Classic Mayan City states

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Classic Mayan City states

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I'm studying Mayan history at the moment and thought it might be cool to do a map of the classic Mayan city states. What do people think?
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Post by wicked »

cool
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Post by gavin_sidhu »

A map of what that looks like would be cool. I know approximately nothing about "Mayan city states"
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Post by astral_lds »

The were lots of major city states i am going to use 7 that will equate with continent in the classic game
Tikal
Kalakmul
Karakol
El Mirador
Copan
Teotewakan
Kamiluju

I will subdivide these into resource areas and minor ciys that were controlled
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Mayan city states prelim map

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[img]http://www.crystallegacy.com/mayancitystates.jpg[/img]

heres a start on the map

How do i get it to display in the post.
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Post by happysadfun »

good idea, but move the borders around a bit so the riverss are uncrossable.
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Post by maritovw »

i love the idea!!! (specially because it's a map of my country in the past!! :D )

when the map starts to take form i'd love to help.
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Post by astral_lds »

Good idea about the rivers. Also Maritovw I have no idea abput the whole XML codin thing so any help with that would be appreciated
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Post by maritovw »

i've never done it but i could give it a try... you should post an image where at least we can see which will the continents be...
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Mayan city

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That would be awsome.
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Post by astral_lds »

here is an updated map. has the names of the continents and most of the countries.
http://www.crystallegacy.com/mayancitystates.jpg
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Post by onbekende »

Looks nice so far, maybe get rid of some ends of rivers to open the borders down south, or get bridges at there delta.

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Post by mighty_fraggle »

nice map, can't wait till platy it, I ahven't even tried half yet i'm a newbie but I reckon that all islands shoud be seperate and there should be stuff like only one crossing so everyone fights over it
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Post by maritovw »

mighty_fraggle wrote:I reckon that all islands shoud be seperate and there should be stuff like only one crossing so everyone fights over it


islands?? what islands??

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hey astral, correct me if i'm wrong, but i think it is Kaminal Juyu, not Kamiljuyu
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Post by astral_lds »

Maritovw your right in how the name should be spealt. I alos think that because I left a white border around each of the countries he thought that they were islands.

I ahave named all the countires now and have have tentatively assigned bonus values to each contient. I have also added a couple of bridges.
I dont know wether i can do this but I would like to add a bonus for capitial cites held. Also if you win a capital off of another player then you get one army per turn from that player. until they are elimated from the game.

here is the current map.
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Post by ttocs »

looks pretty cool
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Post by maritovw »

there are a couple of unnamed territories:
- next to Palq and above Bon P
- below Coatz

another names:
- Palenque instead of Palanque
- Uaxactun instead of Uaxact
- Cozumel instead of Cozm ??

are you using some kind of abbreviature in some of the names?? because some of them just don't sound right to me.... (i.e. San L, Olm, Bon P, Palq, San b, Caret, .... )
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Post by astral_lds »

Yes I have Abbreviated some of the names as they wouldn't fit other wise
San Lorenz became San L
Olmecs = Olm
Palanque = palq
Xcaret= Caret
Caracol =Cara
Cozumel =Cozm
Coatzacoalis= Coatz
San Bartolo =San B
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Post by gavin_sidhu »

astral_lds wrote:Yes I have Abbreviated some of the names as they wouldn't fit other wise
San Lorenz became San L
Olmecs = Olm
Palanque = palq
Xcaret= Caret
Caracol =Cara
Cozumel =Cozm
Coatzacoalis= Coatz
San Bartolo =San B
Maybe its because your map is tiny, make it bigger.
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Post by Marvaddin »

Well, looking good at playability at first sight... :)

We need a bigger map and improved graphics, however...
And lets think about remove some unnecessary rivers, huh?
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looks swell
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Post by astral_lds »

heres the latest work that i've done
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Post by gavin_sidhu »

I know i said make it bigger, but this looks a little too big.
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Post by maritovw »

maritovw wrote:another names:
- Palenque instead of Palanque
- Uaxactun instead of Uaxact



it's ok if it's big. after it's finished, it can be resized to the appropiate sizes.
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