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It may be a moot point, I'm leaning towards using Earth.

why

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Earth is easy. Earth is identifiable. And earth has scale.

Earth is easy. Earth is identifiable. And earth has scale.

no

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Earth is easy. Earth is identifiable. And earth has scale.

no

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No what.

Earth is easy. Earth is identifiable. And earth has scale.

Earth is boring. Earth is typical. Earth isn't frozen enough for Wintreath. Earth is amoot point. 

No, I think we should combine map 3 and 1.

3 and 6 will give us more land and polar regions

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best option

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Hmm....

I'd like everyone's thoughts on this.

Of those maps given, my favorite is 1. The others have large portions near a pole, and those areas are very distorted. I'm not sure how we can combine maps as one map is a sphere, so two maps side by side doesn't really make sense to me. If you just say the world is much larger than Earth, then people can just claim less land and those tiny islands would actually be quite a good size.

As for if people don't like an Earth map because it looks too familiar, we could flip it upside-down and/or left-right, or we could reverse it so that land is water and vice versa.

Of those maps given, my favorite is 1. The others have large portions near a pole, and those areas are very distorted. I'm not sure how we can combine maps as one map is a sphere, so two maps side by side doesn't really make sense to me. If you just say the world is much larger than Earth, then people can just claim less land and those tiny islands would actually be quite a good size.

As for if people don't like an Earth map because it looks too familiar, we could flip it upside-down and/or left-right, or we could reverse it so that land is water and vice versa.

I think what they meant by combine maps is have them overlap, not side by side

Of those maps given, my favorite is 1. The others have large portions near a pole, and those areas are very distorted. I'm not sure how we can combine maps as one map is a sphere, so two maps side by side doesn't really make sense to me. If you just say the world is much larger than Earth, then people can just claim less land and those tiny islands would actually be quite a good size.

As for if people don't like an Earth map because it looks too familiar, we could flip it upside-down and/or left-right, or we could reverse it so that land is water and vice versa.

I think what they meant by combine maps is have them overlap, not side by side

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Ah, well that makes sense. Ha ha...

@Gerrick already selected quite a few good maps. Why don't we pick from these to merge in to the current one?

Hey, everybody. I was able to create a bunch of maps using a map generator: http://donjon.bin.sh/world/ (thanks again to taulover). I created more than I'd like to admit, but I narrowed it down to six that at least somewhat fit the descriptions:

• Laurentus gets his own continent with an island or two near the equator (I situated each map so that this is on the right side to make it easier to compare)
• plenty of mountains for Commander Zemas
• enough land for the rest of us to fit on another larger continent or two
• scattered islands and archipelagos

Remember that I am able to change of each map the sea level and the amount of ice at the poles and can flip the maps horizontally and vertically, so just look at the shapes/sizes/locations of the land masses for now. We can also say that one pole is just ice (like Earth's north pole) and the other is the snowy diplomatic land created by Weissreich (somewhat similar to Antarctica).

So if anybody has any input on which of these work better or worse (or if none work -- whether because they just aren't right enough or you don't really like the site used), that'd be appreciated. Also, in case you didn't know, the colors indicate elevation: the white and red mean high (mountainous) and the green low.

Map 1

Map 2

Map 3

Map 4

Map 5

Map 6

The next steps would be to choose the best map, decide if the sea level/polar ice is good and flip the map to the best way, then finally create a layer over it to carve out our nations with borders.

I'm fine with map 4 since it still does have an area fit for the descriptions of my nation. After all, laziness is key!

I like map 4 as well.

I like map 4 as well.

3 and 6 work best since we'll have polar regions north ad south

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