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by **Peter Gibbons** on Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:26 pm

I've always been a big fan of this map, from the initial competition. And felt that it was so close to the old "final forge" so was disappointed that it was left abandoned. Glad to see ndrs has picked it up and I hope this version goes back to the foundry quickly.

That said, it does suck that ManBungalow put in all that work. I hope he uses his skills and applies them to a similar region for a map... maybe Indonesia could work?

by **ManBungalow** on Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:46 pm

Whattup team,

I approve of the ndrs map.
So long as this gets finished, I'd love to play it, and you can close my other map thread up.

Cartographers - maybe you could consider adjusting the policy of the recycling box so that when a map is abandoned it actually is abandoned? Though I'm not really sure what to suggest at this point.

But more on-topic:
I think we'd benefit from seeing where the 888 troop numbers are going to be; some of the region names may need moving very slightly.

MB

by **ndrs** on Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:28 am

You're a gentleman MB. Your map looked really nice - I hope you got inspired to work on something else.

Foundry, please.

by **koontz1973** on Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:01 am

ndrs, can you bung on some 888s so we can see the spacing issues. As this is the large map, the 888s need to fit inside the regions.

by **isaiah40** on Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:42 pm

A couple of minor things.
1. Can you make the bridges a tad bit wider so they are more easily seen.
2. This more of a personal request, I agree with tnb here:

thenobodies80 wrote:Sea connections, they looks done in a way like you did them just because you had to do them. They look poor compared to the rest of your graphics, that are very very good!

and I do agree with your response:

ndrs wrote:I think they are in line with theme - the land and sea are made up of very simplistic solid blocks, so the routes are siplistic solid lines with drop shadow! I had them dotted in earlier versions, but it looked cluttered. And thanks

But I was wondering how they would look along the same lines as you have the land areas?

by **ndrs** on Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:13 am

koontz1973 wrote:ndrs, can you bung on some 888s so we can see the spacing issues. As this is the large map, the 888s need to fit inside the regions.

Will do! How do you mean "fit inside"? Is it OK like it is on the Gallipoli map?

I'm in the process of changing around some of the region colors as well to meet the color blind criteria.

by **ndrs** on Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:15 am

isaiah40 wrote:A couple of minor things.
1. Can you make the bridges a tad bit wider so they are more easily seen.
2. This more of a personal request, I agree with tnb here:
thenobodies80 wrote:Sea connections, they looks done in a way like you did them just because you had to do them. They look poor compared to the rest of your graphics, that are very very good!

and I do agree with your response:
ndrs wrote:I think they are in line with theme - the land and sea are made up of very simplistic solid blocks, so the routes are siplistic solid lines with drop shadow! I had them dotted in earlier versions, but it looked cluttered. And thanks

But I was wondering how they would look along the same lines as you have the land areas?

Thanks for your input man.

1. I agree on the bridges.
2. I've thought about it and have an idea for the sea routes for the next update.

by **ndrs** on Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:12 pm

Reposting this in hope koontz will see it.

ndrs wrote:
koontz1973 wrote:ndrs, can you bung on some 888s so we can see the spacing issues. As this is the large map, the 888s need to fit inside the regions.

Will do! How do you mean "fit inside"? Is it OK like it is on the Gallipoli map?

I'm in the process of changing around some of the region colors as well to meet the color blind criteria.

by **Gilligan** on Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:17 pm

ndrs wrote:Reposting this in hope koontz will see it.

ndrs wrote:
koontz1973 wrote:ndrs, can you bung on some 888s so we can see the spacing issues. As this is the large map, the 888s need to fit inside the regions.

Will do! How do you mean "fit inside"? Is it OK like it is on the Gallipoli map?

I'm in the process of changing around some of the region colors as well to meet the color blind criteria.

It's just placing an 888 in every region to show that it won't overlap into other regions and that it fits in the one region it belongs to. The "fit inside" means that the army isn't north of the island it represents, rather on top of it.

by **koontz1973** on Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:57 pm

That is it. Being that this is the large map, the 888 should fit comfortably inside the region. You may need to slightly tweek some names to get this correct but I cannot see and major things that will need to change for this. Make sure you put different coloured ones also onto the map. orange into orange territs, green into green. This will need to happen later for the graphics stamp so might as well get it done now. Post the 888 map in the first post as well. Then you can tick that of the list of things to do.