California [Quenched]

by **ender516** on Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:07 pm

I thought it was the ghost of the Munchkin who hanged himself... wait, that wasn't California, that was Oz ... meh, what's the diff?

by **Victor Sullivan** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:28 am

ender516 wrote:I thought it was the ghost of the Munchkin who hanged himself... wait, that wasn't California, that was Oz ... meh, what's the diff?

What does that make TBK and me? Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion?

-Sully

by **PROFITS** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:20 am

natty_dread wrote:When I made my first map, which is incidentally being revamped currently, some guy from Denmark was horribly offended when Denmark's bonus was (is) only 3 on the map. He said "Denmark is such an important and powerful country that there's no way it's bonus should be so much less than Sweden or Norway!"

I tried to calmly explain, that no matter how much political power a country has in the real world, if it's only a few territories on a map and has only 2 borders, it's bonus has to be low for gameplay purposes.

Gameplay balance needs to be first priority (as we recently bitterly learned on the Korea map) over historical, geographical, economical etc. accuracy. There will always be someone who lives in Poland or whatever and thinks his country should give a +10 autodeploy... however, it's much more important to make sure the map plays well than to worry about things like who's got the biggest cities or most money in the real world.

You have very valid points here. Amount given for bonus should be based on how borders to protect and how many regions within bonus. However, prominent cities or countries within the region of a map SHOULD be listed. Has anybody ever heard of half of these cities listed on the California map? I haven't and I've lived in California my entire life. Exactly my point.

by **The Bison King** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:13 pm

natty_dread wrote:Do I see wrong? There seems to be some white in the palm tree...

Yes and fixed

Files for Beta:
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http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/223/ ... upload.jpg
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http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1262 ... upload.jpg
XML: http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/12/18 ... ornia7.xml

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by **natty dread** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:10 am

Oh man, did I look at the wrong version?

by **thenobodies80** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:02 pm

So it seems we're ready to go. Right?

In that case, TBK could you please post all the files? (just to be sure I don't send to Lack the wrong files).

by **The Bison King** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:43 pm

thenobodies80 wrote:So it seems we're ready to go. Right?

In that case, TBK could you please post all the files? (just to be sure I don't send to Lack the wrong files).

Yup here they are!

Files for Beta:
Click image to enlarge.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/223/ ... upload.jpg
Click image to enlarge.

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1262 ... upload.jpg
XML: http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/12/18 ... ornia7.xml

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I am excite!!!

by **thenobodies80** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:49 am

Beta - Quenching

---The Final Forge period has concluded for the California Map. All objections have had their time. The Foundry and I hereby brand this map with the Foundry Beta Brand. Let it be known that this map is now ready for BETA Play. After an extended period of time in BETA and once all quirks and issues have been resolved, the map will be put into Full Play (barring any Lack vetoes).

Conquer Club, enjoy!

While the map is in BETA Play, there are a couple of administrative tasks that are required of the mapmaker(s) in addition to the initial gameplay testing:

Map Information Portal

a timely and constructive manner.

thenobodies80

by **thenobodies80** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:29 am

The map should be available for the beta testing.
Waiting an invite from you , TBK

by **Vlasov** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:30 am

Congratulations TBK!! Too bad I'm still a free player. I need to lose one game before I can join in the sunny California fun.

by **AndyDufresne** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:01 am

Congrats TBK.

--Andy

by **Vlasov** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:08 am

Just looked at "Active Games" in Game Finder -- California is getting lots of play today, mostly 2-player...

by **isaiah40** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:10 am

Congrats TBK!! =D>

by **cairnswk** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:41 am

Congratulations TBK. =D>

by **natty dread** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:04 pm

Where's my invite?

by **Victor Sullivan** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:41 pm

Yay!!

-Sully

by **Boss Tokugawa** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:22 pm

As a Native Californian I love the map. However I must point out the Napa Valley/County is mislabeled. What you have there is Sonoma county. Napa Valley/county is the east of Sonoma County.
Hope that before this leaves this point someone take a look at. I live in Sonoma valley and The Napa valley does not extend to the ocean or hit Mendocino county. Here is a link to an appropriate map. http://geology.com/state-map/maps/calif ... ty-map.gif
Thanks for all the hard work!

by **Seamus76** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:34 pm

congrats!

by **The Bison King** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:27 pm

Boss Tokugawa wrote:As a Native Californian I love the map. However I must point out the Napa Valley/County is mislabeled. What you have there is Sonoma county. Napa Valley/county is the east of Sonoma County.
Hope that before this leaves this point someone take a look at. I live in Sonoma valley and The Napa valley does not extend to the ocean or hit Mendocino county. Here is a link to an appropriate map. http://geology.com/state-map/maps/calif ... ty-map.gif
Thanks for all the hard work!

Well I wasn't really going off of counties when I did this. More just cities and geographical zones. I was aware that Napa isn't doesn't extend as far west as pictured, that was just a fib that some other Cali native said would be fine just to fit Nappa in somewhere.

However if that really does mess things up I suppose we could scrap Richmond rename in Napa and move mendicino down. I'm not sure what I'd call what was Mendicino then, but I'm sure I could find something. What do you think of that Tokugawa?

by **demonfork** on Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:30 am

Why is El Dorado below Sacramento?

I live north of sacramento and south of el dorado....This would be impossible if California was laid out the way that you have it...Can you please fix this, it's very offensive to me that you have el dorado below sacramento

by **Pirlo** on Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:20 am

Nice! I like it. thanks for your effort TBK

by **The Bison King** on Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:01 pm

demonfork wrote:Why is El Dorado below Sacramento?

I live north of sacramento and south of el dorado....This would be impossible if California was laid out the way that you have it...Can you please fix this, it's very offensive to me that you have el dorado below sacramento

Lol yeah I'll fix it. An honest mistake. Please don't be "offended" by a silly accident. Jeez :roll:

by **demonfork** on Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:26 pm

The Bison King wrote:
demonfork wrote:Why is El Dorado below Sacramento?

I live north of sacramento and south of el dorado....This would be impossible if California was laid out the way that you have it...Can you please fix this, it's very offensive to me that you have el dorado below sacramento

Lol yeah I'll fix it. An honest mistake. Please don't be "offended" by a silly accident. Jeez

Thanks bubb, I couldn't handle living between sacramento and san francisco