The Sites 10th Birthday is coming next month! Let's celebrate!

[J.Edward]

I would like to join if it's not too late.

Yes. You can.
I'll quickly add you to the list.
Edit - done

Also, if someone wants to join after we divide up this list, we'll just add some new land or islands for them to map.
So no worries on being included.

[waldronate]

Me, me! I want to help! And I won't do a "picture of an overland map outdoors on a moonless night during a blizzard" sort of thing!

[J.Edward]

Ok. Waldronate is in too. We'll have to make a new land mass or island.
Maybe we'll make a few just in case.

So, anybody want to renumber this list?
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I need someone to take this list of names and put them in a random numbered order.
That will determine who maps what area.
First person to do that has my gratitude

Try to be really random
01> SteffenBrand
02> J.Edward
03> ChickPea
04> Josiah VE
05> GLS
06> snodsy
07> Abu Lafia
08> ravells
09> Ilanthar
10> tainotim
11> Tonnichiwa
12> Falconius
13> - Max -
14> [lesopeso] Tom
15> Lingon
16> Bogie
17> Diamond
18> Savage Orc
19> Robbie
20> Korash
21> DanielHasenbos
22> Chashio
23> Arsheesh
24> Gamerprinter
25> Barek333
26> Azelor
27> waldronate

[Greg]

Not sure if this is what you wanted J.Edward, but took the list assigned them random numbers between 1-27 on excel and this is the new order I got.
1 Gamerprinter
2 Chashio
3 ChickPea
4 Abu Lafia
5 J.Edward
6 Arsheesh
7 GLS
8 Bogie
9 Savage Orc
10 [lesopeso] Tom
11 Falconius
12 snodsy
13 Josiah VE
14 Ilanthar
15 Tonnichiwa
16 DanielHasenbos
17 -Max-
18 Korash
19 Robbie
20 Barek333
21 tainotim
22 waldronate
23 ravells
24 Diamond
25 Azelor
26 Lingon
27 SteffenBrand

[SteffenBrand]

Since humans are really bad at creating randomness, I used random.org to generate it. Added the names in the line as before (at least I tried until I was confused XD). Best wishes, Steffen =)

Edit: Got ninja'd. Go with the ones from GLS. =)

5 SteffenBrand
13 J.Edward
17 ChickPea
25 Josiah VE
14 GLS
16 snodsy
1 Abu Lafia
23 ravells
10 Ilanthar
15 tainotim
24 Tonnichiwa
8 Falconius
20 - Max -
6 [lesopeso] Tom
2 Lingon
4 Bogie
7 Diamond
26 Savage Orc
3 Robbie
9 Korash
27 Barek333
11 Gamerprinter
21 Arsheesh
12 Azelor
18 waldronate
19 Chashio
22 DanielHasenbos

[Greg]

Ah, that's probably more what he wanted Steffen. I'm pleased somebody knows how to do it!

[J.Edward]

Not sure if this is what you wanted J.Edward, but took the list assigned them random numbers between 1-27 on excel and this is the new order I got.
1 Gamerprinter
2 Chashio
3 ChickPea
4 Abu Lafia
5 J.Edward
6 Arsheesh
7 GLS
8 Bogie
9 Savage Orc
10 [lesopeso] Tom
11 Falconius
12 snodsy
13 Josiah VE
14 Ilanthar
15 Tonnichiwa
16 DanielHasenbos
17 -Max-
18 Korash
19 Robbie
20 Barek333
21 tainotim
22 waldronate
23 ravells
24 Diamond
25 Azelor
26 Lingon
27 SteffenBrand

Yep, that's just what I needed
I wanted the assignment of the countries to be as random as possible.
Fair and balanced as I could make it.

So here's the numbered layout right now.
Guild World Map base - numbered countries.jpg
I'm having to add some land masses, so Steffen, you're going to be getting a new land mass
I'll try to get that straightened out today so we can get the challenge post up and running.

Edit - Max got lucky - he got 17. I like 17
I tried to make them all as interesting, varied, yet even sized as I could.

[J.Edward]

I wanted to show all that went into this.
Robbie generated a land mass in FT and uploaded that for us to check out.
I then simplified it with just ridge lines and rivers.
I tried to do the division as squares, but this map shows the problems.
Guild World Map base 01a test2.jpg
We then decided to do the divisions as countries, for a few reasons that Robbie pointed out.
I'll get a bit more into that but I just wanted to explain why the shift to countries rather than squares.

Here's Robbie's original map.
GuildWorldOriginal [L].jpg
[that's the 81,847th attachment ]
Look out later tonight or tomorrow for the challenge post.

[Josiah VE]

Yaaaaay!! This is going to be awesome!

Those two attachments don't work..

[J.Edward]

I just fixed them. They were too big.