Alaska - v6.1 [2013-05-17] pg7

[Seamus76]

Large ships should all start with a 4 neutral.
Did you want them to be handed out as positions as well? If so, then a max of two with an underlying neutral to make the others start neutral.
Aleutians needs a neutral so you can code that post as one.

I did want them handed out as starting positions. So 1-4 player games would each start with 2 large ships per player, and 5-8 player games would each get 1 per player. So my question, the non-distributed ships would start 4n, but the others being handed would they also start with 4 troops (or basically 2, and then on the first turn get +2 auto-deploy to equal 4)?

The idea I was thinking behind the boats is this. When you go to a ship, you go empty handed. But leaving your boat heavily laden with supplies makes the voyage a bit more tricky. Seems to be in keeping with the theme.

I get it, I'm not sure players will really think about it that way, and by giving players large ships as starting positions I think having the inbound ships be 2n keeps them a little more protected from someone attacking from a port. Although it is just 1 more neutral, I like having both small ships consistent with each other at 2n. Of course it's still early, so we can see what discussion there might be on the matter. (Not that there has been much discussion except between the two of us ).

[koontz1973]

OK, code the ships as 2 positions max with an underlying neutral of 4. No need to do anything else with these so players will start with the normal 3 and as soon a they start, they get a 5 to play with.

OK, keep the neutrals the same for the small boats. 1 or 2 is OK.

[Seamus76]

CURRENT UPDATE INFO - 2013-05-16:
- Broke up the large Far North region as proposed by koontz. The bonus numbers are just place holders. But, I couldn't have the top part called Far North, and the lower Northwest since that is a pretty far departure from the actual "Far North" region. So I kind of went in a best of both worlds direction and broke it up, but added the complete Far North as an additional bonus opportunity. (Which is really just a way to keep the original Far North region represented on the map, which I feel is a must).
- Updated the Large ship info to reflect +2 auto-deploy instead of +3.
- Updated Small boat info in the OP to reflect they will start 2n and revert to 2n if held.
- Changed the legend Arrow description from "attack" to supply line.
- Moved the port from Sitka to Valdez.

Thoughts?

Things to do.
- Tone down ship set text and arrows.
- Add light outer glow to all tert names to help bring them out.

CURRENT MAP VERSION

v6.0 - Large (840x800)

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[koontz1973]

I like the north now. Much more interesting. How about:
North combined +10
South combined +14
Aleutian and Inside passage +9 (extra one as they are apart)

Drop the s from Aleutians and add islands in the legend. They are know as the Aleutian islands.

Apart from this, I think you are done.

[Seamus76]

I like the north now. Much more interesting. How about:
North combined +10
South combined +14
Aleutian and Inside passage +9 (extra one as they are apart)

Drop the s from Aleutians and add islands in the legend. They are know as the Aleutian islands.

Apart from this, I think you are done.

Thanks. Ok, so your saying to do smaller combined maps and bonuses for the two South regions, and the Inside Passage plus Aleutian, as I did for the full Far North? That's not bad but I will have to decrease the fonts of the large bonuses names which could lead to issues with the small map. Also adding in "Islands" to Aleutian will definitely take up a lot more room. But if that's the direction you're talking about let me know and I'll give it a shot I guess.

So, you think the other bonuses are okay as is for now?

[koontz1973]

Bonuses I still need to run.

[Seamus76]

Bonuses I still need to run.

But the other confirms what your idea was, yes?

[koontz1973]

Bonuses I still need to run.

But the other confirms what your idea was, yes?

Yes. Each bonus zone stays the same, but with the doubling up bonuses, you bring over what you started in China with the super bonuses.

[Seamus76]

CURRENT UPDATE INFO - 2013-05-17:
- Added in the "All South" and "Inside Passage + Aleutians" super regions.
- To do the above I had to make the other bonus text smaller.

Things to do.
- Tone down ship set text and arrows.
- Add light outer glow to all tert names to help bring them out.

CURRENT MAP VERSION

v6.1 - Large (840x800)

Click image to enlarge.

[RedBaron0]

Graphically, and its early I would go crazy with this, the map is pretty polished. Only things that really pop out at me at this point is that its very weird for me to see Chukchi Sea upside-down along the 60N line, but its cosmetic. AN to me some texts are a little too sharp for an "old-timie" map, mostly the title and the ships. The text in the Inner Passage may actually be a tad bit too light. That light glow around Yakutat might need to be on all those territory names going across the red of the territory.

[Seamus76]

Graphically, and its early I would go crazy with this, the map is pretty polished.

Thanks so much for the feedback, and vote of confidence. I think I might be getting the hang of this whole map thing, but not sure I'll be working more up any time soon.

Only things that really pop out at me at this point is that its very weird for me to see Chukchi Sea upside-down along the 60N line, but its cosmetic.

I'll just leave it for now and we can see how it goes.

AN to me some texts are a little too sharp for an "old-timie" map, mostly the title and the ships.

Yeah, that and the below are two things that have been on my list for a little while now. My plan is to lower the opacity a bit on them to make everything look the same.

The text in the Inner Passage may actually be a tad bit too light. That light glow around Yakutat might need to be on all those territory names going across the red of the territory.

Yup, that's the plan as well. Really, my thought was to add that glow to all of the text, to help bring them out where needed.

Thanks again. I'll just keep rolling along, and when we officially meet back up after gameplay I'm hoping there won't be much to do. Knock on wood.