el-presidente wrote:cairnswk wrote:captainwalrus wrote:Does it have to be do dark and drab? I like how Africa is in a silhouette but the area around that is really dull too. It sort of seems like it doesn't have any attraction to the map. It is like almost as if it is just the rails and nothing else.
So you just think that the drop shadow should be removed on the continent?
I agree with him, but just getting rid of the drop shadow won't fix that. The only colors in the background are browns or grays. I really don't know what is needed but something needs to be added. I am bad witih feedback, sorry.
Maybe a dull gold/brown with a very grainy feel would be good for this map since the Sahara is the most prominent physical feature of the continent. Putting pyramids on the map would also be nice.
Did you forget a couple of D army circles and a few others? If you want the stations to share the army circle, perhaps put the letters on each side of the circle rather than top/bottom. The top one looks empty with the top/bottom approach.
I don't know if having the letter identifications between each army circle is going to work on the hubs because I can see some major colorblind issues with it.
The DSM station on the right side looks horribly beefed: L should actually be a K and the colors are switched.
H and K lines have too similar of a color to stay together both in the hub and coming out of it.