New Jersey [Quenched]

by **chaos32679** on Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:31 pm

Anthrax821 wrote:you hit this bad boy with any of those graphics yet or anything?

home tomorrow, trying to get some help, then i'll drop an update.

by **RjBeals** on Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:24 pm

what kind of help?

by **Anthrax821** on Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:05 am

give the man a handy!

by **chaos32679** on Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:19 pm

ok, new map posted. i changed the look and feel a bit, wanted it to look more like an old map. map will only have 1 auto (trenton) instead of 5.

working on possibly adding some impassables. also need region names, and bonus amounts.

stay tuned...

Click image to enlarge.

by **perchorin** on Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:49 pm

I like the color scheme, and it gave me an idea for your impassables--how about urban legends like sewer alligators, rat kings, jimmy hoffa grave sites etc?

by **Anthrax821** on Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:14 am

i like the look

NJ has tons of rivers....there are your impassables as well

by **chaos32679** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:09 am

question... how do i determine region bonus? is there a formula, or do i just wing it, try to make it realistic? any help would be appreciated....

by **Anthrax821** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:33 am

i believe region bonuses are determined by amount of lands bordering the region/routes to break bonus.

one of th emap guys can verify this but I thought that was standard formula

by **isaiah40** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:38 am

chaos32679 wrote:question... how do i determine region bonus? is there a formula, or do i just wing it, try to make it realistic? any help would be appreciated....

Try this. This is an excel spreadsheet to help with determining the bonuses.

by **chaos32679** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:02 pm

update - added impassables, updated key, added bonus values

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by **Anthrax821** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:38 pm

getting there. dont know much about the location of the rivers and such and I know they are just there as barriers but they seem awkward or not in the right spot. Looks sweet though.

by **chaos32679** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:15 pm

Anthrax821 wrote:getting there. dont know much about the location of the rivers and such and I know they are just there as barriers but they seem awkward or not in the right spot. Looks sweet though.

they are pretty accurate, location wise. raritan is a little off, its big, would create too much of a bottle neck in the middle, and that area already is tight...

define awkard...

by **Anthrax821** on Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:06 am

one thing you can do which would make it look nicer is to include the whole river but just add little bridges or something where you want people to still be able to cross. graphically it might work better

awkward...i dont know, I little blue line running across a terr or two and then just ending...just seems odd

by **Criticalwinner** on Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:33 am

You could add the capital as a country with an auto-deploy function. This would balance out the necessity of a good drop. Also,the rivers still look like that they were added on a whim... It's a good idea, it just needs some major work still.

by **Flapcake** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:14 am

the images are not shown, it says the picture cant be seen course of server temporary down or the file have been removed

by **chaos32679** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:49 am

Flapcake wrote:the images are not shown, it says the picture cant be seen course of server temporary down or the file have been removed

what? i can see them fine, anyone else having issues? try again i guess...

by **Flapcake** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:02 am

chaos32679 wrote:
Flapcake wrote:the images are not shown, it says the picture cant be seen course of server temporary down or the file have been removed

what? i can see them fine, anyone else having issues? try again i guess...

Ahh sorry my fault, it was the time settings on my conputer, sites.google wont show the page if the date/time aint set correct

by **chaos32679** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:31 am

Update

lengthened rivers, added crossings

Click image to enlarge.

by **Anthrax821** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:46 am

looks less awkward now with bigger rivers

by **chaos32679** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:11 pm

i need region names, will work on them soon.

also, anyone have any other suggestions about the map in general? is it acceptable yet?

by **RedBaron0** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:37 pm

Focus on your gameplay man, you've got a decent start, I'm from just across the river, and have a good understanding of Jersey.

I wouldn't mind seeing a unique hook of the the dreaded New Jersey round-a-bouts worked into gameplay... lol

Regional names shouldn't be too hard to figure out. This should be a a decent place to start.

Couple things for me for you to change:

Wildwood is further south, you know that.... change that territory to Ocean City or Sea Isle City

Gameplay wise I think you really need to breakup these rather large bonuses. North Jersey isn't too bad, but you can really rearrange South Jersey for better gameplay. Break off AC, Wildwood, Cape May and Vineland into a bonus probably just a +1 Burlington and the rest of central Jersey can become a new bonus at +2 or 3 and the rest of Southeast Jersey becomes a new bonus at likely +2 or 3.

Of course then being in north Jersey is gonna be hard to win a game.... you may have to think about combining a few of those smaller territories and bring down some of those values.

by **Flapcake** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:40 pm

rivers looks good but the black bold lines between countries are too eye-catching, try a 2 pix line without disturbance, perhaps with an outer glow
as redbaron points, I also believe that you can split the southwest more up to some minor bonuses

I look forward to playing New Jersey

by **The Bison King** on Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:54 am

Well this is indeed well along it's way. I'm going to go ahead and sticky this.

If you got sumptin to say about Jersey? If you got a problem with this map? You best bring it up soon, you know what I'm sayin?