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by **Victor Sullivan** on Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:39 pm

No love for your Newsletter boss? *chuckles*

Anywho, I like the new design, though I don't think you need it that huge. I think you could easily scale it down.

-Sully

by **koontz1973** on Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:49 pm

Victor Sullivan wrote:No love for your Newsletter boss? *chuckles*

Anywho, I like the new design, though I don't think you need it that huge. I think you could easily scale it down.

-Sully

Can easily be scaled down but would want to wait for a few versions as if it gets scaled down and the GP/Gr change then the room may be needed. Right now the text is very basic and cuold easily change. As soon as the GP direction is sorted and the legend text is sort of finished then it will get done. I applied for the full size of supersize just in case.

by **isaiah40** on Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:40 am

I'm glad to see you took Helix's suggestion. I think this will go a long way with this theme. It's like the movies where the good guys a re looking at a blueprint to decide the best way in and take out the bad guys.

As for colors for the bonuses, I say color all the names for the specific bonus and go with that.

And since this looks like a good working draft I think this can be moved.

by **koontz1973** on Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:32 am

Thanks isaiah.

Will go with the coloured names for the bonus zones but right now we need to figure them out. There are 14 bosses on the map at the moment (soon to be 15 with the addition of Sully, he was late to the party). As soon as they are positioned in roughly the right way, I can go about changing the colours of the font.

by **lostatlimbo** on Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:50 am

I'm still not understanding what makes this a White House map. You have conquer club players mixed with presidents, but they could be placed in any setting. What makes this unique to the white house?

And why are there random impassable lines in each room?

There is an election coming up. It might be interesting to have a map where you have to gain electoral votes for troops with the goal of winning the oval office?

by **koontz1973** on Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:32 am

lostatlimbo wrote:I'm still not understanding what makes this a White House map. You have conquer club players mixed with presidents, but they could be placed in any setting. What makes this unique to the white house?

It is the floor plan of the white house.
I am still trying to come up with a theme that works for me. This is the reason I said that the legend is not finalised.
Ran out of Presidents so had to put random names in for now.

lostatlimbo wrote:And why are there random impassable lines in each room?

Because that is the way the White house plans are. This is a direct copy of them.

lostatlimbo wrote:There is an election coming up. It might be interesting to have a map where you have to gain electoral votes for troops with the goal of winning the oval office?

Elections come and go. Having an electoral map would only seem relevant every 4 years.

I came up with 2 ideas, the first one sucked and the second one is going in the right direction but it is still only a lose thread of an idea. isaiah40 idea of having the bad guys planning a heist seems to be taking another step into that direction while also going back a step.

What I am planning to do is use isaiah40 idea, place the bosses around the white house on the outside so they will all have a unique entry point. Instead of using the rooms as winning condition, use works of art of objects that would be found in each room. Sort of like the scene in National Treasure when they break into the oval office for a clue.

by **lostatlimbo** on Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:36 pm

Just to throw out another idea for you to mull over... what if you had areas for all the Cabinet members and received bonuses for holding them in succession? (As in, you get more troops the higher up the chain you go, but don't if you lose someone at the bottom?)

There are roughly 25 notable positions you could use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... _officials

You could also have the White House Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff to the VP, etc.

I understand you are struggling with the theme, but that's why I'm throwing ideas out to help stoke some inspiration. :)

by **lostatlimbo** on Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:39 pm

Or what if you had newly passed federal laws as starting positions. Each player must gain support in the white house, but the player who conquers the Oval Office could veto (bombard) the laws?

by **koontz1973** on Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:15 pm

lostatlimbo wrote:Just to throw out another idea for you to mull over... what if you had areas for all the Cabinet members and received bonuses for holding them in succession? (As in, you get more troops the higher up the chain you go, but don't if you lose someone at the bottom?)

There are roughly 25 notable positions you could use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... _officials

You could also have the White House Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff to the VP, etc.

I understand you are struggling with the theme, but that's why I'm throwing ideas out to help stoke some inspiration.

I got this list of cabinet members when I was trying out the first idea with the bad guys holding the West Wing hostage. Putting a few in around the offices might add another element to the gameplay. Giving them there own bonus might not be a bad thing but I would not want it to develop to much in this direction.

Code: Select all: Vice President of the United States Joseph R. Biden Department of State Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton http://www.state.gov Department of the Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner http://www.treasury.gov Department of Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta http://www.defenselink.mil Department of Justice Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. http://www.usdoj.gov Department of the Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar http://www.doi.gov Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack http://www.usda.gov Department of Commerce Acting Secretary Dr. Rebecca M. Blank http://www.commerce.gov Department of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis http://www.dol.gov Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius http://www.hhs.gov Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun L.S. Donovan http://www.hud.gov Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood http://www.dot.gov Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu http://www.energy.gov Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan http://www.ed.gov Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki http://www.va.gov Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano http://www.dhs.gov The following positions have the status of Cabinet-rank: White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson http://www.epa.gov Office of Management & Budget Jacob J. Lew, Director http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb United States Trade Representative Ambassador Ronald Kirk http://www.ustr.gov United States Ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov/ Council of Economic Advisers http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/

Or what if you had newly passed federal laws as starting positions. Each player must gain support in the white house, but the player who conquers the Oval Office could veto (bombard) the laws?

I cannot really see the fun in this, plus we have the senate map so I am going to try and stay away from politics to much.

by **danfrank** on Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:03 pm

what makes this map worthy of being made .... Sorry to post this here , but your a hot mapmaker right now and you are getting alot of traffic.. but i recall you also had alittle tussle over opinions and colonization. You see " what makes this map worthy of being made " answers to this statement can also cause conflicts of Opinion :roll:

By the way nice map !!

by **koontz1973** on Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:02 am

Thanks dan, working on an update as we speak but 1982 took over this week and I have to go away for a while. Hope to get something posted before I do though. You are right though, no facepalm this time as I intend to go down the isaiah route of a break in. Got the large scaled down some and it may come down a little more, but with the territ count now around 120+ it will be hard to squeeze it all in.