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France-Update 20=no texture

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:36 pm
by spinwizard
update 20-

Image

What do u think?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:46 pm
by hecter
I think I prefer this one.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:47 pm
by spinwizard
hecter wrote:I think I prefer this one.


y?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:51 pm
by Qwert
This map work kyle. Or maybe he abandoned?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:56 pm
by Lone.prophet
i like this one better,

only for now small the army shades, make leganda and make some impaseble terain

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:01 pm
by KEYOGI
It's very cartoon-like and very busy.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:04 pm
by spinwizard
KEYOGI wrote:It's very cartoon-like and very busy.


is cartoon like good or bad?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:07 pm
by KEYOGI
spinwizard wrote:is cartoon like good or bad?

I don't think it's bad, I just don't think it suits this map. :wink:

You could just tone down the colours so they're not so bright.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:30 pm
by spinwizard
Image

update

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:32 pm
by sully800
spinwizard wrote:
KEYOGI wrote:It's very cartoon-like and very busy.


is cartoon like good or bad?


I don't think its good, but its caused by your font choice and colors. Pick colors that aren't quite as bright and a more serious font and the map will look better I think.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:45 pm
by spinwizard
Image

darker?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:59 pm
by KEYOGI
Darker might help. I don't really know, you'll need to expriment. Is that a pink continent next to a red one down the bottom?

Nothing about this map really says that it's a map of France apart from the title and shape of the actual map. I think it'd be nice to see you try and capture some sort of French spirit or theme for your map.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:01 pm
by spinwizard
yeah it is very cartoony, i like the feel to it...what do u think i can do 2 make it more...French?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:07 pm
by Ruben Cassar
What again???

Why isn't Corsica included??? I cannot believe we have a second map of France in the making without Corsica...

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:10 pm
by spinwizard
Ruben Cassar wrote:What again???

Why isn't Corsica included??? I cannot believe we have a second map of France in the making without Corsica...


it won't fit

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:13 pm
by Ruben Cassar
spinwizard wrote:
Ruben Cassar wrote:What again???

Why isn't Corsica included??? I cannot believe we have a second map of France in the making without Corsica...


it won't fit


It can fit with an inset or something...

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:14 pm
by spinwizard
Ruben Cassar wrote:
spinwizard wrote:
Ruben Cassar wrote:What again???

Why isn't Corsica included??? I cannot believe we have a second map of France in the making without Corsica...


it won't fit


It can fit with an inset or something...


but y...it would clutter the bottom left of the map...i like haveing my name there anyway :wink:

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:16 pm
by Ruben Cassar
It's like making the map of a country and leaving out 1/4 of it.

It is possible to put Corsica in if you plan ahead. And you asked why...the answer is because it is part of France!

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:12 pm
by Bad Speler
A few suggestions:

Change colors around so similar coloured continents arent near each other
Shrink font and army shadow size

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:52 pm
by Samus
Here's my thoughts on playability:

Yellow, Red, Orange, and Hot Pink (the one in the bottom right corner?) are all fine for now.

Move the border between Orne and Manche up just a tad on the left side, to make it clear that Manche does NOT border Rennes (I'm assuming it already doesn't, so that's just clarity not any change in the borders).

Put an impassible border across the entire north side of Paris, cutting it off from Eure, Oise, and Aisne. This also reduces the total borders for the pink region to 3.

Put an impassible border all the way around Indre and Cher (Indre should only border Loiret and Cher now, Cher no longer borders Creuse). This reduces the total borders for the blue region to 4. Both of these together should reduce green to 4 borders.

Extend the mountains between Drome and Gard so that Lozere no longer borders either.

Add an impassible border along the south edge of Dordogne and Lot (Lot now only borders purple territories, Dordogne still borders Charente but not Aquitaine). These two together should reduce purple borders to 5.

This should make all the outside regions holdable, the two in the middle very hard to hold but not impossible if you or a teammate hold a neighboring region.


We'll see how it looks after that and talk bonuses.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:19 am
by spinwizard
update, this has better graphics and i have improved the gameplay, what do u think?

Image

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:33 am
by Bad Speler
Gameplay

Normandie: Can easily be reduced to 3 borders by taking Paris, lower bonus to 4
The south is too easy to hold. You could have 2 borders to defend by grabbing Limousin, Pyrenees, Med and the Drome territory; expansion is way to easy there. I suggest oppening up Dordogne to Charente.

Graphics

Looks to much like a cartoon, which i dont think is appropriate for ths kind of map. Change the fonts to a more formal one. Also, I do not like the couloured glow for the words in the legend. Army shadows look to big.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:35 am
by spinwizard
army shadows r 30 by 31...what should they b?

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:38 am
by Bad Speler
smaller. This looks like the size of the small map. Anything between 20x20 to 25x25 should be good.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:59 am
by spinwizard
Image

is it better now?