Yuanls's Diary

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Expanding the Universe

Posted by Yuanls on 26 December 2015 in English.

Hello everyone.

I was just thinking about the history of the OGF planet. (We really do need a name for it!) It occurred to me that it could be quite interesting to expand the OGF universe a bit. It would be very interesting to do a geological history of the planet, and have a series of maps illustrating the positions of the continents throughout time.

I was also wondering how far the OGF universe extends. Are the real-life planets still with us, with the OGF world replacing Earth, or is the OGF universe completely different to our current one, and if so, how much different?

Glaster's development

Posted by Yuanls on 14 December 2015 in English.

Hello:

Any general or specific comments on my country of Glaster? All places, except Ellmouth and Stewhampton(generally), are far from finished, and will require much more work to complete. Feel free to have a browse around, and you can even add a few things if you want to. Just make sure I know. (You may need to zoom out to see the whole country).

http://opengeofiction.net/?lat=52.0922&lon=128.9781&zoom=9

The wiki page is here: http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Glaster

Thanks

Yuanls

Making realistic road junctions

Posted by Yuanls on 30 October 2015 in English.

Hi, I’m just wondering how to create large, complex and realistic road junctions without it looking crowded and clumsy? For me it’s 2 motorways passing through, and another terminating. 1 being the main highway towards the city centre going north/south, the other being a bypass that brings traffic in and out of the city going east-west. The terminating one being from the suburbs and a small town (Melton) that has been swallowed up by the expanding city (Ellmouth). It was previously 3, individual junctions in a relatively small space.

Do you think I should leave it as it is (a poorly planned disaster junction) or if and how I should clean it up?

Click here to explore Ellmouth: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/51.8561/129.1973

This were the initial junctions: http://imgur.com/CDQy0rl

This is the current junction layout: http://imgur.com/KuZxIYw

This is the city of Ellmouth in general: http://imgur.com/TjJJBdv

History of unclaimed countries

Posted by Yuanls on 16 October 2015 in English.

It seems that my country (Glaster/UL70c http://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/52.1958/129.0921 ) is essentially isolated from the world, as all of the neighbouring countries are unclaimed. Is there any way of writing about the history of those countries, or are there ‘OGF rules’ to abide by in this case? I am thinking that all the UL70 countries were unified in recent history, and then broke up following some kind of great schism. Something like situation of Yugoslavia in the 1990s possibly. Also maybe some opinions on Ellmouth (The current capital city) http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/51.8540/129.1994 I didn’t make Reyston, it was already there, so I decided to it an autonomous city, much more aligned to UL70D.

Katsnelson and its neighbours

Posted by Yuanls on 16 September 2015 in English.

I’ve been working on the city Katsnelson and its environs for a few months now (Yes, I’m still in Commonia for some reason). Katsnelson was not originally my idea (A person called Subway started in in December but then abandoned it and later I took hold, and made the inner ring and most of the outer parts). All of Monksbury, Sommton, Warroton and Medsham are originals though. I tried to create a sense of Englishness to my places; do you think I can improve on anything specific or in general?
Map: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=10/26.4902/157.7321 Wiki: http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Katsnelson