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Very Very Very rough draft quickly done on paint so dont dont waste time telling me it looks crap, i just want to no if its workable

seems nice if it is done, work with colours and regular shapes!

For me, this is merely another crossword type map, the first thought that popped into my head when reading/looking at this was, "Why?" In my own opinion, there's no allure, no real reason to play this. It's the same problem I have with the Periodic Table map, but perhaps I would just rather play a more geographically centered map than geometrically.

-my two cents, take it or leave it-

i like the concept, but i have to kindof agree w/ dublin on the "why" question. its kindof hard to get excited about conquering "pentagon."

Well, first off: You need to change the lay out of recatngle, maye have 2 rows and make it 8 countries, but don't make them a line liek that. Also, try and divvy up the pentagon into smaller pentagons, lets see if i can get this to work w/o drawing it...

EDIT: sketched it on paint



pentagon is 5 territories, each of which is a pentagon in itself to form a big pentagon

I would suggest dropping this now, this just will not end up looking good, you could create a great playable map, but if the basis is shapes, it won't look coherent, or anything like a map. If you can think of a way to make it look really good, go on, if not leave it here. Good Luck

Not sure how but the map in the first post changed instead of me uploading another one.

Had a quick play with colours (although my choices are very limited using paint), changed rectangle and pentagon layout

shfbballnut: Im going to keep going with it unless i get an overwhelming amount of people not wanting to play it

I have full faith that you can make it into a great map to play, what I'm worried about is what you're going to do visualy. I'm a little limited in my vision of how a shapes map would really look good.

Don't make a geomerty map...shapes suck.

i was thinking along the lines of trying to make the whole thing look like some doodles in a maths book but ive seemed to stray from that path..

to be fair im not a very talented artist at all and using paint i am kind of limited... but if i could get that theme to it it might start to take off only problem would be clearly defining continents at a quick look

spiesr wrote:Don't make a geomerty map...shapes suck.

But are very usefull in everyday life...control of shapes means control of physics(in a way)..controlling phyisics gives you supreme control of the world

and now i have a meaning behind the map

i thankyou

DublinDoogey wrote:For me, this is merely another crossword type map, the first thought that popped into my head when reading/looking at this was, "Why?" In my own opinion, there's no allure, no real reason to play this. It's the same problem I have with the Periodic Table map, but perhaps I would just rather play a more geographically centered map than geometrically.

-my two cents, take it or leave it-

So very true.

Try making a computer map, that would be geometrical.

edmundomcpot wrote:i was thinking along the lines of trying to make the whole thing look like some doodles in a maths book but ive seemed to stray from that path..

to be fair im not a very talented artist at all and using paint i am kind of limited... but if i could get that theme to it it might start to take off only problem would be clearly defining continents at a quick look

i like that idea a lot better, gives it some interest. try downloading gimp or inkscape, theyre both free and infinitely better than paint.

edmundomcpot wrote:i was thinking along the lines of trying to make the whole thing look like some doodles in a maths book but ive seemed to stray from that path..

to be fair im not a very talented artist at all and using paint i am kind of limited... but if i could get that theme to it it might start to take off only problem would be clearly defining continents at a quick look

i like that idea a lot better, gives it some interest. try downloading gimp or inkscape, theyre both free and infinitely better than paint.

Are they easier to use? because i really cant draw on paint

yeah, tons easier.

plus hexagon continent needs new boundaries, its pretty messed up as is. Maybe try doing a pentagon type thing with that.

Also, i'd make circle in the middle, give it 5 segments, and have each segment go out to a different other shape continent, so circle coudl become a power territory.

How To Make A Map wrote:Step 1). Idea——Develop a unique idea that has some sort of appeal (preferably mass).

I see that you've developed a unique idea...but I don't see much mass appeal...or really any at all...for this idea.


--Andy

[quote="AndyDufresne
I see that you've developed a unique idea...but I don't see much mass appeal...or really any at all...for this idea.


--Andy[/quote]

so your saying i should just drop it

edmundomcpot wrote:[quote="AndyDufresne
I see that you've developed a unique idea...but I don't see much mass appeal...or really any at all...for this idea.


--Andy

so your saying i should just drop it[/quote]Thats my reading of it.

http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewto ... sc&start=0

Check out that thread, its of a computer, looking at this map reminded me of it, u might want to work on it.

Inkscape has no "fill with colour" option, but I just put the document into paint at the end and do that, but the secret to inkscape is right-clicking an image and using "fill and stroke." great tool for transparency.

thanks people..but i dont think im going to bother carring on..feel free to make a good go at it if you so wish