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by **DiM** on Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:02 am

Victor Sullivan wrote:Room? What do you know about rooms, son? I wrap my room in bacon and pour Jack Daniels SAWCE all over it.

-Sully

you guys are obsessed with the epicmeals stuff. :-s

they were fun at first with the tenderloin meat house with a bacon roof and mashed potatoes on the lawn.
i'd definitely eat some of that. :mrgreen:

but then it got old and they felt the need to increase the stupidity. like puting burgers on guns. that's neither tasty nor funny

by **MrBenn** on Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:14 pm

I was going to see how far I could get, but 20mins in I've given up trying to draw decent mountains!

by **DiM** on Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:36 pm

that looks very good benn. indeed mountains can be a bitch sometimes.

but you know what was the most time consuming part for me?
terit names and army numbers. of the total of 2 hours and 10-15 minutes i spent something like 45 minutes just on deciding what font i should use, what effects it should have and where should i place the terit names so that army numbers would fit. and then i had to get the army numbers and place them in each terit so that all colours appear in all continents. not hard but tedious and boring as hell.

by **MrBenn** on Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:46 pm

DiM wrote:that looks very good benn. indeed mountains can be a bitch sometimes.

but you know what was the most time consuming part for me?
terit names and army numbers. of the total of 2 hours and 10-15 minutes i spent something like 45 minutes just on deciding what font i should use, what effects it should have and where should i place the terit names so that army numbers would fit. and then i had to get the army numbers and place them in each terit so that all colours appear in all continents. not hard but tedious and boring as hell.

Yeah, typing out territory names can be a pain. I have the sort of typefaces I would have used in mind, but it can take a long time to pick THE one.

I've sometimes wondered what it would be like to have a mapmaking layer-sharing thing (sort of like a collaborative layer-battle) and see where we can get in a day or two...

by **DiM** on Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:06 pm

well years ago there was a layer battle and there were various mini graphic contests.
don't know if it's been done since but it would be great to have this thing brought back.

also i'd love to see thematic speed contests. for example once a month for 6 hours (a decent time to get a map done) any map maker goes in the chat and a CA gives a theme (let's say pirates, or your neighbourhood, or gay penguins) and each person starts making the map reporting the progress every hour to the CA (a screenshot of the map to show progress). then the maps get voted and the winner is uploaded on the site. of course a lot of work is still needed to balance gameplay and perhaps even touch up graphics but that can be done while in beta.

by **gimil** on Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:17 pm

DiM wrote:well years ago there was a layer battle and there were various mini graphic contests.
don't know if it's been done since but it would be great to have this thing brought back.

also i'd love to see thematic speed contests. for example once a month for 6 hours (a decent time to get a map done) any map maker goes in the chat and a CA gives a theme (let's say pirates, or your neighbourhood, or gay penguins) and each person starts making the map reporting the progress every hour to the CA (a screenshot of the map to show progress). then the maps get voted and the winner is uploaded on the site. of course a lot of work is still needed to balance gameplay and perhaps even touch up graphics but that can be done while in beta.

Absolutely no way, am I going to contribute 6 hour of my time to something like this! As cool as it sounds. :lol:

But I would like to see more ways to allow people to compete against each other. Graphical competition pushes us all to become better with our chosen programs.

by **DiM** on Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:22 pm

gimil wrote:
DiM wrote:well years ago there was a layer battle and there were various mini graphic contests.
don't know if it's been done since but it would be great to have this thing brought back.

also i'd love to see thematic speed contests. for example once a month for 6 hours (a decent time to get a map done) any map maker goes in the chat and a CA gives a theme (let's say pirates, or your neighbourhood, or gay penguins) and each person starts making the map reporting the progress every hour to the CA (a screenshot of the map to show progress). then the maps get voted and the winner is uploaded on the site. of course a lot of work is still needed to balance gameplay and perhaps even touch up graphics but that can be done while in beta.

Absolutely no way, am I going to contribute 6 hour of my time to something like this! As cool as it sounds.

But I would like to see more ways to allow people to compete against each other. Graphical competition pushes us all to become better with our chosen programs.

then make it 2-3 hours. and don't include the terit names as mandatory. those can be added later.
2-3 hours is not such a long time and i think of all the CA's at least 1 can be online for 2-3 hours in a row. or at least 2-3 CAs taking 1hour shifts

by **koontz1973** on Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:42 am

DiM wrote:well years ago there was a layer battle and there were various mini graphic contests.
don't know if it's been done since but it would be great to have this thing brought back.

also i'd love to see thematic speed contests. for example once a month for 6 hours (a decent time to get a map done)

The mini and speed contests intrigue me, but the are only for experienced map makers. What takes DiM 2 hours and 15 minutes, takes me 3 times longer for half of the effect.

But I would give it a shot if time and RL allowed. Instead of a couple of hours, how about 24. Then everyone can enter and compete in a level playing field.

by **Bruceswar** on Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:11 am

interesting to see how quick some of you guys work. Also Interesting to see benn in action partially. Seems a different style than me working wise.

by **koontz1973** on Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:16 am

Should be fun to see if we can guess each others map.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:39 am

koontz1973 wrote:Should be fun to see if we can guess each others map.

I always try to

Sometimes I'm spot on, other times I am waaaay off base. Excited to see the entries! I wish I was as competent as DiM at the graphical aspect of mapmaking

-Sully

by **DiM** on Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:24 am

Victor Sullivan wrote:
koontz1973 wrote:Should be fun to see if we can guess each others map.

I always try to Sometimes I'm spot on, other times I am waaaay off base. Excited to see the entries! I wish I was as competent as DiM at the graphical aspect of mapmaking

-Sully

and i wish i knew all the xml stuff that you know :mrgreen:

as for guessing the authors of each map, i used to be pretty good back when i knew every map maker. now there are so many new faces i doubt i'd guess more than 2-3.