Everyone, I made a map. The little rocky islands are too small to see on the map, and their positions and quantity are undetermined anyway.

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We have a lot of people in this RP, and I suspect almost all of them will be building something on Galbar in the next few Turns. Continents in particular are quite important, as they shape where we put everything else.

As such, I kindly request this of everyone: If you make something on Galbar that's large enough or important enough to go on a global map, download the image, scrawl what you had just made onto the map using MS Paint or something, then post the map back onto the forum or Discord (or both. Inside the Summary is a natural place to put it). Then, when the next player makes something else on Galbar, they can download the updated map and draw their stuff on that. I (or someone else who asks for the Paint-Dot-Net files) will make a tidier version on an irregular basis.

The motivation for this is to reduce confusion and be clear where you have put your continents and stuff. If you rely on words alone to describe the position and shape of landmasses and major locations, then we'll get 27 different interpretations of where your thing is and what it looks like. And with 27 people trying to cram all their stuff onto a globe, these differences in interpretation can get problematic. I remember in Mk 2, with a central map-maker with only written descriptions to go off, every new version of the map would need substantial modification to get the features right. If, however, you draw it down yourself, then it is perfectly clear for all to see. For small features and if editing the map is impractical, you can also use the longitude and latitude to specify the feature's location with decent precision.

This is not mandatory. I merely ask that you do it as a courtesy to your other players.

This scheme is also experimental; I've got no idea if it will work well or if it will fall apart in shambles (although it will obviously work better if people use it). But I figured that it is worth a try.