Conquer Club

The map 'Poker Club' is unbalanced in my opinion, because the royal flushes are not spread evenly. The one starting in the top left corner has a big chance of getting the royal flush of clubs, where the other royal flush (for example spades) are spread over the whole map. I have to cross the whole map (startin in the bottem right corner) to get the queen of spades for a royal flush. The same holds for diamonds and hearts.

wondering what is with the poker club map spoils. i get 1 less than what is listed, if a flush =8 why do i only get 7? am i missing something?

tattooedude wrote:wondering what is with the poker club map spoils. i get 1 less than what is listed, if a flush =8 why do i only get 7? am i missing something?

Yes, you get one for territories.

lancehoch wrote:

tattooedude wrote:wondering what is with the poker club map spoils. i get 1 less than what is listed, if a flush =8 why do i only get 7? am i missing something?

Yes, you get one for territories.

As someone who loves that particular map, it really should be clarified. There are a lot of folks confused by it.

Woodruff wrote:As someone who loves that particular map, it really should be clarified. There are a lot of folks confused by it.

I believe that the XML cannot be coded to give 0 troops for a territory count bonus, so the bonus must be broken down into two sections as it is now.

see it this way:the bonus indicated on that map is the total amount of armies you'll get for holding your territories (for that round)

Moved from Suggestions & Bug Reports to Map Foundry.
Foundry Mods please merge with quenched thread.

Cicero

ok, thx all

Any chance making the poker cards a pastel shade, so you can see easier where you border, what you have etc?

Moved to the Map Foundry, someone there should be able to merge this with the poker map thread. Although as it is already quenched, I highly doubt that it will be changed.

Last two posts merged.

Unless this is a serious, serious concern, I can't see this map changing. After being quenched for so long it is really the map makers discretion as to whether they wish to change the map or not. Unless it is a serious concern.


gimil

gimil wrote:Last two posts merged.

Unless this is a serious, serious concern, I can't see this map changing. After being quenched for so long it is really the map makers discretion as to whether they wish to change the map or not. Unless it is a serious concern.


gimil

This is serious

I agree that that it would be REALLY nice to get some color in those cards. When I mouse over neutral/unknown spoils, I can't see most of them on the map because the white square to indicate where the spoil is is completely on the white card.

However, I came here for a different reason. I looked at the XML and I can't figure out how he coded the starting territs. I see how he did continents and all the stuff about territ locations/borders, but I cannot figure out how he restricted the territs so that they never drop touching each other. Can anyone point me to the lines in the code that make this happen?

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<territory>
<name>4 of Clubs</name>
<borders>
<border>9 of Hearts</border>
<border>King of Diamonds</border>
</borders>
<coordinates>
<smallx>157</smallx>
<smally>132</smally>
<largex>211</largex>
<largey>169</largey>
</coordinates>
<neutral>3</neutral>
</territory>

The non-starting regions are simply coded to be 3 neutral.
The rest of the regions are distributed randomly between neutral and all the players.

Yeti did a really good job with the XML.

Yeah, it's some amazing code.

And thanks for the answer.

What happened to the map of the starting territs .... the one where the starting territs had red dots on them? I thought it was in the OP.

Where'd the map image with starting positions go? Used to be in the OP. Kind of need it to play the map ....

Please repost. Thanks.

agentcom wrote:Where'd the map image with starting positions go? Used to be in the OP. Kind of need it to play the map ....

Please repost. Thanks.

Anyone? I think it had red army circles that indicated where the starting positions were.

agentcom wrote:

agentcom wrote:Where'd the map image with starting positions go? Used to be in the OP. Kind of need it to play the map ....

Please repost. Thanks.

Anyone? I think it had red army circles that indicated where the starting positions were.

Every time I play this map, I come back here to look for it ... what happened to it?

Any thoughts on having slightly different shades of each color? I've seen that in casino's and it helps a bit. Just a thought.

Cool map though!

agentcom wrote:

agentcom wrote:

agentcom wrote:Where'd the map image with starting positions go? Used to be in the OP. Kind of need it to play the map ....

Please repost. Thanks.

Anyone? I think it had red army circles that indicated where the starting positions were.

Every time I play this map, I come back here to look for it ... what happened to it?

yeti_c no longer own that account so the image is lost.

Anyway here two images of the map, the first with 888 (neutral and starting territories) and the second just with colored dots where starting territories.





Btw, those are not starting positions but starting regions.They are not coded to start as assigned regions to player. Instead players start with those regions just because everything else start as neutral.

Nobodies

Thanks

thenobodies80 wrote:

agentcom wrote:

agentcom wrote:

agentcom wrote:Where'd the map image with starting positions go? Used to be in the OP. Kind of need it to play the map ....

Please repost. Thanks.

Anyone? I think it had red army circles that indicated where the starting positions were.

Every time I play this map, I come back here to look for it ... what happened to it?

yeti_c no longer own that account so the image is lost.

Anyway here two images of the map, the first with 888 (neutral and starting territories) and the second just with colored dots where starting territories.

Click image to enlarge.

Click image to enlarge.

Btw, those are not starting positions but starting regions.They are not coded to start as assigned regions to player. Instead players start with those regions just because everything else start as neutral.

Nobodies

I think it would be nice if conquerclub hosted these images.

I just looked through my old image folder for the Poker Club map.
I do not have any image other than what is on the site.
Plus after reading the fist post again, the starting neutrals are based on the number of players as well as reducing potential of bonuses on drop.

But.....It has been 12+ years since we worked on this map and I have forgotten a bit about what yeti did for the XML.

chapcrap wrote:I think it would be nice if conquerclub hosted these images.

I have to agree, though for this map it isn't that bad. OP has the possible starting positions in text format. On other maps there's a lot of lost information though.

yeti_c wrote:The following table shows all of the neutral starting territories.

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 A  h _ c _       7 _ d _ s
 K  h d c s       6 h d c s
 Q  h _ c _       5 _ d _ s
 J  _ d _ s       4 h _ c _
10 h d c s       3 h d c s
 9 _ d _ s       2 h _ c _
 8 h d c s
H=9 D=9 C=9  S=9  Total: 36