why not?

i have a huge respect for your work, for being the first to actually design something different than classic gameplay style. it's what inspired me to push and develop new gameplay designs in all my maps.

There's a big difference between coming up with new gameplay ideas and actually ...

Victor Sullivan wrote:You could even set the factions/bases as requirements/losing conditions to spice it up more (losing conditions being that if you don't have at least one base, you are automatically eliminated).

Ooh, that's a very interesting idea.

DiM wrote:it would be nice to see you actually come back and finish those maps yourself.

No no no no no no no no....

Hi. Some of you may remember me. I made some maps here on the site a few years back. But during my time here the foundry process got a lot more involved, and it became too much work and tedium and frustration to develop a map all the way through until it could eventually be approved. So I burned out ...

Aha, thanks. I hadn't noticed it was a Terminator game. (I guess this is the first one of those I've played.)

I'm not sure if this is an actual bug, or if there's just something I'm missing, but game 772733 seems a bit odd to me. The cyan and yellow players have both been kicked out for missing too many turns, but yet their armies are still colored cyan and yellow, and the log still refers to them when ...

Yeah, the map just shows the totals. If you add together your "irradiated territory" and "radiation nexus", it'll come out to what it says on the map. (In your case, that's -2 and +1, making a total of -1.)

This map looks pretty cool, i like the hexagon idea.
I personally dont like the hexagons, Hexagons have no interest for me. If you designed it as an actual island it would be better
I agree with Balsiefen, a real island would be more appealing.

Hmm. Getting rid of the hexagons completely ...

The country names are too big... The names cover parts of the borders and make it hard to see what touches what.

Hmm, alright. I had hoped that the hexagonal structure would make it clear, but I'll try reducing the names a bit.

It is REALLY BORING visually.
It needs more pics/textures/whatever ...

Invasion!



http://grunk.org/risk/invasion4-large.jpg

48 countries. Not that that matters quite so much in this case. A small version is also available .

The entire island (the main portion of the map, taking up the left two thirds of the image) starts out neutral. The ...

I dont see the problem with giving choice to play big maps to the actual players instead of the admins or cartographers.

It's not about whether or not players are given the choice to play on big maps. It is about whether or not players are given the choice to play on small maps. Lack might well ...

Im sure Lack can more than deal with the 'headaches' the come out this forum in return for the often under appreciated work that we do. Instead we get treated like whiny children who have no course for redress. So forgive us for our demands, it surely is, as is all the work we do, in the best ...

I suspect that in many cases, if your map is too awesome to fit within the guidelines, then maybe it might actually be a better map if it were a little less awesome.

I think I'm winning so far, but only if you add all my maps together. Sorry, DiM! But there's still time for you to pull ahead!

FWIW, although I've only played Merchants once, I really enjoyed it. It was quite a refreshing change of pace! (Although I admit that having a different icon for every ...

Fourteen lines limits the awesomeness of my sonnet.

Not just any bonus, but a bonus of 600 armies -- that'd be practically equivalent to declaring a win. (I'd advise against 6000, though, on the grounds that it'll look terrible against the army shadows.)

Jota...can i ask are you going to make this correction to the XML army tool checker that enables us to see where the armies are centred by changing the country to territory on that tool?, please. :)

Well... alright. But this is strictly temporary! I'm taking it down when lack fixes the official ...

Well, since my last post, the "no" option has nearly caught up. As the two are so close, passive inaction wins! (Andy will be pleased.)

So, what about Ankh-Morpork on the Discworld map?

Despite the fact that lack's not currently looking for ideas for new XML features, I'd still like to express my support for gimil's proposal, in case lack does want more work to do in the future. The different sides should be randomly allotted, of course, and if there are few enough players (e.g ...

Why not just fix all the XML at once?

http://grunk.org/risk/xml-fixed.zip

I looked up the word picayune on wiki, Britannica, and a random guy who happens to have read the dictionary... Closest definition I found of picayune was an obsolete Spanish coin or an item that is now obsolete. (Yay knowledge; sorry just ran across an unfamiliar word and had to know the meaning ...

A trial run is something you'd have to get lack's OK for.

Hmm. We do have twice as many people voting for change as there are voting against it. That's a pretty big margin, but I'll let it go for a few more days before making a decision. (I figure if it ends up close to even, I'll leave it as it is.) If I do change it, that leaves the question of whether ...

(And yes, I do think that making it hundreds of hexes in size and giving bonuses based on holding large masses of contiguous territory would definitely make things more interesting, and could be a great step towards making the map something more than "just a hex grid".)

I disagree on it being a gimmick.

Then what you and I consider to be a "gimmick" are probably two different things. I consider "based on a Crossword puzzle" to be just a gimmick. "A map with extra bonuses for holding capital cities" is a gimmick. Heck, even "Ancient Greece" is a gimmick, when you ...