Conquer Club

WidowMakers wrote:Sweet Looking map. I agree with some of teh others that there is lots of dead space.
Maybe make the legend bigger and fill up some of the lower left area. it will also make the legend easier to read.

Some questions and observations:

-What are teh bonus regions names. The mini map does not list them
-The train station and train station/territory symbols are easy to see in the legend but hard to tell apart in the map. Maybe have a square for train only and a diamond for both. That way they are easily distinguishable.

For "rail stations can only attack stations" in Pullman. Does that mean that the circle in Pullman cannot attack the rail square in Pullman?

WM

P.S. Teh white border in Dunning is going out of the territory and into dead space (top right side of Dunning)

-Fixed the language on the rail station attack routes.
- I redid the legend since I had to assign actual names to bonus regions ( I dont have the room to name West Side and Downtown for the minimap).
- New color scheme in Lake Michigan.
- Also adjusted the borders against Lake Michigan for it to blend in more, removed the textures from bonus regions to brighten up and separate the map , changed colors on terr names. Old white version was definitely more clear and defined but it seemed to be too white. ( Not sure which one I prefer).

Thanks for your input WM-- helped quite a bit.

looks great scott

I really like the graphics improvement. I think they really fit the big city feel. One thing, I think the order of the bonus groups needs to be changed. It appears you start and end going from left to right in lines from topp to bottom, but then in the middle the order gets mixed up. I would recommend this order to avoid confusion:
O'Hare
North Side
Near West Side
West Side
Downtown
Midway
Far South Side
South Side

Also, the territory train stations and the train station thing is a bit confusing. I'd either scrap that or make the icons look less alike.

Yeah, I second Mattosaurus on the Train station thing. I didn't even know what he was talking about until i looked at the map again. i thought they were all the same train terrs. and could all attack their base territories.

Maybe change the Train stations to a circle (as opposed to a circle in a box) or change the square to a filled in color )of the line it belongs to) and leave the circle white. That way it stands out a little more that not all train terrs. are the same, thus provoking the player to double check the rules.

WM had suggested that I use diamonds but i had forgotten-- see what I can do with it.

When does this very nice looking map get a draft stamp? Surely it is ready for the big show.

i agree STAMP! i wanna do battle in my favorite city in the world already

i agree stamp it! I wanna do battle in my favorite city in the world sometime this year lets move on to the next step.

Bruceswar wrote:When does this very nice looking map get a draft stamp? Surely it is ready for the big show.

laddida wrote:i agree STAMP! i wanna do battle in my favorite city in the world already

Yeah not sure the process but I'd rather not spend time or more time on it if it's not going any further. This will be the last update until we know for sure. EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm not trying to rush the process or skip in line.

*Fixed train stations.
*Added Airport attack routes to further open O'hare Inter.-- pretty certain I don't want to create another bonus considering I have the Orange line as one.

Scott-Land wrote:

Bruceswar wrote:When does this very nice looking map get a draft stamp? Surely it is ready for the big show.

laddida wrote:i agree STAMP! i wanna do battle in my favorite city in the world already

Yeah not sure the process but I'd rather not spend time or more time on it if it's not going any further. This will be the last update until we know for sure. EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm not trying to rush the process or skip in line.

*Fixed train stations.
*Added Airport attack routes to further open O'hare Inter.-- pretty certain I don't want to create another bonus considering I have the Orange line as one.

Click image to enlarge.

your image isn't working..

Dunno it was up last time I posted.

This map is too professional to be on cc.



It's beautiful and very creative. Nice work.

This needs to get a stamp. It should have been in the main foundry ages ago. Very cool and good looking.

WM

Two issues that I am seeing at the moment:

1) The Mount Greenwood territory overlapping the text box is kind of bothersome to me. It looks like you ran out of space and just tried to cram them together. If they could be separated a bit, I think that would be great.

2) On the river at the south, you have parts of the outside borders of West Pullman and Riverdale showing up right beside the river. These extra lines should be eliminated so it's just the water as the border.

hey, whitestazn88 here for the preliminary review. since the last time i was here, the map has gone through a bunch of great changes. at the moment, i have no beef with it, and i'm happy to give my approval of it moving to the main foundry.

whitestazn88 wrote:hey, whitestazn88 here for the preliminary review. since the last time i was here, the map has gone through a bunch of great changes. at the moment, i have no beef with it, and i'm happy to give my approval of it moving to the main foundry.

Your a funny guy

First time i am seeing this map and i like it.. Keep it up

where or how is this moving to the main foundry does this thread move to a new location? a bit confused on the next step id like to keep track of the progress

laddida wrote:where or how is this moving to the main foundry does this thread move to a new location? a bit confused on the next step id like to keep track of the progress

instead of being in the drafting room subforum of the map foundry, it is in the main page. you'll still be able to reach it from the drafting room via a link if you get too confused finding it in the map foundry

you need a Cook County

whitestazn88 wrote:

laddida wrote:where or how is this moving to the main foundry does this thread move to a new location? a bit confused on the next step id like to keep track of the progress

instead of being in the drafting room subforum of the map foundry, it is in the main page. you'll still be able to reach it from the drafting room via a link if you get too confused finding it in the map foundry

I think he was asking what exactly need to be done to get this map moved into the main foundry.. maybe

Does anyone know if there are guidelines that need met that get it moved to the different places? Is there a list of them somewhere?

Dexsting wrote:you need a Cook County

Downtown bonus is Cook County-- not sure how far it extends tho. I can find out ..... Anyhow was that what you were referring to?

Just saying Cook County is just about as Famous as Chicago itself, and maybe put it in somewhere...maybe set the bonuses by county and include Cook County as the biggest bonus

Dexsting wrote:Just saying Cook County is just about as Famous as Chicago itself, and maybe put it in somewhere...maybe set the bonuses by county and include Cook County as the biggest bonus

lol- I can prolly name all of 2 counties in Chicago.

Prelim review time! Personally I say just move it to the main foundry. Everything is there, the graphics look great, I love the darker, nighttime theme it has. My only crit would be to grab some stock images or something of a street poll, traffic light and sign as they all seem to break from the real images you have going on in the rest of the background.

The gameplay has no major flaws. I like the addition of the airport link, but out of curiosity is there an airport in Midway?

yes its called midway airport and its 10000 times better than going to o'hare airport less delays and not as crowded