The American Revolutionary War [vacation]

[asl80]

The glow of the legend just doesn't suit the rest of the map - which is mostly dark.. I don't like the legend.

The font background too just looks like a bright light-bulb that I want to switch off.

The glow on the legend is a beautiful touch, but I get the urge to turn the dim knob down on the territory name glow too.

[Gnome]

I think I'll start a poll than...

With less glow or without glow (or keep the bright glow )

With glow


Without glow


any suggestions about the legend? I liked the glow...otherwise I wouldn't have post it

[Gnome]

There is some internal debate about moving you. We are concerned with how your layout matches the delux map almost exactly.

Everything else is different so this may be fine, but we aren't 100% sure.

Once we are we'll let you know. Felt you deserved a heads up as to why you are still in Map Ideas when you seemingly have all the conditions met to get out.

Is it because our World 2.1 map has the same layout as a world map that it can't be made...
I can't just change the shape of europe or america...and I doens't realy looks like it that much anymore I think...

[Coleman]

You're probably fine, but lack really doesn't like getting sued so we need to be absolutely sure. Done with the old poll?

[Coleman]

Do you like this?

• Yes! - 78% - [ 25 ]
• NO! - 15% - [ 5 ]
• I think you better concentrate on fantasy maps... - 6% - [ 2 ]

Total Votes : 32

[Gnome]

until now glow is voted...
so give me some other comments on the map plz...

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[bryguy]

i think u should be able to go from french ships to english ships

[Gnome]

i think u should be able to go from french ships to english ships

wouldnt that give to much lines? when you see this on scale those fleets are miles away from each other...

[tim02]

i think u should be able to go from french ships to english ships

wouldnt that give to much lines? when you see this on scale those fleets are miles away from each other...

but if they can cross the atlantic with there lines I think they should be able to hit ech other no problem...

I really think that the difference in continents should be way more clear

[Gnome]

i think u should be able to go from french ships to english ships

wouldnt that give to much lines? when you see this on scale those fleets are miles away from each other...

but if they can cross the atlantic with there lines I think they should be able to hit ech other no problem...

I really think that the difference in continents should be way more clear

where is the difference not clear enough? I thought Indian tribes and America could be distracting, therefore I put those tipi's in the circles

[unriggable]

Pixelation is the only problem - and it's really annoying. Fix soon.

Other than that, awesome. Too few countries though, although that could make for an interesting map.

[cairnswk]

There is some internal debate about moving you. We are concerned with how your layout matches the delux map almost exactly.

Everything else is different so this may be fine, but we aren't 100% sure.

Once we are we'll let you know. Felt you deserved a heads up as to why you are still in Map Ideas when you seemingly have all the conditions met to get out.

Is it because our World 2.1 map has the same layout as a world map that it can't be made...
I can't just change the shape of europe or america...and I doens't realy looks like it that much anymore I think...

Gnome....the issue of similarity arises from the fact that:
1. the shape of Florida is the same in both your version and Lux's version
2. the inclusion of the Newfoundland area and the attack routes from there are the same
3. the combatants on the europena side are the same on both maps when simply looking in Wiki would tell you that you could have included the

Hessian mercenaries
Iroquois Confederacy
Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg

also.

4. the fact that you have the same graphic layout as the Lux map

This all leads me to say to you you have simply copied the lux map and put your own slant on it, rather than take a global map of the area and overlayed your own style on that in a different manner than what the lux map is, and have done some research to make it look different.

Wiki also tells me this information:

Location Eastern North America (present-day United States and Canada), Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea

changes Britain recognizes independence of the United States, cedes East Florida, West Florida, and Minorca to Spain and Tobago to France

But you haven't included Tobago nor the Mediterranean not the Caribbean.

I beleive you could have done better and can do better and used your own creative abilities to make this map a totally different "event" from what is on Lux site, and i would prefer to see those changes made.

[mibi]

yes, CC is a better community than lux and our maps should reflect that.

[unriggable]

Observation: Florida just ends. It looks like a flacid penis. I suggest you put dead land there.

[ps2civxr20]

i think that since ships can move that you should let all ships attack all other ships. though give it a bigger bonus and alow them to only attack certant places but bombard all costal areas. you dont need to use this but i tink it will give it a nice twist. also i still think that you shuld change french america to british florida.

[bryguy]

no that wouldnt work, florida was in the hands of the spanish, but the british for some reason sent all their prisoners there

[ps2civxr20]

dont want to get into the argument again so lets just say its not french

[bryguy]

yea its not french, i agree with that, but it wasnt english either, it should just be neutral in my opinion

[Frigidus]

I love the idea of anybody other than America being randomly conquered. Britain invaded France? Oh no!

[ps2civxr20]

Great Britain gained control of Florida diplomatically in 1763 through the Peace of Paris (the Castillo de San Marcos surrendered for the first time, having never been taken militarily). Britain tried to develop Florida through the importation of immigrants for labor, including some from Minorca and Greece, but this project ultimately failed. Spain regained Florida after Britain's defeat by the American colonies and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles in 1783. They offered land grants to anyone who settled the colony, and many Americans moved to the state. This Americanization resulted in 1819, by terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty, of Spain ceding Florida to the United States in exchange for the American renunciation of any claims on Texas and $5 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida#History

its in the 6th paragraph

[bryguy]

oh yea your right, im thinkin of the wrong time

[bryguy]

hey gnome, how do u get the pictures into the background anyways???

[Gnome]

you mean the boats and such? Well I take the image and than I change the colour pallet so it looks grayish-whit (it's what you like the best, sometimes I play with those colours a bit...), than I just make it a bit transparent so the background colour comes trough it...that's a bit how I do it, I'll post it in a tutorial if you want...My English in not so good

[bryguy]

plz post it in a tutotorial or something, cause im having the hardest time doing that with my maps

[Mr_Niels]

i like the map, but i would like it more if the terretories were just colors and not flags