Warpath of the Native Americans [vacation]

[loki77]

u could even go as fare as adding the mayans to mexico area

[MarVal]

Thanks all for your suggestions.

Offline I'm working on a new map with also the suggestion about the Mayas.
Just have patience and soon the map will be here. Again thanks and more suggestions are welcome.

Grtz
MarVal

[insomniacdude]

Cool concept, but yeah until some borders and continent system pops up I can't say much. Really looking forward to developments as well.

Maybe to add to the bonuses you could take advantage of natural tribal feuds or friendships - holding two feuding tribes give a bonus of, say, -2, but holding two friendlys add +1 (or however, these numbers are arbitrary). The title right now is the path to war. Even if it's just a working title, it's a pretty awesome working title and you should run with that idea.

I'm also curious if the current colors represent continents (or will). What then will happen to the eskimos (technically inuit )? They could probably be split up. I think a lot of the bigger ones could be split up pretty easily. Maybe add in some natural woodland/wildlife, (especially in the north) since I'm sure there were areas that were not or sparsely inhabited by Native Americans.

Also, the suggestion about the Mayans is a good idea.

Looking forward to the next update!

[MarVal]

Thanks all for your suggestions and compliments.
I've made a new version with the continents and countries.
I'm curious what you all think about it.

Grtz
Marval

[MarVal]

I've made a new version of the map:

Version 02

Larger map :
(681x800)


There are 65 countries and 10 continents.

65 countries gives:
- 21 countries for 3 players, 2 neutral
- 16 countries for 4 players, 1 neutral
- 13 countries for 5 players, 0 neutral
- 10 countries for 6 players, 5 neutral

All feedback,suggestions and critisism are welcome.
Such as the army bonuses right, the (attack/defense)positions of the countries, gameplay and more.

So let us know what U think about the map Warpath of the Native Americans.

Grtz
MarVal

[BeakerWMA]

awesome. Can't wait to play it.

[Coleman]

Lots for me right now.

Borders are not clear enough for me yet. I have no idea what peices Kalaallit or Baffin Islands Inuit are, nor do I know how they connect to the other territories.

I don't much like whit for the border color, it makes a decent font color at the moment. Go with a thicker black for borders if you can. At the very least please don't' have the font and the border be the same color, especially if they need to overlap to fit army numbers in.

This is obvious but we need a good legend.

I'm likin where this is going. lets keep it up.

Oh, I find the absence of the Lakota disturbing. They are huge around the Black Hills. Please try to add them, I view them as one of the three most important native tribes. I'll tolerate the lack of Souix if I must.

It's going to be hard to please all the native tribes if people start showing up though. There are over 500 federally recognized tribes in the United States alone.

[d.gishman]

I love the idea, and the borders seems good, but I dont think that the whole "satellite" thing would work for this map...

it's warpath of the native americans, but the whole map looks a little futuristic

it would be cool to have a very native american like feel to the map and how that can be achieved is through artistic interpretation

[insomniacdude]

I don't much like whit for the border color, it makes a decent font color at the moment. Go with a thicker black for borders if you can. At the very least please don't' have the font and the border be the same color, especially if they need to overlap to fit army numbers in.

The whole map in general right now is pretty dark; I don't think black borders are a good idea.

I love the idea, and the borders seems good, but I dont think that the whole "satellite" thing would work for this map...

it's warpath of the native americans, but the whole map looks a little futuristic

it would be cool to have a very native american like feel to the map and how that can be achieved is through artistic interpretation

100% agreed. This is exactly like San Francisco where it needs to be AoM or Middle East or Doodle Earth or Siege in terms of fitting the graphics to the theme of the map.

[unriggable]

I think the main problem is how you chose to use the mercator projection, so greenland and alaska look a bunch too big. Try this:

http://mappinghacks.com/maps/dymaxion.png

[oaktown]

I too agree that this look is not in keeping with the theme... plus it's friggin' huge. Scaling back Canada and Alaska will improve the sense of scale, but what you really need to do is consider the era this map is supposed to represent and consider what will capture it visually.

[MarVal]

Thanks all for your suggestions.

About the legend and backgrounds, etc.: Version 2 is just a first impression of the map. First thing what must be done, were the borders and continents.

The most suggestions I agree and I'm off-line still working on them.
But I see that you all like the map for so far. Thanks.

Till next update.

Grtz
MarVal

[edbeard]

I think you'll need more unpassables. specifically in the midwest USA and eastern canada

[biotxlub]

Just out of curiousity, are you a Native American? It might do the map justice if a Native American had a part in it.

I personally don't like the Google Earth layout. I think the territory lines could be done differently, placed differently, as well as some of the tribes. You would need a really, really good, accurate tribal map to do this. And... like others have said... you have called this the "Warpath" of the Native Americans, but it has no Native American feel to it whatsoever. The legend, what plans do you have for it?

Just my two cents.

[MarVal]

Just out of curiousity, are you a Native American? It might do the map justice if a Native American had a part in it.

I personally don't like the Google Earth layout. I think the territory lines could be done differently, placed differently, as well as some of the tribes. You would need a really, really good, accurate tribal map to do this. And... like others have said... you have called this the "Warpath" of the Native Americans, but it has no Native American feel to it whatsoever. The legend, what plans do you have for it?

Just my two cents.

No, I'm not. So I'm glad of all the suggestions here.

And yes, I don't like the Google Earth layout...

And also working on the legend too. And the feelings will come.... (I hope)

Grtz
Marval

[boat4hire]

this one is so awesome... plz get out of foundry soon.. cant wait 2 play.. i feel very comfortable with it any way it gets done... CC RULZ

[captainwalrus]

Umm, there is no need to bump this, if you like it, take a look at this map