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General BattleTech => Cartography Central => Topic started by: Volt on April 06, 2013, 09:58:17 PM
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thanks to Era Report: 3145 I just might be able to make maps for 3135 to 3145! Here's to hoping the timeline is accurate, otherwise we'll just get 3135, 3145 and partial maps somewhere in between (boo)
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I will hold off on the maps until the Sarna moritorium on using newley released data expires. I find that a useful yardstick for new matieral usage.
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At least the 3135 map is offered as part of the preview PDF for ER:3145 (http://bg.battletech.com/wp-content/uploads/10%20Previews/E-CAT35223%20Era%20Report%203145_Preview.pdf); give or take a few naming issues that may need to be errata-ed.
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i haven't run the new maps against the 3185 or 3130 maps yet so I don't know if there are any naming or placement errors. Though, with the consistency of Oystein with the 2-page maps recently I don't expect any placement errors. Naming perhaps. ex 3135 names Lyran Commonwealth in the Map as Alliance. There's also the Kaznejoy/Kaznejov naming and such, which still triggers my OC most of the time. I'll go on farming the data and upload on my mediafire after 1) the moratorium is up and 2) once I figure out what the hell mediafire did again with their cloud server free accounts. First it was unlimited but deletes data on inactivity, then it made things permanent with 50GB limit. Now it's acting like Dropbox and those other crap cloud servers that offer incremental increase in storage if you do things they make you want to. and to think i've had that account for the longest time.
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done with 3135 AND 3145! when I get some spare time I'll read through ER:3145 to see the ownership changes between these two years.
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ugh, what a waste of 5 days. I filled in 3136 to 3144 and the data in the book is so full of holes it's not possible to make a complete map. too many worlds changed with no defined dates or even just the year. When the moratorium is out I'm only going to be publishing the years that are 95% complete or better. that would rule out pre-star league, the jihad years between '67 & '80 (excluding '75 and '79) and '36 to '44.