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Minnesota_Nationalist

Minnesota_Nationalist

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Made for CourageousLife's Telephone Map Game. I received a map from a ailing Omani Empire, which describes some of the tensions in the colonies. As part of this, I decided to take the conflict in the Zanj and expand on it. In this world, the Zanj gains independence in the 1970's (which I assumed was the approximate time period the previous map took place), and immediately starts expanding. First diving the "Empty Quarter" in modern Kenya, taking a large percentage of that. Secondly, improving relations with the already independent state of Masai, which is heavily dependent on the USR. And thirdly, start an invasion of Portuguese Mozambique with the help of foreign aid.
 
Yanranay

Yanranay

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Here's my entry from the telephone game, the map @Minnesota_Nationalist received. The map i was sent depicted some sort of cold war stand off between France and China in the Arabian Sea.
I feel its a bit text heavy (combined with some very embarrassing spelling errors) and I'm not very proud of the "unorganized" territory in what is modern Kenya but over all i'm pretty happy with it.
 
Entrerriano

Entrerriano

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So this was the map I made for the TMG, and the map Yanranay (Edit: Codae too) received. I went for an infographic-style map depicting a French and Chinese proxy Cold War of sorts.
 
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mikroraptor

mikroraptor

My entry for TMG 6:
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After the Great War, the Nations of Central Europe were left in ruins by incompetent monarchs and petty beaurocrats. The Germans led a international revolution, establishing a Pan-European Communist Federation. Despite the full name being the "People's Republican Democratic Socialist Federation of European Republics" , the name the French called it stuck, the République Démocratique Allemande, or RDA. The RDA dominated world affairs for decades, constantly being opposed by the forces of Democracy. Eventually, the long standing political and economic crises boiled over into the continent wide civil war, known by many as simply "The Fall of the Iron Curtain"
 
Noravea

Noravea

AmericaninBeijing said:
Then what exactly would be plagiarism? He’s taken an original work and changed the colors. This is way beyond basemaps.
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For one thing the second part of the map is different. And there are differences in the first part of the map as well. For one thing the sieges in Germany. The civil war in Hungary, even the deliniation between Poland and Lithuania, not to mention the border changes in the second map.

Plagiarism is taking a map or other work, unchanged, and claiming credit for it. He should have credited the person, yes, but we all make stupid mistakes like that.
 
mikroraptor

mikroraptor

Yanranay said:
I dont want to come off as too rude or anything but this really really reminds me of a map Valdore Javorsky made a while ago. Did you guys collab on this?
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Noravea said:
I think he probably used the map as a basemap.
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@Noravea exactly. I was looking for a suitable basemap, and found this. I didn't realize it was @Valdore Javorsky 's map, otherwise I would have accredited him. My apologies, I thought that the scenario itself was distinct enough to make it unique. The scenario shown, a Communist regime spanning most of central Europe falling apart violently, then its borders being redrawn by the west, is certainly very different from the tl the basemap used comes from, now that I've looked into where it came from.
 
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Noravea

Noravea

mikroraptor said:
@Noravea exactly. I was looking for a suitable basemap, and found this. I didn't realize it was @Valdore Javorsky 's map, otherwise I would have accredited him. My apologies, I thought that the scenario itself was distinct enough to make it unique.
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It is pretty distinct and is an interesting scenario. And we all make mistakes. I've mistaken someone else's map for a basemap before so I totally get it and the panic when someone points it out.
 

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Aren't many of those borders historical though? You can see many of them being used by the real-world states in the described time period. The borders in the Baltic, Poland Ukraine and Belarus are from the subdivisions of the Russian Empire IIRC.

EDIT: The Polish borders are from the partitions.
 

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mikroraptor said:
@Noravea exactly. I was looking for a suitable basemap, and found this. I didn't realize it was @Valdore Javorsky 's map, otherwise I would have accredited him. My apologies, I thought that the scenario itself was distinct enough to make it unique. The scenario shown, a Communist regime spanning most of central Europe falling apart violently, then its borders being redrawn by the west, is certainly very different from the tl the basemap used comes from, now that I've looked into where it came from.
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If you didn't create it, then it was obviously created by someone else. You didn't bother to even mention that.

You let the maps be posts as if they were your own work.

I don't even know what to do with this crap anymore.
 
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