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by **yeti_c** on Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:02 am

Snowman wrote:Don't know if anyone has pointed this out but on the legend, a Full House is shown as being worth 9 armies but in the gameplay it seems to only give 8.

All of the bonuses are 1 out - due to limitations of the XML forcing me to award 1 army for territories held.

So - the +1 for territories +8 for the continent = 9.

If this limitation is removed I will recode the XML.

C.

by **Snowman** on Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:05 am

Ah OK, gotcha. Thanks for letting me know

by **BBoz** on Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:25 pm

yeti_c wrote:RE: Club Royal Flush - Yeah this one has been pointed out I'm in 2 minds.
a) Leave it there as there have to be *some* ways of getting these bonuses.
b) Swap the Queen over to the right with another queen (possibly hearts). (I need to check the viability of that first though)

I agree, I think the Royal Club Flush seems to be a little easy. Rather than swapping the Queen, I think swapping the jack may be better. Jc with Jh. Considered the diamond, but you bunch up the straight flush over there pretty tight.

by **danfrank** on Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:23 pm

I assume this map is in beta because you want people to criticize it so to say.. I thought i read a post that commented on the top half being difficult to read.i agree. The perspective on this map should be from a top view and not from one that appears like your sitting at a table .. By making the perspective from a top view all territories(cards) will be of equal size and reading the map while playing will be easier.

by **yeti_c** on Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:50 am

danfrank wrote:I assume this map is in beta because you want people to criticize it so to say.. I thought i read a post that commented on the top half being difficult to read.i agree. The perspective on this map should be from a top view and not from one that appears like your sitting at a table .. By making the perspective from a top view all territories(cards) will be of equal size and reading the map while playing will be easier.

Disagree - completely - in fact the territories at the top are easy to read as they have a shadow on them thus making the number show up easier.

C.

by **Opera Man FL** on Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:19 pm

Ok. Just played this for the first time and I like it. However, the member who won had a royal flush and only received 14 troops for it. The board shows 15 should have been awarded. Just some information so an error may be fixed.

by **Opera Man FL** on Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:21 pm

OK. Just read the explanation from someone who had a full house. You guessed; I didn't read the previous posts first.
:oops:

by **yeti_c** on Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:53 am

No worries - it is a shade confusing - but sadly the only way we can do it (at the moment!)

C.

by **BBoz** on Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:02 pm

Yeti,

Any progress on some tweaks to the graphics to make things easier to read? It's really hard to find all your armies on this map and keep track of them.

by **cazmart** on Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:08 pm

Yeti,

I love this map. I have one suggestion and if has already been brought up then I am sorry for repeating.

Have you given any thought to using a 4-color card deck. If you play much online poker it is an option. I even own 4-color decks for my home poker games.

Hearts - red
Spades - black
Clubs - green
Diamonds - blue

I just think this would make the board easier to read by giving it better color separation....all that red just seems hard on my eyes. Anyway just a thought. Keep up the good work.

by **HoosierMama** on Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:48 pm

I'm currently in a game and we're "stuck". One player has free run of the board while 3 of us are trapped next to each other. I think we need more access to other sides of the map. Game #3256716

by **yeti_c** on Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:17 am

BBoz wrote:Yeti,

Any progress on some tweaks to the graphics to make things easier to read? It's really hard to find all your armies on this map and keep track of them.

I need to catch Widowmakers sometime to discuss this - but we seem to be like two ships passing in the night at the moment.

C.

by **WidowMakers** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:03 am

Here I am. Let me talk to yeti and see what we can do.

by **yeti_c** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:08 am

OK We've done a new version of Poker Club with a tweaked background to allow for easier visuals...

V12

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V13

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And here's a comparison image (V13 on left = V12 on Right)

Vote please.

C.

by **pamoa** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:08 am

Sorry to say this but v13 doesn't seems to solve the readability problem.
I think the first step is to put in white all cards that do start as neutral, because it's part of the problem.
It's when you start a game and half of the map is white or worse 80% if it's with "fog" that you have problem in finding all your troops.
For me the problem is not the card bg color but the red and black figures, red above all.
They are graphically too similar with armies numbers and as you can not change the numbers you maybe can act on figure, but I don't know how for the moment.