Siegfried

I think all of this is a barrier language. With accurate, I guess, Ion mean the actual compass is little and show few points and only 2 point between the main 8 bearings. And in the point where letters are, then there are not marks. Is impossible put a bearing in compass and reach the exact point in long travels. English is not my native language. It we had a huge compass all screen with many marks in it, using my or your map will be exact travels.

Mega is a good site for upload the map?

Having too much time free... sadly. And when you end your map then you will have 10k points maybe. The last time mapping I made Gulf of Mexico, US coast and Kidd's Island and I have 5292 files in my screenshots directory. At first i didn't count that, but is an estimation that Bahamas, Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Virgins and half of lesser Antilles was 5k or almost 10k... really don't bother me but sure it was many points. Some areas are 1 point every 100 meters in game, other are 2k or 3k meters in game.

Yes Jodgy, but now I only managed publish this low resolution. I could not upload the 8,5mb version to gallery yet. 100% size map is 46mb. And details like shoals that can take tactical advantages for RAE will be maintain secret longer. I am the only maker of this map and I am willing to show my complete work, but this is a multiplayer game. Anyway one day I can change my mind about that.

29 of May 2017 map update. Every black line of grid is 20000 game units in game (F11). The grey line is 10000. The numbers indicate the position every 100k units. Distance of view aproximately 20k. Well, back in the summer 2015 and after almost 1 month of hard work I made my map complete at 99% (never a art work is fully completed). My map has between 10000 or 16000 points taken in game world and put in a grid. This number of points I never counted it but I calculated from memory the files I send to recicle bin but it don't bother me anyway the number of exact points. Some details maybe are inaccurate because I was bored or tired or falled to sleep sometimes, but what is in game is in my map except coordinates grid. New version have the new stuff taken directly from the ingame map, is too long go there only for place a coast or one city in exact coordinates. The beautiful drawing with title is directly taken from a real spanish chart with my name and where it was the name of king and that stuff. When a port is with a line under (like in Pedro Cay) is because is shallow port. And the Leguas scale in the right side is only for decoration. Ports in a pointed box are freports. Freeports have green points marking their positions. Click this link for donwload a PNG version of the map (around 130mb). This version have the coordinate grid (F11 coordinates) and painted with paper texture both land and sea. I have different versions with and without grid. And the land can be paper and green coloured. The sea can be paper, blue and reddish coloured. I can make any version with this colour combinations. LINKS: All paper texture with grid: https://mega.nz/#!ECw0gI6Q!mOzUGUUPm9YoZzUTcjstzrpPMuur6XN2bHLhz_3uBzA All paper texture without grid: https://mega.nz/#!EDwiRJxa!ctLE3BOlPZ--GrCFf8xAJid96ieHpyVrsO-19dMqWkc Green land, blue sea with grid: https://mega.nz/#!ACYkEbZC!3glp41wNjL06ynXgsmp_0VVkQo0WBEZv9Ku25BKYsc8 Green/blue without grid: https://mega.nz/#!hfwS3YgT!ZAZyVFjSWn2xRD9JTRfm9UTxMv5w3a4Jyc0gYwlnDyY Green/paper with grid: https://mega.nz/#!9LQRmByJ!dwXqqLlBI5hJr0UTOsorJ650suizEoTYC-uDc0uy2yg Green/paper without grid: https://mega.nz/#!xfZQ3S5C!x3Ve-iDGcBk8V0a-m3Rjchvh1lQl4A71XwQqRZEl81Y Paper/blue with grid: https://mega.nz/#!MexBSL6Z!oO1MuxpzOAOuwW23ySeJZIirBib7dkSSkWocgmcjPok Paper/blue without grid: https://mega.nz/#!EagT1LhY!U6xlBSZxP0ZgGQ1iTuEzR8EUzizxvLsf4VQ2NexVi0w Green/red with grid: https://mega.nz/#!UWBDCQra!HrffzWrs7qpOwMPH3qhiGdwya132cuU0ZyEf3ePuvrc Green/red without grid: https://mega.nz/#!UKhymLZL!bFyuG_bdB6Redb54LOLC9_IThd0nnyOnFlhUxomj1sM This example is low res for display here: All paper texture with grid Green land, blue sea without grid

90% of all land and all big islands but Jamaica you see in game map is property of Spain in time of game is based. And Russia or Ottoman empires are not present in map or game. As western world native I tend to not know too much about east history, Ok with that, but in the west, Spain (in decay or not), is one of 3 main powers with France and England. The problem is the history and literature that almost people here had read in their lives was written by English and it reflect in ships the community choose as it is normal. But if I am right, no nation quit America land or islands from Spanish hands until 1810 for independence, not for conquest. That said, devs can make the ships they think correct.

In short, he said Russia was a great sea power but we in west don't know their rich history of sea battles and good ships. The history of Russian victories in the sea is much more rich than USA for example and the one reason for Russia is not in game now is only for Russia had not a port in area. I used Google translator. And I add that in case of Spain is worse, like we was the "bad guys" in history told from english side and spanish players in game are not the main market target for devs, spanish ships are not enough famous for include in game except santissima. At least we have our flag... USA is in game for a little time margin and they have more ships than Spain and the same than France more or less, but USA market is very big like Russian and this is the fact.

I wrote a post about this months ago, including Infamy (negative XP) for pirates.

The problem is Spain, only 1 ship in game and 0 in progress, and Spain was one of 3 main nations in age of sails and the owner of almost map in game...

Prater, IonAguirre use a map so accurate like yours, not public yet, OK but my map have aprox. 15000 points taken in actual game world. And my map is complete now, including that isle all we know, since 5 days ago I ended it. BTW Louisiana and Bahamas area were a hell to make... lol For stars, I am sure if they make a plain with stars painted and that texture moves, we can measure the angle on inclination in every hour of day and calculate the position or simply making the stars fixed and measuring the angle you can obtain your position I guess. Or maybe I can be wrong. Is now possible know the hour of day for sun position if we could measure the angle the sun forming with horizon?? P.D. Paint in black the Isle of Pines area under west of Cuba too, is not accurate in your map

The list of spanish big ships builded in Caribean is long I think... Santissima was build in La Habana shipyard for example. Bart, you can accept put a personal flag that only in your computer is showed and others see a default flag? In Rise of Flight for example, you can make your own plane skin and put in the game, but only you can see it other players see the default skin. For other people can see that skin, they must install the skin file in their computers. Maybe you can speak with admin about that "feature" for a future develop stage of course.

Me too... you don't know (I neither...) how many hour I have in my back exploring and painting my map... lol

And all people laughted of me when I said I will paint my ships pink....

Or take the practical way, quit all these ports and you save poligons.

Ok, it is a aesthetic choise. All that examples are very old maps and is normal the wear and tear after 250 years, but in the time sure the paper was, not pure white, but very clear. Sorry for the criticism, I only wanted to be constructive with a colleague map maker. My captains and me go to high seas too, but we only use new and updated maps and take care of this important things like our military and naval traditions require. Not purchased in the first drunken and dirty geographer found in the first seedy tavern. If our captains or crew shows the neglect and abandonment in so important stuff, they will be punished appropiately.

Why so dirty the base texture? I had seen old charts scanned and the paper is pretty clean and near grey-white after 250 years. This map looks like it was been in a fire and stained with wine and cafe. I see we had choose the same brown colour for the lands.

only 1000 of diference is nothing

Grog Rations!!! Porque soy un borracho y un desgraciao.

Oh no, someone discovered the islands at north west of Yucatan... but they changed their names since the last time I was there a month ago.

Baxo nuevo is named Bone Cay now. I was there 4 days ago. Pedro Cay coordinates are: 18957x -24862z Placer is Deep now. Tiburon (french west of Haiti): 155382x 38746z Azua (spanish in south center Santo domingo): 325963x 42714z

For avoid ethis and politics reasons, maybe whales can be semi sunked ghost ships with lots of loot inside.

Because floating bricks (and I almost include Bellona in this category) are boring for example. There plenty people in real life that reject promotions because the office life don't like. And a captain in a frigate will have actions that gain promotions and prizes and he will sail more free, and first rates not. For the other points about people abusing the feature, you and the others maybe are right.

Ok, no problem, I will test it later.