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CALLING ALL MEDIEVAL AMERICA ENJOYERS!
As some of you may have seen, I recently posted a major update to the Medieval America World A. I've been tinkering with it on and off for years, adjusting borders, styles and conventions to try and reflect the geographic and political situation in an interesting and nuaned way. I believe that from the Great Plains westward, I have finally achieved something like that.*
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Now, some of you may notice that while clearly there has been a tremendous amount of development on the west coast does look very developed and markedly handsomer, the east, the Feudal Core, looks more or less the same. Very keen eye on you!
This is what has happened every time I've tinkered with the WorldA. I have all of these ideas on the west coast, make tremendous progress that I'm extremeely pleased with. Then I get to the east coast, and I hit writers block. Maybe I'll make a few adjustments, but for the most part especially in the Northeast, the Mississippi Delta and the Appalachians, for every improvement there are two things that have been made worse.
There are in my mind four reasons for this. In the West, we have 1) Large states, 2) Wide open areas around the to elaborate and work in nuance, 3) Vaguely defined political borders by White, 4) Strong natural and geographic borders that still leave me with some latitude. In the East, we have 1) Small states 2) Very little space between them to work in nuance 3)Rigidly defined borders by White, 4) Fairly weak natural borders at least on the scale of WorldA.
The work on the east would be tremendously helped if there were a decent map to reference. White's east map, while it does rigidly define borders, is very annoyingly in some different projection. This makes relative locations between points very difficult to assess, if not downright impossible in certain cases, making it virtually useless as a reference in al ot of instances.
With that said - would it be possible to re-project White's east map into a Robinson projection? Obviously Robinson is not a perfect match for WorldA, but it is very close and would at least make relative locations far easier to assess. I think that having this on hand would tremendously speed up my work here, and make it infinitely less painful.
So the question is - is it possible?
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*With the noteable caveat that a lot of it is guesswork, most especially the Great Plains.