I helped make it, but credit should really go to Ernak for fleshing out the awesome idea!I thought this was one of yours ngl
I helped make it, but credit should really go to Ernak for fleshing out the awesome idea!I thought this was one of yours ngl
Certainly not. I've seen them. That would not mean, however, that because it's done before that it can be done now. We have specific threads for specific maps. It just seems out of place to have them here and it negates the purpose of those threads when no one posts there while the main map thread is cluttered with random maps, both plausible and implausible.
I am not advocating for censorship. I am not advocating for shutting anyone down. I am advocating relocating certain content to another thread that wouldn't otherwise fit, to keep everything orderly. Despite being a general thread, we have specific threads made for these kind of maps, as I have visited those threads, and it disappoints me when people don't account for those threads and just post on this one. Take a hypothetical scenario where this user wants to post a map he found on his school textbook and wanted to show how badly made it was and how it misrepresents real-world accounts. We have a thread for that, Horrible Educational Maps.
Yes, I am prejudiced for arbitrary levels of plausibility that I like to reserve for this thread, I'll admit. However, silly maps would fit much more well in silly map threads, which we do have. A map with Oklahoma's panhandle lengthened to the coast of California would be out of place here, so it goes to the Map Shitpost thread.
This will be my last post on the subject. I plead to users to take into account where maps should go.
So, does this Star Lift still work? Does it just randomly launch streams of stellar material? Is this what those religions are based off of?
I still have this one saved, from like 2010-ish:Does anybody ever wish they had saved any of their old garbage maps, you know, the kind that in all honestly are trash but you can't help but to feel some sense of nostalgia for?
how far is the future dose this take place?As far as scientists can tell, yes. It's passively operating, and appears to be doing the bare minimum of removing mass to extend the star's life, which makes the dating the star quite difficult, but according to U-Pb dating the Star Lift is at least ten million years old. The Reliquary itself actually stores the stellar material, and scientists don't know why or for what purpose. A lot of the religions think that when they Star Lift reaches a certain critical mass it'll herald the end of the world or the coming of their messiah or any number of more opaque happenings. But there are also religions based around the local sapient species being fallen gods, the three planets (technically two terrestrial planets, a gas giant and a moon) which were habitable prior to exterior contact which is quite surprising, and a few other things. There would be literally hundreds, if not thousands of religions in this system alone.
Edit: Oh! And I should say that people do live on the Star Lift itself. It's large and dense enough that it generates it's own gravity and the rim-facing side isn't especially irradiated, so there's a holy city of sorts on the Reliquary that is often the subject of lots of temple-rubbing by the imperial peace keepers as minorities squabble and fight.
How has the TL going? Are you still working on it?I kept it because I got really into the idea so that it eventually morphed into this:
Its like watching a cartographical equivolent of a before and after house repair show. Glow up af.I kept it because I got really into the idea so that it eventually morphed into this:
how far is the future dose this take place?
These were some of the first maps I ever made.Does anybody ever wish they had saved any of their old garbage maps, you know, the kind that in all honestly are trash but you can't help but to feel some sense of nostalgia for?
That's not Russia, that's Ukraine with an oppressed Russian minority!And what was basically just me experimenting with map-making and "consequences":
The Egypt one looks neat.Oh boy, are we posting old maps? I've got a couple:
My first alt-history map ever - The Classic Ameriwank:
WW2 Axis Victory-turns-into-bloody-insurgencies
And my first non-Victoria 2 map:
Yeah, I've used it as a reference-point as to how my mapping skills have improved over time. I've updated it twice:The Egypt one looks neat.
Extreme Map Makeover: Home EditionIts like watching a cartographical equivolent of a before and after house repair show. Glow up af.
In a manner of speakingHow has the TL going? Are you still working on it?
How do you even make a map in Word?My first ever AH map was made in Microsoft Word, so I can't really post it. It was a CSA victory map, with the CSA owning part of southern California and a couple of Mexican states.