I will be continuing and I won't restart

Good call. I want to play this as soon as possible!

Anxious too here. It's actually the only map that currently makes me want to play diplomacy/scenario games right now.

Thank you very much, I'll try not to dissapoint and have it published as soon as I possibly can.

Tester here, in case you still need people. ^^

What is that purple speck in Israel?

Palestine @tchaikovsky

General, will you add America and Russia to the mix?

With special provinces giving fleets for america and armies at the caucasus/kazakhstan for russia.

At this stage I don't think I will. In theory they would be realistic however in practice they would be overpowered or underpowered and just misused. I think a map of the region only would be better here, however, for my greater Middle east map I would very much consider adding them as well as others in.

I feel like it depends. Just put default bonuses of 0 units there and let template creators choose if they want to have them or not.

It would be expanding the map from its original purpose though. Like for example, this map won't feature the Caucasus countries (Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia) nor will it feature central asia, however my greater middle east map would and I think it would allow for a more realistic map.

Well, my idea would be for you to put 2 american fleets at the mediterannean sea and the arabian sea. And two Russian armies, one close to iran, and one in the caucasus.

*Hype*

Is this thread alive? Is it too late to test? Seems like a promising diplomacy map, consider me please

The thread is alive and no its not too late, i'll put you on the list

Missing connections between Ramadi and Kubaysah, central Iraq.

Missing connections between Wadi Al Gadaf and Badiyat Al Sham, west Iraq

Missing connections between Kermanshah, Iran and Baqubah, Iraq

I just found those while clicking around. Also, may I be a tester? This looks really neat.

Edited 3/17/2016 16:50:45

Missing connection: Dehloran and Al Amrah (Iraq-Iran border)

Also on the Iraq-Iran border: Baqubah-Kermanshah

Jeez, the Iranians and Iraqis had their war on this map no progress would be made xD

^ btw don't take that as an insult, I love the progress.

Thank you all for the help, I'll be sure to add those connections in, and as for the progress of the map, it os progressing, it's just I want to finish Iran all on inkscape first and then upload it all at once just for the satisfaction so just an update, Iran is actually 3/4 done on inkscape.

So the map is getting closer and closer to being completely finished, and I'm going to need around 20 testers, I realise that many people have expressed their interest however they've done so quite a long while ago so I'm not sure if they're all still up for testing and therefore I'm going to be making a new testers list and it'd be great if you just told me if you'd like to test. The aim of the testing phase will be primarily to root out missing connections and test out bonus values and alter them as I doubt they are completely balanced yet. There will probably be two phases of testing.

Phase 1 will be 5 games of 4 players each and the aim of that will be to play a fast FFA, to check all border and missing connections, I realise that this map is not a FFA one but It is probably the most effective way to find those missing connections.

Phase 2 will be one game of around 20 players and the aim of phase 2 will be to check bonus values and if the game is actually fun on the map or if some countries are overpowered. So each player will be playing a full nation. A list of them will be posted with what player is testing what country after I get around 20 testers or so hopefully.

LIST:
KRETOMA
FElINE JUGGERNAUT #3
STEWIE
TEAMGUNS
KING C*******V
ZAHAAN ALI
FC BAYERN
PIGEACORN
DAVID
SHREDTAIL2
So feel free to just say you're up for testing, thanks

Edited 3/24/2016 19:17:34