SDNWorld Redux - Casting Call & Planning MK II

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-08-22 02:43am

The Shroomsanity shall begin!

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-08-22 03:51am

New map uploaded

Changelog:

- Latest version of the Fourth Continent added

- USSR now has a coastline, and gained a tiny bit of territorry. Note to Stas: borders of the Red Star Republic have changed a bit

- Changed Khitan's color so that it stands out from Shroomania more

- New Continent added: changed some colors, otherwise exactly like the posted map. Labels are coming.

- Shroomania is now oriented like in the last game. The Shroomish Channel is about 50 kilometers wide.

- Technocracy is now Red Star Republic

Planned for next version:

- Migration of all labels to a new font

- Adding of labels to Fourth Continent and New Continent

- Adding Japanistan, Zoria, Frequesque and perhaps a couple island nations. Post your maps, people!

Special thanks to Skimmer and Rogue for PMing me their maps. Makes work much easier

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-08-22 03:59am

Dude. RESIZE that map. It is TOO HUEG!

EDIT:

And Shroomania is too TINY. And, seriously, opening the map kills my PC.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2008-08-22 04:12am

It's "Crimson Star Republic" but chalk that up to translation differences - in Russian and all slavic languages of course it's "Red".

Note: a pixel font will make it easier to work with maps.

Note 2: minor corrections to my borders aren't too much of an issue for now, I'll deal with it when I have time.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-08-22 04:13am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Dude. RESIZE that map. It is TOO HUEG!

EDIT:

And Shroomania is too TINY. And, seriously, opening the map kills my PC.

I keep the map huge so that I can gauge the distances properly. But I've resized the JPG

Reload the map - it should be much more friendly now.

I've also enlarged Shroomania a bit, it should be about the size of the UK now.

Stas: Oh! Right. I can change it to "Crimson" without a problem

Also, Could you e-mail me that font? Pretty please?

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2008-08-22 04:22am

All Hooge fonts are here:
http://www.blogbox.com/lps-3.1.1/lps/fonts/
They barely weight a few KBs.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-08-22 04:23am

Stas Bush wrote:All Hooge fonts are here:
http://www.blogbox.com/lps-3.1.1/lps/fonts/
They barely weight a few KBs.

Thanks!

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-08-22 04:24am

Shroomania is so cute and adorable

What's in the... Yellow Place?

Hrm... I always thought PeZookia would be across the Shroomish channel. I wonder what our dynamic with Canissia is gonna be. Then again, we've always been Super Best Friends with Coyote, so it's cool!

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-08-22 04:29am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Shroomania is so cute and adorable

What's in the... Yellow Place?

Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and a few other I might've grabbed.

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Hrm... I always thought PeZookia would be across the Shroomish channel.

Well, I had to fit Khitan in there somewhere

I had to do a lot of alterations to make our histories work somewhat...man, was it a headache.

Well, that's about what I can do with the map today. Tomorrow, the Old Continent is getting the 500-million man horde as a neighbor.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-08-22 04:34am

The Abbassad Caliphate and the Egyptian Caliphate occupy the yellow areas. Borders are rather fluid, and I'm the only reason why none of them have gone to war.

Since I threatened to destroy the oil fields in Arabia that is.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-08-22 04:39am

Damn!

You could connect Japanistan to the Old Continent by way of our "Middle Yellow East"... maybe put some other "land" between the Yellow Zone and Japanistan, to make the transition smoother.

I guess we'll have to wait for when all the islands and continents are accounted for to finalize things.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-08-22 04:45am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Damn!

You could connect Japanistan to the Old Continent by way of our "Middle Yellow East"... maybe put some other "land" between the Yellow Zone and Japanistan, to make the transition smoother.

That's exactly what's gonna happen. It will also give a reason for the Suez Canal to exist, since right now it's kinda pointless, but with Japanistan forming the edge of our Mediterrenean, it could save quite a bit of time.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2008-08-22 05:00am

Zook; you may want to space the continents out by more than just a mere 1,000 km. Otherwise my B-56A Swarm can hit any point on SDN World Mk II and return home without refuelling.

Plus, it opens up room for naval manouvering.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-08-22 05:21am

MKSheppard wrote:Zook; you may want to space the continents out by more than just a mere 1,000 km. Otherwise my B-56A Swarm can hit any point on SDN World Mk II and return home without refuelling.

Plus, it opens up room for naval manouvering.

You and your stupid strategic weapon systems...

I can double the distances, but not much more without crapping out my PC. It should be enough.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-08-22 05:24am

PeZook wrote:
Shroom Man 777 wrote:Damn!

You could connect Japanistan to the Old Continent by way of our "Middle Yellow East"... maybe put some other "land" between the Yellow Zone and Japanistan, to make the transition smoother.
That's exactly what's gonna happen. It will also give a reason for the Suez Canal to exist, since right now it's kinda pointless, but with Japanistan forming the edge of our Mediterrenean, it could save quite a bit of time.

It would have been built anyway. I don't like my ships making such a big round just to get somewhere.

I was wondering if Stas was interested in another canal cutting across his country, but he didn't say anything.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2008-08-22 05:24am

Otherwise my B-56A Swarm can hit any point on SDN World Mk II

Nuclear weapons are banned by the new game rules, aren't they?

I was wondering if Stas was interested in another canal cutting across his country, but he didn't say anything.

Where and why? Making a huge canal without nuclear explosions is very costly. I need reasons to do it. Economic ones primarily.

Let the game follow it's way a bit - determine the economic patterns...

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-08-22 05:25am

Stas Bush wrote:
Otherwise my B-56A Swarm can hit any point on SDN World Mk II
Nuclear weapons are banned by the new game rules, aren't they?

No one said explicitly, but Shep definitely compiled a list of chemical and biological agents he plans to stockpile.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-08-22 05:26am

I say we transfer Shep's landmass nearer to MESSmerica

(South West to the IRT?)

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2008-08-22 05:26am

Yeah, Shep will go for the next most massive casualty-inflicting weapon

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-08-22 05:30am

Stas Bush wrote:Where and why? Making a huge canal without nuclear explosions is very costly. I need reasons to do it. Economic ones primarily.

Let the game follow it's way a bit - determine the economic patterns...

For one thing, the Suez canal is located near unstable powers. In the event of some possible war where the Egyptian caliphate chooses to, despite my warnings, to ally with hostile powers, ships will then be forced to go a long way round instead to go east.

On the other hand, I recall there are several rivers and lakes in Russia, and theoretically, just as the US linked a number of rivers via canals (which is why Seattle has a port), we could widen several rivers and lakes and then allow ships to get out to the East via another way.

Unless of course, you don't plan to have a Black Sea fleet.

Siege · Post by **Siege** » 2008-08-22 05:32am

Note to all Frequesuan players: If I've missed anyone in my invitation, feel free to show up anyway. The meeting called is open to all player-run nations on the continent.

PS: I'll be on vacation from tomorrow 'till friday next week, so I probably won't be posting for that time, but you guys can begin the conference anyway and I'll catch up later.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-08-22 05:52am

Here, have another one

Continents are now around 3000 kms apart. Frequesque will be in the center, south of the Old Cotinent.

Japanistan is the big brown stain attached to the Caliphates.

The quality of the map may be a little lower than usual, because I had to lower the DPI or I'd have fried my computer

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-08-22 05:54am

PeZook wrote:Here, have another one

Continents are now around 3000 kms apart. Frequesque will be in the center, south of the Old Cotinent.

Japanistan is the big brown stain attached to the Caliphates.

The quality of the map may be a little lower than usual, because I had to lower the DPI or I'd have fried my computer

Holy shit, is Japanistan going to be the big problem on our continent, or is he at least going to be nice enough to do deals with us?

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2008-08-22 05:57am

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote: Holy shit, is Japanistan going to be the big problem on our continent, or is he at least going to be nice enough to do deals with us?

There are two basic possibilities:

1) Skimmer decides he has to destroy the FUN before we start making cobalt bombs again, and thus the first game post he makes is about unleashing the Human Wave on the Old Continent.

2) We enter a somewhat strained and nervous, but generally peaceful relationship.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2008-08-22 05:58am

PeZook wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote: Holy shit, is Japanistan going to be the big problem on our continent, or is he at least going to be nice enough to do deals with us?
There are two basic possibilities:

1) Skimmer decides he has to destroy the FUN before we start making cobalt bombs again, and thus the first game post he makes is about unleashing the Human Wave on the Old Continent.

2) We enter a somewhat strained and nervous, but generally peaceful relationship.

I would certainly hope for the latter, otherwise, Shroom (yes, you better come), me and Stas are going to park forces not too far off just in case we enter into a conflict.

Or can we at least keep the conflict civil? Meaning at least no nukes, no chemical, no biowarfare.