Idk about opening up that document to the players, OOCly--because it could be interesting things that you can play around with for plots to happen with and surprise characters with. And when I say plots, I don't necessarily mean like. Lizagon or Flooding plots, more like Finding Out What The Hell Happened To Thusia plot--which I feel some characters have already been working on trying to decipher on their own/figure out one way or another. So keeping it hidden but revealing bit by bit according to character interaction would be more interesting--for me, anyway.
As for the maps, this is just me who's noticed that the games that have worked out the best have been the ones with settings that are defined. Camp Fuck U Die, for example, is a contained area--you can't move outside the barrier, BUT players put so much shit into that small space that maybe the barrier's expanded a few times without them looking. Sabra La Tau had the caves, again, an enclosed space but with minimal character-changes as uh. Caves... herp. The HQ actually fits with this feeling more than the world itself does. With Aather, it's all about being in different realms within one world--which can be travelled, apparently! Since characters Good End and go to other, previous realms and whatnot. So I just feel like having a set area until whenever HQ moves would not be a bad thing?
Again, it doesn't even have to be a MAP per se. Just a general idea of where the boundaries are--be it vagueish or whatnot. Say like "for some reason, Nature has been cleared out up to a waterfall in the East, this is probably due to people who have been Lost/Drafted! Any further than this and you will have to Battle Royale with nasty predators!" is more boundary and thus more to play with than what we have currently...
Though if we move, you can always start fresh with this idea in mind. (The Lost/Drafted people can bitch about having to cover such a distance to get back to HQ unless Yukari's idea for a portal in the second HQ works.)
Re: NATURE
As for the maps, this is just me who's noticed that the games that have worked out the best have been the ones with settings that are defined. Camp Fuck U Die, for example, is a contained area--you can't move outside the barrier, BUT players put so much shit into that small space that maybe the barrier's expanded a few times without them looking. Sabra La Tau had the caves, again, an enclosed space but with minimal character-changes as uh. Caves... herp. The HQ actually fits with this feeling more than the world itself does. With Aather, it's all about being in different realms within one world--which can be travelled, apparently! Since characters Good End and go to other, previous realms and whatnot. So I just feel like having a set area until whenever HQ moves would not be a bad thing?
Again, it doesn't even have to be a MAP per se. Just a general idea of where the boundaries are--be it vagueish or whatnot. Say like "for some reason, Nature has been cleared out up to a waterfall in the East, this is probably due to people who have been Lost/Drafted! Any further than this and you will have to Battle Royale with nasty predators!" is more boundary and thus more to play with than what we have currently...
Though if we move, you can always start fresh with this idea in mind. (The Lost/Drafted people can bitch about having to cover such a distance to get back to HQ unless Yukari's idea for a portal in the second HQ works.)