You can do Symdefs to Sheets from the Symbols menu. That turns all the symbols into sheets in the same drawing, making it easier to edit multiple symbols at once.

It depends on how you wish to do the planning. If you have an idea of how you want your world to look, I would start there. But if you don't, it is better ti start with a regional map, and then gather some ideas as you play.

The advantage of having a world map is that it is easier to be consistent with the information you feed your players, but it can also restrict things a bit as well.

Are you sure you're not a bit premature here? How many nodes do your entities contain? While it is true that too many nodes can be bad, especially for performance, you can still have a significant number of them without worry. Generally, if your most complicated shapes are a few thousands nodes or less, you have nothing to worry about (and it still isn't necessarily a problem if you go over that)

I am mainly asking because, yes, cutting up a fcw is a bit involved with multiple steps, so going through that process needlessly is something you want to avoid.

Basically, the process is very similar to making a local map from a regional map, since you still need to cut up entities even if you're not making a more detailed version

For that map, line widths less than 1 seem to be a bit to small to be visible, especially when zoomed all the way out. Using effects like that is a fine way to make lines more visible, or you could bump the line size a bit. I am guessing that doubling the size of the rivers should be fine.

Sorry to hear you have so much troubles, but hopefully you'll manage to sort it out.

When you say wiped 40% of your map, make sure to check out things like sheets and sheet order. You may end up with something on an unexpected sheet after ungrouping, which means things may just be hiding out under something, like below instead of above your landmass or other terrain.

This is an issue with the old FT3 that is fixed in the newer FT 3.5.

The issue is that FT3 saves its settings in the program directory, which windows only allows if you run the program as administrator (Right click the shortcut -> Run as administrator)

These lines happens because nodes are placed in such a way that you get very sharp angles on wide lines. There are two main things that can be done:

• Use the SIMPLIFY command. This command removes nodes that are too close together, and might fix the problem. One needs to experiment a bit with the simplification distance to find the best value, as this depends on map size. For larger maps, it may be 1 or more, but for smaller maps, it may just be a small fraction. Save your map before experimenting so you can easily go back to a previous version (Undo also works)
• Stop using entities with a separate outline entity, and use effects instead. Since this problem is connected to wide lines, it doesn't affect the landmass itself, only the outline that has been applied. For example, on the Mike Schley overland, this outline is on the COASTLINE sheet. Hide this sheet, and apply an outer glow to the land instead.

It does. It is easy to see where the problem lies though. If it crashes while converting the final file, you'll be left with a fully functional temporary bitmap (the filename.bmp.jpg file) that contains the complete export, and if you looked at the export dialog during export, you'll also see that it is done with all the passes over the sheets.

On the other hand, if it crashes while CC3+ is rendering, the temprary bitmap will be corrupted (probably look like a half-finished export), and you'll also notice that the crash happened at the middle of rendering a sheet if you were looking at the export dialog.

ImageMagick is smart enough to use the disk as a cache if needed though, so even the 32-bit version should normally be able to handle any size output CC3+ is capable of producing.

In that case, I suggest you contact technical support, they'll hopefully sort you out.

You find the support from by logging into your registered user pages and going to the support tab.

Me neither.

I think it is time you send in a tech support request so Ralf can look a bit closer at this, seems to be a weird problem here. You can reference to this thread in the request.