Conquer Club

RedBaron0 wrote:The East coast in general. Take a look at all those territories up and down the whole of the coast, mostly the territory names that are out on the sea. South Carolina for example is really, really close to the star for North Carolina.

You'll probably need to add some sort of indicator line for a lot of those coastal territories.

The West coast is less of an issue, but could benefit from one-line-labels (ie put the text onto a single line)

MrBenn wrote:You'll probably need to add some sort of indicator line for a lot of those coastal territories.

The West coast is less of an issue, but could benefit from one-line-labels (ie put the text onto a single line)

MrBenn wrote:There are going to be issues with trying to identify which territory name goes with which army number - particularly on the East Coast...

Some of the mountain ranges could be extended slightly to make it absolutely clear that
- Washington doesn't border Montana (add a mountain to the right edge)
- Idaho doesn't border Wyoming (add another to the top)

Done, done and done!

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1. I'd be inclined to move the army circle for Long Island / New Jersey to the right of the territory labels - you could possibly then do away with the territory indicator?

2. Long Island could do with being made a tiny bit darker so that the colour appears to be closer to the grey-white of the mainland. I expect the colours are on the same layers alread, and that the whiteness of LI is just an optical illusion... but I'd still be inclined to fix it by adding a blob of black on a new layer, with opacity somewhere between 5-15% just to kame it look more similar.

3. Is it just me, or is there some very slight pixellation on the mountains?

Anyway, if you can fix #1, then the graphics stamp should follow. #2/#3 are purely subjective

MrBenn wrote:1. I'd be inclined to move the army circle for Long Island / New Jersey to the right of the territory labels - you could possibly then do away with the territory indicator?

2. Long Island could do with being made a tiny bit darker so that the colour appears to be closer to the grey-white of the mainland. I expect the colours are on the same layers alread, and that the whiteness of LI is just an optical illusion... but I'd still be inclined to fix it by adding a blob of black on a new layer, with opacity somewhere between 5-15% just to kame it look more similar.

3. Is it just me, or is there some very slight pixellation on the mountains?

Anyway, if you can fix #1, then the graphics stamp should follow. #2/#3 are purely subjective

Consider #1 a done deal!!

#3 is just you... But at least I can get to work on those coordinates soon to get this bad boy quenched.

MrBenn wrote:1. I'd be inclined to move the army circle for Long Island / New Jersey to the right of the territory labels - you could possibly then do away with the territory indicator?

2. Long Island could do with being made a tiny bit darker so that the colour appears to be closer to the grey-white of the mainland. I expect the colours are on the same layers alread, and that the whiteness of LI is just an optical illusion... but I'd still be inclined to fix it by adding a blob of black on a new layer, with opacity somewhere between 5-15% just to kame it look more similar.

Anyway, if you can fix #1, then the graphics stamp should follow. #2 are purely subjective

1. Done!

2. Done!

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I personally think that you need to reduce the white outer glow of the text on the small map a bit; the army circle for New Jersey on the large map could be shifted up about 4 pixels.

That said.....

Woo!

But I agree on the outer glow part MrBenn said.

MrBenn wrote:I personally think that you need to reduce the white outer glow of the text on the small map a bit; the army circle for New Jersey on the large map could be shifted up about 4 pixels.

That said.....

MrBenn wrote:

WOOT! WOOT! Thank you!! Mr.Benn!! ANd of course to everyone else that helped in making this possible!!

I'll play around with the small map on the outer glow and see what happens and will shift the NJ Army circle as suggested!

Okay here is V14 small with the outer glow reduced.

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MrBenn wrote:

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Hip Hip Horay!! Three cheers to all who made this possible!!

Congrats isaiah40 well done

cairnswk wrote:Congrats isaiah40 well done

Thank you for your support cairns!!

Awesome job!!

Here we go!

Some of the Capitals went wrong somehow, so I'll get those changed later.

Good! New York is way off. But I know you'll get those fixed.
Capitals to start neutral are - SLC, Iowa. Winnipeg, Capone, Havana and Montana, just as a reminder.

isaiah40 wrote:Good! New York is way off. But I know you'll get those fixed.
Capitals to start neutral are - SLC, Iowa. Winnipeg, Capone, Havana and Montana, just as a reminder.

Must have been a slip of the finger there. The one to the left of PA is supposed to be NY.

There is a shitload of outer glow going on in the map. Try toning down the opacity of the glow on the text so it doesn't look like my eyes are being barraged by white-yellow. Looks nice otherwise.

Colors have become dull and flat.

Reduced the text's outer glow a little bit more. jefjef, yes it is a little pale, but I had to make it this way to get it stamped. The background texture makes it that way

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.44 hope this helps your eyes!

Looking good Gilligan. I think the numbers in Baja California need to be moved over to the right a pixel or two, but I don't think it's too big of a deal!

The numbers don't show up well at all. Seems like a giant step backwards.