Pennsylvania map

Ka-Masyon · Post by **Ka-Masyon** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:26 pm

hello all, i made a map of Pennsylania i think it is cool but you need to think so too. let me know what i need to edit, or if its good.

http://www.freewebs.com/fight_knight/war%20map.bmp

this is number two of the map

http://www.freewebs.com/fight_knight/war%20map4.bmp

Mr. K · Post by **Mr. K** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:29 pm

I can't say no to my home.

Delaware County is missing, but thats okay cause its infused with Philly on your map, which gives us street cred

Hoff · Post by **Hoff** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:35 pm

I say you need to add delaware country, cuz thats where i'm from too. but about the map, it doesnt look too good. Get a bet editing program. The colors arent easy to look at, the map looks flat, the borders are ugly, and there are no obsticals that direct the flow of the game. But since im' from PA i hope you improve it and that it makes it on the site.

Ka-Masyon · Post by **Ka-Masyon** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:53 pm

ok, i'm going to fix it. but it'll take a day or two

gavin_sidhu · Post by **gavin_sidhu** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:04 pm

Maps of US States haven't done well at all in the map foundry, don't think this will fare any better.

DublinDoogey · Post by **DublinDoogey** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:10 pm

The way I see it, even though states are neat to some of us American players, there isn't much interest for the international part of the community. In all honestly, how many of us would want to play a province, territory, department of another country. That's why I voted the third option.

gavin_sidhu · Post by **gavin_sidhu** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:48 pm

Stick with the moon, everybody can see that.

P Gizzle · Post by **P Gizzle** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:49 pm

yeah, u shoulda seen how fast my Washington State idea dropped in the forums :lol:

garionoldwolf · Post by **garionoldwolf** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:52 pm

althought I'm bias cuz I'm from PA, I think it would be a decent map.

sully800 · Post by **sully800** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:35 am

Damn, lots of Pennsylvania posters on here! (all Philly area as well?)

Anyway, I know the rest of the foundry won't be interested in this, but I can't exactly say 'no' straight out. However I would strongly suggest looking into a better image making program such as gimp or inkscape (both can be found in map making tools).

It will make your life much easier actually and will make your potential map exponentially better.

sully800 · Post by **sully800** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:41 am

Also, your current continents are not going to work. They are all too big and too hard to hold.

The SE has 10 total countries, 5 border countries and a bonus of 2??

While the SW has 7 total countries, 5 border countries and a bonus of 3 (which is still too low)

Then Central South- a continent with 9 border countries, 4 bordering continents and too many countries for me to want to count.....it will never be held, it doesn't matter how high you make the bonus!

I think you should add at least 1 more continent since you have a high number of countries, and try to add some impassable boundaries as well (there are plenty of mountains and rivers which you probably know about that could help make the map playable.)

Ka-Masyon · Post by **Ka-Masyon** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:14 pm

i know that it has bad a bad image, but this is only the base of the map. its not the real map i am making now, its just the base of it.

Kayla · Post by **Kayla** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:23 pm

i think there should be less countries.. join a couple of them together, and make obstacles... but if this somehow gets on the site, then ill be very proud, ppl seem to hate us americans lol. Ppl complain if we try to make a US State when they make a map of a country or continent that is as big as texas lol.. like australia. I wish you LOTS of luck and hope ppl are interested. This isn't some boring state. There are a lot of historical things there, but the problem is its just American History lol.. so lets hope the outsiders agree

onbekende · Post by **onbekende** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:47 pm

Looks nice so far

garionoldwolf · Post by **garionoldwolf** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:52 pm

I do have 1 suggestion, use a different color where dark blue(I think it's dark blue I am slightly color blind so I might be off on the exact color) either that or use white text cuz it's hard to read the text.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:00 pm

DublinDoogey wrote:The way I see it, even though states are neat to some of us American players, there isn't much interest for the international part of the community. In all honestly, how many of us would want to play a province, territory, department of another country. That's why I voted the third option.

ya i have to agree here. im from the us and not interested in maps of individual states, including my own

ud have to include some kind of unique concept not available in other maps.

CheWolfe · Post by **CheWolfe** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:06 pm

Sorry, but that map looks really boring. In accordance with another post, US states are not the most interesting layout (I'm mean that in a pixelated form, not geographically)...

Ka-Zethica · Post by **Ka-Zethica** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:03 pm

Hello, my brother again has called me in to help him out with the map (I tried to make the Moon map) I've got some new ideas for the map, maybe some of the rivers in PA to close off some of the territories and add more bonuses to the different counties.

We'll post it as soon as its done. (And i agree with you Kayla in your post on the first page lol)

-- Ka-Zethica --

KEYOGI · Post by **KEYOGI** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:24 pm

Kayla wrote:i think there should be less countries.. join a couple of them together, and make obstacles... but if this somehow gets on the site, then ill be very proud, ppl seem to hate us americans lol. Ppl complain if we try to make a US State when they make a map of a country or continent that is as big as texas lol.. like australia. I wish you LOTS of luck and hope ppl are interested. This isn't some boring state. There are a lot of historical things there, but the problem is its just American History lol.. so lets hope the outsiders agree

Your claim that Australia is as big as Texas. Australia and the whole United States of America are very close in land mass size.

On topic though, I don't have a problem with state maps, but maybe they should be of states more well recognised to the wider international community. California, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, etc. I don't think Pennsylvania would rank very highly.

Edit: Removed comments that may have offended. 8)

holyboy666 · Post by **holyboy666** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:45 pm

Why don't we leave the US supporting/bashing in the Mess Hall...

I think you should make the territory names bigger. There is a lot of wasted space that can easily be filled up with the words, and it would help players find territories on the map.

Also, there doesn't seem to be any variation between the continents on the map. You have 2 continents with 5 borders, 2 with 6, 1 with 8 and 1 with nine. It would be best if you could vary the continent border numbers to add variation: Maybe have one continent with one or two borders. Lastly, as the other people above me have mentioned, the map seems to be one big square with territories drawn in them. Put some obsticles on the map: A river, a wall, the liberty bell, whatever you think is best.

I think this map has potential, you just need it to be different. Put something different on the map; there are many ideas that have not been explored.

KEYOGI · Post by **KEYOGI** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:57 pm

With some more thought on the map, how about making a region, rather than just a state? An area similar to the New Engalnd continent on the USA map?

The BENELUX map looks nice and that's just using a small area of Europe. Don't see why the same principle can't be applied to any country, using states and territories.

Ka-Zethica · Post by **Ka-Zethica** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:07 pm

Good ideas, maybe zoom in on like Philly or Pittsburg, more popular places in PA, we'll look into this.

Ka-Masyon · Post by **Ka-Masyon** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:36 pm

hello, i made this map better then the other PA map that i made. please tell me what you think. Thanks
http://www.freewebs.com/fight_knight/war%20map4.bmp

Ka-Masyon · Post by **Ka-Masyon** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:37 pm

the letters on the side of the map are the wroung color but i will fix it soon

KEYOGI · Post by **KEYOGI** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:07 am

I still feel it would be better to cover more than one state and have a region.

Pennsylvania map

do you like this map?

Pennsylvania map

sorry... pretty boring

The new PA map