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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&10) April 5

Postby Victor Sullivan on Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:37 pm

MrBenn wrote:
Victor Sullivan wrote:Okay, so you're definitely gonna need to place starting neutrals on the smaller bonuses so here are my suggestions:
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Idk if this has already been addressed, but I thought I'd say something.

MrBenn wrote:The 3-region bonuses can be split up using starting positions (4 groups of three territories), and the two single-territory areas will start neutral (with either 2 or three armies).

Ah, I see.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby The Bison King on Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:06 pm

The old legend doesn't actually fit in the gap, since I've knocked some of the height off to make it shorter and squarer.

Albania should be +2; I've made a typo while writing the country list; I'll correct it when I next make an update.


I dig.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby Evil DIMwit on Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:40 am

Looks like the gameplay talk has died down. Time to move on.

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On the graphical side: I think the flags under the bonus values may indeed be graphical overload.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby Victor Sullivan on Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:42 am

Evil DIMwit wrote:Image

OH SNAP =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

Bravo, MrBenn. =D>

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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby The Bison King on Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:35 pm

YaY!!! indeed
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby The Bison King on Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:37 pm

I think you have a lot to thank the original creator for because the graphics are already beautiful. I have no suggestions for the map itself, maybe the top left title could use some work.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby gimil on Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:31 am

The Bison King wrote:I think you have a lot to thank the original creator for because the graphics are already beautiful. I have no suggestions for the map itself, maybe the top left title could use some work.


I would make the title as bright as the legends then I would argue that you are pretty much done.

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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby MrBenn on Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:44 pm

gimil wrote:
The Bison King wrote:I think you have a lot to thank the original creator for because the graphics are already beautiful. I have no suggestions for the map itself, maybe the top left title could use some work.


I would make the title as bright as the legends then I would argue that you are pretty much done.

Lovely piece of work.

I'd imagine you mean the title text, rather than all the flags too...

The thing that's causing me the most aggravation right now is adding signatures to the map. I'm currently putting them in the top right corner, but I think they jump out too much. When I make them less obvious, they're harder to read... I'll post something in the next day or so.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby Varelse on Sat Oct 16, 2010 10:24 pm

Sorry if this was already posted, I didn't have to patience to read the whole thread.
In westernmost region of Romania on your map would be Crisana, not Criasna.
Other than that I see no problems.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby thenobodies80 on Sun Oct 17, 2010 3:26 pm

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I have always considered this a very nice map, so I'm glad it's back in production. Honestly,I don't see many problems to solve.
The flags behind the minimap/legend don't convince me at all, I don't know if it's a good choice ... :-k
Also the countries names, they have similar colors, there's a way to make them more distinguishable?
I'm not sure about croatia and serbia colors, they look similar running the image with vischeck (see the spolier)
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I don't want to argue about how place signatures on a map, but right now yours are really small imo.
Pelagonia,Makedonia, Vardar and the mountain (the first on the left of the range between these regions) makes a strange (or unclear) border between makedonia and vardar
It's possible to highlight a bit kyklades?

Looking forward your next update

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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby n.n. on Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:26 pm

Nice map!

There should be mountains between Pelagonia and Shkoder too (since thats the way it is in reality)...

Also, all mountains on Skopje borders can be removed if needed (for gameplay reasons) since actually fairly easy passes and roads exist on all three borders involved. I'm not suggesting anything here just saying that it would not be a geographical mistake to remove some or all of the involved mountains on these borders.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby MrBenn on Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:05 pm

I was going to try and make an update, but the map files are on a different computer so cannot work on it for another couple of days :-(

Anyway, here's what I'll be looking at:

thenobodies80 wrote:I have always considered this a very nice map, so I'm glad it's back in production. Honestly,I don't see many problems to solve.
Good, that's the sort of thing I like to hear ;-)

The flags behind the minimap/legend don't convince me at all, I don't know if it's a good choice ... :-k
Yeah, well, I like them, and that's what counts :P Seriously though, I'll tone them down a fraction.

Also the countries names, they have similar colors, there's a way to make them more distinguishable?
They're more for reference than anything else - I could try adding callout lines, but there's not a lot of space really.

I'm not sure about croatia and serbia colors, they look similar running the image with vischeck (see the spolier)
Yep; good catch. I'll switch the colours of Serbia and Romania.

I don't want to argue about how place signatures on a map, but right now yours are really small imo.
I've played around a bit with the signatures in any case - I only included them at that size as a placeholder so I wouldn't forget to put them on later!

Pelagonia,Makedonia, Vardar and the mountain (the first on the left of the range between these regions) makes a strange (or unclear) border between makedonia and vardar
I'll extend the mountain range there

It's possible to highlight a bit kyklades?
I'll move the name so that the first Kis above and slightly to the right of the existing army circle. I'll try and squeeze things around to make it a better and slightly clearer fit

Looking forward your next update

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n.n. wrote:Nice map!
Thank you very much :-D

There should be mountains between Pelagonia and Shkoder too (since thats the way it is in reality)...
I don;t see any real reason not to extend that mountain range a little

Also, all mountains on Skopje borders can be removed if needed (for gameplay reasons) since actually fairly easy passes and roads exist on all three borders involved. I'm not suggesting anything here just saying that it would not be a geographical mistake to remove some or all of the involved mountains on these borders.
Those mountains are actually quite important for gameplay; without them it makes the map too open in the middle. I'm curious to know if it would it be acceptable from a geographical point of view to extend the mountains to cover the border between Nisava and Kyustendil?
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby Victor Sullivan on Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:14 pm

MrBenn wrote:
thenobodies80 wrote:The flags behind the minimap/legend don't convince me at all, I don't know if it's a good choice ... :-k
Yeah, well, I like them, and that's what counts :P Seriously though, I'll tone them down a fraction.

If it means anything to you, MrBenn, I really like the flag hexes. I think it adds some needed flair ;)
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby MrBenn on Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:52 pm

OK, here's the update, with small and large images:

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The only thing I haven't done is add callout lines to the minimap, because they just looked cluttered. I'm not convinced they're needed in any case.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby The Bison King on Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:02 pm

Call out lines? what are call out lines?
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby MrBenn on Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:52 pm

The Bison King wrote:Call out lines? what are call out lines?

Lines from the name of the bonus region to the area on the minimap - I spoke about them in a previous post ;-)
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v14 pg. 1&15) --Sept 16th--

Postby The Bison King on Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:34 pm

MrBenn wrote:
The Bison King wrote:Call out lines? what are call out lines?

Lines from the name of the bonus region to the area on the minimap - I spoke about them in a previous post ;-)

Yeah I think those would be a little extraneous. It's probably better off with out them. I would think it's about sticky time personally.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v15 pg. 1&18) --Oct 31st--

Postby thenobodies80 on Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:18 am

Yes, sticky time.

Anyone else has suggestions or comments about this map?
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v15 pg. 1&18) --Oct 31st--

Postby ZeakCytho on Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:52 pm

Looks amazing - love what you did with the minimap area! =D>
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v15 pg. 1&18) --Oct 31st--

Postby RjBeals on Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:33 pm

Looks good - what I would do:

Create 2 more layers.

The first is a yellowish wash layer, set to multiply at 18% opacity. This will give the map a warmer feel, and freshen up the colors.

Then I would use some very very subtle highlights. White round gradients on a black background. The white areas should fall on the focus areas. Set this layer to overlay at 17%

Of course - it's just me. I'm all about pastel maps. Just a thought.

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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v15 pg. 1&18) --Oct 31st--

Postby Victor Sullivan on Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:16 pm

RjBeals wrote:Looks good - what I would do:

Create 2 more layers.

The first is a yellowish wash layer, set to multiply at 18% opacity. This will give the map a warmer feel, and freshen up the colors.

Then I would use some very very subtle highlights. White round gradients on a black background. The white areas should fall on the focus areas. Set this layer to overlay at 17%

Of course - it's just me. I'm all about pastel maps. Just a thought.

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Both look fine to me, though I don't think MrBenn will agree ;)
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v15 pg. 1&18) --Oct 31st--

Postby RedBaron0 on Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:33 pm

I'd agree with what you got RJ, as long as it's just the land.(I know you don't have the .psd file to fiddle with) That deep blue for the sea is really good thew way it is, and the text doesn't look that good with the yellowing.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v15 pg. 1&18) --Oct 31st--

Postby RjBeals on Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:01 pm

try that trick on other maps though - the black/white overlay. It really pops the colors. I used it on my USA map.

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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v15 pg. 1&18) --Oct 31st--

Postby The Bison King on Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:29 pm

RjBeals wrote:try that trick on other maps though - the black/white overlay. It really pops the colors. I used it on my USA map.

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man why isn't this the USA map? This looks awesome, and it has all 50... well 48... the good ones.

I'm sure there's a reason.
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Re: The Balkan Peninsula [D] (v15 pg. 1&18) --Oct 31st--

Postby RjBeals on Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:39 pm

well.. it's 1000 pixels wide, so I had to take it elsewhere.
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