USA Map Pack [Quenched]

[WidowMakers]

OK so I looked through the posts and found most of the suggestions that pamoa had. I centered all of the icons so that at least 1 is 90% visible on each state fro each map (I moved some roads and text as well to help out)

In Southeast I put the palmetto tree for South Carolina and added a Sun to Florida
Removed the tilts from all of the icons.

And I did see your suggestion Night Strike about the Arch in Missouri. I still don't like it for the same reason as not liking the Statue of Liberty for New York (which is now an apple)

VERSION 9 West

VERSION 7 Southwest

VERSION 6 Rockies

VERSION 11 Southeast

VERSION 13 Great Lakes

VERSION 8 New England

[Night Strike]

Ok, if the Arch doesn't work, I found a few more choices.

Fiddle
Catfish
Dogwood
Mule

Missouri State Symbols

[edbeard]

I'll give all these maps a once over for gameplay soonish because I'm looking at New Jersey and seeing a +2 but we've got it at +3 right now. Makes me wonder what I said before.


Graphics seem good to me. All the icons make sense. Colours are good.

[WidowMakers]

I'll give all these maps a once over for gameplay soonish because I'm looking at New Jersey and seeing a +2 but we've got it at +3 right now. Makes me wonder what I said before.


Graphics seem good to me. All the icons make sense. Colours are good.

Nope. You are right. You said 2 and I put 3. I will update the image above.

Thanks
WM

[pamoa]

Nice job! two minor points:

• Rockies, Montana & Utah, the contrast may be stronger
  South-West, Oklahoma, due to the empty eyes effect, the icons seems more some kind of devil head rather than a buffalo one

[WidowMakers]

Ok, if the Arch doesn't work, I found a few more choices.

Fiddle
Catfish
Dogwood
Mule

Missouri State Symbols

OK

Nice job! two minor points:

• Rockies, Montana & Utah, the contrast may be stronger
  South-West, Oklahoma, due to the empty eyes effect, the icons seems more some kind of devil head rather than a buffalo one

And OK

WM

[Mr_Adams]

VERSION 6 Soutwest


I'm telling you man, Bullhead instead of Kingmon. We see tempuratures as high as 128 in the summer with a July average of 111.8F

[WidowMakers]

VERSION 6 Soutwest


I'm telling you man, Bullhead instead of Kingmon. We see tempuratures as high as 128 in the summer with a July average of 111.8F

Sorry. I thought I already changed that. Oops.

[Mr_Adams]

My home town's gonna be on CC!!!!!

[edbeard]

I'll give all these maps a once over for gameplay soonish because I'm looking at New Jersey and seeing a +2 but we've got it at +3 right now. Makes me wonder what I said before.


Graphics seem good to me. All the icons make sense. Colours are good.

Nope. You are right. You said 2 and I put 3. I will update the image above.

Thanks
WM

oh.

then I'm gonna retract my previous comment about going through all the maps again since doing that takes a lot out of you.

plus it'll give Iancanton a task that'll make anything else he does seem easy

[WidowMakers]

Here are the three updated maps plus the others.

• Bullhead in Southwest
  Contrast in Rockies
  Catfish in Missouri
  No more devil eyes in Oklahoma

VERSION 9 West

NEW VERSION 8 Southwest

NEW VERSION 7 Rockies

VERSION 11 Southeast

NEW VERSION 14 Great Lakes

VERSION 8 New England

[Stephan Wayne]

i like it why has they not been started

[The Neon Peon]

I think we need another attempt on Oklahoma, it is really hard to figure out what the graphic is.

[WidowMakers]

I think we need another attempt on Oklahoma, it is really hard to figure out what the graphic is.

How about this instead for the bison

[The Neon Peon]

That will probably work. Nice speed there.

[Nephilim]

hi widowmakers, here to make suggestions about the Alabama background, something to replace the gators which i suppose belong in Florida:

1) cotton? this one is probably best but may be a bit tough visually
2) the state bird is the yellowhammer, which also has Civil War significance, so a nice little birdie might work, altho most folks might not really appreciate it
3) birmingham was known for steel mills....something with that?
4) huntsville has a space and rocket center....rockets? that might infringe on houston territory.....
5) other than that, i don't know.....crickets? crawdads?
6) you could always put little X's like on the state flag?

cheers!

[WidowMakers]

hi widowmakers, here to make suggestions about the Alabama background, something to replace the gators which i suppose belong in Florida:

1) cotton? this one is probably best but may be a bit tough visually

• Used in Virginia

2) the state bird is the yellowhammer, which also has Civil War significance, so a nice little birdie might work, altho most folks might not really appreciate it

• Possibly.
  

3) birmingham was known for steel mills....something with that?

• I Beam?
  

4) huntsville has a space and rocket center....rockets? that might infringe on houston territory.....

• Texas is Longhorns but I still don't like the rockets. It just does not say Alabama to me.

5) other than that, i don't know.....crickets? crawdads?

• Crickets will work. I already have crawshish in Louisiana.
  

6) you could always put little X's like on the state flag?

• While this might be noticeable by people living in the sate, I think an animal or resource or industry will be better.

cheers!

Right now the Cricket is my fav. It is a new icons and is distinct from all the others.
WM

[WidowMakers]

Updates:
-Switched Alabama icon to Cricket
-Switched to full Bison icon in Oklahoma
-Added Backgrounds to Southeast and New England
-Tweak Several other backgrounds

VERSION 9 West

VERSION 10 Southwest

VERSION 8 Rockies

VERSION 12 Southeast

VERSION 15 Great Lakes

VERSION 9 New England

[pamoa]

stamp stamp stamp

[gimil]

I am pretty much ready to stamp when ian is

[The Neon Peon]

New England background is perfect. I am opposed to any further changes to it. The Great Lakes and Rocky Mountains are also very good.

I can see how hard it is to make them blend in and act as a background, but you got those three down really well.

• In the Southeast... it is a really good picture, but I think it needs to be extended out to the other side of the Atlantic.
• Southwest: both pictures should extend farther horizontally. The top image should extent a little farther to the left, and then almost to the Name of the map on the right. The lower image only needs to be extended towards the legend.
• I would recommend changing the images in the West, they do not fit in with each other.

[edbeard]

for a while I hadn't thought the California icon was a good one. I didn't say anything because I couldn't think of a good replacement.

to me the strawberry isn't good because you don't really think of it when you think of California. problem is you don't think of any ONE thing when you think of California. I just thought a good solution was to use the image from the state flag



use the bear

[Night Strike]

for a while I hadn't thought the California icon was a good one. I didn't say anything because I couldn't think of a good replacement.

to me the strawberry isn't good because you don't really think of it when you think of California. problem is you don't think of any ONE thing when you think of California. I just thought a good solution was to use the image from the state flag

You sure it's not a bunch of grapes? If it's not, then perhaps grapes would be good due to the wineries.

[WidowMakers]

for a while I hadn't thought the California icon was a good one. I didn't say anything because I couldn't think of a good replacement.

to me the strawberry isn't good because you don't really think of it when you think of California. problem is you don't think of any ONE thing when you think of California. I just thought a good solution was to use the image from the state flag

You sure it's not a bunch of grapes? If it's not, then perhaps grapes would be good due to the wineries.

It is a bunch of grapes.

[WidowMakers]

New England background is perfect. I am opposed to any further changes to it. The Great Lakes and Rocky Mountains are also very good.

I can see how hard it is to make them blend in and act as a background, but you got those three down really well.

• In the Southeast... it is a really good picture, but I think it needs to be extended out to the other side of the Atlantic.
• Southwest: both pictures should extend farther horizontally. The top image should extent a little farther to the left, and then almost to the Name of the map on the right. The lower image only needs to be extended towards the legend.
• I would recommend changing the images in the West, they do not fit in with each other.

I can easily do the Southwest and east images.

What do you suggest for the west? They currently are redwood trees and coast line. Both of those are pretty representative of three of the 4 states in the West.

WM