The Baltic States (Updated Feb 2, Vote!) [Vacation]

by **happysadfun** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:39 pm

1

I have a feeling people won't like it... it's supposed to make for relatively quick games....

25 territories
3 continents

by **happysadfun** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:00 pm

Hello?

by **AndyDufresne** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:11 pm

No one's home.

--Andy

by **johloh** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:18 pm

-photos at the top are bad
-the textures on the bottom cont. and the middle cont. are pretty ugly.
-im not sure that having only 3 continents will actually lead to 'quicker' games. it seems to me that it would be very hard to get a continent and get bonuses to give you an advantage. therefore people will be dealing with the 3 bonus armies for many turns and that will slow the game down.

by **Marvaddin** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:19 pm

Quench it!!! :wink:

Hehe, your feelings were correct...

How could it be designed for shorter games with continents that have at least 4 borders? And the continents are like 1/3 of the map. Would them really be holdable in games with 5-6 players? In fact, I think 32 should be the minimum amount of countries in any map.

Ooooh, and its too ugly, too.

However I feel some potential. Make the image bigger (the playable area, I mean), add more countries, at least 5 more, and create at least 2 more continents... It can become a map.

by **happysadfun** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:59 pm

Ok, I'm working on a new one. I have a topographic map and countries with transparent fill.... good idea?

by **Heimdall** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:01 pm

I don't like the Baltics one. Sorry

by **happysadfun** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:07 pm

Yeah, but that one sucked. Come back later for the new one.

by **btownmeggy** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:26 pm

Get rid of the current textures and make them more subtle. Remove pictures. Add the rest of Europe to wherever it should be, even if it's just a black, correctly-shaped mass. LABEL the three countries/continents.

Other stuff, too.

DON'T GIVE UP! Ask for graphics help if you need it, or illegally download programs if the task requires it. I support you in your efforts.

by **happysadfun** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:37 pm

2

Better?

Proposed Bonuses:
Inland Estonia- 5
Outer Estonia- 5
Latvia Nord- 4 (I'll add a bridge or two)
Riga et la Latvia Sud- 6
Upper Lithuania- 5
Lower Lithuania- 4
Kalinigrad- 1

by **Wisse** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:12 pm

to tiny

by **Lone.prophet** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:13 pm

put kalingrad in the orange

by **AndyDufresne** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:15 pm

I think the idea of Baltic States could be interesting...but why not 'zoom' in even more, and make a larger country map. Right now, the amount of countries feels too small...

--Andy

by **Ruben Cassar** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:33 pm

Lone.prophet wrote:put kalingrad in the orange

Kaliningrad is not part of the Baltic States. It's a part of Russia. I wouldn't include it at all.

by **happysadfun** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:34 pm

Lone.prophet wrote:put kalingrad in the orange

I don't think so, because then Lower Lithuania would be yellow, and the yellow is very similar to the green

Andy wrote:I think the idea of Baltic States could be interesting...but why not 'zoom' in even more, and make a larger country map. Right now, the amount of countries feels too small...

Where do you suppose I should make more countries? I've got to basically start over, but that's OK because this wasn't hard.

by **AndyDufresne** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:35 pm

All areas.

I'd really just like to see a more zoomed in and focused map of the area...as long as you can include all the Baltic States. Splitting up some of the countries into others, and making a larger map of the area could be interesting.

--Andy

by **happysadfun** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:45 pm

Does anyone know how to make an image bigger in Inkscape? I have GIMP too but it didn't work well for the kind of map I was aiming this to be....

by **happysadfun** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:03 pm

2.01

by **Marvaddin** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:21 pm

You can even make it a bit smaller, to add legend, etc. But your other images was really tiny, so its making difficult to add more territories to the map. And I agree about not using any russian area.

How about if you try with 5 continents, friend?

by **happysadfun** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:37 pm

2.11

Added legend... that's about it.

It's got 30 territories, where do you reccomend I split them?

by **Ruben Cassar** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:47 pm

Remove Kaliningrad...it's not part of the Baltic states...and why are you using French!? :shock:

by **Guiscard** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:51 pm

Looks promising. Needs a fair few more countries though. 36-40 would be great. I think both Lithuania and Latvia could do with more territories.

by **Ruben Cassar** on Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:58 pm

Guiscard wrote:Looks promising. Needs a fair few more countries though. 36-40 would be great. I think both Lithuania and Latvia could do with more territories.

And this map could help you in this task:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Baltic_states.png