[Archive] World-Map Changelog/Lore Announcements

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World-Map changelog and Lore Announcements

This thread is to keep you updated on any changes being made to the world-map and new additions/updates to the Lore of WillardNetworks.
This thread also keeps track of all changes made to the world-map so you can see what was added and when. Also remember to refresh the map when new additions are placed in. A list of contributors will also be shown below.

Reminder: Changes or additions that involve in any way a specific faction (Civil Protection, OTA, CAB, etc) must be cleared with the respective faction's leaders before acceptance.

Contributors to the World-Map:
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Robert
Flanders
Atle
Sectus
Aspect12
Numbers23541
"shit"
Rusty
lucid
Kawakun
AbeBatJes
FieldersNL
Chez
TheDeNuke
Equinox
Pawlu
RedHotGinger
Monks
Dog
ERDL
FungletheBungle
Pineapple
@lemon
@Merlinsclaw
@Aidan
@mottle
@lemon
@MegamanNick
@RogueSynapse
@MelonHeadzzz
@CaptainSneed​

 

[Robert]

Update:

• Added Blacksite-3
• Added Blacksite-7
• Added Abandoned Communications Array
  • Zombie and Antlion presence
  • No Combine presence
  • Radiation Zone added around it
• Liberation Front Outpost
• Liberation Front HeadQuarters
  • Supply depot added
  • Docks added
  • contested zone added
  • Hydra Added
  • Necrotics and Arctic Antlions added

 

[Robert]

Update:

• Added Automated Defenses
• Early Warning System
• Unknown Signal Of Interference
• Large arctic Antlion Nest in Greenland
• Supply depot
• Airwatch Facility
• LEGION ECHO
• LEGION STALKER
• Hopper Minefield
• Large Combine Wall
• Union Stronghold 'YAMATO'
• City Thirty Six - Berlin, Germany
• Added Foreign Pathogen Control Facility.
• Black Mesa East
• Lambda Outpost
• Unknown Building
• Radiation Zone

 

[Sectus]

Update:

CopComm and Admin are working on creating a larger list of cities and sectors to assemble for a broader map of the Earth and Combine control. The new cities that have been added but are not map locations so far are as follows:

City 5: Maraba, Brazil
City 6: Los Angeles, USA
City 9: Dublin, Ireland
City 10: Mexico City, Mexico
City 11: Calgary, Canada
City 14: Warsaw, Poland
City 15: Baghdad, Iraq
City 20: Bengaluru, India
City 25: Pyongyang, North Korea
City 33: Taipei, Taiwan
City 34: Seol, South Korea
City 39: Melbourne, Australia
City 40: Cairo, Egypt
City 42: Anchorage, USA
City 45: Keraniganj, India

This list is subject to expansion, and the numbers/locations are subject to change as well. For now, keep these in mind if considering adding new cities. Please do not change their number designation if adding them to the map.

 

[Robert]

Updates:

• Added Ravenholm
  • Added Necrotics
  • Added influence
• Radiation zone around City Forty-Five extended
  • Added description of what type of gear is required to traverse
  • Added ruined Nexus into City Forty-Five
• POI's added:
  • Old Military Junkyard
  • Wrecked battleship
    • Salvagable
• City Fifty-One added - China, Beijing
  • Industrial Zone added

 

[Flanders]

Union Stronghold 'YAMATO' (Waiting on Flanders approval)

- approved

 

[Sectus]

Updates:

• Strange smoking remains
• Contested region and headquarters outside C13
• Aperture Science
• Various cities that are WIP

 

[Robert]

Update:

• All icons on the world map have been modified
  • All cities use the same icon
  • Nexus's use the same icon (just like before really)
  • Threats are marked with a !
  • POI's with ?
  • Outposts, bases, etc now use the same icon
    • Combine use black and orange clamp, resistance with the brown and yellow lambda icon and finally uncontrolled uses a target icon
  • Combine forces marked with an OTA symbol, CPs and Cons marked with a nice looking Union Clamp logo
  • Important factions still have their own
• Added City 30, Washington DC

 

[Imperator RAD-X]

Update:

• Added City Fifty Five and its zones of influence in the United Arab Emirates.
• Added a Middle-Eastern stronghold titled "KIITH SOMTAAW".
• Added industrial region and our first strategic resource area.
• Added a larger variation of the hopper minefield across many kilometers of desert.
• Multiple small population centres in the UAE.
• Detainee Site 072 added into Siberia.
• Added the "Oman Bears" resistance group - mostly scavengers and potential fighters.

 

[Robert]

Update:

• Most icons have been restored back to normal for increasing the visual aesthetic of the map.
  • Most of us felt it killed the originality with making it simplified and baseline.
• Added ECHELON

 

[Robert]

Notification:
In Lore submissions, you can now submit faction lore for those factions on the map and the ones you create. You can even create more detailed lore for Union bases/strongholds and have them submitted in for review by the Content Creation Team. Character lore for faction leaders and so on can also be submitted now. So go ahead and make your submissions if you have any you wish to add.

It is basically a section where you can post a lot of detail into that which you make considering the map text space is limited and readable is not the best for long sections of text, forums is a much better place for it. Go crazy if you will.

Update:

• Added UVB-76 on the map
• Added KILO DETACHMENT on the map (Still waiting on RAD for comment)

 

[Sectus]

Update:

• Added OCIN data centers and relay towers around the globe. Information on these locations and their purpose can be read here.

 

[Imperator RAD-X]

• Added City Fourteen and its descriptions in Warsaw, Poland.
• Added "The Farmers" resistance group and its Vortigaunt entourage.
• Added City Sixty Two and its descriptions in Turku, Finland.
• Added the "Four Lions" resistance network.
• Mariana Harvester added in the Pacific.
• Other small additions that can be found.

 

[Robert]

Update:

• Added City Forty One
  • This came with a High-Security Prison - 'Ourea Zone'
  • Depot added called 'La Gomera'
• Resistance hideout 'The Seals of El Hierro'

 

[Sectus]

Update:

A general sector map has been added for Earth. Note that the official sector and city list thread has been removed and its contents transferred to a new thread for the sector map.

Note as well that city numbers have been added so that there are at least 4 cities in each region, with smaller regions having only two, and none having three. Please bear this in mind when creating new cities for a certain region: the city number will not change when you write lore for a new city. Use the pre-determined city numbers when making a new city using one of the 'N/A' slots available.

 

[Imperator RAD-X]

Added:

• City Forty Nine - South Africa, Pretoria.
• Added "Afrikaanse Bevrydingsbeweging" resistance group.

Modified:

• MARIANA HARVESTOR
• UVB-76 (description repair is very much needed by the author).

 

[Imperator RAD-X]

Added:

• Chernobyl and its various markers for the plant and exclusion zone.
• New union task force in the area - Inoculation units.
• Antlions in the area.

 

[Imperator RAD-X]

Added:

• City Twenty Five - North Korea, Pyongyang and affiliated regions. (More to come).
• United Korean Front resistance group, stationed around the DMZ.

Modified:

• Cities now appear first on the map as per their Green, Orange, Red and Purple icons.
• Combine affiliated markers now appear second just before cities.
• Resistance comes third after all Union related markers.

Map's now much more organised and visually appealing this way. Points of interest and other miscellaneous additions and threats can be seen by properly zooming into the map towards their destinations.

 

[Robert]

Added:

• Installation 22 and its influence border

 

[Imperator RAD-X]

Added:

• Arbeit Communications added into Antarctica at Sentinel Range.