A new world to discover! THE MAP!!

I worked on a project about 15 years a go with a good friend of mine. We talked about the idea of a resource management game that had Senator characters whom affected the resource availability. We ultimately decided against the rulers, and focused on the different types of resources but I never forgot about my concept of rulers in a game. And what better targets for my assassins!
I didn't want to over complicate Siege of Verdan with different types of resources, but still wanted to mitigate growth with some kind of economic management system. I thought long and hard about what I had learned from my past in gaming. Risk (old version) derived its resources (troops) form area control and so did MTG. That was fine, I would have a board and divide each possible country up by states(I used “states” because by definition, that can stand to for both a nation and a territory, and when the player starts the game he has only one “place” on the board. It’s his starting nation). I thought about this for a moment, in the two games I mentioned above, each territory or piece of land only accounted for 1 resource. I really wanted more strategy involved in the area control aspect. I made the decision to have different states to have slightly different resource revenue. I figured thematically it would make sense that some areas of a country would be able to yield more resources then another. The Fertile Crescent offered better agriculture, China’s rich iron ore mines, Africa’s diamond mines each corner of the world has its own hot commodity. I Also figured if I made the differences subtle enough I would be able to add a nice extra layer of strategy for the serious gamer, while still making the barrier of entry not to bad for the novice and casual gamer. Some state have lots of resources, some only have a few. Now, I have the general idea for the board layout I would need to start sketching out the physical map. I wanted it big and vast with lots of states and…and Ports, I want islands, and…oh crap.Facebook page