by oaktown on Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:42 pm
after a bit of confusion on my part, MrBenn will indeed be wielding the Gameplay stamp for this map... just as well, since he's been following the thread more closely than I anyway.
But since you seem to have been waiting on me, here's my two cents:
ā¢ Army numbers are certainly readable against your region colors, but they look terrible. Those blue numbers against the blue hurt. You might want army circles just to improve the look of the thing.
ā¢ Quote should be center-justified, and as I like punctuation I say give it a period at the end (before the quote mark).
ā¢ Maybe widen your rivers a bit - the territories across the rivers look to be touching in places, which I assume they are not supposed to do.
ā¢ Visually, the black outline around the playable area looks out of place because nothing else is black. Lighten it up maybe?
ā¢ I guess there's no choice but to make that top left blue region a four territory bottleneck? You start with Liang North, or take it early from Liang, and it's an easy progression to hold that bonus without ever having more than one place to defend.
Here's a thought about army count centering... if you've already done the XML and dropped the army counts where you want them to be, you could add the circles later and you don't have to fuss with the coordinates. Why didn't we ever think of that before??