Btw, finished West Siberia, Transoxania and Kazachstan. Only Europe minus Britain, Asia minor and Caucasus remain to be done. Starting on that tonight
Note that territories with names within apostrophes are id-map placeholders only and will be reworked. I might also change other Ural-provinces and the Barentz-Sea region quite a bit as I will have to do some projection magic with Europe and I'm unsure yet how broad Ural will become (for a change I used mercatorian projection but it fits badly with pdox projection ).
Also I intend to make sea-connection between the mouth of the Ob and White Sea and beyond. I'm trying a trick here, as the Yumal peninsula is too big, so the eastermost seazone is divided in two on both sizes of it (ship-icon will appear in the eastern part of it). If it works it will feel a bit 'weird' in the game as you will suddenly fly through the PTI here .
I'm again uncertain about certain PTI-area's. Sayan and Altai mountains I made PTI as Russians did not conquer these before late 19th century and Oirat influence didn't reach beyond these as far as I can tell either. Otoh there was a traderoute somewhere between the Sayan and Altay iirc... For Russia I "could" add connections between Turukhan and Mangazeya, but a change in projection between these makes the distance look bigger than it is irl. And would anyone consider Nova Zemlja a suitable colony?
Note that territories with names within apostrophes are id-map placeholders only and will be reworked. I might also change other Ural-provinces and the Barentz-Sea region quite a bit as I will have to do some projection magic with Europe and I'm unsure yet how broad Ural will become (for a change I used mercatorian projection but it fits badly with pdox projection ).
Also I intend to make sea-connection between the mouth of the Ob and White Sea and beyond. I'm trying a trick here, as the Yumal peninsula is too big, so the eastermost seazone is divided in two on both sizes of it (ship-icon will appear in the eastern part of it). If it works it will feel a bit 'weird' in the game as you will suddenly fly through the PTI here .
I'm again uncertain about certain PTI-area's. Sayan and Altai mountains I made PTI as Russians did not conquer these before late 19th century and Oirat influence didn't reach beyond these as far as I can tell either. Otoh there was a traderoute somewhere between the Sayan and Altay iirc... For Russia I "could" add connections between Turukhan and Mangazeya, but a change in projection between these makes the distance look bigger than it is irl. And would anyone consider Nova Zemlja a suitable colony?