Map Games

Map Games are a collaborative althistory game in which a starting map is posted and players take turns making changes to the map and posting alternate history events.

Also, to propose new map game ideas, go here.

Guidelines
Each map game has its own particular set of rules. These are general guidelines for playing all games.

Naming Conventions: When creating a new map game, name the main page of the game "NAME (Map Game)" this will help keep the wiki more organized. Try to give it a name that represents the game, such as the era when it takes place, or the region accompanied by the start date.

Categories: When creating a new map game, make sure to create a new category for it. Either with a generic "Category:Map Game Maps #", or the name of your map game, ex. "Category:NAME Map Game Maps". Add the category to each new map you post.

Archiving: Every 30 years (in-game), an archive page should be created to store the game's progress. This will ensure that when the game gets very long, people don't have to scroll down for an hour, or wait for 100 images to load.

Image Quality: Maintain the bitrate of the base image. Saving images in a lower quality format or at a lower bitrate results in graining and other issues that make it difficult for others to edit the maps. Save as a .PNG as the format tends to maintain the image quality the best. If an image is posted that does not maintain the file quality of the one posted before it, it can be deleted. Also, every image editor has a text tool. Using a paintbrush or pencil tool for labels is ugly and unnecessary.

Talk Page: Read the talk page. Don't just post willy-nilly and wonder why your posts are being deleted and pollute people's personal talk pages. Read the game's talk page, as 99% of the time your questions are answered there.

Duplicate Games: When creating a game, look through the list of defunct games, if one matches what you were planning and didn't advance very far, try reviving that first.

Defunct Games: If a game goes defunct (Hasn't been edited in 7 days), hasn't advanced past 10 turns, and can't be successfully revived, place a " " template on the page.

List of Current Map Games

 * Principia Moderni (Map Game)- Worldwide map game of military, economy, and exploration. Currently the longest-running map game.
 * Axis vs Allies: Reloaded (Map Game) Accepting new players
 * Hot Cold War (Map Game) Accpepting New Players
 * Vive la Revolution! Accepting New Players
 * Subterranean Europe Accepting New Players
 * Allies vs Entente A WWI of Axis vs Allies, Accepting New Players
 * Battle for Earth (Map Game) Accepting new players
 * Triple Entente vs. Central Powers Accepting New Players

Finished Games
Games end once they reach the present year or an earlier predetermined ending. These games have reached that point:
 * Map Game - The first Map Game. It ended because of year limits (up to 1 June 2010 on this wiki). It is also notable for at one point being more active than Talk:1983: Doomsday and having one of its maps used by Wikia to advertise this wiki. Founded by Baconton.
 * Rebirth of the World Map Game-Finally got to 2010.
 * Atlantic Islands (Map Game)- The first map game to be used specifically for a timeline, all of the islands were colonized
 * Axis vs Allies Revised - Reached an agreed endpoint between the last two players.
 * No Nukes (Map Game) - Reached the present year (2012)

Defunct Games
For the most part, games are marked defunct due to inactivity, if you feel like continuing a defunct map game feel free as long as it isn't one of the few that have finished.
 * WWIII (Map Game)- Defunct. Nuked the crap out of the planet.
 * Europe 1100 (Map Game)- inactivity
 * Second Europe 1430 (Map Game)- inactivity
 * Europe 1430 - Longest running map game, defunct due to inactivity.
 * States of America Map Game- Inactivity
 * Massive Impact (Map Game)- Died, inactivity
 * World War I Map Game- The newest map game, created by Fedelede.
 * Imperial Europe Map Game- A map game based on colonization created by Michael Douglas. Dead due to inactivity.
 * The New & Improved map game - Devolved into a quagmire of implausibilty and no one was posting maps anymore, so it was abandoned.
 * The New Map Game - Abandoned, since some thought it was boring.
 * Human Evolution map game-collapsed into nonexistence(this is what should have happened)
 * Colonisation Map Game - Dead after many of the editors grew tired of the implausibility and problems with the game's rules.
 * Human Evolution 2.0 (Map Game): Dead, not edited
 * The Second Crusade? Never heard of it! (Map Game)
 * Map Game 500 A.D.
 * Axis vs Allies (Map Game) - A Map Game on WWII, starts in 1933. Died due to lack of interest.
 * Scramble for Africa (Map Game) - The Colonization of Africa, no edits for almost a month
 * US Civil War Map Game The south wins civil war, no edits for the whole summer
 * States of America 2 - Awesome game of the end of the USA during the Great Depression. 2 months inactive
 * Human Evolution 3.0- Inactvity
 * Cold War! (Map Game) - inactive
 * Five Country War, No Nukes (Map Game) Map game in Europe, between five mainland Europe countries, starts in 1648. Need more players to begin 4/5, starts August 20 2011
 * Peaceful Democracy (Map Game) Map game on an unknown landmass
 * Greater Europe (Map Game) Map game, starting in 1935. Ended by the creator, after he became unactive.
 * Radioactive Tide (Map Game) A world where society advanced much faster, but had a nuclear war, hadsn't been touched since January 5, 2012.
 * Imperial Europe Map Game 2- Second Imperial Europe game created by PitaKang. Revived, but went super implausible and most people left, except one person who just copy-pasted the same thing then left.
 * Fractured America (Map Game) The CSA wins the civil war. Everyone quit because of the biased moderation.
 * Swedish Victory Inactivity
 * The Greater Americas (Map Game) Inactivity

Active Participants

 * Oerwinde - Moderator of all map games
 * Fedelede
 * Ownerzmcown
 * ForsakenPear - Creator of "The Greater Americas" map game
 * Batmanary
 * Zagoria- On almost every day...
 * CrimsonAssassin- Creator of the Massive Impact Game and enthusiastic participant
 * PitaKang- On every day
 * Collie Kaltenbrunner - On almost everyday
 * Detectivekenny
 * LxCaucassus- on almost every day, Slavic enthusiast
 * LurkerLordB- In Principia Moderni & Fractured America
 * Doctor261- creator of "Peaceful Democracy" and "Greater Europe" map games; participant of other map games
 * JoeyB98 - Former player of SOA 3 before its crash, looking for a new map game.
 * RandomWriterGuy
 * Scandinator- On every day, toned down operations for 2012 (final year of high school)
 * SuperGalaxy - Every day.
 * VonGlusenburg - Every day
 * DeanSims - Whenever I get on a computer
 * Imperium Guy - Usually everyday
 * edwardx Every day
 * JonAllenMichael Every day, focusing on Principia Moderni
 * [[Image:IMPERIAL NY-SPQR 1.png|25px]] Syngraféas Enallaktikí̱ Istoría, Dic mihi lingua Anglorum. 20:27, March 14, 2012 (UTC) Everyday

Inactive Participants

 * Baconton - creator of the original Map Game
 * BoredMatt
 * Enter Name
 * Cosman246
 * Michael Douglas - Creator of Imperial Europe Map Game (the original) and Europe 1100.
 * ProfessorMcG
 * Moby Dick - On almost every day
 * Eastward Expansion-creator of several maps on New Map Game
 * Smallpox
 * Destroyanator
 * DaBigUn-enthusiastic player (most of the time) and reader
 * Thant
 * Chicagoan
 * Vegas adict
 * Paaaad
 * Roguejedi - was on almost every day
 * Azecreth - Quit because all the map games got stupid except for Principia Moderni

Banned Participants

 * Anonymous History Guy


 * Vhaul - Sockpuppet of AHG


 * Calthrina950


 * Rebelsoldier
 * Confederatesoldier - Sockpuppet of Rebelsoldier
 * JSimcox - Sockpuppet of Rebelsoldier
 * Arceus The God of Pokemon
 * Frieza Sama - Sockpuppet of ATGP
 * Head Chunin - Sockpuppet of ATGP
 * Eldwolf