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Juxtapose
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Joined: May 11, 2002
Posts: 1308
From: Give me your bullets!
|  Posted: 2003-10-01 22:50
The maps I played : Epsidon Eri, Thor and Karian Ra
Less is more
That should be the motto for both Epsidon and Thor...
Thor succeeds marvolously...small, but sweet map. Realistic and a welcome addition to the MV (lets make it an UGTO map...  )
Epsidon Eri is too much. No offense to the author, but, this map is too much without the same care put into it as Thor. Why are there no names to the planets? I do not believe this will be a welcome addition without some modifications...those being:
The physical impossibility of that many planets evolving with that many stars.
The extreme movemnet of the gates and planets
The reduction of Terran planets
Name them...and choose a theme and stick with it
Tried and true
Kirian Ra: Very well done. Seems a bit cliche at 1st with the three clusters for the three factions, but at closer inspection, these clusters are far from equal.
Well balanced...and large...Jumping between clusters takes 20-40secs, as it should... this will be a very nice addition to the MV... The clusters arent overwhelming as they are in Luyten or Bernards Star...but good enough
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Sol's planets are named after the Roman equivilant of Greek Gods. Western Gods. No hassel there, the west was the first to truely study them (though 2000years after they were named) so why not...
It would be remiss of us to believe that the next few solar systems would not be named in a similiar fashion.
In fact, there is already debate over which culture gets their Gods/cultural figure's names attached to the planets in orbit
Hindu Gods: Brahmin, Ganesh, Shiva, etc...
Norse Gods: (name a system Thor but don't make the planets names equivilant? Not your fault, it was already named....but the planets were your choosing) Odin, Loki etc...
Jewish Prophets
Germanic Heros
Islamic Scholars
Chinese Dynasties
Japanese Shinto Gods
Polonesian Gods
African Gods
Egyptian Gods
Just to name a few....every culture will be represented...why? Cause there are approxiametly 1300 solar systems within 50 lightyears! Within 10 years we will be able to map or atleast approximate what is in orbit around a score of these...sooner or later those objects will be named...
So stop putting random syllablles together and get on the game...We aint going to name them Soj or Urplat...we are going to name them after things that correspond to Planets within our own solar system....
Thats my intellectual rant for the Quarter... Carry on
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Acyllius
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Joined: October 09, 2002
Posts: 48
From: Abilene, Tx
| Posted: 2003-10-02 00:16
Yay. Jux liked my map. Go Kirian Ra. Now. On my appraisal.
Epsidion Eri needs alot of work. It has some potential, but the gates need to no longer orbit nothing at 30 gu, the planets need to have names easier to remember than Epsidion X and VI etc. Makes the brain hurt like Sirius. Also there are some issues with the 4 stars in the system and way too many terran planets. There are two of the same size within about 1000 gu of each other. The distances are also overly large. Size is good, but not this much. Jumping from one size to another takes 110 seconds. ouch. That is like a long jump from Ind to Caranie Aa.
Thor is a great map. I was not able to find anything I would say is negative. All choices could easily be noted as map designers artistic license and are solid choices.
Most of the other maps were lacking in various ways and only Thor, and of course my map, but I am biased on that one I believe are solid enough for MV. But that isn't my desicion. I appreicate Jux supporting my map so strongly.
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Captain Caveman
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Joined: October 12, 2002
Posts: 668
| Posted: 2003-10-02 03:08
Only played the Thor map, and my one gripe with it, is that it is too small. Even a relatively small fleet will steamroller through that system in about half an hour. I like the general layout of the system, its just too damn small.
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Lith Ragond
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Galactic Navy
Joined: November 25, 2001
Posts: 1854
| Posted: 2003-10-03 06:42
Reason, question: Was "Epsilon Andromeda" submited by that name? Because I know I submited a map named "Upsilon Andromedea", and I am wondering if it is the same map.
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|2eason
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Joined: September 30, 2001
Posts: 1252
From: Wisconsin, US
| Posted: 2003-10-03 07:23
Two Different Maps.. ("Epsilon Andromeda" is someone elses map)
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Lith Ragond
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Joined: November 25, 2001
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| Posted: 2003-10-03 08:53
righto, thanks m8
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Chosen of Chaos{Dictor Lord}
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From: chosen of chaos
| Posted: 2003-10-03 09:05
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On 2003-10-01 22:50, Juxtapose won't hurt you wrote:
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In fact, there is already debate over which culture gets their Gods/cultural figure's names attached to the planets in orbit
Hindu Gods: Brahmin, Ganesh, Shiva, etc...
Norse Gods: (name a system Thor but don't make the planets names equivilant? Not your fault, it was already named....but the planets were your choosing) Odin, Loki etc...
Jewish Prophets
Germanic Heros
Islamic Scholars
Chinese Dynasties
Japanese Shinto Gods
Polonesian Gods
African Gods
Egyptian Gods
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Chaos gods?? 
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Deathscythe
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Posts: 420
From: The netherlands
| Posted: 2003-10-03 13:38
Were is my map sonaz system why did it not qualif
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