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Washington, D.C. Map

Postby atr1989 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:36 am

I was wondering what you guys think about a D.C. map (for those who don't know, the Capital of the United States).

I have an image I can use, but if you could find a better one that would be great.

The image is at


http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/washington-dc/map.php


I took out all of the names. Now I'm going to have to find some territory names.

So what do you think?
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Postby fireedud on Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:39 am

I think it's a good idea, but it might be better if u made it that virginia didn't take back the land and Washington is a complete diamond.
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Postby mibi on Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:40 am

sure, have at it.
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Postby atr1989 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:02 pm

I'm having trouble figuring out how to make a layout for the map and put it on here. Any help?
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Postby atr1989 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:57 pm

Here is just a basic idea of what the layout would look like. I would have Northwest (red), Northeast (purple), Southwest (green), Southeast (brown), and the Capitol District (blue). I know I need to make the picture sharper and create better colors, but what do you think?

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D.C. Layout

Postby atr1989 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:59 pm

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Postby atr1989 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:00 pm

I also plan on adding harbors along the rivers connecting a few of the territories just to make it a little bit more interesting.
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Postby Dmunster on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:11 pm

fireedud wrote:I think it's a good idea, but it might be better if u made it that virginia didn't take back the land and Washington is a complete diamond.


I agree. It would be cool if you had arlington in there. It could be its own continent. Then you could have fun with all the bridges. =)
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Postby ParadiceCity9 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:16 pm

You gotta change up the colors, I think.
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Postby Dmunster on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:17 pm

Or you could break it up into three or four continents (Mt.Vernon, Old Town Alexandria, Roslyn and Shirlington).
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Postby Dmunster on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:19 pm

atr1989 wrote:Here is just a basic idea of what the layout would look like. I would have Northwest (red), Northeast (purple), Southwest (green), Southeast (brown), and the Capitol District (blue). I know I need to make the picture sharper and create better colors, but what do you think?

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Funny that you would make southeast brown. :lol: Thats where we used to get our pot when we were in a bind.
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Postby atr1989 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:26 pm

If I make it so that there are 9 total continents I'm guessing I should take out about half the countries in each continent? Because I think there are too many right now if I were to do that
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Postby Kem Rixen on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:26 pm

I really think this is a neat idea, though, it's a little bland at the moment...Here are some ideas I had.
  • Subway stations in some of the countries.
  • Being able to attack countries on the rivers, but only downstream. Maybe just some of the countries.
  • Smaller continents, or at least make some of them smaller, in my opinion it would be really hard to hold even one.
  • Images of landmarks around D.C. so it would feel more like Washington D.C.

You don't need to use any of those, but I think it would be excellent if you used at least one.
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Postby ParadiceCity9 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:27 pm

Dmunster wrote:
atr1989 wrote:Here is just a basic idea of what the layout would look like. I would have Northwest (red), Northeast (purple), Southwest (green), Southeast (brown), and the Capitol District (blue). I know I need to make the picture sharper and create better colors, but what do you think?

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Funny that you would make southeast brown. :lol: Thats where we used to get our pot when we were in a bind.



lmfao
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Postby fireedud on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:48 pm

atr, keep ur posts regarding the same map in the same topic.
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Postby PimpCaneYoAss on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:49 pm

good idea keep working on it
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New Map Layout

Postby atr1989 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:49 pm

This is the revised map. I have not included any territory or continent names, but I included Arlington and Olde Town Alexandria due to the requests of some.

The continents:

Northwest (orange) - 6 territories

Northeast (yellow) - 5 territories

Southeast (brown) - 4 territories

Southwest (green) - 3 territories

The Mall (blue) - 4 territories

North Arlington (grey) - 3 territories

South Arlington (light green) - 5 territories

Olde Town Alexandria (purple) - 3 territories


I think the continents need a few more territories. What do you think?

I still plan to add bridges and harbors to make it better. I will probably redo this map in an actual program like Fireworks or something like that (I did this in Paint). Any suggestions on what to use?


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Postby Unit_2 on Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:12 pm

that looks better
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Postby plysprtz on Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:33 am

why don't you have it were the white house could be an additional army and the Washington monument and Lincoln monuments could be the same. and if you have them all they could be worth 5 extra armies or have them attack each other. i don't know but it needs to feel more like Washington d.c not like all other maps with anchors harbors and subways
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New Borders

Postby atr1989 on Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:12 am

I know this isn't a priority right now, but I accidentally clicked on my border when I was filling something with color and the borders turned white. I think the white and gray both look better than the black border. What do you think?

(Territory names be put up later today)

Gray borders

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White borders

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Postby ParadiceCity9 on Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:34 am

I like the black best
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Postby fireedud on Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:03 am

I like black the best, it goes with the "feel" of the map.
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Postby PimpCaneYoAss on Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:21 am

I think gray strains the eyes a bit...still to black or white which adds to the whole DC feel
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Postby ParadiceCity9 on Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:57 am

ya you've got too many continents with only 3 or 4 territories in them.
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Postby PimpCaneYoAss on Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:58 am

I agree the continents are simply not big enough to support more than 3 or 4 countries which really kills some playability...keep working
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