[Vacation - Valid until Oct 2013] Papua New Guinea

[isaiah40]

Need to know the number of neutrals before I fill it out. With 57 territs I guess there will be at least one neutral?

I see I totally overlooked this, there will be 4 neutrals for a total of 53 starting territories, and those neutrals will be placed on:
1. Mt. Hagan
2. Koroba
3. Arawa
4. Misima

[thenobodies80]

It's passed a month and this thread has just 16 post?
what happened to all the people who voted for this map?

You should try to keep it updated or it will stay at the bottom of the foundry. Try to push the map production in the direction you want to see it developed. People can't help you if you don't show them the way.

Nobodies

[cairnswk]

It's passed a month and this thread has just 16 post?
what happened to all the people who voted for this map?

You should try to keep it updated or it will stay at the bottom of the foundry. Try to push the map production in the direction you want to see it developed. People can't help you if you don't show them the way.

Nobodies

I'm waiting to see an update.

[Peter Gibbons]

Same here.

[natty dread]

So what happens if this map gets abandoned and the mapmaker never shows up again? Do we go back and vote another contest winner?

[koontz1973]

So what happens if this map gets abandoned and the mapmaker never shows up again? Do we go back and vote another contest winner?

And this is why a graphics contest won by a new person does not produce the results. This is now 2 maps from 2 contests that have not produced one that we can play on. Can we get another vote?

[Industrial Helix]

I can't be thew only one who thinks a minimap might be better than trying to find the bonus numbers faded into the map.

[ManBungalow]

Whatever happened to this?

[zimmah]

So what happens if this map gets abandoned and the mapmaker never shows up again? Do we go back and vote another contest winner?

And this is why a graphics contest won by a new person does not produce the results. This is now 2 maps from 2 contests that have not produced one that we can play on. Can we get another vote?

and it wasn't even the best map to begin with in my opinion

[ndrs]

Hey guys, thanks for your support. I've been busy with work and life overall, but I do not intend to bin this project.
I plan to pick up the map making again after the holidays.

And yes, obviously some of you will feel that some other map was better – I did not win with 100% of the votes.
But remember, with meaningful input you can all help steer this map in a direction of your liking.

To show some good faith, here is some work I did on the map before I ran out of free time:

Click image to enlarge.

I was planning on giving it a board game feeling with a deck of cards, some dices, etc. A couple of turned over cards could hold the region bonuses and so on.

A revamp of the texts is in the making as well.

[natty dread]

I was planning on giving it a board game feeling with a deck of cards, some dices, etc. A couple of turned over cards could hold the region bonuses and so on.

Eh, the map you have does not look like a board game. You would have to redraw it to make it look like one if you really want to puruse this style change.

Your current image just looks like someone somehow took a physical manifestation of a vector graphics image and set it on top of a plank.

[perchorin]

I was planning on giving it a board game feeling with a deck of cards, some dices, etc. A couple of turned over cards could hold the region bonuses and so on.

Eh, the map you have does not look like a board game. You would have to redraw it to make it look like one if you really want to puruse this style change.

Your current image just looks like someone somehow took a physical manifestation of a vector graphics image and set it on top of a plank.

I have to agree, lose the table and go back to the clean cool image we voted for please!

[pamoa]

the wood effect is not bad
I understood it as some wooden ship deck or an wooden surf board
I like the twist it gave to the theme of the map

please keep your great title font
negative borders are better
getting rid of all the hatched zone would be better
dotted line are worse

[ndrs]

Ok, yes, I agree about the wood and will remove it. A clean looking graphic style is what I was after from the beginning and I should return to that.

the wood effect is not bad
I understood it as some wooden ship deck or an wooden surf board
I like the twist it gave to the theme of the map

please keep your great title font
negative borders are better
getting rid of all the hatched zone would be better
dotted line are worse

Thanks for your input

Glad you liked the header type, it's a keeper. I hand drew it after a vintage papua new guinea postage stamp.

I added the hatched zones so they would be easier to define in the legend. It was either that or add more colours. I tried that as well but it looked kind of tutti frutti...

The dotted lines are only placeholders in this stage, I'll try something different.

[koontz1973]

ndrs, glad to see this still going. Please go back to the old layout but with these new graphics. With your dotted lines, try making them a solid line with the same colour underneath or you will get these slight differences. I do like the lines, and it is in keeping with the style.

Are you going to put the stats back in?