User blog:Squirrel719/Originality

Hi, last time i did a blog post i made a thing about how to do improve your mapping. I'd like to expand on the originality of certain things

Unoriginal things
First of all, here are some of the unoriginal things You can still use these ideas, but add twists to them.
 * 1) 2nd soviet union, this is the most annoying and unoriginal
 * 2) 2nd ottoman empire
 * 3) 4th reich
 * 4) 2nd yugoslavia
 * 5) Nuclear apocylypse, it would be nice if the second series was about finding out how civilisation died due to a non-nuclear event.
 * 6) 2nd Austria-Hungary
 * 7) Russia invading ukraine and annexing belarus, maybe Romania, Slovakia & Hungary should help russia and betray EU
 * 8) 2nd Czechoslovakia
 * 9) ISIS becoming huge, I admit i used it myself but you shouldn't really use isis at all, use something like an anarchist group instead
 * 10) Scotland independence, but no NI or welsh or south west independence
 * 11) Catalonia & Basque independence without the french parts of the region, also how about Galicia and Andalusia and Asturia?
 * 12) Kosovo joins albania and serbia joins in
 * 13) After 2nd soviet union, russia splits for a short time before being reunified
 * 14) North Africa being colnised
 * 15) 2nd Byzantium
 * 16) 2nd Roman Empire
 * 17) 2nd Holy Roman Empire
 * 18) Germany split up into tiny states
 * 19) Scandinavian Union
 * 20) EU Dies, in mine EU splits into medditerranean and what's left of the EU

Original Things
Here are some ideas I'd thought of putting into my AFOW series
 * 1) 3+ way civil war between Tsarists, Socialists and Authitarians (and maybe liberalists) in Russia.
 * 2) Russia filling up the Caspian Sea to irragate the desert of kazakhstan and itself
 * 3) Buddhist Caucassus, Bah'aí Iran,
 * 4) 2nd phoenecia (I will do this in my AFOW series anyway)
 * 5) Independent Crimea
 * 6) Romania having Crimea
 * 7) Netherlands expanding and making more land in the North Sea
 * 8) If it's set 500+ or so years in the future, rise/sink the sea level a bit.
 * 9) Hungary & Slovakia unite (As long as CzechoAustria doesn't exist along with it)
 * 10) Giant small countries and tiny big countries (Moldova being twice the size of Romania and Ukraine)

Tips for Futures of the World/Continents other than europe

 * Don't go straight to killing a Congo or a Guinea.
 * Don't always focus on world powers, they may only be world powers for 50 years or so.
 * Don't keep africa poor, it may become rich in your series.
 * Don't always focus on europe if it's a world map
 * Don't always do Russia-USA relations.
 * Don't do west vs east wars, maybe a country will be neither?
 * Splitting Brazil/Spanish America VS Brazil is unoriginal
 * All former colonialists doing colonies, how about letting Poland, Romania or Bulgaria colonise land
 * Flags that make no sense are as annoying as hell.