I just noticed that Three King Street D has two doors onto the same street. This was probably my mistake and I apologize. Perhaps that extra door should be shifted an inch north to allow TKS C access to King Street? Or the boundary between Beaver St. and King St. shifted northeast a touch?

The rule "all streets revert to neutral two after every player's turn" needs to be reworded. At the very least, the apostrophe needs to be moved to the other side of the 's' since this way it refers to a single player. Better yet, find wording that's much less easy to misinterpret. Maybe: "Streets ...

Is it not true that as more features are added to XML and as the taste in maps evolves more toward the complex, that making an "acceptable" map that is eminently playable under ALL possible combinations of options becomes extremely difficult if not nearly impossible? I've offered any number of ...

Sure! Send me those comics so I can copy/steal/borrow/imitate some of the graphics.

Map Name: Wild West
Mapmaker(s): Me and whoever
Number of Territories: TBD
Special Features: TBD
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: As the "mean streets" concept of the NYC 1695 map seems somewhat popular, I was wondering: what other famous sort of historical places had notoriously mean ...

Golden number. Excellent. Quite a bold set of changes to reduce the fort's importance. Just be alert to it becoming irrelevant. Eight may be too many. Testing will hopefully show one way or the other rather quickly.

I'm looking at your game #21275637. A few minor suggestions:
1) "The Fort" is not ...

Eyeballing a bunch of non-fog games it seems that something that's been nagging at me from the beginning has become manifest. The antique base map showed those two little forts north of Wall Street and they look pretty cool. (Other maps show six!) But clearly, based on location and shape, they are ...

I just checked and 300 games have been completed. Just via eyeballing, it seems the average game length is about 10 turns, half longer, half shorter. One game went 61 turns but that was a real oddity. Few went more than 20. Many were 7 or less.

Are y'all happy with that? Fixing the Fort and Yards ...

Gotcha. Maps tab. I see. Here's a try. But the thing is, Ian, I'm not a 'player' and won't have as good a feel for what might appeal to players. So edit away and if any of the Beta testers want to make suggestions, fine by me.

Imagine New York City as the Wild West. In 1695 the streets were so ...

I'm a bit unsure. Ian: would you like me to write a short blurb describing the game? How many words?

On a side note to Beta testers: it seems a lot of you really love fog, but when you play that way no one can follow the game to see if the map is working well or not. Of course the game should be ...

Shannon. I downloaded in Photoshop and simply inverted colors on the entire map. Give it a try, if only for kicks. You'd still have some issues with colors but maybe they'd be easier to fix this way. I think the inverted image is just as easy to read/use but is more visually striking.

Yeah. I understand. Split the difference. Make it look just enough unlike a possibly-protected map to make that a non-issue but clear enough to be playable. Maybe less than 120 terts? That many would place it 240th out of 255 in tert count. The most popular games are smaller; often MUCH smaller ...

I would hope not. If you start from scratch, alter dimensions, use different colors, don't include any elements that could be trademarked, it's hard to believe a map of public facilities (taxpayer financed in part?) could be copyrighted. If subways, why not highways or city streets? Half the CC maps ...

For no apparent reason I suddenly cannot get into the Beta site. I get "Error - That user can not login here" And I'm in the middle of a game.

Excellent.

For instance, here's a radical redesign for your consideration. Is it better than the original? Would gameplay be better?

(Please excuse the quick and dirty map.)

Map Name: The Roman Invasion of Britain 43 AD
Mapmaker(s): Minister X
Number of Territories: 22 (not counting Gaul) or 29 (if you count Gaul) or just 20ish (if sea terts don't count for any bonus)
Special Features: some one-ways
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: see below.

Map Image ...

You're right. Separate bonuses by color. Normal methods of bonus computing won't work. Make some guesses, plurple and I'll alter the map. Make any and all suggestions you think might be useful.

Map Name: Tiles
Mapmaker(s): me
Number of Territories: lots (I haven't counted and it will depend on final configuration
Special Features: none
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: Simple, a bit different.

Map Image:
https://i.ibb.co/85gXQNJ/SCRABBLE-3.jpg

I toyed with my first ...

It's up to you guys to figure this out. I've not played enough games with all the varied rules and combinations to have a feel for what would work or not. But I'll offer another suggestion that would change things completely: forget about the streets being dangerous (re-write the blurb). Make three ...

I don't have any idea if XML could support this or if CCer's would accept the randomness involved, but here's an idea:

Create a map of a continent, real or imagined (probably imagined) that includes a river, a volcano, coasts, a swath of terts designated "tornado alley", and a section of between ...

A suggestion was made that perhaps the streets should be neutral one instead of two. Not a bad idea but consider an alternative: instead of reverting to neutral, a player can own a street but his forces get degraded (reduced) by one or two (or more?) at the end of his turn. If reduced to zero THEN ...

Very nice clean, simple, easy-to-read map. Bravo.

I just noticed that when I look at my JPG of v15 (a few posts above) in Photoshop, it has more contrast and saturation than as I see it above here in my Chrome browser. Of course every CCer will see it differently depending on their screens and software but I find it odd that PS and browser on same ...

1) Click on MAPS / STATISTICS / GAMES PER MONTH

2) Characterize games by "simple" vs. "medium" vs. "complex" meaning with or without complicated rules, obscure victory conditions, lots of explanations on the map, and the like. Admittedly this is a somewhat subjective exercise but I suspect most of ...