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halcyon hawk May 27, 2026, 3:23 AM

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World Map Inverted. Land is ocean and oceans is land. Some minor edits to make all water ways connect by making the north slightly higher on a gradient. The water is basically the continental shelfs. Tectonic plate joints are rivers.

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https://youtu.be/nWNAks7MS-k

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OpenFront.io - World Inverted - Map Making - Early Demo

My attempt at making a frequently requested map. Filler nations for now.

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halcyon hawk May 27, 2026, 12:15 PM

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A better example of the land height after adjusments.

brisk oasis May 28, 2026, 4:04 PM

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Love how europe just gets cut off

halcyon hawk May 28, 2026, 4:05 PM

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You mean the Euro Sea? 😉

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In testing I found splitting the pacific to be less stable. Too much green/land on one side. Settled on this. Pacific centered counterbalanced by the cropped Atlanic and the extended area around India. I could try the other way, but think it would be less stable. Im actually going to get some help determining that.

This layout highlights the unique features instead of your brain just seeing the regular Americas West and Asia East. I also considered water way access in this decision.

halcyon hawk May 28, 2026, 4:35 PM

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Here's a cropped edit that better shows how I'm visualizing balancing the regions. This after some test with bots to map out the normal flow of the maps progression.

Strongest in the Center because the monkey in the middle will often get crushed.
Opposing sides (East and West) need to be about equal in power.
West is longer when attacked by Center. East is wider when attack by Center. Different tactics and access ways.
North will be mostly mountains and act as the great equalizer. Hard to take and killer of kings.
Mediterranean Islands offers access to between West and North like the other areas have.
East has greatest access to North balancing out threat from Center.

honest ravine May 28, 2026, 9:21 PM

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Mediterranean isles will probably almost always result in an island man

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Majority of wins will most likely come from the center. Wins from the sides will happen but the pacific will be a large hotspot

halcyon hawk May 28, 2026, 9:24 PM

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So far I've set about 100 nations. Mostly geographic structure related. Also adding in the names of famous sunken ships and maybe the oceans/seas themselves as filler for blank spots. Im intentionlly doing to many and will leave the extra as secondary nations.

halcyon hawk May 28, 2026, 9:25 PM

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honest ravine Majority of wins will most likely come from the center. Wins from the sides will...

If we end up with a regular world map with Pacific cut we can see if it can be balanced, but I think with the cut Pacific and the Atlantic towards one side will leave it unblanced. But we'll see.

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Here's what a 'normal' world map would look like.

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The map is shifted a little to the left. This changes the land into a Large East and Large West. With the West Middle and East Middle getting crushed IMHO.

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In this 'normal' format the Atlantic landmass is at a disadvantage to the West Pacific thats up against the maps edge. In the Pacific Centered formatted this is inverted with the smaller Atlantic being given the edge advantage.

honest ravine May 28, 2026, 9:47 PM

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Pacific centered is more balanced for teams, normal i feel is better for FFA. Your choice, i like either option

halcyon hawk May 28, 2026, 10:32 PM

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I would prefer overall more balanced with teams. Also the map just looking different.

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I could always change it later. Not that Id want too do all that work lol

halcyon hawk May 29, 2026, 11:58 AM

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Created a list of over 100 sunken ships/wrecks that I'll try to add.

Queen Anne’s Revenge
RMS Titanic
RMS Lusitania
HMHS Britannic
USS Arizona
Endurance
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
SS Thistlegorm
USS Johnston in the Philippine Trench
Doña Paz
Salem Express
Ferry Neptune
Toya Maru
General Slocum
RMS Empress of Ireland
Kiche Maru
Knyaz Suvorov
Hitachi Maru
Castillo de Olite
Xuan Huai
Taiping
Wusung
Estonia
Bukoba
Indigirka
Camorta
HMS Bulwark
Ramdas
Kawachi
Novorossiysk
Grandcamp
Tampomas II
SS Afrique
Petropavlovsk
Baleares
Georges Philippar
Valbanera
Cahaya Bahari
Tarumizu Maru
Príncipe de Asturias
Admiral Nakhimov
Doña Marilyn
KM Bismas Raya 2
Princess Sophia
Namyoung-ho
Principessa Mafalda
Sekirei Maru
Liberté
Sirio
Üsküdar
Angamos
Hatsuse
Yoshino
Takasago
PNS Muhafiz
ARA General Belgrano
Dara
Heraklion
MV Christena
Changgyeong
Sovnarkom
Aquidabã
Waratah
Matsushima
Herald of Free Enterprise
Don Juan
USS Hobson
Southern Cross
Shiun Maru
Scandinavian Star
Christiana Hama
Larchmont
Koombana
Majakovskis Riga
Morro Castle (1930)
Kuru
Princess Victoria
Pamir
Volturno
USS Thresher
TSMS Lakonia
Yongala
Iéna
Sardinia
Kursk
Valencia
Vestris
Orazio
USS Bennington
Almirante Ferrándiz
INS Khukri
HMS Thetis
USS Scorpion (SSN-589)
Hans Hedtoft
SS Emir
Florizel
Seacrest
Yarmouth Castle
Columbia
Topolobampo
Ocean Ranger
Kateri i Radës
HMAS Voyager
TCG Dumlupınar
San Juan 1929
København
USS Frank E. Evans
STV Royston Grange
HMS M1
HMS Cobra
HMS K5
USS Conestoga
Mackinac
Bateau Mouche IV
Jan Heweliusz
TEV Wahine
Minocher Cowasjee
PNS Ghazi
USS Iowa
Andrea Doria
Monroe
Royal Pacific
Titan OceanGate

honest ravine May 31, 2026, 3:52 AM

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Respect for adding more than 62. Thats usually where i cap 😅

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(62 is the max number of nations for Human vs Nations)

halcyon hawk May 31, 2026, 4:31 AM

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Honestly its more so because I have blank spots on the map. I'm over filling and then any nations near each other I will keep one and turn the other into a random location spawn.

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I wont use all of these. Most important is at the top. This is also an exercise like trying to add 2-7 teams on Labyrinth.

halcyon hawk May 31, 2026, 1:06 PM

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honest ravine Majority of wins will most likely come from the center. Wins from the sides will...

Another philophy I've been considering is the idea that there is a healthy 'range' of imbalnce any map can have. I read a post somewhere showing numbers/digits for each map (cant find it now) as too how balanced they were. I can't remember what figures they used. Seperately @nova lotus posted this recently. I hope they can add a third color (maybe yellow) to represent the mid range more clearly.

I see this include the updated Luna map. For Luna FFA looks fair, but teams is way imbalanced. Im totaly willing to beleive thats a product of the map itself; like how the north is small landmasses. However I also have a suspicion that this could be left over player behvior from the original version of the map. Back before I fixed the actual pixel count imbalance. If a dominate clan like UN all dog piles on the bottom/far side the other team will naturally go north.

Still looking over this data.

halcyon hawk May 31, 2026, 1:21 PM

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Maybe teams games can be balanced by adding spawn zones. I recently experimend with 'clustered' teams spawns. I know they only apply to bots, but the spawn time is like a mini-vote game. A cluster of your team (even if just bots) all in one area will attract others to the empty area around them.

Are additional nation bots usually added to teams games when the lobbies are full? No right? Maybe there should be sprinkle of them to direct players. Idk if that would work.

honest ravine May 31, 2026, 5:14 PM

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I dont think nations spawn in team games at all

halcyon hawk May 31, 2026, 6:05 PM

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I thought if the lobby doesnt fill it does, but I never really checked.

halcyon hawk May 31, 2026, 9:03 PM

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Placed nations. A lot of these will be made secondary, but this is me trying to fill the map with the data I have. End goal is ~60 nations with maybe 150+ secondaries.

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All nations named after sunken ships will have their registered national flags at time of sinking. Or as close as I can get.

halcyon hawk May 31, 2026, 9:14 PM

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honest ravine I dont think nations spawn in team games at all

Do you just mean live team games in rotation? Private lobby gets bots. Here is 2 players in a 4 eams game.

honest ravine May 31, 2026, 9:15 PM

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yes, live games

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