The NextGen OTL Worlda Series
- Thread starter hadaril
- Start date
Father... is it over? No 3.0 series rules forever, my son.
Is... is it over? Is it finally complete?
November of 2017, I started on a journey to fully revise this site's worldas. Now, after over 400 hours in photoshop, 4 total revisions to the series, and two years of work, the NextGen series is fully updated.
MARCH 16th, 2019
- ALL MAPS ARE NOW UPDATED TO 4.0
- Added 4.0 versions of:
* 1806
* 1812
* 1815
* 1848
* 1861
- Added the 4.0 Label to:
* 1914
* 1920
* 1932
* 1939
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1950
* 1960
* 1980
* 2000
* 2017
- Added 1970
"Father... is it over?"
"No 3.0 series rules forever, my son"
November of 2017, I started on a journey to fully revise this site's worldas. Now, after over 400 hours in photoshop, 4 total revisions to the series, and two years of work, the NextGen series is fully updated.
MARCH 16th, 2019
- ALL MAPS ARE NOW UPDATED TO 4.0
- Added 4.0 versions of:
* 1806
* 1812
* 1815
* 1848
* 1861
- Added the 4.0 Label to:
* 1914
* 1920
* 1932
* 1939
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1950
* 1960
* 1980
* 2000
* 2017
- Added 1970
"Father... is it over?"
"No 3.0 series rules forever, my son"
Guys I may or may not have gone back in time and removed norway from existence
So, what next?
So, what comes next?
As I mentioned last post, while the "original" 60 or so maps may be updated to the most accurate iteration yet, there is still room for more work! Why stop at 60 maps? Why stop here! I have plans on filling in more gaps in the series, and here's a list of maps I plan on doing:
Medieval
- 600
- 750
- 1050
- 1150
World War 1
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
Interbellum
- 1936
Cold War Era
- 1950
- 1990
Additionally, I look forward to what ST15RM has cooking with his series of BC maps; this is an era I never felt confident mapping, and I am so, so grateful that he has taken it upon himself to work on them. If there are any years (post 1 AD) that you want me to cover beyond the ones I listed, feel free to share! As always, continued feedback goes miles to improving this series so that they can be useful for the community at large.
Thank you all so, so much for your continued support. It means the world to me. <3
As I mentioned last post, while the "original" 60 or so maps may be updated to the most accurate iteration yet, there is still room for more work! Why stop at 60 maps? Why stop here! I have plans on filling in more gaps in the series, and here's a list of maps I plan on doing:
Medieval
- 600
- 750
- 1050
- 1150
World War 1
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
Interbellum
- 1936
Cold War Era
- 1950
- 1990
Additionally, I look forward to what ST15RM has cooking with his series of BC maps; this is an era I never felt confident mapping, and I am so, so grateful that he has taken it upon himself to work on them. If there are any years (post 1 AD) that you want me to cover beyond the ones I listed, feel free to share! As always, continued feedback goes miles to improving this series so that they can be useful for the community at large.
Thank you all so, so much for your continued support. It means the world to me. <3
Definitely:
- 1845
- 1865
- 1871
- 1923
- 1929
- 1933
- 1936
- 1946
- 1947
- 1949
- 1950-1953 (Korean War)
- 1962
- 1963 (Cuban Missile Crisis!)
- 1968
- 1975
- 1979 (Invasion of Afghanistan)
- 1983
- 1988
- 1989
- 2001
- 2003 (Iraq War) and every year since.
@hadaril Hey, I would be interested in helping with the modern 20th century maps. Is there anyway I can help with that project?
Of that list, here's what I'm considering:
- 1871
- 1923
- 1929
- 1936
- 1947
- 1953
As to why not the others:
A lot of those are very close to other years that I've already done. Example: I won't do 1845 & 1865 because I've already done 1848 and 1861. During the cold war, there were not that many border changes, so I tried to stick with doing one per decade. While a lot of years in the cold war did indeed have significant events transpiring, most of those events won't really be reflected on a map. For example, '63 isn't a great year because while the cuban missile crisis was a major event in the cold war, it doesn't really reflect on a map, and the information covered by it would be more or less covered by the 1960 map. Doing a map for every year since 2003 would essentially be just copying and pasting the 2000 map 16 times with maybe one or two of those having actual changes on them.
Sure! Help is always appreciated if you had some in mind you wanted to do. I've linked the .psd file in the main post which has editable years and labels on it; I think GIMP should be able to open it if you don't have photoshop, but let me know if it can't.
Lemme know if you have any questions as to how I do the maps.
Absolutely gonna do this one.
ST15RM
Banned
I have bolded the ones that I am planning on doing (strikethrough is stuff i have done)