Conquer Club

wcaclimbing wrote:Kaplowitz, to fix the colorblind problem, take a copy of your map and completely desaturate the color.
so the map image is greyscale, no colors.


Then try and tell what continent is what.
Whatever it takes to tell them apart, test it in greyscale mode.
So then even without the colors, you would still know what goes where.
Making the borders between the continents extra bold would help. then you could see that they were different, even without the colors.

Well Ruben said it was okay, but ill take a look anyway. Thx for the advice!

oh, and the minimap colors are wrong again.... switch the grey and purple.....
ugh, yea ill fix that!

I really like the snowy cap on top of mointains just add more of it. If you want to put more "decoration" mountains you can partially cover all the Graubünden borders (south east "continent") and also the Ticino Graubünden one. Just leave a pass between the territories. And by the way watch out the Glarus Uri border wich start to be a bit short.

Im not really sure what you mean. Add more mts that dont interfere with the gameplay?

ZeakCytho wrote:I don't like the thicker continent border very much, but if others need it to distinguish continents from each other, I could live with it.

The mountain fade looks better, but they still need snowcaps.

The new font is awesome! So much more legible. You could make certain things more legible by moving a few words around. For example, I'd move Neuchatel entirely onto the territory (I think you can fit it), and move Lausanne entirely onto the background. I'd also flip the placements of the Solo-Thurn text and its army circle. The borders of that territory are kind of hard to make out.

tubaman wrote:I think you should either add some territories or take some away. It's too small to be an average sized map and it's too big to be a small map. I dunno it kinda bothers me, maybe no one else cares.

pamoa wrote:I'm not found of your new texts, maybe more legible but plain and boring from my point of view.
And as wcaclimbing said I think you go too far in the legible way loosing all sensitive matter.

wcaclimbing wrote:

ZeakCytho wrote:I don't like the thicker continent border very much, but if others need it to distinguish continents from each other, I could live with it.

The mountain fade looks better, but they still need snowcaps.

The new font is awesome! So much more legible. You could make certain things more legible by moving a few words around. For example, I'd move Neuchatel entirely onto the territory (I think you can fit it), and move Lausanne entirely onto the background. I'd also flip the placements of the Solo-Thurn text and its army circle. The borders of that territory are kind of hard to make out.

^ i agree with all of that ^

The continent divisions are TOO thick now. could you try something between that size and the regular size? just a bit thinner.

ZeakCytho wrote:I don't like the thicker continent border very much, but if others need it to distinguish continents from each other, I could live with it.

The mountain fade looks better, but they still need snowcaps.

The new font is awesome! So much more legible. You could make certain things more legible by moving a few words around. For example, I'd move Neuchatel entirely onto the territory (I think you can fit it), and move Lausanne entirely onto the background. I'd also flip the placements of the Solo-Thurn text and its army circle. The borders of that territory are kind of hard to make out.

edbeard wrote:I question the decision to put rivers where there are not rivers.


It makes me wonder about your other decisions with regards to where you put mountains and where you came up with your continent boundaries (and maybe territory boundaries too but I always feel that is where alterations can be made more freely).

I didn't see any of this explained in the thread so maybe you can tell us.



there is no river where you've put it. there's actually a major road there

obviously the way it's split up is not conducive to making a CC map, but you can use that for a starting point. Some of the areas are too small and some are too big. I don't think that combining areas and splitting up others (calling them north/south/east/west of that canton) is that much of a stretch when you're making a map. Especially if you're using the actual borders.

If you don't base your map on reality then you're going to get people complaining about how your map doesn't represent their country properly. It's better to at least look through the options now and talk about it while you're in the early stages rather than ignore it and have a map that swiss people will complain about.

edbeard wrote:If you don't base your map on reality then you're going to get people complaining about how your map doesn't represent their country properly. It's better to at least look through the options now and talk about it while you're in the early stages rather than ignore it and have a map that swiss people will complain about.

ZeakCytho wrote:I don't like the font in the last map you posted.

The snowcaps are good, though I feel they could be made larger. Right now they're just a thin line across the top ridge; you could make them come down the slopes a tiny bit.
Ill make them bigger

The thinner continent borders are better, but they're rather pixely.
Ill work on that

Fribourg can't attack any of the other territories in its continent, so I'd either add a bridge or make it a different continent. I hate non-contiguous continents!
Woops! ill add a bridge

I still think the border around the entirety of Switzerland looks a bit funny, especially with the changing colors as it passes through each continent.
If anyone else doesnt like it, ill change it. Or ill post both next update.

I'd move the army circle on Thurgau away from the border a bit. Same with Appenzell, if you can. Move the Schaffhausen circle either entirely onto the territory or entirely off. This half-on, half-off thing that it has right now looks weird.
Sure.

I'd move the text of the territory Sankt Gallen further northwest, so there's no confusion as to which territory the Appenzell circle belongs to.
Okay

pamoa wrote:I do prefer the last font you showed. Ithink it's part of the map feeling having special font. Some can say just put an Helvetica wich also could be very appropriate as invented by a swiss. But all your graphic theme is more like 1900 and the straight sans serif font is a bit odd for me. But I repeat it's only my point of view.
Im going to put up a poll

For the snow caps i thought you would repeat the "symbol" you made to make something like a dotted line of white point along the top of the mountains... rather than drawing a white border!
Sure
Genève text should be moved outside the border.
Okay
Your small map miss the Zug army circle.
woops!

Ruben Cassar wrote:The previous font was more legible than the one used in the last map. I prefer the previous one.

Im going to make a poll
I don't like canton Ticino being part of a French speaking region. Why don't you split Ticino in parts and create a separate 3 territory region for that canton. Places like Bellinzona, Lugano, Locarno or Chiasso could be used to divide canton Ticino. Check a map of the canton Ticino to guide you.
And make it a continent?

bryguy wrote:I like the new colors, they look nice

1) Like other people have mentioned, i dont care for the new font Read above ^^^
2) The think that annoys me most in a map is when they leave the territory lines in the smaller area for bonuses, plz remove them from that That was to help the colorblind people, Ruben was having a little trouble distinguishing continents. Unless multiple people really want it changed, i really think they should stay.
3) The snow cap is a nice touch on the ticino mountain Thank you



All i can see right now, keep up the good work

Kaplowitz wrote:

Ruben Cassar wrote:The previous font was more legible than the one used in the last map. I prefer the previous one.

Im going to make a poll
I don't like canton Ticino being part of a French speaking region. Why don't you split Ticino in parts and create a separate 3 territory region for that canton. Places like Bellinzona, Lugano, Locarno or Chiasso could be used to divide canton Ticino. Check a map of the canton Ticino to guide you.
And make it a continent?