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Maps: The First Wave
Some people said you couldn't secretly write and implement a major new feature that melded cartography and diplomacy inside a graphical interface with 20-year old code. Or maybe they said "shouldn't." It was one of those.
Either way, it was done! And it mostly worked! Not entirely! But mostly!
Congratulations to those regions and nations that figured out what the heck was going on and managed to craft and endorse some maps. In total, 1,307 nations made 4,687 map versions and 879 nations created 896 maps with a total weight of 430,021.
At the end of the first week of maps, we'd like to salute the following pioneers whose maps have the most diplomatic weight:
Region | Map | Authorship Nation | Map Weight |
---|---|---|---|
The North Pacific | Meadowfields | 118,716 | |
The East Pacific | The Goin' Silent of Zukchiva | 88,175 | |
Conch Kingdom | The Puddle of Socialist Platypus | 61,690 | |
The North Pacific | The Generation Kill of Kastonvia | 20,991 | |
Commonwealth of Liberty | The Alpine Republic of Cascadla | 12,197 | |
The Western Isles | The Blue Islands of Corindia | 11,618 | |
The North Pacific | Yeco | 11,454 | |
Lands End | The Peafowl Conglomerate of Peacockastan | 10,853 | |
The North Pacific | The Municipality of Yauco | 9,360 | |
the Rejected Realms | The Angelic Avant-Garde Asylum of Minskiev | 7,970 |
Special shout-out to The Puddle of Socialist Platypus of Conch Kingdom for not only holding third place, but for punching above their weight several times during the week with a chart-topping map despite having far fewer World Assembly members than their rivals in their region.
Maps are staying, but with work to do as they grow into a full feature, as opposed to something that needed to go live at the start of April come hell or high water. In particular:
Regions can (now) choose whether to hide or display their most-supported map
There will be storage limits on what can be uploaded and saved (you all uploaded 1.4 gigabytes of map in a week!)
Maps will come with a legend
Map activity will be integrated into map pages
And of course miscellaneous bugfixes
Thanks for your participation during this first week, and please continue to provide feedback on what you'd like to see in the Maps Technical forum thread!