[Limited Edition] 2015 Women's World Cup Map

by **Teflon Kris** on Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:33 pm

Anyone fancy a 100 credits bet on whether the map is available before the ladies finish playing?

I'm gonna be optimistic and say it happens.

The shopkeeper will magically appear.

by **iancanton** on Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:12 am

no-one's playing any 2015 world cup games on the beta site at the moment. do u want to volunteer?

ian.

by **Teflon Kris** on Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:17 am

iancanton wrote:no-one's playing any 2015 world cup games on the beta site at the moment. do u want to volunteer?

ian.

Sure - count me in.

:ugeek:

by **iancanton** on Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:53 pm

if u ask denominator or blakebowling to add u to the beta testers group, then u'll be able to access the beta site.

ian.

by **ManBungalow** on Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:59 pm

Playing this on the beta site:

2015-06-25 21:48:36 - ManBungalow received 4 troops for 17 regions

I don't see anywhere on the map that it says there are adjusted region count bonuses? Otherwise (and after addressing ian's feedback on the previous page) we're looking good to go; and I'm trying to get this through sometime this year!

by **sempaispellcheck** on Sun Jun 28, 2015 8:27 pm

ManBungalow wrote:Playing this on the beta site:

2015-06-25 21:48:36 - ManBungalow received 4 troops for 17 regions

I don't see anywhere on the map that it says there are adjusted region count bonuses? Otherwise (and after addressing ian's feedback on the previous page) we're looking good to go; and I'm trying to get this through sometime this year!

I nudged MrB about that stuff a few days ago, but haven't heard back yet.

sempai

by **MrBenn** on Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:16 pm

OK... Updated images:

Small:

Large:

by **iancanton** on Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:50 pm

this is looking good to me! the qualifier bonus works, the canada bombard works and the coloured letters beside the qualifier flags are much more readable. trying to test the objective, after which we're close to quench, unless anyone sees any other issues.

ian.

by **iAmCaffeine** on Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:24 am

I find the C next to the country names very hard to read, although I guess it's distinguishable because all the others stand out.

by **sempaispellcheck** on Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:36 am

iAmCaffeine wrote:I find the C next to the country names very hard to read, although I guess it's distinguishable because all the others stand out.

Agreed - for the small map. The large map looks OK to me.
I've asked MrB if he can fix them.

sempai

by **MrBenn** on Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:31 pm

sempaispellcheck wrote:
iAmCaffeine wrote:I find the C next to the country names very hard to read, although I guess it's distinguishable because all the others stand out.

Agreed - for the small map. The large map looks OK to me.
I've asked MrB if he can fix them.

sempai

Thanks for that. Not too sure why the little letters went all pixellated on the small map, but they're fixed now, , and the Cs are more legible now too.

by **sempaispellcheck** on Fri Jul 03, 2015 8:11 am

This map is now in Beta on the live site! Let's get it quenched!!

sempai

by **Teflon Kris** on Fri Jul 03, 2015 3:14 pm

Nice one.

Glad the shopkeeper magically appeared.

=D>

by **MrBenn** on Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:07 pm

Shame about the own goal, but glad to have got this one in the back of the net. The final (live) image has got properly aligned football-bullets in the explanatory text.

Sempai, thanks for the hard work on the XML, testing and general prodding. It's been a pleasure working with you ;-)

by **iancanton** on Sun Jul 05, 2015 4:00 pm

version 6 is in live beta now. the xml remains the same as version 5.

ian.

by **iAmCaffeine** on Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:58 pm

Enjoying the map, my only issue is how hard clickies are to use in the groups.

by **Butters1919** on Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:00 pm

iancanton wrote:version 6 is in live beta now. the xml remains the same as version 5.

ian.

and the tourney is done. as in the actual one. good effort, I know this is not the fragmented foundry's fault.

by **iancanton** on Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:16 pm

at the time of writing, there are 12 completed 1v1 games with standard settings, excluding 2 deadbeated games. observations of this small sample are below.

the first player won 3 and the second player 9, so there is no evidence for first-turn bias.
the higher-ranked player won 11 and the lower-ranked player won 1, so there is some evidence that this map rewards skill.
the first bonus to pay out was always a qualifier group, 6 times to the winner and 5 times to the loser, while there was 1 time when no bonus paid out.
the canada bonus paid out in 2 games, 1 time to the winner only and 1 time to both players, while the canada bonus did not pay out in 9 games.
1 game paid a quarter-final bonus and a bonus for holding any 2 group teams plus group 3rd place, both to the winner.
11 games paid no stage 2 or higher bonuses.
in all 12 games, no-one reached the semi-finals or final.

ian.

by **iAmCaffeine** on Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:03 pm

Ian, are you counting just 1v1 or poly games too? Also, I believe the semis and final would be used in larger games more.

by **sempaispellcheck** on Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:36 pm

iAmCaffeine wrote:Also, I believe the semis and final would be used in larger games more.

Trench games, too, possibly.

sempai

by **sempaispellcheck** on Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:25 pm

THA, in the qualifiers, should have a B next to it, not an X.
I've let MrB know privately, but felt I should post in case he looks here first.

sempai

by **iancanton** on Tue Jul 14, 2015 4:15 pm

iAmCaffeine wrote:Ian, are you counting just 1v1 or poly games too?

i was counting only standard 1v1 games. only one poly game has finished so far and none of the colours reached even stage 2.

sempaispellcheck wrote:
iAmCaffeine wrote:Also, I believe the semis and final would be used in larger games more.

Trench games, too, possibly.

no games with more than one player have finished so far. however, the current trench tournament will be very useful in helping to evaluate this map for 1v1 trench. thanks, sempai!

ian.

by **MrBenn** on Tue Jul 14, 2015 5:48 pm

Updated images:

by **iAmCaffeine** on Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:25 am

Having played doubles and poly games of all sizes, I'm worried Canada is too powerful. The bombardment ability coupled with an auto-deploy make it the most important region on the map by a mile.

by **WingCmdr Ginkapo** on Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:37 am

iAmCaffeine wrote:Having played doubles and poly games of all sizes, I'm worried Canada is too powerful. The bombardment ability coupled with an auto-deploy make it the most important region on the map by a mile.

If I am reading it right, once you have made it to the Group stage there is minimal benefit in holding qualifier territories due to no region bonus. Does this affect how powerful you perceive the bombard ability to be?