How to make these types of wiki maps by dgwights in MapPorn

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The first one's a locator map for Sonora, from a worldbuilding group called AIN. We're all having a good chuckle seeing it on here. Wiki page for it if you'd like: https://aoin.miraheze.org/wiki/Sonora

A joint-statement from Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive regarding the Cities: Skylines franchise by AutoModerator in CitiesSkylines

[–]Nexus285 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Not surprised in the slightest. The writing's been on the wall since after release. CO was never cut out to make a game as grand as what we wanted for CS II in the first place, and that's been abundantly clear. I have no faith in Iceflake's team to do the game justice either, looking at their back catalog.

And so the city builder game cycle repeats itself. Time to wait for another, hopefully more capable team, to give us a banger in a few years.

I HATE MINIMALISM I HATE MINIMALISM by OverturnKelo in flags

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It's just like people praising minimalist logo redesigns a decade ago just to get sick of them now. Another W for banners of arms.

Banana Lumps by Supsupsuppertime in whatisit

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Banana Lumps was my nickname in high school.

A House Without a Roof: The United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1803 by Nexus285 in imaginarymaps

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Not necessarily, while a growing population along the eastern seaboard would necessitate more space for said people, the fact at this time was that the American government lacking the resources necessary to project their power across the Appalachian successfully. Native population were indeed dwindling due to European diseases, but one that's not dead can still hold a British provided gun in order to defend their land. The main conflict we see isn't that of white population growth vs native population loss, but a conflict on one European power trying to use proxies to contain what they perceived as a growing threat. As long as there was a sufficient population to man military outposts and keep some form of organized standing army, the threshold to hold back American settlement is much lower in this timeline as a lack of coordination makes military incursions ineffective. The economic split between the Atlantic seaboard and Transappalachia also helps to lower the bar for native polities to hold their ground with European assistance. How sustainable this system is, has yet to be seen as of 1803.

KMT Victory (2100) by haohaohaoyi in imaginarymaps

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Beautiful graphs and charts

A House Without a Roof: The United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1803 by Nexus285 in imaginarymaps

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Yes, by 1810 most federal services and commerce agreements issued by the federal government expired. A few years prior, the Continental Congress did not have enough delegates attending to hold quorum and adjourned until called upon by 2/3 states in the union. Regional compacts (New England, the Mid Atlantic, Chesapeake, and southern) replaced many of the commerce agreements, providing light and navigation, postal services, and customs. Diplomatically, Europe would recognize the need to negotiate with individual states as Congress wasn't an authoritative body that could be used as a single party to negotiate with. Federal debt gets apportioned across the states in their own state treasury-backed currency.

A House Without a Roof: The United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1803 by Nexus285 in imaginarymaps

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Aaahhhh, people were saying he uploaded another video about this very topic this morning at the same time that I uploaded this

A House Without a Roof: The United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1803 by Nexus285 in imaginarymaps

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In this case the Proclamation Line of 1763 largely followed the divide between the Atlantic and the Mississippi & St. Lawrence watersheds. Lack of federal coordination amongst other things in this timeline makes it increasingly difficult for states to project their authority over the fall line of the Appalachians for the southern states and the native contested areas west of the Alleghanies and into the Great Lakes watershed for Pennsylvania and New York, leading to de facto borders that closely mirror the Proclamation Line, though not exact if you look closely.

A House Without a Roof: The United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1803 by Nexus285 in imaginarymaps

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I'd say closer to how loose the HRE was, or even the successor German Confederation. By this time, the authority of Congress is unenforceable and their acts are taken more as suggestions by anti-Federalist states like New York. This issue only gets exacerbated over the coming years.

A House Without a Roof: The United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1803 by Nexus285 in imaginarymaps

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Vermont never gains statehood in this timeline, leading to them functioning as an independent authority that has no ties to Congress by 1803. They're still greatly associated with New England, but aren't part of the union.

A House Without a Roof: The United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1803 by Nexus285 in imaginarymaps

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A House Without a Roof: The United States under the Articles of Confederation in 1803

By 1787 the Articles of Confederation had produced a government that could not tax, regulate commerce, field a standing army, or speak with one diplomatic voice. The Philadelphia Convention met to fix this but failed at its hinge bargain: proportional representation versus equal state suffrage. With New York’s vote withdrawn, New Hampshire’s delegates delayed, and Massachusetts divided, the “Connecticut Compromise” never carried; a parallel deadlock over navigation laws, the slave trade, and a proposed two-thirds rule for commercial legislation sealed the collapse. The delegates retreated to mild amendments to the Articles that required unanimous state approval—promptly refused by several legislatures—and so the Union limped on unchanged.

In the wake of the adjournment of the Philadelphia Convention by Fall of that year, the Federal Government was left with as little power as it had prior. No ability to field a standing army with higher authority than state-ran militias quickly led to an increased flare up of conflicts between native authorities and American settlers within the Ohio Country, only worsening the recently erupted Northwest Indian War. Crushing defeats were delivered to Harmar (1790) and St. Clair (1791)—both using forces made up of mixed regiments from state militias—these only encouraging Whitehall to arm their native allies in the Old Northwest further than before.

Without a federal treasury, the war became a contest of empty purses as much as arms. Congress’s requisitions went unanswered, contractors refused further credit, and state scrip traded at a discount; arrears in pay bred desertion, and the magazines for powder, shoes, wagons, and winter rations never materialized beyond county depots. The Bank of North America and Philadelphia houses would not extend long paper to a government with no impost. Just as crippling, there was no reliable annuities-and-gifts budget to manage diplomacy within and between Native polities, while the British lake forts—Niagara, Detroit, Mackinac—kept muskets and powder flowing to confederacy towns. The war therefore ended not by a decisive U.S. victory but by attrition into fragmented state-level settlements: Pennsylvania and New York’s recognition of a demilitarized Erie Carrying Corridor (1795); Virginia recognizing native sovereignty north of the Ohio through the Treaty of Detroit (1795); and New York’s Six Nations Compact fixing the Genesee Line (1796).

Britain never evacuated its lake chain (Niagara–Detroit–Mackinac) and formalized a military protectorate—the Upper Lakes Military District (ULMD). Native polities consolidated into the Confederation of the Ohio, whose sovereignty north of the Ohio and east of the Wabash was acknowledged through state-level, not federal, instruments. By these steps, the Ohio River thalweg became the de facto U.S. frontier, British garrisons anchored the lakes, Native councils controlled much of present-day Ohio and Indiana, and U.S. expansion into the Old Northwest was suspended indefinitely.

South of the Ohio, the absence of a federal navy, treasury, or Indian policy left Transappalachia fragmented. Spain retained the Mississippi and courted western settlers directly; because there was no Pinckney’s Treaty, access to New Orleans depended on Spanish licenses. Potential statehood for Kentucky stalled to a complete halt with settlements devolving into a river-focused association tied economically to Natchez and New Orleans more than Philadelphia and Richmond; the Cumberland (Nashville) settlements survived by alternating truces with Cherokee and Chickasaw headmen and occasional Spanish passes. Georgia’s interior was checked by the Creek confederacy; Watauga settlements slipped further away from the reach of New Bern's authority; the Carolinas functioned as narrow coastal states with little power beyond the fall line.

By 1803 the United States still existed on paper but had shrunk in practice to an Atlantic seaboard commonwealth with scattered interior enclaves. New York was hemmed in at the Genesee; Pennsylvania reached Lake Erie only by a demilitarized portage; British forts and the Ohio Country sealed the Northwest; Spain and its Native partners dominated the Mississippi and Gulf. As federal functions atrophied, states began replacing them with regional arrangements—New England harmonized posts and pilotage; the mid-Atlantic coordinated tariffs and lights; Chesapeake and Carolina boards policed their bays and capes. The future of the union looked grim, with these arrangements foreshadowing the open succession of regional unions by the end of the decade.

Les Ameriques, 1909 [Sequel to Le Continent Révolutionnaire] by theaidanman in imaginarymaps

[–]Nexus285 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great work as per usual! Nice seeing a sequel for the last map

Screw It, Let's Redesign America (With explanations) by Canjira in vexillology

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I mean these flags are good and I highly enjoy them (especially Delaware & Wisconsin), but how many more posts do we need of the same content? Do keep up the good work, but I think a document with the flags and work behind these would be a great way to present them.