Author Topic: Universe Sandbox Forum non-world map topic. (Read 203873 times)

Hellpotatoe · « **Reply #90 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:38:56 AM »

Quote from: FiahOwl on July 07, 2012, 05:26:38 PM

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It's.
IT'S.
IT'S!
AAWEESSSUMM!!@!!11!1'

Darvince · « **Reply #91 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:39:50 AM »

ooh

* Darvince makes yu my slave by impressing yu

vh · « **Reply #92 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:53:27 AM »

is this nue

sidetopic: fred has been run over by train twice.

Bla · « **Reply #93 on:** July 08, 2012, 04:41:18 AM »

Kallisto's northeast coastline is fine imo, as for the straight lines, I don't like them, but they could go for land borders. But maybe wait for Atomic to add SKA before he leaves the map in despair after having people take the spot he wanted on yet another map.

Assuming he wanted that spot, of course.

Darvince · « **Reply #94 on:** July 08, 2012, 05:06:55 AM »

Quote from: mudkipz on July 07, 2012, 07:02:42 PM

i think my island got lost in the transition...no worries, fixed!

Quote from: FiahOwl on July 07, 2012, 06:46:39 PM

moved Aeridani a bit north because I can.

wtf are yu adding me for no reesun

FiahOwl · « **Reply #95 on:** July 08, 2012, 06:11:50 AM »

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Hellpotatoe · « **Reply #97 on:** July 08, 2012, 08:07:45 AM »

Quote from: FiahOwl on July 08, 2012, 08:06:10 AM

I got bored

yay, zoomed
i will make the cities and etc

oh, you use photoshop?

FiahOwl · « **Reply #98 on:** July 08, 2012, 08:09:22 AM »

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Hellpotatoe · « **Reply #100 on:** July 08, 2012, 08:12:38 AM »

Quote from: FiahOwl on July 08, 2012, 08:10:46 AM

Quote from: Hellpotatoe on July 08, 2012, 08:07:45 AM
oh, you use photoshop?

no I use Paint.NET

oh, i will use it too xD
Edit- Many Islands names kolok
Islands - Finished
Gulfs and Seas and this thingies - 0%
Cities - 60 %
Highways - 0%
Military and Navy Bases - 0%
Whats Moar?

FiahOwl · « **Reply #101 on:** July 08, 2012, 09:36:29 AM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #102 on:** July 08, 2012, 11:44:39 AM »

The coasts ~~kind of suck~~ suck a lot, so if you want to give a little more complexity to them (except the WAP coastline), I don't mind, just don't stray too far from the coasts I made, if possible.

Kyre Auspikitan (West Auspikitan)
Ze Apodnikpanaisiikivineti (New Pegasopolis)
Corporations (Derp)
Solea xy Kabzatak Auspikitan (Solea and Rift Auspikitan)
Ihpqalik-Aolejk (Derp)

Also, the west side of SKA including Ihpqalik can be land anywhere, idk why I made it coastline, so if Darv wants to put Darvincia there.

FiahOwl · « **Reply #103 on:** July 08, 2012, 11:55:00 AM »

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Hellpotatoe · « **Reply #104 on:** July 08, 2012, 11:56:00 AM »

i was more fast fiah

FiahOwl · « **Reply #105 on:** July 08, 2012, 11:57:09 AM »

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Hellpotatoe · « **Reply #106 on:** July 08, 2012, 12:02:23 PM »

kolkolkol

FiahOwl · « **Reply #107 on:** July 08, 2012, 12:38:13 PM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #109 on:** July 08, 2012, 02:48:08 PM »

Coast looks cute actually except for the islands on the east, but w/e. (The ones on the west are supposed to be there I forgot to add them

)

Darvince · « **Reply #110 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:07:12 PM »

kolkute SKA

vh · « **Reply #111 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:48:11 PM »

why the hate against straight borders...

Naru523 · « **Reply #112 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:50:23 PM »

We hate straight borders with no basis in reality.

If they're not on a line of longitude or latitude, or if they are but logic dictates they SHOULDN'T be, they don't make any realistic sense and break any sense of quality to the map.

vh · « **Reply #113 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:53:43 PM »

what about artificial islands

and who is 'we'

Bla · « **Reply #114 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:55:44 PM »

Because the landscape, like rivers, coastlines and mountains, is not straight, so straight borders just seem to go cluelessly through the landscape. They seem lazy and are uninteresting. They aren't creative, they're such an easy way out of spending time on drawing something interesting. They're simply plain boring and ugly! They are a pure disgrace to mapping! IMPRISON ANY CARTOGRAPHER WHO MAY EVEN THINK OF DRAWING THESE HORRIBLE BEASTS!! DEATH TO STRAIGHT BORDERS, MY FELLOW CARTOGRAPHERS!!!

Darvince · « **Reply #115 on:** July 08, 2012, 03:59:57 PM »

inb4 squigly border revolution

waiting for http://www.nationstates.net/nation=squigly_rainbow now...

vh · « **Reply #116 on:** July 08, 2012, 04:02:08 PM »

yes but it is artificial landscape
'boring' is an opinion
also it took me longer to do the straight borders than the rest. more effort. its pretty unfair to call it 'lazy'.
im fine if straight borders are not allowed, on this thread. but it is unneeded to threaten people who like to draw straight borders.

Naru523 · « **Reply #117 on:** July 08, 2012, 04:07:15 PM »

nah i like to threaten people

But in all seriousness I don't even know how you did more effort for straight lines... I guess that's how Western people are these days.

Darvince · « **Reply #118 on:** July 08, 2012, 04:07:42 PM »

Bla · « **Reply #119 on:** July 08, 2012, 04:24:05 PM »

Quote from: mudkipz on July 08, 2012, 04:02:08 PM

yes but it is artificial landscape
'boring' is an opinion
also it took me longer to do the straight borders than the rest. more effort. its pretty unfair to call it 'lazy'.
im fine if straight borders are not allowed, on this thread. but it is unneeded to threaten people who like to draw straight borders.

You hopefully realized the sarcasm in my post, but ok, srspants then.

I don't want a truckload of rationalizations to excuse making straight borders like 5000 km long straight walls or gigantic artificial islands which just happen to be completely straight, so whatever. Draw straight borders if you like. I don't care. I just think they're terribly ugly and boring, especially when combined with non-straight lines like natural coastlines. It seems inconsistent. And having everything be simple polygons also seems effortless and boring. You might as well draw skyscraper sketches, and make the houses simple polygons with max 20 lines. Yes, I know art is very subjective, but seeing as you seem to accept the subjectivity, it seems a bit pointless to begin arguing about straight borders if you have nothing objective to base it on. One thing I could objectively base my consideration of how good maps look on is whether they look natural, like following rivers and mountains and biomes. If you reject that and want artificial landscapes, whatever, then I simply disagree and continue to hate straight borders just as much as before.

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Author Topic: Universe Sandbox Forum non-world map topic. (Read 203873 times)