I was working on bonus values and shapes for a day or two, and they have changed significantly from what is presented in the above link, but then i had some important things outside of WL to do, so sorry for the delay and thanks for feedback - i will get back to making the map in a couple of days and include some of your suggestions.

I don't really think that you are looking for geographical correctors, but I am going to correct you anyway because I have no other way of occupying my day.

First off, "Czech" is a grammatically wrong name of the Czech Republic, if you are looking for a shortened name for the Czech Republic, then that is Czechia. Quite a common misconception there.

Second off, "Nitra" is a town located in central Slovakia, not western Slovakia, where the biggest city is Bratislava.

Third off, why is central Slovakia called "Bohemia"? Is that a mistake or something? Because I highly doubt that would be on purpose, anyway, call that region "Nitra" or central Slovakia.

Fourth off, I have no idea why did you call eastern Slovakia "Saris", is that another mistake? I don't know of a town called "Saris" in eastern Slovakia, anf if that isn't on purpose, then rename the town to "Košice" or "eastern Slovakia".

And fifth off, why is Sjaeland (The island next to Denmark) called Zealand? Zealand is a region in the Netherlands, not in Denmark. Call the island "Sjaeland" or "Copenhagen".

Sorry for the random outburst by the way. That's just me.

Czechia - thank you very much for feedback. It's not an outburst - those things you pointed out - especially in slovakia were my mistakes. I have no idea how did it happen, but it's fixed now.

Today, I have sketched Russia, but i do need somebody from Russia to help me name all the teritorries and bonusses (as for now, obviously not all the bonusses in russia are visible and i neither have I decided on final bonus shapes on the rest of the map yet)

If you are from russia, and are willing to help me with the names, please make a chat game and invite me to it.

new link:

http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=22421

hey looks awesome love to help test and not criticizing but it really does not make sense to me to give Ireland a 1+ especially if yu don't give it a city name

sense all the other 1+'s are city names

I found a proper map of Russia and have named all the teritorries. I could still use some help with naming the bonusses there, and checking if all the names are correct.

{wwd}gg - if you mean northern Ireland - it's just a question of name - I can rename the bonus to Belfast, but the territory for obvious reasons will remain Northern Ireland. There is similar situation in StPetersburg (different bonus and teritorry name) If you mean the bonus for Republic for Ireland, i can't imagine it without a bonus, and adding more bonus would overpower it to much. the combination of three comboing bonusses - Northern Ire +1, Rep. of Ire +1 and unification of the whole island +1 makes historical and strategic sense to me.

Why is north-eastern Poland named "Kujawy and Mazury"? Didn't you mean "Podlasie and Mazury"? :)

Thx Zerbi.

It seems that you completely ignored my post from a few months ago, so here it is again:

This is one of the prettiest maps I've ever seen.
Here are a few name corrections though:

• The territory of Denmark within Denmark should be cald Syddanmark, as that is the name of the actual region of Denmark that exactly covers that area.
  
• Zeeland in Denmark should be called Sjælland for the same reason. (You make an æ by pressing ALT+Z)
  
• Baden-Wuettemberg in Germany should be called Baden-Württemberg.
  
• Istambul is Istanbul, with an N.
  
• Epire in Greece should be called Epirus.
  
• Peloponez in Greece should be called Peloponnese.
  
• Eire should probably be called Republic of Ireland, unless you want every region in the map be called in the native tongue, which would require lots and lots of name changes.
  
• Walachia in Romania should be called Wallachia.
  
• Rhone Alps in France should be called Rhône-Alps.
  
  That were all the incorrect names I could find so far. I must say this is very good for a first map, and I'm looking forward to what you'll make next.

Sorry moros. I did not "ignore" you. I left this map undone for a few months and simply forgot to check the previous posts. I corrected everything according to your guidelines, and i will take a look at all the previous forum posts later on, but today ;) thanks for feedback!

Shouldn't Praha be Prague.

Ironheart - if I use regional spellings like Sjælland for Zealand, Rhône for Rhone, Württemberg etc... then I think Praha is a correct name for Prague. It's difficult on such an international map to use original spelling for every teritorry (people could have difficulties in reading cyrillics or greek for example) but i am not the biggest fan of naming every teritorry in english either .. i know it's not exactly coherent this way, but if given the choice and help from players of different nationalities, I would much prefer to write as many names in their original sound instead of writing english translations..

bump.

all i need now before making the map public is somebody knowing russian geography to help me name the russian bonusses...

i'll write a haiku to convey my deep, penetrating thoughts:

russia, cumbersome boni, shapely
y u no make pretty, jedi

Russia N: Ural
Russia E1: Kama
Russia E2: Volga Uplands
Russia W1: Oka
Russia W2: Don
Russia NW: Severny
Russia S: Severo-Kavkazsky

Russia N was named after a mountain range and E1, E2, W1 and W2 after an important river within their borders.
Russia NW roughly corresponds with the Russian Northern economic region, in Russian that's Severny ekonomichesky rayon, so I named it Severny (which probably means "Northern"), because you wanted to stick with local names.
And Russia S' name is Russian for Northern Caucasus.

If you are looking for testers i would be willing to test.

thanks Moros. I changed the bonus names, but added one additional in russia, so now there are two Volgas.. and i think i'm gonna have to figure something out for it.. i still have not yet decided on the final shape on french bonusses, but other than that the map is mostly done..

Volga uplands could also be named Belaya.

(sorry for the double post)
A few more name changes:

• Trondelag -> Trøndelag
  
• Jamtland -> Jämtland
  
• Vasterbotten -> Västerbotten
  
• Gotaland -> Götaland
  
• Skane -> Skåne
  
• Mecklemburg-Vompommern -> Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  
• Zurich -> Zürich
  
• To be consistent with Leningrad, the Paris bonus should be named Île-de-France
  

It was a lot of work, and a lot of testing games. The map seems unbalanced, yet is very playable thanks to it.

new link:

http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=22883