High Seas Map [Abandoned - new project thread]

Coleman · Post by **Coleman** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:05 pm

Army Shadows?

Also I can't read it very well, but I don't know enough artistically to be able to point out what makes it hard to read.

Marvaddin · Post by **Marvaddin** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:05 pm

I hate the font! Hate the colour scheme with alike colours.
Plus, I hate how you have cut 2 portions of the map: the one where is that guy face, and Antarctic (how will it be Antarctic Ocean without Antarctic?)

gavin_sidhu · Post by **gavin_sidhu** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:58 pm

Much better. I like the country lines seperation you used in the artic ocean, i think you should use that for all country borders, the black border lines of the atlantic are the worst.

Your font is not that bad, , but i think you need to move some words like Sierra Leone Rise (at first look i thought it was Sierra Rise), Bay of Bengal and especially Bermuda Triangle. Also think you should put a sea monster graphic in the Indian Ocean (maybe move one of the two that is in the pacific).

ViscountGort · Post by **ViscountGort** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:48 am

Version 2.2:

Background lightened.
Font changed. Some people liked it, some people hated it. Overall I think most people found it hard to read, so thought I'd try a change - what does everyone think?
Indian Ocean sea monster added.

Thanks to everyone for the continued input. What do you make of the new version?

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Marv wrote:I hate how you have cut 2 portions of the map: the one where is that guy face, and Antarctic (how will it be Antarctic Ocean without Antarctic?)

Marv I didn't entirely understand this I'm sorry. I assume you're unhappy with the cut in the north atlantic where nelson's face is. I personally like this layout. Extending the playable space up there would mean more territories in either the N. Atlantic or the Arctic Ocean, which I don't really want, and also possibly more borders for the Arctic Ocean, which I'm also not keen on as the artic's relative isolation means it can stay as a small, low-bonus continent. I also think ending the map here works nicely visually.

As for the antarctic, the 'antarctic ocean' doesn't feature in this map, so I don't understand your objection here. There is only one mention of the antarctic, which is the antarctic ridge, a territory in the south pacific. In reality this ridge does exist in the south pacific, so I think that's ok. I hoep tht addresses your comments to some extent.

XenHu · Post by **XenHu** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:51 am

It looks interesting, but still needs some work in terms of graphics.. Also, I find the font difficult to read...

-X

Forza AZ · Post by **Forza AZ** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:42 am

As I understand the Bermuda Triangle can't attack to the neigbouring seas. Is that correct? Then you should add arrows there to make it more clear I think, as people might overlook the line in the legend at first.

And I also think the font is still not very good te read. I would like a more standard font, so all names are easy to read.

Wisse · Post by **Wisse** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:48 am

i don't think i am gonna play this map, because i don't like it physacily (srry for bad spelling) you can't do anything about it

but i'll help you to make it a good map

what i miss are the lines of north america (greenland etc.) in the west of the map

sully800 · Post by **sully800** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:00 pm

Forza AZ wrote:As I understand the Bermuda Triangle can't attack to the neigbouring seas. Is that correct? Then you should add arrows there to make it more clear I think, as people might overlook the line in the legend at first.

And I also think the font is still not very good te read. I would like a more standard font, so all names are easy to read.

I like the warning label- just a bit mysterious, like the actually bermuda triangle. Of course it will probably raise many bug reports from people who don't bother to look around, but I think it would be cool to have it be somewhat of a 'secret' feature. The font for everything still needs to be changed though I think, because its very hard to read. It looks kind of cool, but its illegible.

Balsiefen · Post by **Balsiefen** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:50 pm

Both of the fonts are fine for me and most of the coulers are good

-the arctic is still a colour which, while it is a good sea colour it just doesn't seem right for the arctic

-the land also needs some texturing, i would use the texture you used for the south pacific in the last version

Apart from that looking good! definatly my favorate map in the foundry at the moment

AndrewB · Post by **AndrewB** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:53 pm

I am sorry, but the combination of this font and its size is unreadable. I cannot make up the words for at least half of the labels.

Marvaddin · Post by **Marvaddin** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:07 pm

ViscountGort wrote:
Marv wrote:I hate how you have cut 2 portions of the map: the one where is that guy face, and Antarctic (how will it be Antarctic Ocean without Antarctic?)
Marv I didn't entirely understand this I'm sorry. I assume you're unhappy with the cut in the north atlantic where nelson's face is. I personally like this layout. Extending the playable space up there would mean more territories in either the N. Atlantic or the Arctic Ocean, which I don't really want, and also possibly more borders for the Arctic Ocean, which I'm also not keen on as the artic's relative isolation means it can stay as a small, low-bonus continent. I also think ending the map here works nicely visually.

As for the antarctic, the 'antarctic ocean' doesn't feature in this map, so I don't understand your objection here. There is only one mention of the antarctic, which is the antarctic ridge, a territory in the south pacific. In reality this ridge does exist in the south pacific, so I think that's ok. I hoep tht addresses your comments to some extent.

^^ Exactly what I dislike. I think the seas map should include all ocean portions around the globe, not excluding north atlantic or antarctic ocean.
Plus, you could increase the height of the map, so you would have room to bigger font. The font its still unreadable.

KEYOGI · Post by **KEYOGI** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:32 pm

I completely agree with Marv. And in all seriousness, where are you going to put numbers/army shadows?

gavin_sidhu · Post by **gavin_sidhu** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:08 am

You need to do something about Mozambique Channel and Pennambuca Abyss. What i like about the border lines in the Artic ocean is that they are thin and nicely coloured, in other areas they are fat, which i find rather unsightly (especially north pacific). I like the idea of having only one ways into Bermuda Triangle, but i think you should write that closer to the actual territory, i can see people screaming about it already.

Fitz69 · Post by **Fitz69** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:22 am

The waters north of Iceland and around Greenland should be included. In reality these waters are even more open and accessable than the ones north of Siberia and Canada so leaving them out makes no sense.
Considering the global warming all of the arctic waters will be inccreasingly accessable anyway.

There's nothing keeping you from adding some unpassable borders up there though. Novaya Zemlya, north of Greenland or Baffin Island just to mention a few.

Jack0827 · Post by **Jack0827** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:14 pm

I think that this is a great map! i didn't mind the brown but at this piont it looks great. the font was fine to begin with but what about using the font that you used for the title in the upper left corner, it is simple but still keeps with the thyme. I also wouldn't change the picture because I think that it just adds more wonder to the backround. I don't think that there need to be more than 3 small images( ships, see monsters, ect.) in the back round because if you look at some of the old maps there arn't very many of these small images. it dosn't realy matter but I just wouldn't add any more because then it just becomes to much. Overall my favorite map that I have seen. keep up the good work

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P Gizzle · Post by **P Gizzle** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:21 pm

i love this map, but the font is kinda annoying, other than that, it's awesome

Balsiefen · Post by **Balsiefen** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:11 am

Try making the doldrums more impassable-looking, they just look like a territory at the moment

PE24 · Post by **PE24** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:45 am

I love it!

adam3b58 · Post by **adam3b58** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:01 pm

i didnt see any mention of this, so i'd like to throw the idea of bonuses for owning monsters up in the air. it would make them more integral to the map. maybe like +3 if you own them or something. just tossing it out there

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:23 pm

I love it except for one thing: The guy. Remove!

Fitz69 · Post by **Fitz69** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:30 pm

unriggable wrote:I love it except for one thing: The guy. Remove!

Yes! Remove Nelson and include the waters around Greenland and north of Iceland.

oaktown · Post by **oaktown** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:17 am

i like this project, and I think it deserves a BUMP.

Guiscard · Post by **Guiscard** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:59 am

Yeh, definitely crack on with this. if you need any help pm me.

Contrickster · Post by **Contrickster** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:44 pm

I like the idea for the map a lot!

How about 1 "port" land territory for each Ocean? The ships have got to come from somewhere, and it would make some of the "dead" land more appealing than all brown.

Jack0827 · Post by **Jack0827** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:02 pm

you need to keep Nelson because it adds to the look of the map. but keep working on it I think that you are doing a great job