Of course most of my territory will probably end up in the hands of other mappers, but I do want to have some decisions over their language and cultures.
I strongly suggest to rethink that attitude.
While I can understand the situation, “of course” and “want” are the wrong approach. Also, who do you expect to subject themself under your rule?
And dont follow my footsteps. I am not a good role model here and there are other users out there who are able to guide and mentor here. Any questions, ask them.
I would suggest to focus on showing the mapping skills first. If I were you, I would ask myself first how much territory do I really need for my plans. From your description I assume that 400 to 500 thousands of kilometers is enough. There are several free territories of that size which you can divide later in your nations. Of course the admins rather won’t be willing to give any of them to the new user.
There are two ways for to go you at the moment. First is that you can find a large and empty area in one of the blue territories (I suggest to look at Commonia and Rhododactylia) and fill it with beautiful and realistic large scale mapping. When you show it to the admin team they would probably give you any of big territories you wish.
Second solution is to claim a small territory and fill it with detailed mapping in at least 50%. This would allow you to ask for a second territory and probably admins would give you any of you ask for.
If you are really good in mapping natural features you should probably choose the first solution but if you still need to learn something the second one is better.
Hi all,
Thanks for the comments - really wasn’t expecting so many of them to come up.
I have thought through my previously misguided and overambitous planning, and would just like to clarify two things:
1) I’m far from ready to map my actual territories. (by that I mean requesting from an admin) Most of what I have consists of just languages, some founding values and the rough location of major settlements. (And railways.) So the first thing I will build is a small settlement of my culture in one of the blue nations as suggested. When I mentioned “green nations” it was where I intended my group of nations to be finally located, but I’ve largely dropped that idea now as I believe my capacity at this point won’t go that far.
2) After consideration, I’ll most likely work on one to three Creolic territories. Of course the context of my creation would work better with more territories, but I realized that I have no idea how users of surrounding territories interact with each other.
Since I’m completely new here I won’t disturb much, other than to ask for feedback.
Thanks and sorry for coming up with such worrisome plans :/
-cav
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Comment from zhenkang on 17 September 2019 at 08:32
Show others your mapping on josm. I.e. screenshots so we can know your mappign standards.
You can save your mapping in any of the blue nations, but of course theres the risk of new users wrecking it.
Anyway, welcome to the party. Hope to see you more often here.
Comment from Toadwart on 17 September 2019 at 08:42
I strongly suggest to rethink that attitude.
While I can understand the situation, “of course” and “want” are the wrong approach. Also, who do you expect to subject themself under your rule?
Comment from wangi on 17 September 2019 at 09:05
I think you need to have another read of https://opengeofiction.net/about - you cannot edit the green territories.
Comment from zhenkang on 17 September 2019 at 10:13
And dont follow my footsteps. I am not a good role model here and there are other users out there who are able to guide and mentor here. Any questions, ask them.
Comment from Rustem Pasha on 17 September 2019 at 11:21
I would suggest to focus on showing the mapping skills first. If I were you, I would ask myself first how much territory do I really need for my plans. From your description I assume that 400 to 500 thousands of kilometers is enough. There are several free territories of that size which you can divide later in your nations. Of course the admins rather won’t be willing to give any of them to the new user.
There are two ways for to go you at the moment. First is that you can find a large and empty area in one of the blue territories (I suggest to look at Commonia and Rhododactylia) and fill it with beautiful and realistic large scale mapping. When you show it to the admin team they would probably give you any of big territories you wish.
Second solution is to claim a small territory and fill it with detailed mapping in at least 50%. This would allow you to ask for a second territory and probably admins would give you any of you ask for.
If you are really good in mapping natural features you should probably choose the first solution but if you still need to learn something the second one is better.
Comment from coshatiuav on 17 September 2019 at 12:29
Hi all, Thanks for the comments - really wasn’t expecting so many of them to come up.
I have thought through my previously misguided and overambitous planning, and would just like to clarify two things:
1) I’m far from ready to map my actual territories. (by that I mean requesting from an admin) Most of what I have consists of just languages, some founding values and the rough location of major settlements. (And railways.) So the first thing I will build is a small settlement of my culture in one of the blue nations as suggested. When I mentioned “green nations” it was where I intended my group of nations to be finally located, but I’ve largely dropped that idea now as I believe my capacity at this point won’t go that far.
2) After consideration, I’ll most likely work on one to three Creolic territories. Of course the context of my creation would work better with more territories, but I realized that I have no idea how users of surrounding territories interact with each other.
Since I’m completely new here I won’t disturb much, other than to ask for feedback.
Thanks and sorry for coming up with such worrisome plans :/ -cav