New Map Assets Across the Board

Many of your raised concerns about the maps being generated by AI and their low quality. I have heard those complaints and fast tracked changes.

Originally I went with AI maps to avoid copy-right concerns (an area that can be scary for a solo dev). After seeing the justified disappointment of some of my customers I decided to change that.

The game now uses real map assets created by real people (sources in README file in your game files).

The maps are now much higher quality, but you might still notice some minor "wonkiness". I had to make some manual changes to the maps to allow for the paint mesh layer to properly appear on these updated map assets.

I did not mark my game as early access as I morally am against the concept but I certainly plan on iterative improvements based on your feedback. So please provide feedback to me so I can improve your in game experience.

Roadmap for future:

• 🗺️Map packs for all the new map assets that reflect the modern world (The original British Isles Pack I provided on Discord no longer functions following this update - do not fret, this will be replaced)

• 🌊Water selection resulting in country creation is a known "bug" - (simplest way around this is to simply click cancel on the country creation screen, originally I included this as a feature but some of my player base does not like this and sees it as a bug, I wanted to give the user the freedom to assign ownership of the oceans if they wanted to)

• 🔨Workshop integration to allow for seamless map sharing

• 📈Map pack availability as free Steam DLC

Notes about new update:

• ⚠️Due to the huge increase in resolution quality there is a level of Brush size inflation with 20-40 sizes being the most useful after this update, the bucket tool is your friend

• ⚠️Depending on the quality of your machine there might be a performance drop, although most machines should be fine

• ⚠️Loading one map after another might cause long wait times. Polity Painter is a small app with an instant boot time, if you plan on loading in large maps with tons of content please close your game and reopen it between loads to have the smoothest experience. (You can not do that and it will still work but load time can be long due to the size of these new map assets)

• ⚠️Finally please inform me of any bugs you find or issues that arise and I will try to get them addressed in a timely manner (luxhistoriaus@gmail.com or join our discord https://discord.gg/NsQ3MBvS)

The New Maps Include:

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