Re: Rail S America [21.11.13] BETA READY

[isaiah40]

[Moved]

At the request of the mapmaker, this map has been placed on vacation for a period of 6 months. After the 6 months the map will be considered Abandoned. If the mapmaker wants to continue with the map, then one of the Cartographer Assistants will be able to help put the thread back into the Foundry system, after an update has been made.

isaiah40

[cairnswk]

This is such a drive-by critique, so I apologize in advance. But I love the rail maps and happened to see this at the top of the forum, so wanted to encourage and comment...

Thanks Peter, sorry so long to reply.

1) "Colombian" is spelled incorrectly. "Columbian" refers to Christopher Columbus, but "Colombian" refers to the nation.

Fixed

2) "Guyannian" isn't a word. "Guyanese" would be the right word there, unless you want to stick with the made-up word for consistency's sake.

Fixed

3) Shouldn't it be "Central American" rather than "Central America?" You're using the adjective for all the other "single-country" lines, but then have the noun for Central America.

Fixed

4) I'm confused by the hats. I'm sure it's explained in this thread, so you can accuse me of being lazy for not reading through. But the fact is their purpose needs to be apparent just from reading the map. It says "hold all stations to gain the bonus." Well, what is the bonus? The number on the hat? If so, I can't understand if those are 7s or 1s on some of them. And you say all stations but I think you mean "all stations that have the same hat" as there are multiple types of hats and I can't imagine you need all of them to trigger a single bonus. Or maybe you mean one of each hat? It's very confusing. I'm not saying it needs to be scrapped, but it definitely needs to be explained better if it's going to be a key part of the map. I personally do think it's a little gimmicky and takes away from the awesome nature of the rail gameplay (I prefer Europe, Africa and Asia to the Australia Rail map, in the interest of full disclosure), but it is of course your decision if you want to use them.

Well Peter, there hasn't been feedback on this so far, i'll leave it and see what others think.
I've changed the wording to "Hold all line stations in the same city to gain the bonus on each hat".

[cairnswk]

Version 11, with fixes from above and also new hat on GCR.

[RedBaron0]

Back you go. :punt:

[Bruceswar]

Back you go. :punt:

Still missed?

[cairnswk]

Version 12.
Couple of adjustments to main title and bonus titles, along with bonus legend border and Brazilia building

[cairnswk]

I've added a rail line as the edge on the bonus legend.

[cairnswk]

Large V12

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[Gilligan]

Great to see you back in this Cairns!

[greenoaks]

initially i was unimpressed with the hats but i think they can grow on me.

it did take quiet a while to find them all though, or did i spot them all

[cairnswk]

Great to see you back in this Cairns!

Thanks Gilligan

initially i was unimpressed with the hats but i think they can grow on me.

They're just like the mineral bonuses in Rail Australia just different config.

...it did take quiet a while to find them all though, or did i spot them all

What if put into the legend wording:
"Cities with 2 & 3 line terminus stations have
markets which are popular with tourists."

Will that help?

[greenoaks]

What if put into the legend wording:
"Cities with 2 & 3 line terminus stations have
markets which are popular with tourists."

Will that help?

Rail Australia is a little different & easier because of it. It is the same 3 images so i know what to look for. Those 3 images are listed in the legend.

Here i saw the legend had a hat (1 hat) and found it, not realising for a while there where different hats. so i don't know for sure if i found all the hats.

"Cities with 2 & 3 ........" is much clearer than "Some stations .....". Will it fit?

[cairnswk]

What if put into the legend wording:
"Cities with 2 & 3 line terminus stations have
markets which are popular with tourists."

Will that help?

Rail Australia is a little different & easier because of it. It is the same 3 images so i know what to look for. Those 3 images are listed in the legend.

Here i saw the legend had a hat (1 hat) and found it, not realising for a while there where different hats. so i don't know for sure if i found all the hats.

"Cities with 2 & 3 ........" is much clearer than "Some stations .....". Will it fit?

OK, hats are listed.
Notation is changed.
Hope this makes it easier to understand.

Verson 13 Small

[waauw]

why are the stations around Uruguay not double boxed like the others?
also, love the map!

and are hat-cities gonna start with neutrals? cuz in 1v1 they might give strong starting advantages.

[cairnswk]

why are the stations around Uruguay not double boxed like the others?
also, love the map!

and are hat-cities gonna start with neutrals? cuz in 1v1 they might give strong starting advantages.

Thanks for commenting waauw

By highlighting one issue and stating another you've provided me with a solution to fix both.
I'll update later today after returing from town.