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pikkio wrote:really stylish icons!
with that icons i think it isn't necessary to colour the circles.
cairnswk wrote:oaktown wrote:.....
Is there going to be a link from Tartarus to perhaps Nepethes? That island is a bottleneck.
I like the overall design.
pikkio wrote:...or at least reduce the colour to a line border.
whitestazn88 wrote:the castles or whatever they are in the random territs are drawing too much attention to my eyes... lessen the glow?
mibi wrote:Are you guys for real? This map is a disaster. I am quite shocked that two excellent map makers have arrived as this garbage.
oaktown wrote:mibi wrote:Are you guys for real? This map is a disaster. I am quite shocked that two excellent map makers have arrived as this garbage.
Well then, I'll just file that one under Posts That Add Nothing to the Discussion.
Is there something in particular that offends you, or is it just a funny feeling that you get, mibi?
mibi wrote:This map reminds me of that rediculous attempt that Hecter did, some hideously red mars looking thing with text scattered about.
oaktown wrote:With apologies to Hecter, I actually agree with most of what mibi wrote. Some things are easy to fix - such as restoring the line about why there is water on Mars - but the graphics are troubled in many ways. The stretching of the south polar area has bugged me from day 1,and a fix would require either changing up the map projection (not what we want) or doing some teraforming of our own.
But mibi nailed what I think is the biggest problem - that the graphics are clearly the result of two different points of view. Gimil started the map with a satellite image and I wanted it to go retro sci-fi: the two probably don't belong on the same map. Basically, gimil wants to make this:
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So while I would contend that neither his work nor my work is as bad as mibi suggests, I think we may have the makings of two maps here, not one.
Oooooh... maybe we should split up and actually make two maps, not one. A geographically correct Mars map and a Sci-Fi-Fantastic Martians map. Gimil is away and I'm about to split for a week, so we can discuss this down the road.
oaktown wrote:Oooooh... maybe we should split up and actually make two maps, not one. A geographically correct Mars map and a Sci-Fi-Fantastic Martians map. Gimil is away and I'm about to split for a week, so we can discuss this down the road.
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