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Postby DublinDoogey on Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:31 pm

The graphics have drastically improved, it's hard to tell when they're ever done though.

Your size is fine for a large, but it will need to be much smaller for the small version. To help this I would just take Iceland off the map, move the legend to the top left corner, and move the WWI to the bottom left, then you'll be able to make the map shorter, so to speak.

You'll prolly be needing army shadows, so be sure to place those. That will show how crowded parts of your map will become, and will probably lead to a dispersing of country size, so that you dont have so many small ones and so many large ones. Also, with 49 countries, no matter what, you'll have neutral armies. You'll prolly wanna lose/gain a country to at least have an even number.
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Postby Qwert on Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:26 pm

resolution of small maps 482x396.
it's that ok?
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Postby DublinDoogey on Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:31 pm

qwert wrote:resolution of small maps 482x396.
it's that ok?


that should be fine... you should post a pic so we can see it :)
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Postby happysadfun on Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:36 pm

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This is the one I did..... probably worse.

Added: Ural, Wales
Territory += Moldova
Merged Territories: Albania, Austria, Hungary


I used native names mostly
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Postby DING on Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:42 pm

the large fonts frighten me
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Postby DublinDoogey on Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:46 pm

DING wrote:the large fonts frighten me


I agree :shock:
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Postby happysadfun on Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:47 pm

Did my mergers and stuff affect playability better or worse?
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Postby reverend_kyle on Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:02 pm

I hate the impact fonts....

with 2 maps of Europe both having impact font it makes me slightly violent.
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Postby Qwert on Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:07 pm

i think as work in map almoust nearly finish.
stayed to comfirm bonuses for holding teritory.

here map in resolution 799x601.
in second respond i wil give you smaler map


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Postby Ruben Cassar on Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:28 pm

This map looks really great! Well done!
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Postby gavin_sidhu on Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:37 pm

Maybe you could zoom in more, getting rid of some of the not needed territories of russa and ottoman.
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Postby Qwert on Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:19 pm

that is all for me.
i hope it's all pleased with those maps.
here is small map resolution 578x396 and large map resolution 796x598.
Thanks for yours advise and help.

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Postby AndyDufresne on Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:26 pm

Hopefully either tonight or tomorrow I'll have time to post some comments. I think this map still needs to go a ways :)


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Postby DublinDoogey on Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:42 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:Hopefully either tonight or tomorrow I'll have time to post some comments. I think this map still needs to go a ways :)


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Postby Qwert on Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:38 am

i waiting yours comment andy
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Postby gavin_sidhu on Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:52 am

it might only be me, but the concentric circles in the Russian Empire is very annoying.
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Postby reverend_kyle on Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:08 am

AndyDufresne wrote:Hopefully either tonight or tomorrow I'll have time to post some comments. I think this map still needs to go a ways :)


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what are you talking about andy this map is totally thirsty. :wink:
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Postby shultz on Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:46 am

thats a playable map, bring it on!
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Postby Qwert on Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:58 am

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Postby Ruben Cassar on Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:33 pm

The map looks great, well done, but shouldn't Bessarabia be Moldavia?
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Postby Qwert on Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:48 pm

well she a part of moldova(Romania have moldova north teritory)Bessarabia it's Turkey name for these part of moldova and Russia conqest
these teritory.
In 1914 he hold those name like part of Russia.after revolution 1917 become a part of Romanian Kingdom.
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Postby Newcastle on Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:02 am

come on and make the map already i want to play it!

p.s. the background for the russian empire needs changing to something related to WW1
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Postby KEYOGI on Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:23 am

I think the map needs some work, visually at least.

I don't like the neutral territories. Can't they be done a better way? I feel they should be solid at least.

I think the text throughout needs to be consistent. The variety of sizes and orientations make it inconsistent and (no offense) ugly in my opinion.

The numbers shadows are too dark. It's going to be extremely difficult to read green or blue numbers on them at present.

The natural borders could use some work. I don't think they're overly clear. Maybe they could benefit from being bigger/thicker?

The key/legend is very cramped. If you took out the neutral territories at the bottom of the map, you could use that space to spread the key/legend out a bit. Space (or in visual/design terms "white space") is extremely important. I also don't think it'd hurt to seperate the key/legend from the background with some shading behind it or something to reduce the busy-ness behind the text.

Final point. I don't think the "ring effect" in the continents works. Is there a reason behind it, because I can't see how it ties to WWI or anything else. I think a simple texture would work better.

It looks playable though. I just find it visually confusing.
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Postby Teya on Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:07 am

I think you need more colours. I find the same thing wrong with the original europe map. I dont think 2 greens & 2 blues is a good idea, too confusing.
And I agree with keyogi, numbers would be hard to read.
A fair bit of work is needed before final forge.
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Postby Qwert on Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:19 pm

i can pleased everybody, some like maps and some dont.

you got planty of maps where numbers shadows it's dark-
standard world map
germany map
tamriel map
ancient greece
europe
america
in some of these you can see wery difficult blue and stil people play these maps.

You say to took out the neutral territories, and some say to put,who is right.
Have somebody can confuse Russia and Western Europe,only a daltonist can.


I put some original numbers on map with all 7 colors


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