SteamWorks

[Victor Sullivan]

I love it! ...though you no longer have names for your bonus areas! Maybe you misunderstood me, but I meant make the continent name text more readable and add one for the blue island. Also, you should adjust the colors on the mini map as well.

-Sully

[DiM]

I love it! ...though you no longer have names for your bonus areas! Maybe you misunderstood me, but I meant make the continent name text more readable and add one for the blue island. Also, you should adjust the colors on the mini map as well.

-Sully

i decided to remove the continent names because they were not essential. continents can be easily identified via the colours and now the map is less cluttered. as for the legend i didn't adjust the colours because they become to hard to see. or at least i start having difficulties seeing them if other people want it i could easily change those colours too.


PS: what do i have to do to get this moved to the next step?

[Victor Sullivan]

I imagine you'll be moving soon Industrial Helix is working a double shift in Graphics and the Drafting Room for nobodies and Ben, so I think he might be a little overworked. Give it time

-Sully

[DiM]

I imagine you'll be moving soon Industrial Helix is working a double shift in Graphics and the Drafting Room for nobodies and Ben, so I think he might be a little overworked. Give it time

-Sully

ah that's great. i don't know what conditions have to be met in order to get moved and that's why i was asking

[Victor Sullivan]

It's not entirely set-in-stone. It's basically once the cartos feel you have a well laid out map with the core concepts and gameplay elements mostly hammered out and they feel you have the means necessary to complete the project.

-Sully

[DiM]

It's not entirely set-in-stone. It's basically once the cartos feel you have a well laid out map with the core concepts and gameplay elements mostly hammered out and they feel you have the means necessary to complete the project.

-Sully

thanks for the clarification. i was afraid it might be something like spend X days in drafting room, get at least Y posts from Z users and that kind of stuff

[Victor Sullivan]

Not that I'm aware of. I know natty_dread's Yugoslavia was moved pretty quick.

-Sully

[natty dread]

I think you're going to need some kind of names for the continents... people need to know what continent is refered to in the game log.

[Industrial Helix]

In your case, I'm just looking to see that everything is labeled.

I mean, i look for other stuff, like concept, ect. But you've got that by the bucket.

So put some continent names on there and we'll move it, in the meantime, lets sticky this.

And why did you choose areas of England for the territory names? It seems awkward.

[DiM]

So put some continent names on there and we'll move it, in the meantime, lets sticky this.

will do

And why did you choose areas of England for the territory names? It seems awkward.

i was sure i explained this. steampunk is usually set in a fantasy steam-powered victorian era Britain. naturally i chose england and the story is that evil Dr. DiM split apart England with the use of a terrible machine found in his lab at Oxford. now all he needs is to gather enough power from at least 3 engines to complete his malefic plan of destroying England.

[DiM]

just added continent names. nothing else. but to be honest i don't really like having the continent names cluttering the map.
people can clearly see the continent bonuses from the minimap and in the log it can appear like this:
"X receives 2troops for holding the Nortwest (Blue continent)"

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[cairnswk]

DiM. for me at least, the continent names are lost among everything else, tbh it looks untidy.
If people insist they be there, can't you wrap the names around the edges of each continent so that they can be more clearly visisble; perhaps in smaller text.
Also i think the radiating lines from the mechanical globe are too strong, can these be softened?

[koontz1973]

Agree with you and cairnswk DiM. continent names look truly out of place on the map. Why would the UK, after being smashed up by that evil Dr. DiM, keep the regional names anyway.

I know this is a small thing but it has bugged me for a bit. On the right side under the bottom steam pipe, you have a bit of the maps edge showing. Is it me or it it out of scale and at the wrong angle?

[Boler]

I know this is a small thing but it has bugged me for a bit. On the right side under the bottom steam pipe, you have a bit of the maps edge showing. Is it me or it it out of scale and at the wrong angle?

Optical Illusion, it's looks like that because of the angle of the pipe.

[DiM]

DiM. for me at least, the continent names are lost among everything else, tbh it looks untidy.
If people insist they be there, can't you wrap the names around the edges of each continent so that they can be more clearly visisble; perhaps in smaller text.

wrapping them might work. i'll try that. thanks for the suggestion.

Also i think the radiating lines from the mechanical globe are too strong, can these be softened?

sure. i will also make them a bit thinner as i think they're too bold.

[DiM]

Agree with you and cairnswk DiM. continent names look truly out of place on the map. Why would the UK, after being smashed up by that evil Dr. DiM, keep the regional names anyway.

i will try and implement cairnswk's idea of wrapping the names. i hope that will help.
as for the actual names i guess they could be changed if others thought so. i'm open for suggestions.

I know this is a small thing but it has bugged me for a bit. On the right side under the bottom steam pipe, you have a bit of the maps edge showing. Is it me or it it out of scale and at the wrong angle?

Optical Illusion, it's looks like that because of the angle of the pipe.

Boler is right. the map is a whole vertical piece that i simply twisted at an angle.

[DiM]

V6

DONE:
*added wrapped continent names - i think it looks much better than before. thanks for the suggestion cairns.
*made thinner radiating lines
*moved around terit names and icons to make room for army numbers


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[natty dread]

I think it'd be better if the continent names didn't cling so tightly to the shorelines... you have plenty of room to draw the text on smoother paths.

[Industrial Helix]

Moving this as all requirements are satisfied.

[DiM]

I think it'd be better if the continent names didn't cling so tightly to the shorelines... you have plenty of room to draw the text on smoother paths.

actually i was planning to add some waves some steamships and various graphics on the map so i kinda need the extra room.

[DiM]

Moving this as all requirements are satisfied.

woohoo
thanks.

[koontz1973]

I think it'd be better if the continent names didn't cling so tightly to the shorelines... you have plenty of room to draw the text on smoother paths.

actually i was planning to add some waves some steamships and various graphics on the map so i kinda need the extra room.

Can you make the text a tad smaller North West almost sits on West Midlands.

woohoo
thanks.

Congrats.

[natty dread]

I think it'd be better if the continent names didn't cling so tightly to the shorelines... you have plenty of room to draw the text on smoother paths.

actually i was planning to add some waves some steamships and various graphics on the map so i kinda need the extra room.

Surely you're not going to fill up all the space you have? It's just that the text looks kinda chunky like that, and the labels are getting all tangled up with each other in Northwest & Westmidlands.

[DiM]

ok, i'll see what i can do, especially about the northwest/west midlands part.

[natty dread]

Maybe try something like I did on this map: viewtopic.php?f=64&t=138910