4 way borders are commonly agreed as bad borders. they cause confussion. i don't think they do but many will start complaining. so it's better to avoid them. mibi had lots of 4 ways in siege and delt with them.

Again, that's form over function.

Jhansi - Oudh is arguably a non-essential 4-way so ...

I think it might be good to move pondicherry up, to border Eastern Ghats, as well.

Why? It would give Colonialists two borders on Deccan, giving Colonialists an advantage over Deccan.

No, actually it will make colonists a lot harder to control, espeacially since pondicherry is connected to ...

fireedud wrote:I think it might be good to move pondicherry up, to border Eastern Ghats, as well.

Why? It would give Colonialists two borders on Deccan, giving Colonialists an advantage over Deccan.

There is clear water between Rann and Diu. Don't know what I could do to make that less confusing. It should be obvious you can't attack across water.

Jhansi and Oudh / Brahmaputra Calcutta don't look confusing to me. Four lines converge, not sure what I can do to make it clearer.

I'll try and ...

mibi wrote:+5 bonus for defending 3 borders... i dunno.

6 Territories, three of them in a channel. Colonialists won't be got first. Meanwhile Deccan has been strengthened with removal of barrier between Eastern Ghats and Hyderabad and the new Mountains around Goa.

There is clear water between Rann and Diu and Rann and Thar. Don't know what I could do to make that less confusing. It should be obvious you can't attack across water.

Jhansi and Oudh / Brahmaputra Calcutta don't look confusing to me. Four lines converge, not sure what I can do to make it clearer ...

Okay, sorry for being grumpy. It's just I wouldn't have attempted to do a map if it wasn't for the fact I had the rough game design planned out before hand. I didn't just decide "oh, I'll do an India map and see how it goes." If I want to do one of those maps, I'd do the European Union, Russia or ...

I guess I started misunderstanding you just around here.. thought I could help.. never mind

You pulled that quote out of context. Read the whole reply. Sorry you got confused. Sikh Empire makes less sense than Sikh Confederacy (which I agree doesn't make 100% sense) but Sikh Confederacy is just ...

Kashmir - did that name exist then? Kashmir has a whole bunch of political issues that I'm keen to avoid

since 1150 at least it seems - both countries use the name, even the same spelling so no political issues with the name.

The old english spelling on maps is Cashmere.

Sikh Confederacy is ...

I think you want your background images to only occur in one of the areas around the map...

the way you have it now you have borders of pictures in the centers of some of the oceans...pick one image for each area (ex NE land, SE ocean) and try and stick to one image per area....with some blending ...

Thanks for your comments :)

Brown looks the best- it gives a nice base color for the actual map colors to jump off of.

I agree. Brown gives a historical feel too.



True. And yes the green is a bit too saturated on my image. I was just messing around and showing it as a possibility.

I've ...

Looking good but your "green" still looks a bit too blue to me. It's more of a teal? Try to match the green on the Indian flag perhaps? Something like this?

Ummm! Too green I think! :lol:

BTW Indian flag did not of course exist during Colonial era.


Brown is by far the best, its most Indian ...

The two main gameplay related problems I see are:

1. I count 34 territories. Many people (myself included) believe the bare minimum a map should be is 36 territories. Since you're so close to that number it shouldn't be too much trouble to add 2.

There are existing published maps with less than ...

Dark backgrounds: Green, Blue or Brown?

My sig is at the bottom right.

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4052/greenindia1gb8.jpg

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/7201/blueindia1bw9.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9348/brownindia1jj2.jpg


BTW where would the Elephant go? Do you ...

Nothing's sacred.

I like the darker image too.

Any other comments?

Requests for next update

- Darker background
- Dim the picture.
- Work on desert

I prefer the darker image, although it makes "Hindus" hard to read.

Really? Hindus is very very clear on the darker image, as are all the ...

These backgrounds do look a lot more cluttered. If anything, I prefer the darker one.

The darker ones were too dark, made map less attractive because it clashed with the territory colours. However they are not direct equivalents as the picture on the above map is at 100%, on the darker map it's ...

Left title (and Elephant) for now.

This update features a new territory name font (last one was Arial!) and different background colours. They are lighter so you can see the background more - does it distract? If if does I can dim it, however I think not...

If in doubt, make mountains look like ...

Quite significant development. Positive? Negative?

I was trying to explain why your Malta map has not reached final forged yet, as you seem to believe that it is a mystery why it hasn't.

I really do think you could start this one over.

Personally I think it never got final forge status because I asked why it had not reached that status yet and Andy does not like that so I am assuming he kept my map out of final forge status for that reason. Mibi as far as I know has done the same thing (asking when his map will be final forged ...

I value your comments DiM :)

Desert and mountains are most urgent. From a criticism earlier, the mountains should be larger. The desert should be larger.

For those who liked the image of the Elephant, I really don't think it suits this map. We're back on the Jewel in the Empire fantasy theme. Will ...

There is a "bugsies turn" issue here whereby one may be reluctant to fasttrack particular maps so to treat all map-makers equal. Equal here being measured in time, number of page views, comments, pages etc.

Obviously not all maps are equally cool and map-makers equally skilled, and/or equally ...

http://www.aargh.co.za/images/cc/SouthAfrica_Large_18.jpg

Look of the map is good. The note, and legend is great. Mountains cool. Bridges cute.



However I think the border of Eastern/Western Cape in particular needs to be simplified. Same Free state and Eastern cape. In fact most of the inner ...

Update seven received many comments so I don't think I can return to update #7 because that would be to ignore everyone else but you, DiM. However I think can improve the desert and mountains.

BTW did you prefer the black or white text? I like both, used white this time to be different from last ...