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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby Incandenza on Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:00 am

I don't suppose Middle East style watermarks for the continents would be possible...
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby Mr. Squirrel on Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:50 pm

Incandenza wrote:I don't suppose Middle East style watermarks for the continents would be possible...


I don't think that this region would look at all good in a middle east styled map. I like how he is doing it now. Icy and simple. That pretty much describes the region.
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby TaCktiX on Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:16 pm

Since you're going for what seems to be the "Rand McNally political" look, perhaps add longtitude and latitude lines to the map to give it another thematic nudge.
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby gimil on Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:45 pm

Lanyards, whats the latest on this one?
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby militant on Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:51 pm

The map looks awesome, it looks nice and simple which is really good, it reminds me a little of the new Iceland map for the same reason. I am really liking the look of it. Nice one Lanyards :D
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby Optimus Prime on Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:00 pm

militant wrote:The map looks awesome, it looks nice and simple which is really good, it reminds me a little of the new Iceland map for the same reason. I am really liking the look of it. Nice one Lanyards :D

It is a very clean and sharp looking map, but it isn't quite up to the level of the Iceland map, nothing on this site is in my opinion. I'm excited to play this one when you get it finished, lanyards. You know I love a good clean map. :)
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby Coleman on Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:17 pm

I'm a bit confused by the ports being the same color as two corresponding continents instead of their own color. :? That's the only improvement I can see, as their being their own color would help further clarify that they are not a part of any existing continent.
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby whitestazn88 on Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:58 am

did anyone notice that the colors have the exact same like... hue as the charleston map does?
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby tubaman on Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:31 pm

Your map is very pretty.
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby iancanton on Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:49 pm

a second arctic map! this map is very clean but, at these northerly latitudes, the traditional mercator projection (where north is directly upward on all parts of the map) distorts the distances a lot: the two land masses ought to be closer to each other at the top of the map than they are just now and further away at the bottom. to give the right shape of land and sea, the lines of latitude must curve in a smiling way. this can be approximated reasonably easily (if not entirely accurately) by cutting the map in two, then rotating north america anticlockwise.
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Joodoo wrote:Yukon is part of Canada, not USA.
Maybe you should make it North American Continents instead of American continents to make it more geographically correct.
Canada is in America. Right?

if canada is in america, then russia is in asia. the legend is inconsistent. the continents can be either be russian, american (of the usa) and canadian or asian and american (of north and south america). having only russian and american clearly implies that yukon is part of the usa and will be interpreted by many people as such.

can u rename siberia continent as chukotka? the entire visible left-hand landmass could perhaps be described as siberia in a loose sense, but none of it is part of the russian federal district of siberia. pepperonibread's soviet union map shows the boundaries of chukotka.

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i dislike the use of each continent's colours twice. it suggests that there is some gameplay or bonus link between continents of the same colour, which there isn't.
Coleman wrote:I'm a bit confused by the ports being the same color as two corresponding continents instead of their own color. :? That's the only improvement I can see, as their being their own color would help further clarify that they are not a part of any existing continent.

the ports need to be a neutral-looking colour (white or grey, perhaps?) rather than being the same colour as one (or two!) of the continents. the attack routes from the ports are very clear.

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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby NickDanger on Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:28 pm

Glad to see a big Alaska map. Having lived there, though, I think some of the names are a bit off for the regions. Fairbanks is too far to the east--that one could more appropriately be called "Tok". And the "Yukon" territory in Alaska is confusing with the whole other Yukon Territory in Canada--it might more accurately be called "Prudhoe Bay" or "ANWR". Love the look of the gameplay!
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby gimil on Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:12 am

*prods*

Whats going on lanyards? It also getting to the time I have to send this to the heap. You dont want that do you? ;)
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby lanyards on Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:02 pm

gimil wrote:*prods*

Whats going on lanyards? It also getting to the time I have to send this to the heap. You dont want that do you? ;)
NO! Sorry, was being lazy. I'll work on it sometime soon. :)

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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby gimil on Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:20 am

lanyards wrote:
gimil wrote:*prods*

Whats going on lanyards? It also getting to the time I have to send this to the heap. You dont want that do you? ;)
NO! Sorry, was being lazy. I'll work on it sometime soon. :)

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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby RjBeals on Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:38 am

whitestazn88 wrote:did anyone notice that the colors have the exact same like... hue as the charleston map does?


? I don't see that at all ?
But regardless - this is looking rather nice. I would have to agree with coleman to make the ports different. Not anchors, as that's been done - but something else. Maybe ships?

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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby The Viking on Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:59 am

I didn't know there was a KodLak Island :shock:
Is that where the KodLak bears live? :geek:
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby Mr. Squirrel on Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:27 pm

I sure hope that this isn't dropped, I was really looking forward to this map. :cry:
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby lanyards on Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:51 pm

Mr. Squirrel wrote:I sure hope that this isn't dropped, I was really looking forward to this map. :cry:
Nope. Just being lazy. I'll get back to it soon. :)

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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby Incandenza on Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:08 pm

I'm looking forward to a new draft. Don't be too lazy, lanyards. :D
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby e_i_pi on Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:16 pm

Just a few notes:

  • It's Kodiak Island, not Kodlak
  • Siberia is really the name of an entire region spanning most of eastern Russia, and includes Kamchatka and Sakha within its regional boundaries. That region in the sky blue is typically called Chukotka.
  • The new colours don't correspond to the legend

Aside from that looks fine.
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Re: Bering Strait (V6 - P.5)

Postby MrBenn on Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:44 pm

After speaking with Lanyards, this map is on vacation

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Re: [Abandoned] - Bering Strait

Postby lanyards on Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:25 pm

Annnnnnd 4 years later I have an update :)

here is the previous version
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here is the newest version
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Corrected a few territory names, and changed the style.

Most of the people commenting before I'm sure are long gone from here so maybe I'll be getting some new perspective :)

Is the new style the direction I should go or should I go back to the cool colors?
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Re: [Abandoned] - Bering Strait

Postby Bruceswar on Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:19 pm

good luck with it. I like the RhiO style maps :D
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Re: [Abandoned] - Bering Strait

Postby thenobodies80 on Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:06 am

It's passed "a bit" of time, for now I'm going to move it into the drafting room. I will review the whole thread asap to understand what was the status of development of the map when it was binned and after that I'll post here some suggestions. Hopefully, this time we will guide this map through the foundry. ;)

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Re: [Abandoned] - Bering Strait

Postby Dukasaur on Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:20 am

lanyards wrote:cted a few territory names, and changed the style.

Most of the people commenting before I'm sure are long gone from here so maybe I'll be getting some new perspective :)

Is the new style the direction I should go or should I go back to the cool colors?


I like the new style!

Nice, rich, colours.

Go for it!

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