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by **iancanton** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:56 am

Bruceswar wrote:
iancanton wrote:west estonia and islands estonia can be combined usefully, for example, to form a proper continent in the classic sense. islands estonia especially ought to be eliminated as a stand-alone bonus because of its small size and isolated location.

Sorry I missed responding to you. I just want to mention I really happen to like that there is a bunch of bonuses. It leads to many different ways to win this map given different drops.

no worries, bruce. having a 2-region bonus in a corner of the map doesn't lead to many ways to win though. it simply ensures that this is the best part of the map to secure in the early stages and gives a consistent advantage to the one who has a good drop there (like classic oceania). with six 3-region and 4-region bonuses, which is already an extreme number, a tiny 2-region bonus in addition makes no sense at all.

ian.

by **natty dread** on Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:54 am

I have to agree with Ian. Merging it with west est would be best I think...

Also, on the colours: take the marble sea, and set the land saturation between the 2 options - the other is too saturated, the other not enough.

by **iancanton** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:38 am

some more trees will certainly be welcome, especially in latvia, where the only credible start is in the southeast. merging some of the many regions in west and central latvia will also help a player who starts with many troops in this difficult area, as well as reducing the total number of regions to 44, which avoids the situation of 2v2 doubles games where the only sensible first move tactic most of the time is to knock down the second player from 12 to 11 regions. merging away three regions in west and central latvia to a total of 45 is also possible, since it's sensible to have telsiai start neutral, thus bringing down the number of starting regions to 44. it'll be a good idea to remove the sea route from talsi to kuressaare, so that the larger bonuses become easier to hold.

on graphics, i think my preference is for an almost-fully-saturated land (the current hues are just a tad too much) with marble sea.

ian.

by **Bruceswar** on Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:27 pm

I have given people long enough to vote. I am going to go with the desat and blue sea.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:36 pm

Bruceswar wrote:I have given people long enough to vote. I am going to go with the desat and blue sea.

But Marble Sea won by a 5 vote margin...

-Sully

by **natty dread** on Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:45 pm

Polls in the foundry are pretty worthless anyway... I never do polls on map threads anymore. If people care enough about an issue, they will post about it, and they will post their reasons for it - which means I'll also get to know if people have good reasons for wanting a change or if they just "feel like it".

Also, on the colours: you should be careful not to overdo the desaturation. Since lack converts all map images to low quality jpeg:s, which reduces the colour saturation on the whole image, you may end up with less saturation than you intended on the final map images...

by **Bruceswar** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:17 am

Victor Sullivan wrote:
Bruceswar wrote:I have given people long enough to vote. I am going to go with the desat and blue sea.

But Marble Sea won by a 5 vote margin...

-Sully

Yes but I am the map maker. I hold the final vote.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:55 pm

Aww, I liked the marble sea

-Sully

by **Bruceswar** on Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:33 am

Soo going forward, lets talk gameplay. Impassables, Bonus values etc.

Click image to enlarge.

If I was going to add one in it would be between Rapla and Paide.

by **Gillipig** on Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:45 am

Bruceswar wrote:
Victor Sullivan wrote:
Bruceswar wrote:I have given people long enough to vote. I am going to go with the desat and blue sea.

But Marble Sea won by a 5 vote margin...

-Sully

Yes but I am the map maker. I hold the final vote.

Then why put up a poll in the first place? Ok people like this one better so I'm going to go with the other one...

?

by **Bruceswar** on Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:25 am

The vote had merit. I took 2nd place. Better than me taking 4th place.

by **lostatlimbo** on Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:21 pm

This looks pretty good.

You do definitely need more impassables. Particularly in the Latvia section, but really could use 4-5 more across the map.

I hope you try some different fonts too. This one is pretty flat and doesn't really fit the look of the map (in my opinion).

Hope it makes it through the Foundry sooner than later. I need it for a tourney. :)

by **lostatlimbo** on Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:23 pm

One other suggestion: just for a fun effect, you should try distorting and blurring the gridlines a little bit in random spots. Your background has the texture of an old map, but the grid is too straight and clear. It is incongruous.