There are just not enough places to base names off, its made worse by map projection. I know zxctycxz and he told me about that happening when he did his world maps.
I will try to make swamps impassable, that should cut out the sparsely populated and unnamed areas quite a bit. Thanks for your concern, provinces will get larger soon.
I highly suggest to not map hazardous areas like Sahara Desert or Siberian wastelands(pretty much everything above Kamchatka bonus is useless) or Central Asian desert or the forests in DRC if you plan to do so; no realistic fight would occur there and it would save you time & file space.
also adding some bits of US(like some parts of East Coast, NY etc) would be nice since US was a major contender in WWI after all, even if no fights had occurred on mainland.
a few rename suggestions inside Ottoman Territory:
Bonuses
West Anadolu -> Hüdavendigar Central Anadolu -> Vilayet-i Ankara Northern Anadolu -> Vilayet-i Trabzon Turkish Armenia -> Vilayet-i Erzurum Zor -> Vilayet-i Zor Suriye -> Vilayet-i Suriye Beirut -> Vilayet-i Beyrut Kudues Sancagl -> Kudüs Mutasarrıflığı
Territories
upper Chabur(inside Zor) -> Yukarı Habur lower Chabur(inside Zor) -> Aşağı Habur
25. Feb - adjusted Ottoman Empire in correlation to stewies suggestions - will add wastelands and tribal areas in Sahara and Yakutia - added one bonus (Saratov) to Russia 26. Feb - added Kazan-Samara and Perm bonuses in Russia 27. Feb - added Ufa and Transcaspian bonuses in Russia 02. Mar - added Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand bonuses in Central Asia 04. Mar - Fuck the Pamir and the whole other messed mountain ranges there (added Bonus Ferghana)
It looks very promising. My only concern is that Russia and the UK are very large, so a WWI scenario would be a pain in the ass to balance and make for a poor template. I think Russia needs some *sparse* territories where you haven't filled it in yet.
Otherwise great map, so much better than the crap people like Clint Eastwood are churning out.
Kazakh Steppe lands are complete (where a pain in the ass, it would have been easier to just call them "Salty Steppe numbers 1 - 100" but i have some standards. :P
@ Stewie:
Thanks! :D
@ Von Jewburg
Trans-Siberian railway will be added from Omsk to Manchuria the way Chinese Eastern Railway was done.
@ Castle Bravo:
The problem with province size is the following: Higher province density bonuses are actually better at representing hard to pass lands. With the high province density i try to represent the huge effort it would take to control all These lands. If you wish to reduce the income for a template, just do it. People have told me their displeasure with me using actual economic data for my map bonuses so i will not do that again.
@ Are you saying i should publish the map unfinished or did you just assume my release gender!?! ;)
