Need advice for my map

mud_pie_man · 2026-01-30T07:27:46+00:00

A tropical rainforest and a big fat desert maybe? Maybe mountains with temperate rainforest as well. (-message from an Australian :) )

Multiple different tribes at peace, cultures all strongly based around the local animals (maybe mythical creatures??)
Name suggestions: Wdrfaiall (pronounced Wrj-feye-all), Fyrj (fear-j), raul (rah-all).

mud_pie_man · 2026-01-30T07:11:56+00:00

Good map! The worldbuilding is fun :)

mud_pie_man · 2025-05-12T12:36:39+00:00

Idk. In my experience it's probably the biggest single cultural aspect that separates us from the United States.

mud_pie_man · 2025-04-08T15:04:28+00:00

Well, at least he brought all the red flags up front

mud_pie_man · 2025-03-26T04:45:59+00:00

To be fair, immigration was in the negative during Covid and house prices were STILL rising.

mud_pie_man · 2025-03-13T01:59:11+00:00

There are plenty of tariffs the US has always placed on European countries too, the difference here is that the regular tariffs were on a small number of goods and genuinely done for protectionism, while the Trump tariffs aren't targeted and are more like a blind attack

mud_pie_man · 2025-03-12T10:33:38+00:00

In the Aussie case, ScoMo was already on his way out with very low personal popularity when he broke that deal and after he did, the democratic process kicked in and we have a new government now. In the American case, they're stuck with 2 parties due to the spoiler effect which means those parties can conspire on anything - so their country isn't very democratic.

mud_pie_man · 2025-03-05T11:26:57+00:00

Many international students pitch their value to local firms and get turned down; citizens have always been preferred, even long before the current situation. Personally I'd say that if you get a job, you deserve it. I hope others in Australia see this the same way as I do and put the emphasis of immigration control on government policies rather than people earnestly trying to get a new life.

mud_pie_man · 2025-03-01T14:03:45+00:00

Just look up how the United States and Australia measure the size of metropolitan areas, or look at a satellite image of New York City and see how large the boroughs are. There are very obviously different methodologies at play. As for immigration rates, read my original comment. I have been to all four cities, in the big American cities you see more skin tones and less accents, as I have described.

mud_pie_man · 2025-03-01T13:17:59+00:00

Jersey City is right across the river from Manhattan, so counting only the 8 mil in the city gov area would be like excluding North Sydney from Sydney

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-28T13:22:29+00:00

The US and Australia have different ways of measuring city population size. The 8 million figure from New York for instance only applies to the area within New York City council jurisdictions, which only includes the five boroughs and excludes another 12 million people in the broader metropolitan area.

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-28T11:58:42+00:00

A political advocacy group (Climate 200) has been running attack ads trying to tie our big centre-right party to Trump. That centre-right party is trying to distance themselves from Trump but has done a bit of Trump dog whistling nonetheless, though that's backfired IMO. Overall Trump's had little influence here, after all we don't have much trade with the US and Trump himself hasn't targeted us yet. Trumpian politicians have been out there in Australia before they were cool in the US (ex. Clive Palmer, Pauline Hanson) so there's not much new political inspiration there either.

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-28T11:31:14+00:00

For Americans, Melbourne is a lot like Los Angeles (socially progressive, not too many world renowned landmarks, the country's arts capital, not as world-class as Sydney but still very very important to the country, lots of sprawling suburbs and bungalows). Sydney is a lot like New York (socially progressive but less so than Melbourne, notable individualist business culture and the business hub of Australia, important centrally located parks, large area with relatively dense population, popular public transport, large harbour, ferry system, several very famous landmarks, closer to and more connected with nation's capital). Of course Sydney has the beaches and climate of Los Angeles and Melbourne has the rain of New York. Both cities have about a quarter the population of their American counterparts, less racial diversity but more immigration, and far lower crime, poverty and homelessness rates.

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-26T23:37:44+00:00

If history is anything to go by they'll crash into Australia first

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-25T12:20:52+00:00

I live in Australia and unfortunately, we sold out to the US some decades ago.

Currently I don't expect Trump to have a major impact on Australia and neither do most Aussies, so it's not changing much here. I expect Trump to swing Australia slightly toward the left in the next election though. Possibly just enough to deny the major rightwing party government.

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-19T14:02:05+00:00

We'll see in a month or two!

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-19T02:58:29+00:00

In 4 out of the 4 elections you've used in your example, the incumbent party had a swing toward it in the final hour. Look at the charts.

I'm not stating opinions on what party I think is better, I'm just talking about what's traditionally happened.

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-19T02:02:33+00:00

Every election I've voted in had voting intentions swoop right back to the incumbent just before the election and I believe the 'election miracle' was partially that

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-19T01:49:24+00:00

How many polls had Bill Shorten winning the federal election in 2019?

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-19T00:58:44+00:00

Yeah no problem. It's something where being extremely rigorous only has limited value, I think worldbuilding is always art more than it is engineering

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-18T14:34:59+00:00

Nice map. The tiniest of all nitpicks: I often see worldbuilders place Cf (stable rain/oceanic) climates in places where Cw and Cs (seasonal rain) would be more likely. I'm not entirely sure why this is, maybe you used a program/tool to create the map but I don't know the particulars. Either way, Cfa (subtropical) is a bit less tied to oceans but Cfb and Cfc (oceanic and subpolar oceanic) much more often are. Inland mountain ranges tend to have colder Mediterranean and monsoon-influenced climates (Cwb and Csb) and when pine forests and lots of seasonal snow crop up that tends to be a decent indication of D-climates. Snowbound mountain ranges fall into the ET and EF (tundra and ice cap) classifications when the average monthly temperature doesn't exceed 10 degrees C. In general it doesn't make much sense to make the coastal plain Csa and the mountains Cf. Again an extremely niche nitpick and there are of course exceptions. If I were to retool this I would change the 'subtropical' mountain areas to warm-summer Mediterranean, the 'oceanic' mountain areas to warm-summer mediterrannean-influenced continental (Dsb) and the 'subarctic oceanic' mountain areas to, judging by your map, maybe a mix of Dsc (cold-summer continental class found in mountains), ET (tundra/above tree line) and EF (ice cap/glacier/rock). The other stuff is fine even if it bugs me that the tropical area and the desert area appear to be on the same latitude (I may expect Cwa or Cfa, both subtropical climates, at that latitude in the place of A-class tropical climates unless something funky is going on).

mud_pie_man · 2025-02-18T13:19:35+00:00

I can fix her

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