[crossfire] Re: Lalo's Bigworld pupland :D

[Miguel Ghobangieno]

I strongly prefer keeping the poles as is. As they are
now they are at poles on the map. If you're going to
add to the magnetic north of the contenet(spelling
error) could you also add water to the west so we keep
having a square map.

Having parts of pupland cold doesn't bother me much...
what you could do is shift the important parts
magnetic east. There are beach/vacation resorts in new
jersy for some reason, even though it gets cold
sometimes.

Also could you test to make sure weather 5 works well
etc (including the generated pictures). It may need a
little revamp to recognise the new stuff.

Crossfire's world, if it even is round, has it's axis
at 45 degrees but it's magnetic north at 0 degrees.
The old empire relied heavily on compasses, a
technology first imported from the conqured region of
Navar (navar was an outlying province then... they
broke away since... like most areas). Magnetic north
came to be known as simply "north". People usually
don't venture into the strange super cold regions of
the world, and take little note of true north.


--- Lalo Martins <lalo.martins at gmail.com> wrote:

> And so says Miguel Ghobangieno on 06/01/06 13:25...
> > Pupland won't fit on the worldmap, which, IMHO, is
> fine as I've
> > always thought of it as another contenent.
> 
> It is in another continent, and it is in the
> worldmap.  There is a
> reason why the worldmap starts at 100_100 :-) if you
> read the info in
> maps/Info, you'll see mwedel's idea of how big the
> world could
> potentially be.
> 
> Right now, my Pupland is in tiles world_075_023 to
> world_104_032, so,
> northwest of the Scorn continent.  (In the previous
> thread we had about
> geography, I think we agreed that the Scorn
> continent is in the southern
> hemisphere, so this one is in the north.)
> 
> So there is weather, but, hmm, :-)
> 
> I put it on northwest because I thought the "poles"
> were on NE and SW,
> so this wouldn't affect the weather on the other
> continent too bad.  But
> it turns out, seemingly, the "poles" are on NW and
> SE instead, which
> puts Lone Town pretty near one of them.  This is not
> what I intended.
> 
> I could move it to the NE, but then that would break
> the antarctic.
> 
> So I see two options:
> 
> 1. leave it where I put it; this will make things in
> the NW of the
> existing continent warmer than they are now, and
> things in the SE colder
> - notably Navar.  Lone Town will be a very cold
> place.  Well, that may
> explain why it's so Lone :-P
> 
> I'm running the scripts from cfmaps.schmorp.de as I
> write this, when I
> have a browsable version of the "old continent",
> I'll post the url here.
> 
> The reason I don't like this one so much, is because
> the Rainbow Islands
> are supposed to be tropical, or at least warm
> temperate - they are a
> beach/vacation resort after all.
> 
> 2. change the weather code to put the poles
> somewhere more reasonable.
> We could be very revolutionary and put it, oh, I
> don't know, in the
> north and south?  Or follow Exalted, rule that one
> direction (S or E?)
> is cold, another (N or W?) is warm, and the world is
> really flat, or
> even cylindrical.  Or, my personal favorite, a
> reverse-discworld
> approach - the world is flat (rectangular or
> discoid) or even
> cylindrical, the outer edges are cold, the middle is
> warm.
> 
> Any of these would require small changes to the
> weather system; not only
> to change the poles, but also (and almost more
> importantly), to know
> exactly how big the world is, and fill any tiles it
> has no map for with
> deep ocean.  I believe I could do that without
> breaking the code too
> much.  (Alternatively, just generate actual maps
> filled with deep ocean,
> this gives us the bonus of having more varied
> elevation.)
> 
> best,
>                                                Lalo
> Martins
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