the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW

[Hoff]

yea i've been border line lieutenant for like 2 weeks now. I havnt dropped down, but i havent gone up many points. I just lose and win enough to stay the same. So frustrating.

[HighBorn]

i was up to bout 14 hundred but i lost the comp and had like 40 games going so when i started playing again i was back down to 870's

[AndyDufresne]

Been a while since I've seen anything above 900....

--Andy

[rocksolid]

Hey Andy, maybe you can explain your strange connection to the map foundry. You seem rather intent on not producing a map - or maybe I'm imagining reading you post that somewhere. That seems weird for a map foundry addict. Explain?

[AndyDufresne]

Hehe, well I've little desire to really make one. I've been thinking about ideas, but only one has marginally caught my interest. And also there's the fact that I've little photoshop skills what so ever. I enjoy seeing the map foundry glistening with the perspired posts...the creativity is astounding sometimes. It's a magnificent area, and I love to be apart of it!

--Andy

[rocksolid]

And also there's the fact that I've little photoshop skills what so ever.

That's how I felt - had never touched a graphics program, so didn't feel up to the grade, especially not with the stuff people like Stomper and Hoff are pumping out - but then I would see the Middle East map and think, well, I can certainly manage that.

Seriously, I think Lack has that thing up there to make mapmakers feel better.

[Banana Stomper]

Just to let you know, i've never touched photoshop before this. I just downloaded the trial version and got crackin.

[Hoff]

I learned it acouple years ago in high school breifly, but forgot most. And just started again. But i had a vague idea of what i was doing. But its learnable.

[fishfleas]

I'm working in illustrator. Downloaded the trial version and just trying to teach myself as much as I can as fast as I can. It'd be soo much easier if I could just draw the map on paper and scan it in

[rocksolid]

I've been working off GIMP - free downloaded open source software apparently kind of like photoshop, though I've never opened photoshop so I can't say. But it can do a fair amount of doggie tricks...

[SMITH197]

i downloaded Freehand...i like it but i'm sure i'm only using it to half it abilities. I cant think of any good ideas for maps though...

[fishfleas]

is Freehand free?

Not trying to make a joke... I could use some more free graphics programs.

[qeee1]

I leave for like a day or two and suddenly this thread is ten pages longer. Well screw you guys I'm not reading your posts. I'm gonna drage the conversation away to something that interests me... like graphic design.

Freehand is free I think. I tend to use photoshop elements myself.

[freakshow]

[ (The End) or so they though... Dispite the all consuming nature of the green slime a few humans managed to survive in a fleet of spaceships. After blasting off from Earth they fired their rockets and ran from the slime, as they went they they meet up with other alien races on the run, the human and alien scocieties merged and after hundreds of years their diffrent histories and had been forgoten and they remembered only one thing. The Slime. To combat the still spreading slime a task force of elite warriors was formed and trained to fight against the Slime. They were to train intensly for three years to be able to effectively combat their enemy however after only a week the Slime had drawn so close that their training was cut short and they were forced to do battle against the Slime.]

[thegrimsleeper]

Speaking of maps that need improvement, I'm working on a revision of the Brazil map that isn't quite ready for the Foundry (mainly because I'm trying to get through Marv-control)... but I thought I'd share it with my homies here in the longest.

[areyouincahoots]

[ (The End) or so they though... Dispite the all consuming nature of the green slime a few humans managed to survive in a fleet of spaceships. After blasting off from Earth they fired their rockets and ran from the slime, as they went they they meet up with other alien races on the run, the human and alien scocieties merged and after hundreds of years their diffrent histories and had been forgoten and they remembered only one thing. The Slime. To combat the still spreading slime a task force of elite warriors was formed and trained to fight against the Slime. They were to train intensly for three years to be able to effectively combat their enemy however after only a week the Slime had drawn so close that their training was cut short and they were forced to do battle against the Slime.]

lmao...someone has been reading the first like 10 pages of the thread...

[rocksolid]

Haven't played the map so I don't know if you've made any changes to the territories, etc, but I like the new look.

[areyouincahoots]

grim, that's pretty...but all of the names outside of the countries could get confusing...I have to say...I'm excited to see a map that isn't so dark...the names being in white is wonderful

[areyouincahoots]

This is my 400th post! WOW! Okay, I have nothing interesting to post, but I wanted my 400th to be in here...so, there it is. Woo!

[fishfleas]

congrats Cahoots

[areyouincahoots]

Thanks!

[rocksolid]

I'm excited to see a map that isn't so dark...the names being in white is wonderful

This is a comment I've wanted to make outside the foundry for a while - there's this prevailing wisdom in there that every map has to be super dark for some odd reason. I say we need more maps that are screaming loud pastels that half-blind whoever's playing them. Or at least less dark.

[areyouincahoots]

Or at least less dark.

yeah...and the worst part for me is that my screen is screwed and it makes EVERYTHING look darker than it is, so I cannot play half of the maps because I can't read the country names...and people wonder why I play the classic map almost exclusively...

[wicked]

Grim, that text seems more jumbled and unreadable than the current version. I love playing the Brazil map b/c I can actually pronounce the names and know where the countries are. The middle east map tears me up b/c I can barely pronounce the names and have to keep looking back at where the countries are located.

why do we need a new one?

[areyouincahoots]

Where's Nobunaga? I haven't seen him around for awhile...