District of Alaska - v14.1 [2015-25-05] pg16 [QUENCHED]

[Seamus76]

CURRENT UPDATE INFO - 2013-07-17:
Graphics Changes Only:
- Toned down the outer border
- Removed all of the fold marks
- Added a burn hole, thoughts?

CURRENT MAP VERSION

v11.0 - Large (840x800)

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[koontz1973]

Burn hole = or or if I wanted to really express myself, I could go as far as this:

[Seamus76]

ouch

Burn hole = or or if I wanted to really express myself, I could go as far as this:

Ouch. Personally I think it's just as good as Cairo.

[Seamus76]

CURRENT UPDATE INFO - 2013-07-17:
Graphics Changes Only:
- Removed the burn hole

Aside from wasting time mucking it up with that stuff, are there any real Graphics problems?

CURRENT MAP VERSION

v11.1 - Large (840x800)

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[koontz1973]

Ouch. Personally I think it's just as good as Cairo.

Even I can see Cairo is bad apart from a few elements. Hence the reason I binned it.

[Industrial Helix]

Hey, I really love this map and really think you pushed Alaska into an interesting gameplay instead of simple geography, so excellent work on that. I enjoy the graphics as well.

But I do have one criticism, I don't like that the small boats revert to neutral. I enjoy the trench setting for games and playing this map on trench would be a nightmare with the small boats reverting to neutral. So why not put a decay on it instead -3 sounds pretty good to me.

I'm not sure if this is the rule anymore but it used to be that maps had to be playable on all types of settings, but that might have changed since I left the carto mods.

[koontz1973]

IH, trench does not come into play with killer neutrals. You are able to attack them and then out of them on the same turn.

As for the settings, still the same as before.

[Seamus76]

CURRENT UPDATE INFO - 2013-07-22:
- Got a little bored so I tried a couple of things to make the map look more antique.

CURRENT MAP VERSION

v11.2 - Large (840x800)

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[iAmCaffeine]

I'm wondering how hard it will be for some people to read the region names? Ketchikan, Kadiak I for example.. At least I think that's what they say? The faint look works for me but I'm young, I still have good eyes.

[Seamus76]

I'm wondering how hard it will be for some people to read the region names? Ketchikan, Kadiak I for example.. At least I think that's what they say? The faint look works for me but I'm young, I still have good eyes.

Yeah you're right, I can fix all of that, and saw those in particular as well. Thanks as always for the feedback. I think this will be a fun one.

[Seamus76]

CURRENT UPDATE INFO - 2013-07-22:
- Fixed any names that might have been hard to read. i.e. Kadiak I.

CURRENT MAP VERSION

v11.3 - Large (840x800)

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[isaiah40]

I have a few items that need to be addressed:

1. Along with making the region names darker, I would make the text in both legends darker and the lines from the region names to the regions themselves darker as well.
2. In the Expedition Route legend, the picture of the Base Camp needs some outer glow to bring it out from the background.
3. Put the abbreviation of base Camp in the legend as well, considering you have the abbreviation on the playable area. So it should read Base Camps (BC) revitilize ...
4. The Expedition routes need to be darker as well as there are a coupe of them I am having trouble seeing.
5. The bonus mini-maps need to be a tad darker, especially Yukon as that is a little hard to see.
6. Make the base camps on the map a tad darker as well.

Remember that this will be saved as a jpeg, and we know how that will turn out.

That's it from me for now!

[cairnswk]

Seamus, i just came into read what isaiah40 had written, and noticed immediately how "yellow" the map looks.
Maybe this has been requested, but not my favourite colour is "mustard".

[Seamus76]

I have a few items that need to be addressed:

1. Along with making the region names darker, I would make the text in both legends darker and the lines from the region names to the regions themselves darker as well.
2. In the Expedition Route legend, the picture of the Base Camp needs some outer glow to bring it out from the background.
3. Put the abbreviation of base Camp in the legend as well, considering you have the abbreviation on the playable area. So it should read Base Camps (BC) revitilize ...
4. The Expedition routes need to be darker as well as there are a coupe of them I am having trouble seeing.
5. The bonus mini-maps need to be a tad darker, especially Yukon as that is a little hard to see.
6. Make the base camps on the map a tad darker as well.

Remember that this will be saved as a jpeg, and we know how that will turn out.

That's it from me for now!

Thanks Isaiah. BC can be added easily.

The other stuff seems to be more from when I added the antique overlays, everything got a lot lighter and more yellow-ish. Do me a favor and take a look at version v11.1 in the OP, and let me know if you like that better. You'll see how much darker everything is.

[isaiah40]

I have a few items that need to be addressed:

1. Along with making the region names darker, I would make the text in both legends darker and the lines from the region names to the regions themselves darker as well.
2. In the Expedition Route legend, the picture of the Base Camp needs some outer glow to bring it out from the background.
3. Put the abbreviation of base Camp in the legend as well, considering you have the abbreviation on the playable area. So it should read Base Camps (BC) revitilize ...
4. The Expedition routes need to be darker as well as there are a coupe of them I am having trouble seeing.
5. The bonus mini-maps need to be a tad darker, especially Yukon as that is a little hard to see.
6. Make the base camps on the map a tad darker as well.

Remember that this will be saved as a jpeg, and we know how that will turn out.

That's it from me for now!

Thanks Isaiah. BC can be added easily.

The other stuff seems to be more from when I added the antique overlays, everything got a lot lighter and more yellow-ish. Do me a favor and take a look at version v11.1 in the OP, and let me know if you like that better. You'll see how much darker everything is.

Yes it looks better, maybe move the antique overlays under the text and mini-maps and see how it looks.

[cairnswk]

...
The other stuff seems to be more from when I added the antique overlays, everything got a lot lighter and more yellow-ish. Do me a favor and take a look at version v11.1 in the OP, and let me know if you like that better. You'll see how much darker everything is.

Maybe just my preference...but the older versions work better for me...i examined V7 and V8.

[Seamus76]

CURRENT UPDATE INFO - 2013-07-22:
- Removed one of the "antique" overlays and lowered the opacity of the remaining overlay, which made the map less yellow, and the gray objects much darker (i.e. text, sea routes, etc.). I think this works better. It still has the yellow antique feel I wanted, but not so much that it washes it out the map anymore. Thoughts?
- Also lowered the opacity of the white, snowy mountain color to make it a little lest bright, and take it back more to the v7 and v8 look (darker)
- Added the (BC) to the small legend

CURRENT MAP VERSION

v11.4 - Large (840x800)

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[cairnswk]

For me, this looks much better

[Seamus76]

For me, this looks much better

Thanks, I agree. Now go get some sleep cairns.

[isaiah40]

For me, this looks much better

+1

Now go and start getting the small, 888 test, and CB tests done!

[Seamus76]

For me, this looks much better

+1

Now go and start getting the small, 888 test, and CB tests done!

Thank you sir. Will do!!

[isaiah40]

How are the updates coming along?

[Seamus76]

How are the updates coming along?

Slow. Forgot how unmotivating the small map was to do. Finished redoing all of the text and a few of the tert borders. Only have one or two more and then the 888's. I would say in the next 2-3 days I should have the finished small with an 888 version, and CB versions of the large. The 888 version of the large has been posted for a bit.

[Seamus76]

CURRENT UPDATE INFO - 2013-08-15:
- Added the regular Small version, and the 888 version(see OP). I will post the CB versions tomorrow.

CURRENT MAP VERSION

v11.4 - Large (840x800)

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v11.4 - Small (630x600)

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[RedBaron0]

You got a color blind test I can see seamus?