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Acenoid
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Join Date: Dec 2013
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Old May 24th, 2015, 01:59 AM
I think the RW map tool is not ready for that much contents.

Link and list in RW have everything sorted by sector and quadrants, put smaller pieces of maps and navigation in RW with smart images:

- Whole map (30 pins) containing sectors
- 30 Sector maps that contain either subsectors with 25 sytems each or all systems in it.
- Create on pin at the border to navigate out.

This way you can create your regions and easily navigate (zoom in and out) in your world.

Then you need the player map, which the player can use: Either search for something like this already online or: Download google earth, upload a custom picture in Google earth containing a high resolution map of all your systems, save it under my places. Add one more layer for your planets and naming of the sectors, build everything in there.

Now you have a GM map for your linking and navigation pleasure (and it does not have to look super friendly theoretically a B/W map with dots and description is nice enough. While you could share on 2nd screen or via kmz file from Google earth a nice complete star map.

Obviously it does not work if you would like to present each "secret system" on your interactive map. For such special cases you can use your RW map and add a few more pins were arppropiate (and it is not cluttered for the players, because your RW "GM pins" are still unrevealed - only you need those).

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