Say I zoom in on Mandalore, and I see a little map marker that says 'Second Excision - 864 ABY' and a link
here. Or the One Sith hitting Coruscant, or Roche, or the huge dogpile fleet battle at Polis Massa for Dark Harvest, or if someone did an aftermath lore sub summarizing an Annihilation. Just the big localized stuff.
I get the vibe but I'd prefer a wiki system for this instead of forcing the map to assume it's duties.
The Map Game provides way more than enough content to fill up this new map again without content explosion. Like, for example, we're already planning a massive expansion (and slowly already implementing parts of it):
1. 20-50 more challenge hexes.
2. I've asked for 1000+ canon planets to be added from the SWEU Essential Atlas.
3. More Wondrous Ruins competitions.
4. New unannounced features I'm still working out exactly how to implement with our leaflet js code.
If anything, maybe we could support just... a separate map? Like, one without influence clouds, and just has events? Actually, as I type it that sounds kinda workable and cool and probably pretty easy.
But regardless of any new ideas, we need the weather this storm first. We've whipped up the Chaos beast and its getting a bit unruly as it gnaws its new treat, we need to weather this and get back to a more peaceful atmosphere for me and the Staff Team before I decide to whip up another frenzy.
If anything that's why you, the community, need to check each other and wreck each other before it gets to us.
Because it does get to us. These stupid people who let their emotions @#$% up their logic and act stupid in DMs and now I'm throwing up the barriers and banning people, they take the wind out of us, they end up limiting our ability to engage with your creativity and the positivity of the community.
I could have a new influenceless map up tomorrow with lore events and a Update Thread for lore entries by tomorrow if it wasn't for all these stupid situations where overexcited members are diving in my DMs and having stupid conversations about stupid planets they stupidly think they're owed for their stupid influence clouds because they don't want a stupid other faction to stupidly have because the writers in X stupid faction don't get along with the writers of Y stupid faction. The sheer pettiness, stupidty of it is distracting and stifling creativity at the worst. Our creativity. The Admin's.
The volunteers who make the cogs spin.
Get them, community.
Witch hunt these stupid people please I'm so tired of them stifling the smart people's energy and creativity. Toss them the fuck out already what are you waiting for.
/rant
cool idea, a separate lore map from the main map would be better and could be doable, and easiestly done by Staff.
