Big Canada: 2011-11-06 16:33:42 |

Moros
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After two weeks of hard work, here is a large variant of the Canada map! On this map every census division (about one step up from county) is a territory, except for the north, where every large island is a territory. I did this because on the south there are way more CD's than on the arctic areas.
It's not public yet, but here's an image:

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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 16:35:12 |

Moros
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???
Image doesn't work, so here's the link:
http://tinypic.com/r/zo8j8m/5
As you can see a part of Quebec is scaled different, I made it bigger because of the many tiny territs on it.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 16:56:22 |

sasha grey
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One day there will be a person who'll make a "big Monaco" map
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 16:58:34 |

Moros
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How can you make Monaco big? It's so small!
Just joking...
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 18:30:53 |

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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 18:38:58 |

Moros
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Okay, it became the 9th, but only one territ short to become the 8th...
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 19:08:47 |

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Awesome map! At first I didn't get the South Québec thing but I must admit it's a clever solution.
That's Dutch Design for you! Now, as for a flag for this map, [try this!]( http://www.mixedflag.com/flag_detail.asp?flag1=Canada&flag2=Netherlands)
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 19:15:52 |

Moros
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Funny! How did you found that site?
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 19:21:52 |

Domenico
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Two things, though:
1. The *Baffin Region* is not in any small bonus.
2. L'Île d'Orléans, Northern Québec, has also been made part of Southern Québec, by mistake I presume.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 19:25:36 |

Moros
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I don't see what you mean with 1, and 2 was a mistake.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 19:30:54 |

Matma Rex
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Annnd there go the bug reports :D
There's a tiny territory called L'Ile-d'Orleans (spelled with accents I can't type on my keyboard) in Quebec, which mysteriously belongs to the Souther Quebec bonus, despite being located nowhere near it. (It also belong to Northern Quebec - when you select it, it's at the very bottom-right of it.)
Is Saquenay supposed to connect to Lac-Saint-Jean-Est (they're both in Northern Quebec, the first one is kind of like a city, in a middle of a bigger territ)?
A island called Graham Island doesn't belong to the Queen Elizabeth Islands bonus, despite being in the middle of other islands in it.
Strathcona in British Columbia (bottom-left, on the cape) looks like two separate territories.
Connections between some islands are weird, for ex. the connections of Southern and Noerther Ile Du Prince-De-Galles (spelled with accents), in Mainland Islands bonus.
There are numerous missed connections is Southern Ontario, and a few in Southern Quebec (these are best seen on the map preview screen, where territories neighboring the selected ones are highlighted).
That's it for now from me; nice map :D, and mistakes like these always appear in any big one.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 19:49:25 |

Moros
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Okay, here go the answers.
Fixed L'Île-D'Orleans.
Yes, that connection is meant to be there, I just drawed it wrong.
I know of Strathcona and Mount Waddington, but somehow they're united, but the paths aren't.
Are those connections weird? I guess I forgot to make lines with them.
Fixed most of the missing connections there.
And also a strange bonus number (4 for 11 territs, while the other ones are always the number of territories + 1, as I always do) adjusted.
Baffin region added to Baffin Island
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 20:20:17 |

Domenico
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I found the picture by typing Netherlands Canada in Google.
Next query was *Do a barrel roll*.
Probably, during testing, you'll find that some bonus values need tweaking because it is influenced by more than just the number of territories.
Same for the map I hope to bring as a Saint-Nicholas or Christmas present: I've made a standard value for regional and national bonuses, but they'll be different in the definitive version.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-06 22:20:43 |

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> And also a strange bonus number (4 for 11 territs, while the other ones are always the number of territories + 1, as I always do) adjusted.
This might not be the best idea when bonuses overlap.
For example, if you control the entire British Columbia, you get 29+10+20=59 income for 28 territories - that is over 2.1 income per territory, while if you control, say, Manitoba, just slightly smaller, you get 24 income for 23 territories - that is just above 1.0 per territ.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-07 02:50:00 |
RvW
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Quebec:
The bonus rectangles are strangely ordered: Southern Quebec is drawn above Northern Quebec. Since most people associate "North" with "above", I think switching them around would be better.
Southern Quebec:
It looks like "L'ile d'Orleans" is still part of Southern Quebec (and Northern Quebec as well), maybe the link changed when you updated the map...? Could you post the new link please?
Southern Quebec:
This may or may not be a good idea, but I'm not sure if you already considered it, so here goes.
While I think the enlargement of SQ is a great idea, I do foresee a potential problem; working within SQ will be perfectly okay, but moving in/out of the enlarged area (crossing the border of SQ) could be very confusing.
Possible solution: You could make every territory of SQ consist of two parts, both the "original" (small) and enlarged version. If you put all the centres in the enlarged version, you still have the benefit of easier clicking, but you also make it much easier to see (because all the territories in the original scale will be coloured with the colour of their owner, "mirroring" the enlarged version) where to expect attacks.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-07 16:14:35 |

Moros
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Already made some adjustments, but the new version is still pending :(
@ RvW
Already considered your South Quebec idea, maybe in the next version.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-07 16:29:41 |
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I love the idea of enlarging small territories to make them easier to click. If anything, that part of Quebec could be a bit larger too.
I did find a few territories in southern Ontario that seem to be lacking connections, like York, Simcoe, Perth and some others. For example, York looks like it should be connected to Simcoe, Durham, Toronto and Peel, but it's only actually connected to Peel.
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Big Canada: 2011-11-09 13:30:05 |

Moros
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Okay, a new version just got public, it got all the connections in South Ontario and South Quebec, and the idea from RvW, and added the contours of the neighboring countries to make it look better. And added 3 territories, mostly to make it have more territs than large Africa :)
And tweaked Mount Waddington and Strathcona so they don't look like two territories anymore.
Link: http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?TemplateID=123093
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Big Canada: 2011-11-12 01:07:37 |
RvW
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The "mirroring" of the enlarged version back to the original tiny version looks really nice, thanks you for implementing that!
Found a missing connection, in Northern Quebec I'm pretty sure La Tuque and Le Domaine-Du-Roy should be connected.
Didn't finish my first game yet, but so far I like it. :)
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Big Canada: 2011-11-12 02:08:01 |
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Speaking of missing connections; Magdalen Islands is not connected to Kings County, even though it's explicitly drawn on the map (with a yellow line) it should be. :)
Speaking of missing; an edit post feature would be nice...
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