[Abandoned] Slovakia

[DiM]

Map Name: Slovakia
Mapmaker(s): DiM, Zimmah
Number of Territories: 27
Special Features: 3 terits start as neutral (3) the rest are normally deployed.
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: it's a simple small map perfect for quick games

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small:
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/Slovakia-S-1.png

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[natty dread]

That's way too cluttered with so many territories. Cut down at least half of them.

[DiM]

That's way too cluttered with so many territories. Cut down at least half of them.

no way. this is the next battle royale map

[koontz1973]

Nothing wrong with this apart from being way to dark. I foresee a rash of small maps being made. How the times have changed.

[DiM]

Nothing wrong with this apart from being way to dark.

really? i initially made it darker but just before posting it i added an adjustment layer to make it brighter.
i honestly like it more like this. i think it's a nice change from all the pastel coloured, clean and light maps that we have. we don't have many dark grungy maps out there.

I foresee a rash of small maps being made. How the times have changed.

a rash? why? small maps have their own merit.

[DiM]

the gameplay is pretty straight forward. my only question is if i should change the northern border of bratislava region to make it connect to trencin.
my concern is that bratislava is locked by trnava with the current borders. i'm not a big fan of changing real borders but as we all know gameplay comes first.

[koontz1973]

It is so dark, I can hardly read the legend, what there is of it. Also, the left territ names.

[DiM]

It is so dark, I can hardly read the legend, what there is of it. Also, the left territ names.

no way man. either you have very poor eyesight or the brightness of your display is very low. i can read the legend from 10 feet away.

i mean ok let's say i'd understand the image being a bit dark. but to be unable to read the legend is impossible.

[sannemanrobinson]

Do you assume everyone knows Bratislava is a capital and not a region? Removing the army circles from regions would make more clear what is the region and what is the capital.

[J_Indr]

Wow, don't tell me that now with Gentle Revolution we suddenly have two Slovak maps in development.

You need to correct the diacriticals your capitals though:

Trenčín
Žilina
Prešov
Košice
Banská Bystrica

[DiM]

Do you assume everyone knows Bratislava is a capital and not a region? Removing the army circles from regions would make more clear what is the region and what is the capital.

actually no.
i'm talking about the capitals of regions not about the capital of the country.

for example the Trenčiansky region has the capital in Trenčín and if you hold both you get +1.

that's why each continent has 2 terits. one is the region and one is the region's capital.

[DiM]

Wow, don't tell me that now with Gentle Revolution we suddenly have two Slovak maps in development.

You need to correct the diacriticals your capitals though:

Trenčín
Žilina
Prešov
Košice
Banská Bystrica

lol i didn't even realise that )
actually i was talking to a few colleagues from work about maybe taking a trip through europe this summer and slovakia would be one of the locations in our trip so that gave me the idea to make a map of it while i was looking on google maps.

but i guess it's no problem if we have 2 maps since the gameplay is completely different.

and yep, i know i need to correct the capital names. somehow i forgot to do those.

[sannemanrobinson]

Do you assume everyone knows Bratislava is a capital and not a region? Removing the army circles from regions would make more clear what is the region and what is the capital.

actually no.
i'm talking about the capitals of regions not about the capital of the country.

for example the Trenčiansky region has the capital in Trenčín and if you hold both you get +1.

that's why each continent has 2 terits. one is the region and one is the region's capital.

So both the region and the capital borders the surrounding regions?

[DiM]

Do you assume everyone knows Bratislava is a capital and not a region? Removing the army circles from regions would make more clear what is the region and what is the capital.

actually no.
i'm talking about the capitals of regions not about the capital of the country.

for example the Trenčiansky region has the capital in Trenčín and if you hold both you get +1.

that's why each continent has 2 terits. one is the region and one is the region's capital.

So both the region and the capital borders the surrounding regions?

yes

[DiM]

V2:
*corrected the capital names
*differentiated the text for capital names and region names on the map and in the legend to avoid any confusion
*made the map lighter.