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  1. Would it be possible for the Viking age to continue until the 19th century?

    That's not really relevant to the OP. The span of time between the 793 and 1066 is widely referred to as the Viking Age, beginning with the raid on Lindisfarne and ending with the defeat of Harald King Hardrada of Norway at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This is regardless of what the word...

  2. Would it be possible for the Viking age to continue until the 19th century?

    I've often pondered such a scenario. One convoluted and vague timeline would involve a pre-Viking Age POD wherein Christianity fails to fully take hold in Anglo-Saxon England. The idea is that if we assume the Norse desire for wealth and living space was the result of pressures that will exist...

  3. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    No it doesn't. On a brand new PDN file you have to turn of aliasing and reduce one of those other stupid settings before it does anything remotely useful. Otherwise the colour fill bleeds into surrounding pixels. It isn't close. It's basically a poor man's PhotoShop. No, it's like someone...

  4. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    Imagine drawing two slightly different maps on two clear sheets of plastic. Put one on top of the other. That's layering. Some people might use it to draw new basemaps by hand for example; i.e. the bottom layer is a reference image of a continent, the top layer is where you draw the outline...

  5. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    No, my concept is that a paintbucket tool should replace one colour with another without having to change settings. You should only have to change settings on such a tool to get to do something other than that. Considering that is what a paintbucket tool on an image editor is for. In any case...

  6. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    The most basic function should be the default. Not a hard concept to grasp. That's a lot of fucking around for something MS Paint can do with one click. Like, what the heck do "intersect" and "flood mode" even mean here? It's so needlessly complicated.

  7. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    It's still doing it. It's something going wrong between copying from here and pasting to there. When I save the map as a .PNG and open it with MS Paint the problem isn't there. I don't know why pasting a .PNG into a blank MS Paint file is causing the programme to slightly alter a few pixels here...

  8. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    It reminds me of when they released Paint 3D and suggested it would replace MS Paint wholesale. The outcry was big enough that they didn't get rid of MS Paint in the end. I can understand their desire to add a layering option to MS Paint, that's just a natural extension of any art-related...

  9. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    Exactly, I just don't understand why it isn't working for me. I'm doing nothing differently to how I usually use it. It's so weird.

  10. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    Another area where MS Paint proves to be superior is that I can open multiple MS Paint windows and copy-paste segments from one to another. Can't open a new window on PDN, or at least not in the simple way you can on MS Paint. So what am I supposed to do if I want to easily switch between a...

  11. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    That's my whole point. Why do I need to do any of that? Why does it not just perform its most basic function right off the bat? I don't want to mess with layers. They're unnecessary for the basic things I'm trying to accomplish. I also already had tolerance set to 0% but it still bled over...

  12. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    Like what? I mean, look at this: The paitbucket fill tool doesn't even work correctly. It creates weird colour artefacts like a JPeg. MS Paint just fills the space occupied by a single colour and nothing else. It's simple. That's all you need that tool for. Whatever the heck else PDN is...

  13. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    I've been here since 2009. I've used basemaps that would make your eyeballs bleed. I was here when the very first UCS was being developed and Cuba was so bent out of shape it was almost just a black blob in the Caribbean. MS Paint is easily the best choice when it works (which it has done...

  14. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    No, this is a direct copy-paste from the first page of this thread into MS Paint. And paint-bucketing the background colour is how I ended up with the picture I shared. :coldsweat: For example with France the base colour is 51/51/255, but for some reason MS Paint has randomly decided these few...

  15. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    I don't want layers or aliased pixels or whatever. I'm not a graphic artist, I just like making simple maps as a form of meditation and creative outlet. I use MS Paint because every other program is over designed and not even slightly user friendly (like Gimp or Paint.net).

  16. The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    I'm so confused. I've been messing with maps lately, never finishing anything but starting a buch, and I most often start with the 1914 basemap (easiest borders to adjust IMO). Even earlier today I started a map on that basemap, and everything was going fine. Tonight though, I'm getting this...

  17. Without the Italo-Turkish War, does WWI still happen?

    I've been watching some videos by a YouTuber called "Possible History". Unlike many AH YouTubers, he does at least a surface level amount of research into the topics he covers, to the point where I often wonder if he's a member of this site. One of his videos from around a year ago was "What...

  18. What if the German Empire had no colonies -> Better performance in WWI?

    I don't see what difference it makes. Aside from some troops still adventuring in Mozambique, the German colonies only lasted untl 1916 and were a minor distraction to the Entente. I mean, this also frees up a small number of Entente colonial troops. If it has any effect at all, it might be...

  19. Map Thread XXII

    The thing is, it's like I said, if someone can't be bothered researching every corner of the globe, then fine, but at the very least just leave NZ independent from Australia. Unless you radically change attitudes in the early to mid 19th Century there's not a chance in hell NZ and Aus will...

  20. Map Thread XXII

    My initial comment is based on years of seeing the same "Australasia" trope even in serious alternate histories. The problem is that nobody bothers to look into why Australia and NZ aren't together in real life. There were good reasons for continued separation in OTL, and IMO the threat of...
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