The Diplomacy community, one of the largest on warlight is in need of a World Nations 2015, The Old World Nations is good but the idea is that we expand the map to have more bonuses, Such as Breaking big bonuses and expand the island and connectivity of the world, and all capital cities of all nations should be a territory, That way the game is expanded in terms of warfare and what strategies you could use to get the upper hand, in a much bigger world , a map where Diplomacy will involve. Imagine diplos of 40 Plus people. Im asking top map makers to make a truly amazing map but just adding and splitting territories to include a more diverse world.

Yesssss

No. The World Diplomacy 2012 and 2014 are mostly the same, they still both are super unrealistic. + means needs more income/territories, - means less.

The 10 most powerful countries:

China+
America-
India+
Japan++
Brazil ok
Russia---
Germany++
Nigeria++
Britain--
France--

Japan and Russia have the biggest problems by far, out of the top 10. South Korea/Canada are also very under/overvalued.

Edited 10/31/2015 02:36:25

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So, the question is how do you define a country's military potential after being occupied.
I agree that America is strong and should have a good income at the start, but I am not sure how many military recoures you can get after you conquer it...

Edited 10/31/2015 03:06:22

So, the question is how do you define a country's military potential after being occupied.
I agree that America is strong and should have a good income at the start, but I am not sure how many military recoures you can get after you conquer it...

Use high base and occupying more territories will be less significant to your income.

Brazil ok

Definetely not... It needs a serious increase in territories. Most of South America does.

Russia---

Russia is pretty good as-is. And that's cause it's territories occupy a lot of space compared to USA or China.

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I think a new World Nations map would be kinda cool, but not much bigger not to change gameplay much.

Some things that need to change:

>Bigger island chains
>Splitting Urumqi
>Splitting Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil and Argentina more (Chile can be split in ~4, Bolivia in 2, Peru in 3~4 and coastal Brazil could have more territories)
>Changing "Northern/Southern Algiers" to "Mediterranean/Saharan Algeria"
>Splitting Morocco
>Splitting Germany, Romania, Austria, Poland and Ukraine better
>Splitting Riyadh, Islamabad, Tehran and Delhi in 2 each
>Getting rid of enclaved/chokepointed territories (Tianjin/Brunei/Kuala Lumpur - 2014 already removed some of the enclaves in the 2012 version like Buenos Aires and Mecca)
>Definetely buffing Japan... Why is it so darn weak anyway?

Ill edit the map if someone pays me some coins

Definetely not... It needs a serious increase in territories. Most of South America does.

I think South America is about right. The territories get bigger and bigger the more in the forest, as should be.

Russia is pretty good as-is. And that's cause it's territories occupy a lot of space compared to USA or China.

Russia is the third most powerful country in World Nations 2012; more powerful than India (considerably), Japan (very much), and Brazil (significantly) - it needs a drastic decrease. There are three ways to solve: 1. Make the territories worth less, negate some if must, 2. Make territories bigger and less, 3. cartogramise it. My suggestions:

>Neater aesthetic
>Better territory names

Asia:
>Split China
>Split Uttar Pradesh
>Split Tokyo area
>Split Pakistan (one territory? For a country more populous than Russia, one territory?)
>Merge Kazakhstan
>Merge some territories in Siberia
>Merge Indonesia except Java
>Merge Armenia, Georgia, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, East Timor

Africa:
>Split Nile Delta area
>Split south Nigeria
>Merge Libya, Chad, Niger, Mauretania, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Bangui, Eq. Guinea, Gabon, Congo (both), East African horn (except Kenya), South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Botswaana, Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Réunion, Swaziland, Lesotho, Cameroon, Cabo Verde

Europe:
>Merge north Russia, Kaliningrad
>Merge north Finland
>Merge Norway
>Merge all Ireland
>Merge Odesa
>Merge Sicilia and Sardinnia
>Merge Shetland
>Merge Madeira and Açores
>Merge Baltic countries, Cyprus, Moldova, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Albania
>Merge Faeroe, Iceland

North America:
>Merge Canada
>Merge Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Bahamas, Jamaica

South America:
>Merge Guyanas, no significant problems

Oceania:
>Merge Australia
>Merge New Zealand
>Merge Papua New Guinea

Edited 10/31/2015 06:34:25

I'm quite interested. How many territories do you think the new diplo map should have?

Merge countries? Don't think it's a good idea, Xapy.

Though I agree in some points.

Better territory names - ++. I'm seriously tired of seeing "Krakau" -.-

I completely agree with splitting Urumqi, this territory is horrenduously overpowered and a nightmare for hosts.

>Splitting Germany, Romania, Austria, Poland and Ukraine better
>Splitting Riyadh, Islamabad, Tehran and Delhi in 2 each

Definitely agree with both of them. Romania should have 2-3 territories (Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldova), Poland's split is awful (some people like to pretend the territory named Poznan is "Prussia" and it has indeed a big number of territories that were once in Prussia, but then again, it's a bit too big if you ask me. Poland should have 4-5 territories (Mazovia, Greater Poland, Lesser Poland, Pomerania and Silesia). In Germany, Ruhrpott should be divided (North/South?) and more details certainly wouldn't hurt. As for Austria... I personally find it OK enough.
Hungary should also be splitted (west/east) and so should Serbia (North/South).

Dunno about S. America so gonna just stay quiet on that matter.

The world nations maps should remain similar to each other with each country being independent. many of Xapy's suggestions would mean removing countries which is against the idea of the map. Also, Xapy was looking at 2012 when the map which needs improving is 2014

What would be nice to have changed:
-Merge Madagascar
-Make Bhutan independent
-Split Urumqi
-Split Chile
-Split Riyadh
-Merge Far East Russia
-Merge San Felix, San Ambrosio and Robinson Crusoe.
-Split Ruhrpott
- Raise value of Japan
-Split South Korea
-Split Delhi
-Make Kochi and Madurai territories bigger (like rest of India)
-Raise value of Peru
-Split South Brazil more
-Merge Maritimes and Prince Edward Island
-Split Tehran
-Split Islamabad
-Make Krakau border Czech
-Change Swedish borders
-Correct Alaska's borders
-Merge Indonesia a little
-Split Ethiopia
-Fix Yemen's names.

EDIT:
-Delete Daito

Edited 10/31/2015 15:35:40

I agree with Zephyrum and Death, Big territories can be split into 2 say west and east sakha, but im no map creator so I don't know the challenges map enhancements posed, as for a Africa shall as well be split some nations shall be split by north and south, or east and west , north east south west etc , s combination to make the world more "complex", as for income and all diplomacy related challenges that is left up to us custom scenario makers' . we are just giving ideas that can make the final product much better than the current world nations, Canada shall be expanded and or split to include let's say north and south Quebec (with the north not touching the us mainland ( this creates depth, meaning longer war campaigns, each Territory split shall be split in a way that creates depth in strategy'

Coastal Brazil is just too merged up. Aside from "Eastern Brazil" one (which is basically a lot of states where slavery and a noob desert run through), it should be better split. Several states of much higher importance are "engulfed" such as Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Paraná and Santa Catarina.

In addition, Chile is just... nope. It definetely deserves a split.

Argentina, Ecuador, Columbia and Venezuela are good as-is. Bolivia and Peru could use a few changes.

Small but not too small nations like those Central America and Balkans shall be split, for example El Salvador is too small to split but Guatemala and Honduras are not so those could be split in two' north and south Guatemala, and east and west Honduras , so for Balkans. Serbia could be split into two, while Romania into 3 wether you want to name regions base on real world regions is up to you, as for an island chain more islands need to be added in the pacific.

In overall let's say and extra 100 territories is perfect. My original times twice as I start thinking about it. Also when I say split a nation I don't mean just adding a straight line, you could be creative and make it seem like a realistic border with slight swerves etc

That's very nice, but we need the creator's SVG unless we want to draw a completely new map, enough said.

Merge countries? Don't think it's a good idea, Xapy.

Though I agree in some points.

I don't mean merge it all into one territory, I'm saying to merge it more, make it less total territories.

The world nations maps should remain similar to each other with each country being independent. many of Xapy's suggestions would mean removing countries which is against the idea of the map.

I don't know where you're getting "the idea of the map" but many independent countries are not shown. The countries I put are all pretty insignificant and can be split.

In addition, Chile is just... nope. It definetely deserves a split.

Chile much less deserves a split - it's a weak-ish power, and doesn't connect to too many territories. Same with Bolivia and Peru.

Small but not too small nations like those Central America and Balkans shall be split, for example El Salvador is too small to split but Guatemala and Honduras are not so those could be split in two' north and south Guatemala, and east and west Honduras , so for Balkans.

Absolutely not. These are on the edge of inclusion of "ok" as is - they're really close to me wanting to merge many of them. Split El Salvador, not Guatemala - it has more population. These are tiny, insignificant countries; the only country that most needs splitting that you listed is by far Romania, but not really even that.

as for an island chain more islands need to be added in the pacific.

More useless, insignificant islands? This is one of the things I hated about 2014. More absolutely useless territories.

As weird as that might look, I would disconnect Urumqi from -stan countries. It's way too easy to go in every direction possible from there which don't seem too natural for this territory.
Many territories have straight-lined borders, they need more real borders.
Siberia should be worth much less, it's basically white desert.