iancanton wrote:as requested, moved to the recycling bin.

ian.

Ah, glad to finally see some movement on maps in the Foundry.

Wait...

Still hoping this map could be advanced to Beta before 2035...

Is the map maker still around? Had a quick look doesn't look like it :(

I just had a quick look on the beta site and this map never made it over there so latest image we have for it looks to be V.14 and would need xml being made for ...

Now it's been more than three years...and for some reason the beta site never updated with the new version...

agentcom wrote:Haven't played it in a while, but what a great map. Glad to see it officially added. Thanks for sticking with it for ... almost 12 years!!

Ah, that's too bad. One more year and the 13 in dolomite's name would have referred to how long this took to quench.

for this setting, balance appears to be fairly good. player 1 won 15 games (58%) and player 2 won 11 games (42%), while skill is not especially rewarded, as the higher-ranked player won 12 games (46%) and the lower-ranked player won 14 games (54%).

Is that...a good thing, though? If the lower ...

Apparently Discord is not a good image host.

Sounds good!

GaryDenton wrote:You do not get more than one bonus for every 2 regions in a continent.

...I don't? Are you sure about that? The log sure seems to think I do...

Ooh, transforms. It only took, what, a decade for someone to make and start testing one of these maps?

The text has a nice glow on the big map. That helps keep it legible at these small pixel sizes. But considering text is even smaller on the small map, it should definitely have that glow there as well...

309 xml is loaded successfully as live beta! this is the same as the 308 xml, except with +1 auto-deploy for each kingdom.

if all goes well, then this will be the final xml.

ian. :)

how long to know if all goes well?
Just over 12 hours, if his original prediction is to remain true (in the one ...

To the people saying "yes on the +1", did you actually try it out on multiplayer ?
I don't understand how it can be at the same time "a huge benefit" and on the other hand, "only draw out the inevitable".

That was referring to two different proposals: the first, to the current (on the Beta site ...

With regards to the colors, since the connecting lines are yellow, maybe a different color for that continent that also happens to be yellow, (is that yellow too)? - the ones in China and India.

Connections are lime green, continent is yellow. I will mess around with it when I get a little time ...

To be completely honest I don't care for how the map plays but maybe that's because I lose on it. A bigger auto deploy is my suggestion. 1 troop don't help much when you gotta tackle a map of full of neutrals. It should be more like feudal or even city mogul lol
The difference is, in those, the ...

Starting positions would be harder to fix. I'm pretty sure the XML can take a small starting position and then give you multiples of it for less players. So you can make a 12-player start map and then it will assign somebody 2x that for the 6-player map. But there is no way to have a different ...

An idea: instead of coloring the thin outline of territories to indicate their continent (subtle, hard to differentiate for the colorblind), color the landmasses below them.

Thanks, not-purple.

Thurple.

I used Minister X image for v.15 (on the first page) to update the files I got to v.15. Added clearer entrances and the inset bonus values are now changed to match the latest version. I hope I didn't miss anything. I also just made a new small version of the map.

He had changed Prince's Street to ...

There are: WWII Western Front, WWII Eastern Front, and WWII Europe, which cover all of the above. There's also WWII Australia, which covers some of the war in the Pacific.

I think part of the problem is that, as the name suggests, it was a truly world war, so the plausible areas that the game board ...

Sounds like that's a problem with whichever app you're using to generate that XML. It's not a reading problem--as you say, Notepad++ shows the content as gibberish--it's properly reading bad content. The problem is that the XML is not being created properly in the first place.

Looks like t-o-m just hasn't come back in a while to respond to ian's comments/gameplay suggestions. He's been gone for a couple years in a row before.

Oh wow, I'd actually forgotten it was live on the main site as well as the beta CC.

Vlasov wrote:I don't mind seeing the Ukrainian flag, but what happened to the Elements graphic?

I assume the answer is "Imageshack".

My edits are still up there, since I used Imgur, but considering they're deleting images now too I assume those have a similarly limited shelf life.

on the beta site, the KKFinal308 xml has survived five standard, 2-player, auto-placement, sequential, escalating, chained, fog, non-trench mini-tournament games plus various others. no xml faults were evident.

in fog games, we know the three special features of the winner, but must glean what ...

Any auto deploy on the starting regions?
not at this stage, since it'll involve artistic changes.

ian. :)

Here you go, artistic changes.

https://i.imgur.com/NGwsr38.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9iWzQpl.jpg

I fixed the typo "you Kingdom may assault" while I was at it.

I can't guarantee how ...