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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby theBastard on Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:41 pm

I can not see posted maps. also in the firts post...
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby thenobodies80 on Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:50 pm

Files "temporarily" moved. Damned ripway.com :roll:

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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby natty dread on Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:54 pm

According to Fileden's facebook page, fileden should be safe to use now - google hasn't updated their security list so browsers still show the site as harmful, but it should be safe to enter now.

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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby theBastard on Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:59 pm

thanks for links.
why Wienn lies on two banks of Danube and Budapest (Tolna and Pest) are two separate regions?
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby iancanton on Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:58 pm

natty_dread wrote:I didn't realize that Wien is actually the same territory as Austrian throne. The river kinda threw me off there... so yes, the one with Wien/Linz works.

exactly! i thought wien was a separate region with no name. it'll be obvious in a real game bcause there will be no troop count. wien plus linz is good.

thenobodies80 wrote:I changed the names in Bohemia with the ones you suggested, except for sudetes since I don't like so much the idea to use a mountain range name. I decided to use PreƟburg, i think it could work.

preƟburg doesn't work because it's real location is where u have nyitra. replacing the nyitra name by preƟburg is fine, since preƟburg was an important city where hungarian kings were crowned.

i had a look at a map and the most logical division of bohemia is to make sudetes bigger, call it prag and connect it to both the old prag and budweis. make the old prag smaller and call it pilsen, which is the only other major bohemian city. there are already three other countries with railway-track arrangements (all regions are in a single line). this stops bohemia from being a fourth railway-track country. sorry i didn't notice this before!

perhaps swap the colours of transylvania and bosnia with each other, so that the bluer colour is not beside the sea.

ian. :)
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby Victor Sullivan on Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:05 pm

Isn't wcforums.org the Conquer Club Crossword website? *chuckles*

Can't wait to play this! Amazing this only has 9 pages of comments in the Forge :P
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby thenobodies80 on Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:12 pm

iancanton wrote:preƟburg doesn't work because it's real location is where u have nyitra. replacing the nyitra name by preƟburg is fine, since preƟburg was an important city where hungarian kings were crowned.


oops, you right....i used pressburg but with the hungarian name. (Pozsony)


iancanton wrote:i had a look at a map and the most logical division of bohemia is to make sudetes bigger, call it prag and connect it to both the old prag and budweis. make the old prag smaller and call it pilsen, which is the only other major bohemian city. there are already three other countries with railway-track arrangements (all regions are in a single line). this stops bohemia from being a fourth railway-track country. sorry i didn't notice this before!


np! :) It's 110% better so I updated the map according to your suggestions.
I'll do the xml asap.

About the color, as said earlier, i prefer not to chnage it and take just a note for now, if it comes a large issue during beta I'm ready to change it. ;)
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby thenobodies80 on Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:11 am

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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby theBastard on Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:53 am

evrything is good and nice :)

just maybe you could divide Wien to two regions (each on the one riverbank).
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby thenobodies80 on Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:04 pm

theBastard wrote:just maybe you could divide Wien to two regions (each on the one riverbank).


I'm not keen in doing that change. To be honest, what I'd like to do now is play this map! :mrgreen:
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby Victor Sullivan on Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:36 pm

thenobodies80 wrote:
theBastard wrote:just maybe you could divide Wien to two regions (each on the one riverbank).


I'm not keen in doing that change. To be honest, what I'd like to do now is play this map! :mrgreen:

Agreed :mrgreen:
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby Victor Sullivan on Wed May 04, 2011 4:14 pm

thenobodies80 wrote:
theBastard wrote:just maybe you could divide Wien to two regions (each on the one riverbank).


I'm not keen in doing that change. To be honest, what I'd like to do now is play this map! :mrgreen:

It's been too long! :( :P

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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby thenobodies80 on Thu May 05, 2011 9:04 am

My fault.
I had to fix a couple of coords but RL forced me to postpone to this weekend.
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby Victor Sullivan on Thu May 05, 2011 2:36 pm

thenobodies80 wrote:My fault.
I had to fix a couple of coords but RL forced me to postpone to this weekend.

That's cool, it's nice to know you haven't forgotten :D

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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire - Update 06 Mar

Postby thenobodies80 on Sat May 07, 2011 9:22 am

I changed some coords

Small map:
- Centered Dual monarchy
- Hunyad moved down
- Csik moved down
Large Map:
- Vorarlberg moved to left
- Schlesien moved to left
- Lemberg moved to left
- Travnik moved to left

the updated files are in the first post :D
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Postby gimil on Fri May 27, 2011 5:55 am

Hi Nobodies my old friend,

I hate to be one of those guys who come in at the end of the map and point out graphical concerns, but I am going to have to do it anyway. They are only small ones but I hope you don't mind me pointing them out.

Firstly, symbols for the thrones I feel need a little something to make them pop out of the map. Like a drop shadow or glow, just so they look a little more integrated into the map. Rather than glued on clip art, if you know what I mean.

Secondly, your rivers are dark blue, like the darker parts of your sea. This gives me the impression that they are as deep as the ocean and thus don't feel like rivers. Would you be resistant to making them a lighter shade of blue, so they feel shallower like a river should.

Again, sorry to be that guy. I would understand if you were resistant to changes like this at this point.


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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Postby thenobodies80 on Fri May 27, 2011 9:29 am

Gimil ! :D
It's really nice to see you here around.
About your suggestions...no worries, I'm really happy that you have some advice for me.
Moreover, all them are small things and won't change gameplay.
I'll try to play a bit more with symbols and rivers asap, we'll see what comes out....

But I'll be away for a week, the next update will take a while.

Nobodies

Oh, btw don't forget to come back here to say me how the next update looks like! ;)
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Postby gimil on Fri May 27, 2011 12:15 pm

excellent, I look forward to seeing it. I'l make sure I show face again!
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Postby thenobodies80 on Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:14 am

Like this?

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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Postby AndyDufresne on Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:34 am

Looking at the legend, I got briefly confused.

It mentions that The Thrones 'Can attack and be attacked by the territory with the same symbol.' I looked the 'territories' on the geographical gameboard, and noticed no repeating symbols. Then after a moment I realized the 'territories' in the upper left is what that block of legend text is referring to.

Anyways, once a game initializes, there probably won't be any issue since it'll be more immediately understandable I think.

I like the map though overall. The texture of the playable regions seems a little out-sync with them, but everything else looks pretty perfect.

Good work.


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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Postby Victor Sullivan on Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:25 am

AndyDufresne wrote:Looking at the legend, I got briefly confused.

It mentions that The Thrones 'Can attack and be attacked by the territory with the same symbol.' I looked the 'territories' on the geographical gameboard, and noticed no repeating symbols. Then after a moment I realized the 'territories' in the upper left is what that block of legend text is referring to.

Anyways, once a game initializes, there probably won't be any issue since it'll be more immediately understandable I think.

I like the map though overall. The texture of the playable regions seems a little out-sync with them, but everything else looks pretty perfect.

Good work.


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I was more confused trying to figure out what you were talking about :lol:

IMO, I think it's fine. I'm still eager to play this! I like the standard gameplay type with the little added flair - it's familiar yet fresh.

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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Postby gimil on Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:21 pm

I like the first image with it changes. The rivers sit much better. But the symbols still don't pop enough for my liking. I think a darker outline would be better than the lighter one you have used. An outer glow, that doesn't, well, glow. If you know what I mean.
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Re: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Postby Dukasaur on Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:53 pm

Visually it's beautiful! Absolutely beautiful, without caveats or provisos! God I love it!

Gameplay-wise I have some reservations. A victory condition that can be satisfied by, basically, holding the centre of map will lead to a lot of quick, lopsided victories. I would, quite honestly, rather see this as a non-objective map. Or, if it must be an objectives map, go with a more complex victory condition.
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