No, you're OK, @Ralf . Just hope you feel better soon. I am up all night watching the Conservatives being utterly smashed by Starmergeddon (I hope - I'm a leftie from way back). At least you can practice doing one city a day, and showing your results - should iron out plenty of glitches. BTW, that's your homework - you will be marked by the tyrannical headmaster, Quentus Iohannes Ambulator! LOL

Hope the annual works out well when it is released in about 3 weeks. I am getting a bit nervous.

I'm complimented, but Ricko has far surpassed me in his wonderful maps.

The problem nearly certainly is far too many nodes in the big continent. Either reduce the nodes, or accept that your main continent landmass will be in 2 halves - it will still look the same as if it were one. I had the same trouble with my Myirandios world many years ago.

BTW, the best command to use to reduce nodes without totally destroying the look of your coastline is SIMPLIFY.

First I had to cut the two areas to delete the lines joining them - which was a bit tricky. Then, I have used SIMPLIFY, with unit of 1, successfully combined the two, then fractalized with depth 40, number of times 1. The main mass is in red.

I suggest you use Glow, outside, colour 66 with appropriate blur size, and strength as 100 to give the coastline effect, rather than a separate coastline sheet. This cuts out the problem of nodes too close together.

I hope this helps.

Political boundaries of southern Hardin

@Royal Scribe Well, you can now send your outpost fcw with any notes about it to Monsen for inclusion into the lib

I actually prefer shadows on the trees, not elsewhere though

Not too large visually. A great job.

Blur is the worst.