An Ancient Greek Revamp

[edbeard]

overall it's quite good. some people already brought up a few things so I won't double on those but the one I will is the mountains. I'm not sure if it's the colour or the shape or both but I don't like it. The colour bleeds a bit to the north into some territories. It might just be the green on green. But then you have a brown to the north so maybe try something dark?

[Gilligan]

I think that you probably need to put the circular sea-path around Kyklades back... those dead-ends look a bit confusing

The ocean texture looks better, although I'd be inclined to lighten it a fraction more.

Personally I'm not sold on the choice of font - it feels a bit too cartoony.
edit: I like the look of SPAchmim or SPIonic that I have just found on this site [clicky]

I already prefer this version to the old one though Keep up the good work

If something circular goes, it should be something that isn't an attack route

[Mr. K]

I'm not totally sold on the font at this point, I actually preferred the other one I tried out but it didn't seem to popular. Both the ones you suggested would look awful in my opinion. The one doesn't look Greek at all, and the other uses actual Greek characters which wont work.

I don't think anything is really needed for Kyklades at this point, now that the name stretches out there. Plus the word "Islands" should explain it. It may be confusing at first look but not enough that someone wouldn't figure it out quickly, in my opinion.

[oaktown]

if there's going to be a revamp here, some of the little problems with the map should be discussed and addressed. My biggest problem with the map is that numbers with color codes run off the right side of the map - Prygia needs a bump to the left. And the old army circles are so dark it actually makes the blue numbers harder to read.

[Mr. K]

If you'd looked at the most recent version of the map, you'd see that all those things have already been taken care of.

[oaktown]

If you'd looked at the most recent version of the map, you'd see that all those things have already been taken care of.

Ah, missed the version with army shadows... but the phrygia circle still looks a bit close to the edge.

And I forgot to mention - it looks really good.

[Incandenza]

This looks a damn sight better than the current map.

Keep up the good work, K!

[MrBenn]

I'm not totally sold on the font at this point, I actually preferred the other one I tried out but it didn't seem to popular. Both the ones you suggested would look awful in my opinion. The one doesn't look Greek at all, and the other uses actual Greek characters which wont work.

Whoops
How about this font: http://www.dafont.com/ancient-geek.font? It uses Greek characters that look like the standard alphabet... although I think it looks a little too clean

[Mr. K]

No way. Nothing I hate more then when people use greek characters incorrectly to write in english (like when Sigma is used as an E).

As for the Phyrigia circle, I'm not going to change the XML at all so i'm not going to move it. Sorry :\

[pepperonibread]

No way. Nothing I hate more then when people use greek characters incorrectly to write in english (like when Sigma is used as an E).

As for the Phyrigia circle, I'm not going to change the XML at all so i'm not going to move it. Sorry :\

Not change the XML?
It would honestly take about a minute to edit the coordinates if you needed to. Heck, I'd do it for you if you like...

[MrBenn]

As for the Phyrigia circle, I'm not going to change the XML at all so i'm not going to move it. Sorry :\

Good luck getting through the forge then

[gimil]

Mate your missing alot of basic information in the title and the first page.

Could you have a quick read of the map making handbook and add the stuff you got missing please?

Map Makers Handbook

Cheers
Gim

[Mr. K]

Why does the XML need to be changed? It works fine exactly how it is, why the hell would I change it? After all, half the people in this thread have said "why does this need a revamp??" Like i said from the start, i'm changing the graphics and nothing else.

Title Requirements
1. The page with the latest development of production. (I.E. ‘Update – Pg 3')
2. No use of [brackets]: use (parentheses), --dashes--, or “quotes” instead.
3. For every stamp you recieve the appropriate tag should be included in the title. [I, Gp, Gr, X]

I = Idea
Gp = Gameplay
Gr = Graphics
X = XML

Information Requirements on the first post of a maps thread
1. The number of territories currently on the map.
2. The number of continents. (If this makes sense for your map)
3. Descriptions of any unique features or areas.

Are you kidding? Why would I need these things? They already exist. This map has been on for 2 years, the idea, gameplay, graphics and XML are well established. The number of continents, territories, and features are all exactly the same. I'm not going to waste time with this formality when its beyond unnecessary.

[edbeard]

I believe the reason people are asking about the Phyrigia circle is that when a player has 4 digit armies on that territory, the right most digit is not visible because it goes off the side of the map.

[Mr. K]

4 digit armies? Holy hell, How often does that happen? If you have four digit armies, does it really matter what the last one is anyway? Nope.