Conquer Club

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Alright, here's what i've done...

• Moved the queen over to the right a few pixels
• Lightened the stroke around any text that falls in the crease of the book
• Moved the Doab army count left and down a nudge
• Moved the Mysore army count to the left
• In Mysore, Doab, and Bajapoor I have lightened the railroad tracks a bit where the numbers will hit them; same effect as an army circle in that the background will interfere less with the count, but hopefully it is not so much that it will be distracting. It looks odd on the images above because there is no count, but if you look at Bajapoor below you'll see that it's not really detectable with counts.

XML: http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/30/ ... /india.xml
Large: http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r76/ ... dia20L.jpg
Small: http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r76/ ... dia20S.jpg

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Good enough for me:

Post any concerns if you find any, cause I can't!

.44

Any additional thoughts on all this?

And oaktown, I'm assuming that in your last post, those are the final links, yes?


--Andy

mibi wrote:Q

.44

Beta - Quenching

---The Final Forge period has concluded for the Indian Empire Map. All objections have had their time. The Foundry and I hereby brand this map with the Foundry Brand. Let it be known that this map is now ready for BETA Play. After an extended period of time in BETA and once all quirks and issues have been resolved, the map will be put into Full Play (barring any Lack vetoes).

Conquer Club, enjoy!

--Andy

Map Medals will be given out once the map is removed from BETA.


--Andy

Are the rail bonuses working??

Round 1, I dropped Bombay-Calcutta and no bonus

1st time on the map and so it is the first time I've seen how important Calcutta is.

Don Juaquin wrote:Are the rail bonuses working??

Round 1, I dropped Bombay-Calcutta and no bonus

1st time on the map and so it is the first time I've seen how important Calcutta is.

I have yet to play the map, but I Assume you need to hold all the rail space in between those 2 cities to get the bonus.

"plus three sub bonuses for holding rail line between cities... the two southern lines cross multiple regions, and the Calcutta-Delhi line runs through the heart of a huge region that will be all but impossible to hold - thus the mini-bonuses to encourage activity in the center."

DOH (forhead slap)

Perhaps the sub bonus could be clearer on the map?? I don't know, like 3 different rail lines and using them on the legend? ie
========= 6
+++++++++ 4
::::::::::::: 4

Hi!

I think there might be a bug - in game 5026269 which I am now playing my opponent apparently got a full rail-line at the initial placement. But if I recall correctly, the initial placement is calculated so that no one gets a full continent and a rail-line on this map is a special kind of continent.

Am I right?

P.S.
I am in no way appealing the result of the game which I stand to lose in a few moves. My opponent should get the points no matter what is resolved about the ostensible bug.

eigenvector wrote:Hi!

I think there might be a bug - in game 5026269 which I am now playing my opponent apparently got a full rail-line at the initial placement. But if I recall correctly, the initial placement is calculated so that no one gets a full continent and a rail-line on this map is a special kind of continent.

Am I right?

Nope, there are no coded starting positions on this map. If somebody dropped a rail line they were extremely lucky. With 42 territories the odds of a player starting with a rail line are exactly the same as a player starting with Australia or South America in classic, and in my three years here I've yet to see that in a game I've been in.

As for the confusion over the rail lines, I don't understand how somebody can read "Hold Complete Rail Line to Connect Cities" to mean that you only need to hold two cities. I guess it happens, but do we have to hold everybody's hand around here?

oaktown wrote:

eigenvector wrote:Hi!

I think there might be a bug - in game 5026269 which I am now playing my opponent apparently got a full rail-line at the initial placement. But if I recall correctly, the initial placement is calculated so that no one gets a full continent and a rail-line on this map is a special kind of continent.

Am I right?

Nope, there are no coded starting positions on this map. If somebody dropped a rail line they were extremely lucky. With 42 territories the odds of a player starting with a rail line are exactly the same as a player starting with Australia or South America in classic, and in my three years here I've yet to see that in a game I've been in.

As for the confusion over the rail lines, I don't understand how somebody can read "Hold Complete Rail Line to Connect Cities" to mean that you only need to hold two cities. I guess it happens, but do we have to hold everybody's hand around here?

in one of my tourneys a guy dropped africa
and surrounded by neutrals bar one side
and he went first
unlimited reinforcements

a.sub wrote:in one of my tourneys a guy dropped africa
and surrounded by neutrals bar one side
and he went first
unlimited reinforcements

Five million games played at CC- these things have to happen eventually. I'm just waiting for it to happen to me!

oaktown wrote:

a.sub wrote:in one of my tourneys a guy dropped africa
and surrounded by neutrals bar one side
and he went first
unlimited reinforcements

Five million games played at CC- these things have to happen eventually. I'm just waiting for it to happen to me!

haha all i really want is to play a game against teh top 7 and drop North america lol
watch me still lose

Come to think of it, I *might* have dropped a continent once myself ( ) but I'm not sure...

again for good measure

psh u shd just check
u only have like 600+ games to go through

LOL

Perhaps we can add another mountain between Kandeish and Rajpootana? I thought they connected.

Gilligan wrote:Perhaps we can add another mountain between Kandeish and Rajpootana? I thought they connected.

I think not, from the games I played so far.

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Gilligan wrote:Perhaps we can add another mountain between Kandeish and Rajpootana? I thought they connected.

I don't want to add another mountain, but in looking at that spot the mountain was thinner there than other place on the map. I've added some ink to make the mountain look impassable.

If there's nothing else I'll send this up to the lackster.

Much better oaky.

Cool beans... just sent the files to the admins.

edit: I am told that the maps have been updated.

Quenching

---The Beta period has concluded for the Indian Empire Map. All objections have had their time. The Foundry and I hereby brand this map with the Foundry Brand. Let it be known that this map is now ready to be released into live play.

Congratulations oaktown, your shiny new medal is well-earned


Conquer Club, enjoy!

--MrBenn

MrBenn wrote:

Quenching

---The Beta period has concluded for the Indian Empire Map. All objections have had their time. The Foundry and I hereby brand this map with the Foundry Brand. Let it be known that this map is now ready to be released into live play.

Congratulations oaktown, your shiny new medal is well-earned


Conquer Club, enjoy!

--MrBenn

nice job oaktown!