I-KP wrote:Colour map is a high compression JPEG that is not 'very zoomable' at all. Although it isn't being displayed at native resolution on that website, I can still barely read a word on it at native res (and any zoom beyond 100% isn't going to reveal more information).
Granted, the black and white map does have a level of zoom that I didn't see. (Pet peeve: I loath any web tool that makes you click several times to see the native image resolution.) It's still a rough looking map that isn't particularly clear in places (in and around Corwell for example). Players who aren't already familiar with the region will find it hard work, as I did back in the day.
As for terrain contours: there are no contours on either map, not that they matter to the typical player.
Clearly a better/updated server map is needed as there are supposedly readily accessible regions on MS that long term players (and DMs!) don't even know exist; Moray Isle for example. (The fact that the AT to Moray is invisible doesn't help much either.)
Bah, looks like that website that formerly hosted that pic as a GIF went and converted it to jpeg, fixing the resolution. I have the fully zoomable GIF we used to build MS, and I can email it to anyone who wants it (except for IKP
) - all place names zoom clearly fairly close. If you need anythign better than this you are wantign RL not ALFA. I tried to flickr it just now and flickr also converts the file to a jpeg, so not much use there.