In my mind I haven't done enough work since my last post in the WIP Map Thread to warrant a second update but I'm going to be away for the next three days so I thought that'd be excuse enough to post this in the proper Map Thread.
Mein Gott...
You know, while I really like to inspire people with my work (Because I often do it with exactly that in mind) , worldA not really being the cradle of border creativity and this is a really nice map overall, it really isn't nice to see stuff copypasted from my map, sometimes even without regard to mistakes or unique borders...
So here's a list of all stuff I noticed. Usually it's the smaller details that reveals it, which starts right at the start:
As a German, we have 3 "City States" of 1million+ in our country which is a kind of special thing of Germany and it has left me with a strange obsession to put a lot of Cities in a seperate Reichsland status because of their size. These include: Vilnius, Minsk, Kiev, Vienna and Riga (Captial cities, somewhat legitimate, but out of place, discussed later) but a lot of non-captial cities such as Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, Tallinn, Lübeck and Danzig. The irregularity/fact that these city states haven't been placed with thought is revealed when you consider that far larger cities like Moscow, London, or East Asian Port cities are completely left out
Then we have Lithuania. This is, among a few other very similar incidents, kinda a death argument.
Lithuania is split into four, which obviously looks out of place in such a large centralized state which took over the russian governorates. This is because I, solely for Nightrise's maps, split up the governorates of kaunas and vilnius among uzyed borders because for lithuania as a seperate country, it makes sense to have smaller subdivisions.
A similar division exists since a few days in Belarus as well even though i didn't add them on the 11danubias map yet.
Next comes Austrian Silesia, which I personally altered when working on the several WorldA maps.
Transdonau/ Greater Hungary is a similar catch.
https://www.deviantart.com/valdoreworks/journal/Nightrise-The-Transdonaufrage-Question-736570439
I discussed the Partition of Hungary into smaller, suited for unitary states partition, a while ago on deviantart.
I also already included it on the QBAM wip on which you can also see that I included a part of red transylvania in the seperate yellow one.
Another "death argument" (if the partition one isn't one already) is that you made the *exact* same mistake I did on the Prime Timeline map (which btw is fixed on the Greater German Empire version),
missing a pixel on the romania border which was caused by the dark blue reichsbund color.
Next comes unified Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony Anhalt. Now while this is a thing on Nazi German maps and Post-ww2 maps, it isn't the case on pre-1918 maps which ovbiously seems to be the POD because we have russian governorates, the austro-hungarian border ad a unified togoland.
Similarily, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen is missing which in nightrise was due to a kreis district reform in 1879 which again wouldn't be shown on OTL pre-1933/35 maps.
The map uses the exact same pixels as the western border of the greater german empire (#4). Plus the italian states but that's more of a nitpick thats quite debatable.
German morocco again is a completely different thing.
Germany afaik never wanted solely north morocco OTL. That's a pure nightrise thing. wanna know why? because someone (me) decided it looked good and because fuck logic.
The same applies to german gibraltar btw which also is included on your map.
A similar detail issue/"fail" is that you forgot to remove the sulu islands from german ownership. That's a nightrise thing as well for the same reasons. it was given in 1872 to germany from spain, meaning that there is no historical base of any (britain, germany, dutch etc) nation that owned sulu during any timespan except spain/philippines or later the US.
my last and again a quite obvious issue is that you took the subdivisions of borneo and new guinea from my map (probably the whole of indonesia but let's stay at the point) because these subdivisions, again, were solely created for nightrise based on its altered conditions (germany owned all of borneo and neuguinea - therefore no need for arbitrary colonial lines) and different TL.
I'm not exactly angry (again, since WorldA isn't really the cradle of human creativity so it's hard to go "claim" a few pixels that make a "bORdeR"), rather just hella confused because we just had a plagiarism discussion on this thread in this week.
Also inb4: I hope I didn't sound too harsh, my written english kinda sounds like a robot/encyclopedia article and I kinda have no confidence in my english because I think it sounds arrogant to other people. If anyone thinks that please note that this wasn't my intention because I'm not a person thats like "hah you stole from me you must be a scumbag".
On the other hand, I got to leak some of the "Danube Monarchy: Reichsbund&Colonies" master map WIP plus the QBAM WIP to show I'm still working on it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
