Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3413892" data-attributes="member: 17691">Thanks Oryan. I was hoping you'd stop by this thread. After talking about this map for months it'd seem like a shame if those who expressed an interest in it never got to see what it was that I'd been pimping.Clueless pretty much got it right; with over 250 venues it'd be hard to list them all by name on the map. Looking at the map, there really isn't any room on the sides to add in twin columns of text. I could make the file wider but then I'd have to stretch the background and tweak the borders, along with its lines of poetry and map scale to accommodate the new size; all before dropping-in and formatting the new text. All in all, it'd be fairly time consuming modification; the map file is already nearly a gig-and-a-half as is and is pushing the processing limits of my poor Mac.I also fear that adding in that much text (250 venue names, each of which can be two to five words in length) would clutter up the map and detract from its aesthetics without adding much functionality. As I discovered while compiling the venues list, names alone wouldn't be of much help without a qualifier noun (inn, tavern, library, etc) and book and page numbers to indicate where one could find pertinent information about the venues in question.If it's really important to you then I'd suggest you download the Venues List, format the information you want into a small rectangle of the appropriate size and shape and glue it as a patch in the upper right corner of the map to cover up the Lady of Pain and Dabus images neatly.Just remember to tell them that it's a figurative depiction of the city and that the buildings on it are not drawn to scale or in sufficient numbers to fill a space comprising nearly fifty square miles. As is, most faction headquarters appear to be around a mile in width each; which is erroneous and misleading.Thank you. But please keep in mind that much of the credit for the piece lies with the original cartographers and artists who's work I co-opted. The parts that I created myself count for only a fraction of the overall map. Hopefully my posting of the end result won't upset them.</blockquote>

Verification