Beta Worldmap Discussion

[Blasto121]

if other people are going to making pirate ships and what not then I can just scrap my work. Besides my boat compared to Ricklers looks like a ship wreck. I was also making an island for the pirate crew, after all if the Pirates of Dreadwind exist they need a hidehout.

Though it could be done in a way that randomly my pirate ship attacks the other ship and then the crew of the other ship can either join with the pirates or stay with that ship and continue on there way. Joining the pirate crew would take them to the Dreadwind hideout where they could gain access to the booty if they can kill the captain of the dreadwind, which technically would be me, so I would be a boss?

 

[PBarnum]

So will ww3d be connected with lolagain-1? Or will the end of ww3d always read "to be continued..."?

 

[Thothie]

IDK - What does Crow think? If Lodagond and WW were to be tied together, it maybe just best to have it go back to Hall of Deralia where the quest begins - but if we were to stick to the original plot and go for three scrolls of power, the two series would be seperated again.

 

[IARI]

So...what exactly was the Problem with updating the Worldmap-Image again? the Background ??

Ó_ò

 

[Thothie]

Mostly I'm busy...

Also that it's gotten so cluttered that this layout doesn't really work anymore.

Also that I was hoping to make one that would work with our forums so we could abandon our WoW background.

 

[Lanethan]

Isles of Dread does not equal Dreadwind, no.

Thothie, FYI the original concept I had in mind included a 4 map gauntlet series in which players landed on the shores of Dreadwind, the island off the southwest of Daragoth, that includes Lor Malgoriand's castle at the end. Was to be literally "endgame".


And it appears that I just found the link to my description of it in a seperate thread.

So yeah, discussion over. <_<

 

[Gurluas]

Didnt Dreadwind used to be a continent?
The bludgeons fled to Dreadwind before their final demise.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Lanethan will decide what is on Dreadwind and what is not (bludgeons) I guess.

 

[Lanethan]

No bludgeons there now.
No.

 

[The Man In Black]

No bludgeons there now.
No.

/yoink

 

[Rickler]

here's a neat old paper texture the daragoth map could go on

 

[Sabre]

Can we get an updated map ffs? Don't make me make one >_>

 

[Thothie]

I don't think I can make one with this method anymore - too many maps, not enough room. All the new methods I come up with would take a lot of time away from code/scripts.

 

[Sabre]

Enlighten me, you're not the only one that follows the way of the shop.

 

[evilsquirrel]

it'd be nice to even have one that just had a white background, so the nubs know where transitions are...maybe gertenheld won't be so obscure for em?

 

[Thothie]

Enlighten me, you're not the only one that follows the way of the shop.

What dosth thou need enlightening on? :/

There's no nice way to do this without either splitting the map into parts, or making it some sort of interactive flash thing. The maps are just too densely packed, and some are connected in ways that are physically impossible. I think another geographical map is straight out due to that, and although I have one with just lines, that too, would just be far too densely packed to read.

So my idears are, make a hand drawn map with labels involving some odd machinations (like Alhundra desert stretching in an insane curve and actually tunneling under the frozen summit) and texture it, or, like I said above, interactive flash, or cut the world map into sections. Any of which would take quite a bit of time. Right now I just wanna get pet pokéballs working, then I’ll see about that, maybe. (Should be working on status icons, but waiting on artwork for those still.)

 

[Thothie]

Best I can do with the line map so far...

Near as I can tell, for this to work, all the underground maps are under the Aluhandra desert which curves in from the west to the north-central lands of the continent. To make it real mappable, eventually, we’ll have to have separate underground and above ground maps, I suspect.

 

[The Man In Black]

The badlands bone is not connected to the foutpost bone >_>

 

[Thothie]

HTF were badlands and foutpost supposed to connect to the world? :\

 

[evilsquirrel]

originally, they were supposed to connect as they are right now.

it was later decided that foutpost didn't fit the scheme of the badlands series of maps...which are...still pending... so, it was discarded from the concept as an "unconnected" map, and could really be thrown anywhere it needs to be.


edit: also, what is "The haunted castle"?

 

[Thothie]

originally, they were supposed to connect as they are right now.

it was later decided that foutpost didn't fit the scheme of the badlands series of maps...which are...still pending... so, it was discarded from the concept as an "unconnected" map, and could really be thrown anywhere it needs to be.


edit: also, what is "The haunted castle"?

Barnum's Castle... Connects on the back side of sfor.

I'll just move Foutpost to disconnected maps, and let Badlands RIP. (Although I've a perfect connector for an evil lava map in mscave)

 

[The Man In Black]

As Squirrel said, Badlands is on Halier, foutpost is.......................somewhere................

 

[evilsquirrel]

As Squirrel said, Badlands is on Halier, foutpost is.......................somewhere................

we forgot where.

 

[The Man In Black]

Get out.

 

[Thothie]

Shame... If I'd known that while I was still working on Daragoth I probably woulda snuck a trans for it there... Other than that, can't think of a good place to stick it... I *think* we have one more transition in Bloodrose I forgot to mark maybe we could use.