient egypt.

I cant really make any comments on your map as is because it is tiny and i am struggling to read anything. i think there is a limit to the size of images. Post a link to the picture so i can actually comment on it.

by **Marvaddin** on Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:35 am

Blocky! And still very bad designed continents. Would be better abandon the idea. Wisconsin map would really not be popular, would it?

by **cramill** on Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:55 pm

Marvaddin wrote:Blocky! And still very bad designed continents.

I don't care that it is blocky, counties are like that. But I do agree that the continients need work. I think NEW (North Eastern Wisconsin) (where Green Bay is) - that continent could be a just a little larger to cut down from the size of the north woods stuff. (Just a suggestion) And what happened to lake winabego? that sounded like a good idea.

Wisconsin is a great place!

(I lived in Green Bay.)

by **DublinDoogey** on Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:17 pm

Here's a possibe idea/solution to the general blockiness created by using modern day counties.

What if you used the (former) areas of different Indian tribes as the continents, and then used historic and/or modern sites, towns, parks, etc, named using Indian words or after Indians and/or tribes? (if that makes any sense)

Here's a picture to get you started:

Much of Wisconsin used to be forests, so, at least in the northern half, you can just use forests as natural barriers between continents/countries.

by **cramill** on Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:21 pm

DublinDoogey wrote:Much of Wisconsin used to be forests, so, at least in the northern half, you can just use forests as natural barriers between continents/countries.

There still is a lot of forest in northern wisconsin. I like the idea of forests as natural barriers.

by **happysadfun** on Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:14 pm

DublinDoogey wrote:Here's a possibe idea/solution to the general blockiness created by using modern day counties.

What if you used the (former) areas of different Indian tribes as the continents, and then used historic and/or modern sites, towns, parks, etc, named using Indian words or after Indians and/or tribes? (if that makes any sense)

Here's a picture to get you started:

Much of Wisconsin used to be forests, so, at least in the northern half, you can just use forests as natural barriers between continents/countries.

Well most of the southern ones are actually tv viewing areas. and the north is everything else. i've dropped the idea for now but i'm probably just going to work on the south africa map for now and come back to this one later.

by **CheWolfe** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:35 pm

sorry man, forget putting in the river. just forget putting in anything, almost every map of an american state looks extremely boring.

by **KEYOGI** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:45 pm

I'm going to make the same suggestion for this as I made for the Pennsylvania map. What if you were to include some of the surrounding states and make it a map based on an area, not just a state. You could incorporate the lakes? I just feel it would have a wider appeal than of a specific state.

by **gavin_sidhu** on Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:35 am

CheWolfe wrote:sorry man, forget putting in the river. just forget putting in anything, almost every map of an american state looks extremely boring.

I think this map is abandoned.

Wisconsin Map Revealed!

Should Lake Winnebago be put in for an uncrossable border between Calumet and Winnebago?

forget the river

Re: forget the river

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