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natty_dread wrote:Can't see image.
CptJMoney wrote:Why is the map all warped? Can't it be a regular square?
murdocho wrote:What about the Sino-Soviet rift ??? The Soviets and the Chinese were by no means some communist monolith. There was a pretty heavy falling out in the late 50s-early 60s, and some serious competition followed, including actual fighting along the border. Although rarely mentioned, the Sino-Soviet split was a pretty significant element of the Cold War.
I know you don't want to make the map too complicated, but has anyone considered factoring the split with separate China bonuses and objectives? What I'm thinking is color China completely differently and create a bonus for holding just China, to simulate independent Chinese foreign policy; a bonus for China and USSR, to simulate if the split hadn't of happened; and a large bonus for control of US and China, to simulate what a tremendous advantage it would have been if the US had exploited the rift, or won China over earlier, so to speak.
You could go farther with objectives for influence in the third world... but maybe that would be better for another map..
DJ Teflon wrote:Yeah - I think it will be - I was aiming for a warped TV-screen-styled map at one point - as if the map were on a superpowers' monitor. However, that wont really work with the inset, so I will revert back to square for the next version.
This version was mainly about getting the Europe inset right ... square update coming soon. I'm also wondering if a central america inset might be better than trying to increase its size?
isaiah40 wrote:DJ Teflon wrote:Yeah - I think it will be - I was aiming for a warped TV-screen-styled map at one point - as if the map were on a superpowers' monitor. However, that wont really work with the inset, so I will revert back to square for the next version.
This version was mainly about getting the Europe inset right ... square update coming soon. I'm also wondering if a central america inset might be better than trying to increase its size?
I'm wondering if this would do better if it was supersized a bit
If you do the supersize map, then you could do the insets as TV monitors as well. Maybe like a bank of monitors, to monitor different areas of the globe, IDK but it might work.
DJ Teflon wrote:That was my idea with the monitors - somehow a large monitor for the main map, smaller monitors below for the Europe inset and legend, and maybe Central America?
natty_dread wrote:I think supersize would be good for this map. In fact I think it'd be pretty much necessary.
There's one element that I'm thinking might be really interesting to add in, that being Nuclear War. Make it border from the UN security Council and bombard every territory. Think of it as a player able to go from Soviet Union to their council seat to nuke war. BUT, if Nuke war is held then the player loses by losing conditions.
thenobodies80 wrote:If you ask to me I prefer this layout DJ
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