Map Thread VI

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Susano

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Nietzsche said:
Copyrighting all the German PoDs so we all have to accept some blasted 'German Republic'.
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Haha, that reminds of me Fernidad, who wanted to forbid AH.com from doing any PoDs involing Prussia or the Bonapartes... (he couldnt rightly decide wether his delusion is being descendant of the Hohenzollerns or the Bonapartes) :D
 

Emperor Qianlong

Susano said:
Haha, that reminds of me Fernidad, who wanted to forbid AH.com from doing any PoDs involing Prussia or the Bonapartes... (he couldnt rightly decide wether his delusion is being descendant of the Hohenzollerns or the Bonapartes) :D
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Maybe he thought Prussia's royal family was the Bonapartes? All I remember is that he thought Prussia was a country which had territories in North America and South America.... :rolleyes:
 
Hawkeye

Hawkeye

Archangel said:
Pretty cool map, with an African-based French Kingdom!:cool:
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Thanks, I didn't know what would to large colonies if a revolution takes over the colonial power post-1900. Eventually I decided that this was both plausible and awesome so I just went for it. Now I need to decide what's going to happen when the kingdom is restored in France proper.

Thande said:
No, it's not like we can claim copyright on these things ;)
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:D
 

Saya Aensland

Experimented with multi-lingual map labels. It... didn't end well.

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democracy101

Hawkeye said:
The French invade the British Isles during the seven years wars and the royal family flees to America creating the temporary United Kingdoms of Great Britain, Ireland, and America (giving Americans their first sense of nationality). With more troops needed for the war at home and at abroad, the British in exile take notice of Benjamin Franklin’s failed Albany Plan of Union. But the British are fearful of creating an entity they can't control and their American subjects unwilling to give up their freedoms to a centralized government. So what was eventually created was a loose confederacy that primarily became used for dealing with Native Americans after the War (which was the original purpose of the Albany congress).

The French are driven out of the isles and the war comes to an end. But the damages caused by the war are tremendous and the British need money to fix it so they tax the American Colonies. Many Americans are outraged by this and demand to have representation in parliament, there was little the British could do about it since the colonies had their own army defending them, plus, public opinion Americans had changed in Britain and some felt that they earned it so the previous confederation was reformed into a centralized government and America became an independent nation that was still apart of the British Empire.

Fearing that this new British-American union could have the potential destroy the Spanish Empire the Spanish enact the Aranda Plan prevent this. Ironically this would be the beginning of the end for the Spanish Empire and it would start with American "help" for an Incan rebellion in Peru and the Americans will give plenty of "help" to the rest of the Spanish Empire in later years.

Meanwhile the French have some extra money in their pockets then in OTL and since gaining Goa from the Portuguese in the Seven Years War, King Louis decides to poke his nose in the East Indies and the French discover the continent of Australia which would become a useful penal colony for storing away radicals until the Revolution takes hold in France. And the aftermath French Revolution will help give birth to Olivier-Cecil Warrene, an early part time botanist who created the concept of Stabilism, an Ideology that currently dominates nearly all of Eurasia.

Any thoughts or comments?
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The colors aren't UCS.

But looks great otherwise though.
 
Gryphon

Gryphon

socialism101 said:
The colors aren't UCS.

But looks great otherwise though.
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You say this as if it were a bad thing.

The UCS is widespread- the universal in the name tended to make it such- which meant it quickly became overused. However, with no adequately universal replacement in sight, we rejoice when someone uses that which is not the Scheme.

And it is a most interesting map, Hawkeye. Though 'Steady State' makes this ameteur physicist giggle uncontrollably.
 

crackersncheese

Japhy said:
UCS isn't required you know.
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Gryphon said:
You say this as if it were a bad thing.

The UCS is widespread- the universal in the name tended to make it such- which meant it quickly became overused. However, with no adequately universal replacement in sight, we rejoice when someone uses that which is not the Scheme.

And it is a most interesting map, Hawkeye. Though 'Steady State' makes this ameteur physicist giggle uncontrollably.
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He's new, and just a bit confused because over in Thande's ATL Map Thread you have to post maps in UCS.

@socialism101: The general idea behind this particular thread is that any map can go here. It could be UCS, non-UCS, grayscale, whatever. You post a map here for two reasons: 1) its illustrating a concept, like a timeline or an alliance, or 2) its a work of art and you like the way it looks. Often both, because people like to make maps look nice.

Hope that helps.:)
 
Hawkeye

Hawkeye

socialism101 said:
The colors aren't UCS.

But looks great otherwise though.
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Thanks, but I like my style.

Gryphon said:
And it is a most interesting map, Hawkeye. Though 'Steady State' makes this ameteur physicist giggle uncontrollably.
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Iori said:
Well, good to know I'm not the only one who thought that.
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crackersncheese said:
Me too. We're Hoyle, Gold and Bondie!
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Glad to see you guys got a kick out of that but the Steady State Society really is based off real economic ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_state_economy
http://robertdfeinman.com/society/no_growth.html
Its basic argument seems to be that economies can not continuously grow so to prevent contraction you have to create an economy that will not grow. But I haven't pressed into it that much so I might be wrong. It doesn't seem to be a full fledged Ideology though so I might make a thread about this later.
 

crackersncheese

Hawkeye said:
Glad to see you guys got a kick out of that but the Steady State Society really is based off real economic ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_state_economy
http://robertdfeinman.com/society/no_growth.html
Its basic argument seems to be that economies can not continuously grow so to prevent contraction you have to create an economy that will not grow. But I haven't pressed into it that much so I might be wrong. It doesn't seem to be a full fledged Ideology though so I might make a thread about this later.
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Eh, we're just pulling your leg.;)
 
Thande

Thande

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To clarify, the UCS is intended for series of maps to allow quick comparison and immediate comprehension of what country is what without needing to provide a key (US: legend) with each map. Its main uses are series of maps covering OTL history to illustrate it and provide working basemaps for ATLs, and now my new project using it to show various ATLs for comparison.

However actual descriptive maps of TLs to stand alone should not use UCS in my opinion as it's much better to come up with your own colour scheme that more exactly fits the makeup of your timeline, rather than a compromise designed to fit all of them.

Oh, and great map Bruce as usual.
 
Mr. BoJangles

Mr. BoJangles

Thande said:
To clarify, the UCS is intended for series of maps to allow quick comparison and immediate comprehension of what country is what without needing to provide a key (US: legend) with each map. Its main uses are series of maps covering OTL history to illustrate it and provide working basemaps for ATLs, and now my new project using it to show various ATLs for comparison.

However actual descriptive maps of TLs to stand alone should not use UCS in my opinion as it's much better to come up with your own colour scheme that more exactly fits the makeup of your timeline, rather than a compromise designed to fit all of them.
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Erm... Not to abate the almighty Thande and get stabbed again... but a grand majority of the maps i have seen use the term "Key" not "Legend" though there have been exceptions.
 
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