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Re: Research & Conquer Version 18 [20 March 2012] pg 83

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:02 pm
by Gillipig
natty dread wrote:Ok, first of all, there's way too much wasted space, the playable area is way too small compared to the surroundings.

The image composition is not balanced. The colours clash, the bright green playable area looks out of place in middle of all those grey/brown hues, and in general all the elements of the map just don't seem to match each other.

Lastly, the textures are really blurry, and the text looks pasted on, like it doesn't belong to the image...

Having a bad day natty :)?

Re: Research & Conquer Version 18 [20 March 2012] pg 83

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:16 pm
by natty dread
Gillipig wrote:
natty dread wrote:Ok, first of all, there's way too much wasted space, the playable area is way too small compared to the surroundings.

The image composition is not balanced. The colours clash, the bright green playable area looks out of place in middle of all those grey/brown hues, and in general all the elements of the map just don't seem to match each other.

Lastly, the textures are really blurry, and the text looks pasted on, like it doesn't belong to the image...

Having a bad day natty :)?


I wasn't until I saw you. How about you post something useful for once?

Re: Research & Conquer Version 18 [20 March 2012] pg 83

PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:58 am
by isaiah40
Sorry folks, but I just don't have the mojo to continue this for the time being. I request that this is placed on vacation.

Re: Research & Conquer Version 18 [20 March 2012] pg 83

PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:06 am
by RedBaron0
By mapmakers request, this map is placed on vacation. [Moved]

Please contact any available CA to have this moved back to the Main Foundry, once an update has been made. Gameplay may be reevaluated at that time to conform to current Foundry standards and the GP stamp stripped if the map is found to be deficient in any way.

Re: Research & Conquer Version 18 [20 March 2012] pg 83

PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:49 am
by Gillipig
isaiah40 wrote:Sorry folks, but I just don't have the mojo to continue this for the time being. I request that this is placed on vacation.

A shame :(, just when things were starting to happen.

Re: Research & Conquer Version 18 [20 March 2012] pg 83

PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:33 am
by -=- Tanarri -=-
isaiah40 wrote:Sorry folks, but I just don't have the mojo to continue this for the time being. I request that this is placed on vacation.


Sorry to hear that this is going back to vacation, I had looked forward to seeing the progress and thought the map had been going in a nice direction.

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:56 pm
by -=- Tanarri -=-
Any chance that this map will have the work started on it again? [-o<

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:26 pm
by isaiah40
-=- Tanarri -=- wrote:Any chance that this map will have the work started on it again? [-o<

I hope very soon. O:)

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:58 am
by zimmah
with the new xml it should be possible.

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:01 am
by -=- Tanarri -=-
isaiah40 wrote:
-=- Tanarri -=- wrote:Any chance that this map will have the work started on it again? [-o<

I hope very soon. O:)


That's good to hear :) I hope with the new XML update it will give some motivation to finish the map. This map is about the only thing that would have me come back to play some games on the site. I've been doing my best to stay away for quite some time now.

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:47 pm
by zimmah
i could do the XML but only if the original guy does not show up or doesn't want to do it anymore.

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:37 pm
by isaiah40
I'll be starting on an update sometime in the next couple of weeks!

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:40 pm
by -=- Tanarri -=-
That's great to hear Isaiah, I certainly look forward to seeing what you come up with :)

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 1:59 am
by -=- Tanarri -=-
I'm wondering if an update on this is still going to be worked on? I thought there was supposed to be something started nearly a month ago.

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:19 am
by koontz1973
isaiah is probably busy with USA 2.1 at the moment. Pretty sure this one will not fall to the wayside but it might be a while.

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:27 am
by isaiah40
-=- Tanarri -=- wrote:I'm wondering if an update on this is still going to be worked on? I thought there was supposed to be something started nearly a month ago.

Yes, it is still being worked on. I just had to find a good way to get the mountains done. I'll get an update this upcoming week for sure!!

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:40 am
by ManBungalow
I don't really understand this map.

Could you clarify where the start positions are ?

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:44 am
by -=- Tanarri -=-
It's not as easy to tell on this version of the map as it was on the previous version, but the starting points are SWC, WC, NC, NEC, EC, and SEC, as well as the matching laboratory.

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:52 pm
by -=- Tanarri -=-
Hi Isaiah, I'm wondering if you're still working on this map? You had mentioned more than a month ago that you were going to be posting something for the graphics and there hasn't been anything yet. Hoping this one isn't going to get put to Abandoned :(

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:11 pm
by isaiah40
-=- Tanarri -=- wrote:Hi Isaiah, I'm wondering if you're still working on this map? You had mentioned more than a month ago that you were going to be posting something for the graphics and there hasn't been anything yet. Hoping this one isn't going to get put to Abandoned :(


No, I'm not going to abandon this. Decide that I will probably do this from scratch, but keeping the same game-play. I have been doing a couple of tutorials to get the mountains somewhat down. Right now I am slowly trudging along on my USA 2.1, and then I'll hopefully get something up for this. RL is real busy right now as I also am doing a revamp - 1 slight - of a couple of websites, plus my normal everyday job. I promise that this will not get thrown out to the swine under my watch!!

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:45 am
by thenobodies80
But you're 2 days from the deadline...remember to post an update (if you can) or I have to label this as abandoned in any case. ;)

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 9:06 am
by isaiah40
thenobodies80 wrote:But you're 2 days from the deadline...remember to post an update (if you can) or I have to label this as abandoned in any case. ;)

Hmmm ... I guess the deadline passed. Oh well, I still will work on this once a couple of other projects are finished.

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:15 am
by -=- Tanarri -=-
It's good to hear that this isn't going to be abandoned. I've been looking forward to playing this map for more than 2 1/2 years now :)

Re: [Vaction valid till Oct 2012] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:20 pm
by nolefan5311
Well, we can't very well leave this on vacation at the moment, so I'm going to go ahead and label it as abandoned isaiah, but I trust you will make an update before someone else takes the idea ;)

The six months of vacation for this map has expired and this map will now be labeled as [Abandoned]. If the original mapmaker wants to continue this map project that's fine but an update must provided. From this moment anyone else is free to take this project without the original mapmakers permission, but it has to be started from scratch.

Re: [Abandoned] Research & Conquer

PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:55 pm
by isaiah40
Finally an update. Redid the map area with new terrain. Ignore all the other stuff. I played around with removing the dials and just have the gauges, but I used more room so I think the dials will stay, as they also denote the basic techs while the gauges will denote the advanced techs.
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