[crossfire] Bigworld and Pupland

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2021, Nathaniel Kipps wrote:

> Per Leaf, my original email was oversize, and so silently quarantined.
> You can of course read it below, and here's a link to the image I
> originally attached:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/xwckXf3.png

Ah cool.  I was wondering why I didn't receive your original email.

I haven't been playing much lately but will be getting back to it once I 
finish up a major project in a few weeks.  I've experimented off and on 
with large worlds with additional continents.  I've settled on a 1000x500 
map ring shaped world.  The top and bottom 10 maps will be impassable with 
another 40 maps of frigid wasteland.  The north will be populated (the 
home of the Northmen) while the south will be desolate.  The maps can be 
traversed east-west in a ring.

I'll also have a religious group that believes that enlightenment can be 
obtained by viewing the edge of the world.  As such they will have a 
remote monastary in the far north.

When it's done in a few weeks I'll add it to the metaserver.

In any case I'm in favour of Pupland becoming a new continent.  I have a 
few landmasses specled around my world already.  I'll email them to 
Nathaniel to see if he wants to use any of them.

Cheers,

Rob

> --DraugTheWhopper
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:09 PM Nathaniel Kipps <nkipps at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I guess no feedback for two weeks means no objections! :)
>>
>> Here's my thoughts on the questions I asked:
>>
>>> Should Pupland be part of the main continent, a separate continent, or
>>> on a separate plane entirely?
>>
>> I was hoping to put it on it's own continent, but a fallback is to put
>> it on it's own plane, ostensibly "on the other side of the world."
>>
>>> Should Pupland be east or west of the current Bigworld?
>>
>> Common consensus is that it is traditionally just West of Scorn.
>> However, I'd like to put it East of the current continent altogether,
>> in alignment with it being a more "exotic" place, as well as only
>> reachable by dragon, at least from Scorn.
>>
>>> Should Pupland be its current size, larger, or smaller? See the
>>> attached image for a reference of how it would look if it was
>>> immediately scaled to bigworld proportions.
>>
>> I'd like to make it bigger, lifting heavily from Lalo's theorycrafting
>> on the wiki.
>>
>> More (or any) feedback is welcome.
>>
>> --DraugTheWhopper
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 1:56 PM Nathaniel Kipps <nkipps at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'd like to gather a little feedback before attempting (yet again) to
>>> bigworldify pupland. A few questions:
>>>
>>> Are there any reasons *not* to bigworldify pupland? For example:
>>> respecting the author's design choices, someone else is working on it
>>> already, or even just plain nostalgia.
>>>
>>> Should Pupland be part of the main continent, a separate continent, or
>>> on a separate plane entirely?
>>>
>>> Should Pupland be east or west of the current Bigworld?
>>>
>>> Should Pupland be its current size, larger, or smaller? See the
>>> attached image for a reference of how it would look if it was
>>> immediately scaled to bigworld proportions.
>>>
>>> Thoughts on these and any other related topics would be greatly
>>> appreciated. I am aware that Lalo did quite a lot of work and
>>> theorycrafting, and I'm taking this into account already. Comments on
>>> his work on the wiki
>>> (http://wiki.metalforge.net/dokuwiki/doku.php/dev_todo:pupland) are
>>> appreciated as well.
>>>
>>> --DraugTheWhopper
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