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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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AndyDufresne wrote:We could replace the text in the water with "Attacks/Forts Only Via Arrows." But that is quite long and perhaps uneeded.


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I think one way attack and the arrows explains it. Attacks/Forts Only Via Arrows found a little, confusing to me.
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Re: [Official] British Isles P52 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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I think your borders are too bright compared to the rest of the map. As I've said, this feels washed out. I don't personally like the dullness of it, but you're in the forge, so be it. The colored borders though, are a bit bright. Have you tried black (or gray)?

COuld you also maybe tone down the borders/background where the territ text is over top of it? - Like mainly up in Hebrides is the only problem area i see.

You know what would be cool - is if you would add some relief to the map, like a bump map. See the mini-map up in the left - how there is some darker terrain areas? That would be cool on the large map as well. I can kind of see a little swirly pattern on the land areas, but not really.

Yes - the bold bright borders need something done. Now my eyes are drawn to them.
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cicero wrote:And (slap me if I'm too late in the process for this) I think that "Lands End" is a really poor name for that 'continent'. Since "Lands End" is the Western most tip of Cornwall. Certainly nothing to do with Devon, Dorset or Avon.
I notice that territory names have been revised in this update so how about continents too ?

"South West England" would be adequate.
"The West Country" or "The South West" would be in keeping with typical UK nomenclature ...
If it isn't too late I think this is worth at least commenting on ...
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COuld you also maybe tone down the borders/background where the territ text is over top of it? - Like mainly up in Hebrides is the only problem area i see.
And I agree with this part of what RJBeals is talking about too.
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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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I think I suggested using the West Country as the area name way back at the beginning of this thread somewhere... Come on gimil - you know it makes sense ;-)
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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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So there's 54 pages that I don't want to search through to see if this was resolved already, but Hebrides attacks South Highlands in the original map, not North Highlands.
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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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BaldAdonis wrote:So there's 54 pages that I don't want to search through to see if this was resolved already, but Hebrides attacks South Highlands in the original map, not North Highlands.
Good spot BaldAdonis ;-)
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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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MrBenn wrote:
BaldAdonis wrote:So there's 54 pages that I don't want to search through to see if this was resolved already, but Hebrides attacks South Highlands in the original map, not North Highlands.
Good spot BaldAdonis ;-)
lol i'm surprised no one caught that until now :D
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Can the ocean and sea labels not be curved?

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lanyards wrote:Can the ocean and sea labels not be curved?

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Why? they look just fine curved.
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BaldAdonis wrote:So there's 54 pages that I don't want to search through to see if this was resolved already, but Hebrides attacks South Highlands in the original map, not North Highlands.
Nice catch superman, I will be sure to get to it :D
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Almost there. :)


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Re: [Official] British Isles P52 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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iancanton wrote:the isle of wight appears to be rather too distant from the mainland. can u move it closer? if u need to have a decent distance for the sea link to be clearly evident, then it's possible to make the dots form a curved, rather than straight, line. hadrian's wall is missing an apostrophe, but the wall itself is looking good!
the isle of wight is still too far away.

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hadrian's wall now has its apostrophe, but wants a capital W!

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I think its sexy. I want to play it! It may well be a replacement for classic IMHO.
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Re: [Official] British Isles P52 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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iancanton wrote:
iancanton wrote:the isle of wight appears to be rather too distant from the mainland. can u move it closer? if u need to have a decent distance for the sea link to be clearly evident, then it's possible to make the dots form a curved, rather than straight, line. hadrian's wall is missing an apostrophe, but the wall itself is looking good!
the isle of wight is still too far away.

http://www.iwight.com/images/iow_maps/ukmap.gif

hadrian's wall now has its apostrophe, but wants a capital W!

ian. :)
The Isle of Wight needs a little distance so that a clear connection to the mainland is needed.

NOTE: Rember to fix RJ's border concerns.
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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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nice map. the text in the bottom left corner might look a little better if it wasn't so spaced out. but if you like it like that, that's fine too!
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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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I'm very sure this has been said before in this thread, but I can't find where. After all, there's 55 pages...
Isn't Hebrides supposed to be connected to Southern Highlands?
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OK i pretty much took every suggestion made from the last update and tweeked the map.
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Yay! =D>
Now let's get that nice red star stamp ;)
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Re: [Official] British Isles P55 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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This looks better and better all the time ;-)

The only thing I think you missed was the overly-spaced-out text on the Key... There isn't any real reason the abbreviations need to be so far apart.

Other than that, I think this is finally there ;-)
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Re: [Official] British Isles P55 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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MrBenn wrote:This looks better and better all the time ;-)

The only thing I think you missed was the overly-spaced-out text on the Key... There isn't any real reason the abbreviations need to be so far apart.

Other than that, I think this is finally there ;-)
Thanks benn! When I get home from my friends tonight I will do that change and post an updated XML with the new continent name!
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Re: [Official] British Isles P55 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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on the large map, it looks as if cumberland can attack lothian & borders. the cumberland-northumberland border needs to be redrawn so that it runs into the middle tower of hadrian's wall.

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Re: [Official] British Isles P55 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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iancanton wrote:on the large map, it looks as if cumberland can attack lothian & borders. the cumberland-northumberland border needs to be redrawn so that it runs into the middle tower of hadrian's wall.

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Sure thing I will get onto it with the next update.

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Re: [Official] British Isles P55 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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Very nice.

The cumberland-northumberland boarder overlaps hadrians wall a tiny bit on the small map but apart for that I think you ought to be done :)
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Re: [Official] British Isles P55 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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Balsiefen wrote:Very nice.

The cumberland-northumberland boarder overlaps hadrians wall a tiny bit on the small map but apart for that I think you ought to be done :)
I see it! Cheers Balsiefen.
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