Huh. More of a response than I anticipated. Well then!
Hooooooly cow this is amazing!
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Just looked through this, you've done a stellar (pun not intended..too much) amount of work here, this is seriously brilliant!
Like many artists I can only see the flaws in the finished piece. There's things I could've done differently but didn't for the purposes of expediency, and there's things I wanted to do but BattleTech as a game just didn't have the necessary supporting data. Like, the game doesn't really
do much in the way of middle-ground detail between the big strategic map with the interstellar borders and the tactical maps where the Mechs slug it out, you know? I'd have loved to added
way more detail to the world lists, like the Universal World Profile in Traveller, but that data doesn't exist for 95% or more of the Inner Sphere, and there's no consistency in terminology for the remaining < 5%. Ah well.
That... is excessive. How, do we use? Are those Hexes a specific size, so that some how, that map could be used for travel purposes? Or, as I suspect would be the primary use, to be used as a printed game aid, for roll play purposes? Like on the back of a contract or mission orders? ^-^
The hexes are all five light years across (vertex to vertex or center to center) and everything within six hexes of any given point is within jump range. So yeah, you
could use this to plot a course if you wanted to. (There's a little fudge vis a vis the hexmap and the "actual" maps in the books or on Sarna, for the record. But AFAICT nothing that's on the one-jump line on Sarna is outside the 7-ring on any system. It's in fudging distance, is what I'm saying.)
As for using it as a RP aid, that's perfectly cromulent.
Just one question - could you do a version which can be printed booklet-style, with cover etc for "little black book" printing?
Cheers,
W.
It should already be, I think. The pages are all 8.5x11, and the margins are a little thin but it ought to be printable on any normal home printer. Not booklet size, but honestly that's about as small as I dare go and have the map text be legible.