World Map Forms

[robject]

An early JTAS article suggested that alternate world maps could be made by creating smaller maps for smaller worlds and larger maps for larger worlds.

I'll try to explain a different way. The standard world map for Traveller has 20 'triangles' -- you can see an example in the fLibrary under forms (IS Forms 8 and 9) -- with each 'side' of a triangle being 7 hexes in length.

The suggestion was to set this map as being for a size 7 world. Smaller worlds had smaller triangles; i.e. a size 5 world's triangles had a length of 5 hexes, while a size 10 world had 10 hexes on a side.

I'm wondering if anyone has created forms for these variant world maps? I think the idea is excellent. Maybe I can figure out a way to do this programmatically. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[BeRKA]

Well, modifying my QuickHex program to do this should be possible.

In the form You would then have to specify width of map, and also hex size in km, and worldsize in km or traveller world size.

Or, as an alternative, You could specify the width and the number of hexes per triangle side.

But as You know, there are some other things I have to do first...