Shannon V. OKeets -> RE: Japan Map (12/16/2006 5:22:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Gendarme True, but if there is enough demand for the option to print sections of map, and if it's not too much trouble for the developers to do, then why not? Like I've said, that is something I'd throw down extra $$ for. Or even $$$. Especially since we must still use the paper Wif for our fix until MatrixWif is ready. I'll still get Matrix Wif when it finally comes out. Shoot, I'd pre-order it if I could get those maps. Table space is no concern for me. Maybe sections of the Atlantic and Pacific can be left out as on the current paper Wif maps. But otherwise, bring it on. Some players are blowing up and wall-mounting their maps. We have ways... But I know this is all daydreaming, and I won't take up any more space other than to say again, the work being done on Matrix Wif looks outstanding so far, and is only making us more eager to play it. Anthony DeChristopher I was talking to my brother-in-law today (he lives in Philadelphia) and he has a printer friend who does "canvas wraps" for buses. Basically they take a JPG file (or something similar) and print it out on a large 'canvas' that can then be wrapped around a bus - for advertising, I assume. So I have given this a little extra thought and have the following questions: 1 - Is there interest in a full map? Because of the grain of the hexgrid, my earlier estimates were off. More precise calculations yield a height of 134 inches (11 feet 2 inches) and a width of 18 feet (even). Trimming the top 15 hexes keeps all of Scandinavia and Iceland and reduces the height to 10 feet 4 inches. For these calculations I am using the same size hexes as used in the WIF FE maps. 2 - The whole map could be drawn at reduced size per hex. The aspect ratio should be maintained, so, for example, 1/4 size would be 9 feet wide by 5 feet 2 inches high. Not playable, but more likely displayable. 3 - Printing segments. For example, the bottom of South America is the bottom of the map. But the rest of the lower portion of the map is ocean. I'm not sure how to decide on which segments would be best/desireable. All of Europe and Africa, surely. Most of Asia (excluding some of Siberia) and all of Australia and New Zealand. All (or almost all) of the Pacific Islands? America done at reduced scale? From the top of Scandinavia to the southern tip of Africa is 9 feet at WIF FE scale hexes.
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