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Postby DiM on Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:13 am

the armies are still hard to see. i really liked the first touchup with the very bright army shadows. it was perfectly readable.
now with each and every update we're moving closer and closer to the original map. probably in the next update we'll see some black army circles. :(
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Postby RjBeals on Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:29 pm

Looks great to me!
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Postby rebelman on Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:20 pm

DiM wrote:the armies are still hard to see. i really liked the first touchup with the very bright army shadows. it was perfectly readable.
now with each and every update we're moving closer and closer to the original map. probably in the next update we'll see some black army circles. :(


my thoughts exactly
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Postby Unit_2 on Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:57 pm

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Postby WidowMakers on Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:13 pm

rebelman wrote:
DiM wrote:the armies are still hard to see. i really liked the first touchup with the very bright army shadows. it was perfectly readable.
now with each and every update we're moving closer and closer to the original map. probably in the next update we'll see some black army circles. :(


my thoughts exactly
I also agree. the original revamp/touchup was very bright. Mostly due to the very white army circles and maybe the text as well.

BAsed on what has been posted earlier, the main purpose of this touch up was to:
    1) Make the territory names readable
    2) Make the numbers readable

SO........
1)The territory names readable <CHECK>
2)Army numbers Readable <NOT ENOUGH>

They are better than the current map but still hard to read.

Some people say they are good while others say they are not good.

So now what?

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Postby DiM on Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:16 pm

WidowMakers wrote:
rebelman wrote:
DiM wrote:the armies are still hard to see. i really liked the first touchup with the very bright army shadows. it was perfectly readable.
now with each and every update we're moving closer and closer to the original map. probably in the next update we'll see some black army circles. :(


my thoughts exactly
I also agree. the original revamp/touchup was very bright. Mostly due to the very white army circles and maybe the text as well.

BAsed on what has been posted earlier, the main purpose of this touch up was to:
    1) Make the territory names readable
    2) Make the numbers readable
SO........
1)The territory names readable <CHECK>
2)Army numbers Readable <NOT ENOUGH>

They are better than the current map but still hard to read.

Some people say they are good while others say they are not good.

So now what?

WM

it's quite simple actually, make the army circles brighter and tell all those that complain it's too bright to suck it up. :D
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Postby Ruben Cassar on Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:37 pm

Just noticed this thread.

For me Asia and Oceania are still a bit too close colour wise. Note that I am colour blind. Maybe the colour difference for these 2 continents could be accentuated?
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Postby wicked on Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:38 pm

I don't think it's the brightness or color of the circles necessarily, rather the transparency. for example congo on the small map, there appears to be a dark blotch between the two numbers. And actually when I look at the map with just the circles, all the circles seem to have a dark blotch in the center, like it's faded out in the middle or something? Why not try to make the circles equal in color/transp/etc.. all the way across instead of the fade effect. Lightening up the center will help readability IMO.

I like the difference in color between aussie and asia on the countries, but in the legend they're hard to distinguish still, mainly the small legend.
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Postby gimil on Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:14 pm

1 week poll on the following post:

Foundry Friend wrote:Here is version 8 with solid circles at varying opacities, please vote for which version you prefer.
50%-70% in 5% increments.


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55%
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60%
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65%
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70%
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Postby rebelman on Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:20 pm

voted and so far the one i voted for is winning :wink:
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Postby rebelman on Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:22 pm

gimil can you please post with 3 digits as well please
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Postby gimil on Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:23 pm

rebelman wrote:gimil can you please post with 3 digits as well please


After the army circles issues is resolved we'll move onto triple digits :)
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Postby pepperonibread on Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:26 pm

rebelman wrote:voted and so far the one i voted for is winning :wink:


Tied... I voted too. 8)

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Postby rebelman on Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:36 pm

gimil wrote:
rebelman wrote:gimil can you please post with 3 digits as well please


After the army circles issues is resolved we'll move onto triple digits :)


i actually think a poll is the wrong way to decide this as those with inferior eyesight will always be in the minority
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Postby DiM on Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:31 pm

rebelman wrote:
gimil wrote:
rebelman wrote:gimil can you please post with 3 digits as well please


After the army circles issues is resolved we'll move onto triple digits :)


i actually think a poll is the wrong way to decide this as those with inferior eyesight will always be in the minority


rebel is right.

btw i voted 70 but it seems 50 is winning and it is wrong.
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Postby lanyards on Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:41 pm

On the small map, Western U.S. has a misplaced coordinate. It needs to be moved to the left one pixel. Great work by the way. And I voted 60% opacity.

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Postby Wisse on Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:45 am

i think its because the white is a bit flashy thats why most people voted 50% i voted 55% myself
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Postby AndyDufresne on Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:34 pm

I also voted for 55%.


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Postby jako on Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:39 pm

50-60% is too dark for my eyes. i voted 65%. guess my bads eyes will have to get used to scrunching when i play this.
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Postby FreeMan10 on Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:47 pm

After my vote, there were 12 votes for 50% and edit: 15 for higher percents.

Even though 50% is winning by a wide margin, there's a majority that want it brighter than that. Maybe take that into consideration when the poll closes, then maybe revote with fewer choices.
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Postby Wisse on Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:51 pm

FreeMan10 wrote:After my vote, there were 12 votes for 50% and edit: 15 for higher percents.

Even though 50% is winning by a wide margin, there's a majority that want it brighter than that. Maybe take that into consideration when the poll closes, then maybe revote with fewer choices.


you can better count all the % to one total and do this:
...% : total votes
and you get the percent that fits most oppinions
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Postby MrBenn on Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:36 pm

Currently 38% of people have voted for 50% opacity circles (the lowest option)... this means that 62% of people would prefer them at least slightly brighter - this is the point that I think freeman10 was making...
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Postby gimil on Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:27 pm

Which opacity circles do you prefer?
50% - 35% [ 15 ]
55% - 23% [ 10 ]
60% - 16% [ 7 ]
65% - 11% [ 5 ]
70% - 11% [ 5 ]
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Postby gimil on Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:34 pm

The first poll has shown a failry spread result, were going to run another poll for 5 days. with the following options:

50%
55%
60%

for the opactiy of the circles. The options will be on page 1 :)
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Postby whitestazn88 on Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:14 pm

50%

i guess either way doesnt matter. but i like seeing as much of the map as possible
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