Africa II [SoS Africa Reward Map]

[chapcrap]

Not ignored, I'll fix it.

This is great news!!

[HardAttack]

This map sucks. It is pretty, but borders are unclear. If it wasn`t for Bob, I would never know which teritory attacks which.

What is exactly unclear? Not had a problem myself.

I think (hope) that with unclear he means un-common. The fact we didn't use colors on the land for continents...because a part for that I don't understand how a black line could be unclear... Oh maybe the inner bridges...i think I'll leave bridges only for connections between different territories, for internal connections I'll do something like this:

One thing if easy to handle, can we resize the map to decrease the size down to % 80 or % 75 of the current size ? Asking this to have the map to fit in screen

Look at page 5, that version is the possible new small, is it good in that size for you?

Yup bud, the smaller version in page 5 is pretty nice looking...
That is what i exactly desire to see to be the final size bud

[koontz1973]

This is the latest xml for this map.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/1/27/3255536/A2.xml

[thenobodies80]

In that xml congo borders with angola....i remember you fixed it but i can't find the link

[koontz1973]

http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/1/27/3255536/Africa3.xml


Angola / Congo removed.

[thenobodies80]

The new images are in the OP, for now I've left the bridges....the option I've proposed above looks terrible on the map...I have to think a bit about it and find something that really works.
Btw, files sent to Lack!

[chapcrap]

The new images are in the OP, for now I've left the bridges....the option I've proposed above looks terrible on the map...I have to think a bit about it and find something that really works.
Btw, files sent to Lack!

Great job!! Apart from the fonts not being the same, the bridges are the only issue I have left.

[cairnswk]

3. The title is too close to the right hand border, and doesn't have the same spacing that it has on the top side. I can appreciate that it is probably trying to be fit on the land mass there, but it simply looks odd to me.

Debatable...I think the title is ok in the current position

tnb80...i'd still like to see this one happen...the title needs to move left by the same margin that is at the top.

[thenobodies80]

Will do cairnswk, will do. Just trying to get rid of some things on my to do list before to work again on the map.

Btw, are the new size better? Is people happier with this small version?

[chapcrap]

Will do cairnswk, will do. Just trying to get rid of some things on my to do list before to work again on the map.

Btw, are the new size better? Is people happier with this small version?

I am so much happier. Evidence:

[cairnswk]

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Btw, are the new size better? Is people happier with this small version?

Are people happier with this small version? I am very happy with the small version. Nice and compact.
However, i checked out the size of the large map also...does it really need to be that big?

[Dukasaur]

I do like the smaller size better.

[koontz1973]

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Btw, are the new size better? Is people happier with this small version?

Are people happier with this small version? I am very happy with the small version. Nice and compact.
However, i checked out the size of the large map also...does it really need to be that big?

Maybe the old small map could become the new large map

[thenobodies80]

I won't change the size of the large....I've given something to those who have a small screen, please let also the people with a big monitor can have their version!

[chapcrap]

I won't change the size of the large....I've given something to those who have a small screen, please let also the people with a big monitor can have their version!

I think this decision is fine.

Also, for me, it's not about screen size. People (natty, DiM, tnb80, etc.) have commented that it's about a small screen. Maybe that's the case for some, but for me it's because I want a small map.

[Ace Rimmer]

Joe,

After reading the "fun" thread by natty in GD and seeing DiM's critique of the map, I decided I'd look for myself at it and give you another set of eyes.

- The impassable text in the bottom right is too small, I think it should stand out more than the gfx/xml signatures. It looks more like something that's not important, like my background of the Cuban Missile Crisis text.
- I think the yellow outlines for W Africa and the orange outlines for S Africa are difficult to see against the brown of the desert. The yellow is fine on the jungle, but not so much on the sand.
- I hope you can find something better to do with the bridges, I agree they are too bland.
- I'm not a huge fan of the look of the sand dunes either... I wouldn't know they were dunes if it didn't say so in the impassable text.
- I really like the bonus structure and how you have it without the continent borders. I think it's a nice change of pace, and I don't find it difficult to see what's going on in the map at all. I haven't played it yet, but I don't see which borders would be unclear.
- I didn't look at the small (but important) things like cairnswk's notice of the Title being offset, although I do notice that easily.

--Ace

[creel]

Actually was looking forward to playing the map and boning up on my geography, but the continent hosts so many it would likely be too challenging to host them all.

I wonder if an historical map might reduce the number of territories needed to be named for game-play and continue accuracy?

looking forward to beta play

cheers

[vodean]

there are 54 countries in africa... im not sure if you intentionally left off some fo the small islands, etc., or what, but Djibouti is definitely missing (it is next to Ethiopia between Eritrea and Somalia).

really cool map

[Seamus76]

Not sure if it's been pointed out but:

In Game 11072957 I am to receive +2 for Horn of African, when legend says it should be +1.

Also, I think the bonuses on the small map are hard to read. I can't tell if some are +1, +2, or +3.

Nice work on the map though guys.

[koontz1973]

Not sure if it's been pointed out but:

In Game 11072957 I am to receive +2 for Horn of African, when legend says it should be +1.
Nice work on the map though guys.

Fixed in xml. Same link as before.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/1/27/3255536/Africa3.xml

[dparks240]

Not sure if i am the first one to spot this, but in Game 10892303 orange is to receive 3 for holding the west coast when he doesn't have Senegal. BOB highlights the other 5 territories of the west coast for the bonus, but not Senegal.

[koontz1973]

Not sure if i am the first one to spot this, but in Game 10892303 orange is to receive 3 for holding the west coast when he doesn't have Senegal. BOB highlights the other 5 territories of the west coast for the bonus, but not Senegal.

It has been fixed in the xml update in the post before yours.

[macbone]

I'm playing my first game on this map, and I was surprised to see that I was holding a bonus. I should have read the map legend more carefully, and I can see now that each bonus is related to an animal, but I'd like to see this made more plain. If I missed it, I'm sure a lot of first-timers who aren't running BOB will miss the bonus structures, too.

[thenobodies80]

Not sure if it's been pointed out but:

In Game 11072957 I am to receive +2 for Horn of African, when legend says it should be +1.
Nice work on the map though guys.

Fixed in xml. Same link as before.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/1/27/3255536/Africa3.xml

Sent. I'll update the map images with the requested changes as soon as I feel better than now, please be patient.

[Victor Sullivan]

After playing a bunch of games on this map, methinks Southern Africa would do best as a +3. It's already positioned in an ideal spot, given the the expansion opportunities. Plus, if you compare it to the other +4 bonus areas, it's definitely the 'cheapest'.

-Sully