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That would be a nice addition and I think it would greatly increase playability of that part of the map!

About the "unnamed" territories, I was just wondering WHY they were ever left unnamed to begin with? Having zero map-making experience, is it possibly because two territories cannot have the same name? I am not sure if that is the case, but some of the county names (ie Orange County, TX) are common names, and be found elsewhere.

I'm pretty sure that's not a problem. Otherwise the site should also protest against two territories named *Unnamed*, right?

presumably those territories were automatically named 'unnamed' as a default placeholder, rather than the creator actually naming them 'unnamed'.

Yes, it's placeholder-names.

The reason they were left unnamed is, with very high likelihood, the (original) mapmaker simply overlooking them. Think about it; it was originally created on 2010-09-19 and it took until a few days ago (that's almost 1 1/2 year) before a method was invented (or, at least, publicly announced) to systematically locate missing names.

On a checkerboard (or otherwise "regular" layout), you can name territories one by one, that should be doable without missing any, this thing is anything but regularly laid-out. Also, this doesn't have a size which allows to do it in one sitting. And, nobody knows all these names by heart, so you'd have to constantly back and forth between your reference material and the map, another possibility of losing track of which territories you've already named and which not yet.

Hey, love this map! How did you create this map? Is it a trace or something from a copyrighted source? You may have seen my threads regarding this, but I thought I should ask here seeing as this is the particular map I'm concerned with at the moment.

three threads!

Yikes, this guy is SERIOUSLY concerned about copyright. Perhaps an undercover agent from the CIA (Copyright Infringment Alliance)? I think there are bigger fish to fry, man.

This map has been sent to testing.
Changes made so far:

Chautauqua, NY added county
Warren, PN added county
Northampton, VA link to Virginia Beach, VA
Dorchester, MD link to Somerset, MD
Iberia, LA link to Assumption, LA
Knott, KY link to Magoffin, KY
Burke, GA link to Screven, GA
King and Queen, VA link to James City, VA
Philips, AR link to Tunica, MS
Chowan, NC link to Bertie, NC
Bertie, NC link to Chowan, NC
Campbell, WY remove link to Niobrara, WY
Burleigh, ND remove link to Wells, ND
Grant, NE remove link to McPherson, NE
Darke, OH remove link to Auglaize, OH
Warren, KY remove link to Muhlenberg, KY
Bertie, NC remove link to Perquimans, NC
Bonner, ID named
Burke, ND named
Tripp, SD named
Bon Homme, SD named
Jewell, KS named
Pottawatomie, KS named
Wabaunsee, KS named
Pratt, KS named
Dona Ana, NM named
Okmulgee, OK named
McIntosh, OK named
Hunt, TX named
Caldwell, TX named
San Jacinto, TX named
Orange, TX named
Goodhue, MN named
Menard, IL named
Geauga, OH named
Walton, GA named
Taliaferro, GA named
Richmond, GA named
Jackson, WV added to southern WV bonus
Taylor, WI removed from Central WI bonus
Green Lake, WI moved from Southern WY to Central WI bonus
Missouri bonus changed value to 59
Ohio bonus changed value to 48
South Dakota bonus changed value to 36
Texas bonus changed value to 135
Virginia bonus changed value to 54

Any volunteers to play a test game?

I did one before but we never played; just talked about the map. I'd like to play a full game with everybody on the look out for other changes that could be made.

I'd be willing to test and report.

If I may, I would like to test out the changes.

I'm available for testing, I pick up errors like typos, etc. pretty well.

Gunz, just wondering, the last modified date on USA Big is still January 9th; do you have any idea when the new and improved version will be done? I'd love trying a game on USA Big where (errors in) the map won't drive me crazy. ;)

jackson should have been added to the southern west virgina bonus

Do not fix virgina. It really isn't that hard to take and it should not be fixed. Taking out that aspect of the state would simply ruin it.

What would need fixing in Virginia besides maybe a connection to the two territories that cannot be touched. Other than that, I would say that nothing is wrong with Virginia that could be fixed.

Well, other than the independent cities which are extremely annoying. They are annoying to capture, but even more annoying is to fight there.

Well, it would be hard to get rid of them. They do not work out like most of the other states. The only idea I had besides a merge that wold not work out well was to take all of the independent cities in the US and put them as a seperate bonus. Still, that has the issue of having to capture several territories in states to the West and the East which makes it not very useful. (Plus, the independent cities are still part of the state meaning that they would still be needed to capture the state.)

New map version is public. Enjoy.