[Abandoned] The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

[WestWind]

Hm. I'm trying to think of easier ways to explain it than saying that the incitement territories are one way attacked by their corresponding Pueblo, and that the Pueblos connect to the terts below them. Illustrations are nice, but take up a lot of room and I'm not sure it would help out in this case. Any other re-phrasing you can come up with?

maby you could call it "one way atacked by territorys with same name" instead of calling it "corresponding"

anohter thing, why are they placed so close together ?

Hm ok I can do that fix.

I assume you're asking about the major Pueblos? For better or for worse, that's where they are/were in real life. I actually spaced them out a little bit more. The Rio Grande is basically the lifeline for that region, so it makes sense that most of the major settlements would be along it. While that's pretty cool, it makes the gameplay a little bit of a pain. What I really want to do is make it so that the outer parts of the maps get some focus and attention as well. What I'm envisioning is the players starting by securing regional/religion bonuses first, then moving in to the center of the map to go for the big bonus. If anyone has suggestions, criticisms, or comments about this please let me know

Also, thank you for the sticky IH!

[Flapcake]

Hm ok I can do that fix.

I assume you're asking about the major Pueblos? For better or for worse, that's where they are/were in real life. I actually spaced them out a little bit more. The Rio Grande is basically the lifeline for that region, so it makes sense that most of the major settlements would be along it. While that's pretty cool, it makes the gameplay a little bit of a pain. What I really want to do is make it so that the outer parts of the maps get some focus and attention as well. What I'm envisioning is the players starting by securing regional/religion bonuses first, then moving in to the center of the map to go for the big bonus. If anyone has suggestions, criticisms, or comments about this please let me know

Also, thank you for the sticky IH!

Yes the major Pueblos, I can understand that you want to make it historial correct, but sometimes for the gameplay (what is most importend) you must find the perfect balance, and if that meens that you must do some thing that dont excist in real life, it will the bedst for your map. you could split some of the territoryes between them so they dont connect, or move a coupple of major Pueblos to the sides.
just a suggestion

[WestWind]

Hm, I like the idea of making an impassible somewhere in the Rio Grande regions. Will have to see what I can come up with.

[natty dread]

What graphics software were you using again?

There's several things about this map that could use some graphical attention...

[WestWind]

What graphics software were you using again?

There's several things about this map that could use some graphical attention...

GIMP. I'm far from an expert at it and just kinda learn as I go. If you start pointing out issues I'd be fine teaching myself how to address them

Also, the Rio Grande Gorge runs just south of Taos and would be a great impassible. I could probably fudge it so it ran on the southern border of Picuris, which might break up the Rio Grande regions a little bit.

And one more final thought: The Navajo were notorious raiders of the Pueblo tribes. How's the idea of adding in a territory in the Navajo bonus region that can bombard minor pueblos? The map is probably complex enough already, but this would add some encouragement to stick around in the western half of the map.

[natty dread]

Firstly, how do you draw your territory borders and icons? The line work seems a bit messy and pixelated... I can probably suggest a few things to fix that. Do you use a mouse or tablet?

[Industrial Helix]

First off, I'm really liking the graphics.

Next I'm not sure how the Revolt thing works. I think that Kewa attacks the thing in the legend and if I hold four of those legend things (which might need a better label) I get a bonus +2.

Is the thing in the legend is the inciting people to revolt, but some better labeling and maybe better placement in the legend would help clarify things.

Fix thst and I see something red in your future.

[WestWind]

Firstly, how do you draw your territory borders and icons? The line work seems a bit messy and pixelated... I can probably suggest a few things to fix that. Do you use a mouse or tablet?

I use a tablet, usually at a 1-pixel sized non-fuzzy brush. I'm pretty new to brushes, which might explain that issue.

IH- Since the current system seems to be a little confusing for people, how about making it like this?

# of revolution incitement terts controlled x # of minor pueblos controlled = bonus

So for example if you controlled 2 revolution incitement territories and 3 minor pueblos, you'd get a +6 bonus.

It would make the bonus structure more progressive, and it would be easier to understand. Is that possible with XML?

[natty dread]

I use a tablet, usually at a 1-pixel sized non-fuzzy brush. I'm pretty new to brushes, which might explain that issue.

Ok, hm, well. Usually paintbrush isn't necessarily the best for creating smooth lines, especially thin ones... Paintbrush is more useful when you want to do more special things, but for simple lines, the ink tool is better.

You can adjust the size of the ink tool much more accurately, on a 0,1 pixel scale, and the way it's rendered makes it much better when you want to create sharp, smooth lines.

When you select the ink tool, you get the tool options with 2 sections: first is adjustment, and under it is size and angle. The angle doesn't matter, the size I usually set anywhere between 0,5 and 2,0. Then there's the sensitivity section, and under it is size again, tilt & speed, these control how the tablet input affects the line. If you want to draw consistent lines, set them all at zero, that way your line thickness stays the same regardless of pressure. That's usually the best setting for drawing borders, except if you want to do lines that look more hand-drawn, then it's good to add some size sensitivity - this will vary the size according to the tablet pressure (if your tablet supports pressure sensitivity, all decent tablets should though) so that if you set it at 0,5, the line thickness varies between (0,5 * size) to (1,5 * size).

Under the sliders you'll have the type/shape settings, which control the brush shape, but unless you want to do calligraphy, you can just keep it as a regular round brush.

Also, when you draw lines, work at a 200% zoom at least, for tight spots maybe even higher. This way you'll get twice the accuracy for your lines. Remember to raise the pen at reasonable intervals, so if you have to undo you won't have to redraw huge stretches of line... for that matter, you can always use eraser instead of undo. If you have a tablet that has an eraser, you can set a different tool for the tip and the eraser, so it's easy to switch between them...

[WestWind]

Awesome, thanks natty I was wondering why my lines looked glitchy. My next update will probably have quite a few graphical re-dos with your advice.

Here's the newest update: More gameplay than anything.

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Changes:
-Re-did the revolution bonus structure. Now it's simply the number of minor pueblos you control times the number of revolution incitement territories you control. So if you controlled all 6 minor pueblos and all 6 revolution incitement territories, you'd have yourself a nice +36 bonus. Also changed some wording around in the legend- hopefully it makes more sense.
-Added a few mountain ranges to the Navajo Territory region. It seemed a little wide open, and this should make that area a little easier to conquer and defend.
-Added some shadows to the mountains for graphical fun.

Thoughts?

[WestWind]

Another update- all graphics on this one. Took natty's advice with using the ink tool, and I like the results. Except for the region boundaries- I'll probably go through with a smaller brush on the next update.

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In addition to changing the territory lines, I also re-did most of the icons using the ink tool. Let me know what you think.

I would love to work more on this, but I need some feedback to do so.

[AndyDufresne]

I think the pen and ink style you have going is pretty stellar. Your bonus minimap looks way out of place with the style of you have going on, and so do the region texts. Could you find a font similar to your legend, or experiment with your legend text as region names?

You also probably want to add a touch of buffer to the text "Pueblo Religion" and "Spanish Religion" from the black top bar they are near. Related to these two, it might be worthwhile to see what you can do to improve readability of the important information (such as the numbers), since they kind of get lost.

It might be worthwhile to extend the legend a few more millimeters higher, since I don't think it would have an impact on the gameboard by much, to allow for some greater legend room---it is very dense.

Keep it up.


--Andy

[natty dread]

Well the borders look better now, but there are a few places with smudges, that kinda look you got a bit sloppy there... Like the borders below Vallecitos & Villaneuva for example.

Also, the background texture doesn't look too natural... try tweaking it a bit, experiment with it, mix it with other textures, gradients, etc. It's always good to experiment with things, that's how you learn new stuff.

[The Bison King]

It seems to me that you are committed to this map. I think it's fresh and original. I look forward to seeing this advance and I hope you can see it all the way through.

Good luck!

[WestWind]

Yay thanks all! I'll try and get another update out soon, kinda dependent on holiday activities.