France 1789

[bryguy]

personally, v.3 is my favorite.

[Ruben Cassar]

The sea looked better in version 1.

Apart from that the comments I made in the previous posts are still valid.

[gimil]

Sorry to sound like a negative old fart hte first time I come in here but could you do me a few favours please:

1. Use [bigimg] tags instead of [img] ones?

2. Only have the image on your latest draft in post 1 and have the rest of them as normal text links please?

This would make my life ever so easier and I could happily look over your map

Cheers bud.

[pamoa]

gimil: Use [bigimg] tags instead of [img] ones?
- Done
gimil: Only have the image on your latest draft in post 1 and have the rest of them as normal text links please?
- I do not understand, is it not like that now? Can you explain more clearly?

[bryguy]

I think gimil means like this:

Current Version:
[BigImg][/BigImg]


Previous Versions:
[url=Link to previous version goes here]Version Number goes here [clicky][/url]
[url=Link to previous version goes here]Version Number goes here [clicky][/url]
[url=Link to previous version goes here]Version Number goes here [clicky][/url]

[zimmah]

way too colorfull for an 18th century map, make it more brownish, a bit like viewtopic.php?f=64&t=38601&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

[TaCktiX]

Actually, I like the white palette with color outlines. It seems like one of those maps you'd find in a book about the French Revolution ("here's the state of France prior to the beheading of Louis XVI"). [opinion]Unlike France today, 18th century France was badass, with ridiculous capital spending, social uprisings, and the guillotine toward the end of the century.[/opinion]

One problem your map is going to run into: right now it's the Large size, and you've got some small territories. I would suggest cutting the left part of the map down and turning the map you have right now into the Small map, leaving you with tons of space in the large. You'll have to drop a little bit of England and Spain out for that, and move some of the text on the left side closer to shore, but it won't look cramped. You may also need to drop the doodads over there (though the ship and compass are a nice touch).

Also to help with that: the border is nice, but it's taking up 20 pixels or so on each side, 40 pixels that could go to better use on the focus of the map. Dropping the border won't kill the olden look and will grant you some more space to get within that 600px limit for small.

[ZeakCytho]

I agree with what Zimmah said, to an extent. I'd make the whole map slightly tan, but certainly not as brown as The New World. I'd keep the playable territories an off-white color.

What if you made the ocean parchment-like instead of white, and had the gradient from the land out be small and a more concentrated brown color? You could do cool stuff with the edges of the image, like curled-up edges, wrinkles, etc. to make it look older.

[mibi]

way too colorfull for an 18th century map, make it more brownish, a bit like viewtopic.php?f=64&t=38601&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

You can bet it wasn't brownish in the 18th century.

[pamoa]

Thanks guys for helping I'll work on it in a few day. I just wait the poll end so to choose which way to go and then work on "size problem" maybe starting with small map now it's 600 high and 800 wide!

[Ruben Cassar]

Thanks guys for helping I'll work on it in a few day. I just wait the poll end so to choose which way to go and then work on "size problem" maybe starting with small map!

The sea was much better in the first version but no one knows that because there is only a link to the image and basically no one cares to click on it or even realises it's there. You should have made the first image visible as well since it is an option on the poll. Not doing that makes this poll stilted.

[gimil]

[Adv. Idea]

I like the idea of this but we need some more discussion to happen before we release you to the fods

[pamoa]

[Adv. Idea]
I like the idea of this but we need some more discussion to happen before we release you to the fods

Thanks, now tell me I really want to see this project going forward and an "expert" point of view is more than wanted

[Ruben Cassar]

[Adv. Idea]
I like the idea of this but we need some more discussion to happen before we release you to the fods

Thanks, now tell me I really want to see this project going forward and an "expert" point of view is more than wanted

First step is to not ignore my posts.

[pamoa]

My dear Ruben,
I did read all your comments and I think I get the a clear idea of what you think about the sea.
You PREFER version 1 as you said in your 6 comments, ok i take note of it.
But I made a poll on this purpose to see if other people like more the gray sea by example!
And to my point of view I really tried to respond to each of your suggestions, sorry if sometimes, and they are a very few, I do not agree with you!
I hope you will appriciate to recive this personnal answer and wish you a nice day!