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ender516 wrote:Well, the fancy initials would have less effect on the legibility of the English bonus names than they do on the Gaelic names, since even without the first letter, the name is more recognizable. Your call, though. I may not get to the XML update tonight.
EDIT:
Well, I did get to it. This new version uses Gaelic names for the bonus zones and corrects the spelling of Isle of Man and changes Porhoet to Redones as seen on the latest map.
Celtic_7_Nations.1.7.xml
The Bison King wrote:So I went with the Gaelic names after all. I confess it just makes more sense. I'm also sticking with the roman names for the non-playable area's, and I asked a friend of mine whose a history major, and his dads a history professor, they definitely called those regions Gaul and Brittania.
About the capital letters. I reckon they look quite good, but to me i seems a bit heavy handed to have both the small map to indicate where the bonus regions are, and the bonus written seperately. The simplest solution, to me, would be to write the bonuses on the small map.
I must say that I would prefer if the map only had the Celtic names.
Also, the bonuses only need to be shown on the mini map.
The declaration of bonuses in the lower middle of the map seem unnecessary.
Now I have a suggestion and I am sorry if I am stating something that already has been discussed and rejected. I personally think the map seem a bit small and think that it could be interesting if you divided the waters into sections without bonuses, just like you were putting boats out. Possibly with a loss of troops in certain areas since you would not have a large troop sitting in the middle of the ocean for years in real life. It would add to the attack routes just as attacks by sea is more optional than from land.
The Bison King wrote:Are you refering to the English names that appear above the bonuses in the large mini map? Why does that bother you?
paulk wrote:The Bison King wrote:Are you refering to the English names that appear above the bonuses in the large mini map? Why does that bother you?
I just think it would look better without
But once again, it looks very nice. I like the style and looks even more than with your Cali map man.
cairnswk wrote:
2. the small s on nation in the title is not the same as the rest of the letters
5. I'd soften also the colour of the dragons on the title to make them more part of the legend/title.
army of nobunaga wrote:on this one, Im not sure why you are recieving flack, I lOVE how you restated the bonuses... I FRIGGIN HATE maps that I need to squint my eyes and read a book on the bonus system like in umm.. well know map names.
but i love that you restated it.
The Bison King wrote:paulk wrote:Also, the bonuses only need to be shown on the mini map.
The declaration of bonuses in the lower middle of the map seem unnecessary.
I know but I really really like them and I've been fighting for them for a really long time now. Plus there would be a big ugly empty space if I took them out.
tokle wrote:army of nobunaga wrote:on this one, Im not sure why you are recieving flack, I lOVE how you restated the bonuses... I FRIGGIN HATE maps that I need to squint my eyes and read a book on the bonus system like in umm.. well know map names.
but i love that you restated it.
I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you explain it a bit more clearly? Why would writing the bonus twice make it any clearer to read?The Bison King wrote:paulk wrote:Also, the bonuses only need to be shown on the mini map.
The declaration of bonuses in the lower middle of the map seem unnecessary.
I know but I really really like them and I've been fighting for them for a really long time now. Plus there would be a big ugly empty space if I took them out.
This is true. and a good point. There needs to be something there, so it might as well be this.
By the way, it seems to me that the colour of the A in Alba is wrong. Is it not supposed to be the same colour as the fill on the main map?
army of nobunaga wrote:tokle wrote:army of nobunaga wrote:on this one, Im not sure why you are recieving flack, I lOVE how you restated the bonuses... I FRIGGIN HATE maps that I need to squint my eyes and read a book on the bonus system like in umm.. well know map names.
but i love that you restated it.
I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you explain it a bit more clearly? Why would writing the bonus twice make it any clearer to read?The Bison King wrote:paulk wrote:Also, the bonuses only need to be shown on the mini map.
The declaration of bonuses in the lower middle of the map seem unnecessary.
I know but I really really like them and I've been fighting for them for a really long time now. Plus there would be a big ugly empty space if I took them out.
This is true. and a good point. There needs to be something there, so it might as well be this.
By the way, it seems to me that the colour of the A in Alba is wrong. Is it not supposed to be the same colour as the fill on the main map?
Because there is a picture for picture people.. and there are words for words people.
He also needs to fill space or It will look like crap. The only other way to fill that space is to write some celtic history crap or something there.
I just dont think It looks bad at all. But on the otherhand it doesnt matter to me. I suggest if you want him to remove it, you give him Ideas to fill taht space... its the whole build up something rather than say [I dont like it[ and tear it down.
BK, you could add some sort of Rune bonus too... put a rune in key spots and have like a city bonus for connecting the different runes..
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