WORLD MAP - UGLY

Saxon · #1 February 27th, 2004, 07:25 AM

St. Patrick is dead on the money. I applaud the efforts of the map creator, acknowledge the hard work and encourage them to even greater efforts. However, the resolution issue breaks an otherwise wonderful idea. Should anyone want to give it another try, they have the support of a lot of lurkers!

I like the England map, it has a nice “flavour” and the resolution is decent. Perhaps that is an option to pursue, a world map scanned in. I do not own a scanner, otherwise I would be trying this out myself. I have a month of glorious vacation coming in seven hours and have some time to play!

General Tacticus · #2 February 27th, 2004, 10:38 AM

I love the world map and particularly the World War scenario. The author did a very good job of balancing the strength/weaknesses of nations with their starting position, of putting some very special sites where they belong, and of putting the nations themselves where their background would have them.

I must agree it is not very beautiful. Playing a water race is particularly painful, as it is very difficult to see how the water provinces are set up. But for me, the fun of playing it far outweights the visual shortcomings.

Teraswaerto · #3 February 27th, 2004, 03:06 PM

I too downloaded the map but was unable to play any games on it due to the way it looks. It's not only ugly, but as Tacticus said, borders between water provinces are damn hard to see (if they even are there, couldn't tell).

I'm not complaining though, since it's an additional free map. There are enough maps to choose from, no-one's forcing anyone to use it.

PDF · #4 February 27th, 2004, 03:32 PM

SATAN'S SPAWN PLEASE STOP YELLING !!

It took me 1 min to d/l the map, but can play with it for hours !

But you're right it's uberugly...
I've tried to improve it with my very modest graphix skills, but after repainting the sea in dark blue game crashes 'cause I must have erased the sea provinces center mark ...
Too bad ...

SATANS PAWN · #5 February 27th, 2004, 03:55 PM

PDF,

You can play it for hours ? Your kidding, right ?

Try The Kingdom of Karan map. Once you do, you will never torture your eyes again playing World Map.

>>>THE HORNED KING<<<

NTJedi · #6 February 27th, 2004, 04:17 PM

The world map is not that pretty... but I prefer the XL maps. The larger maps usually means you'll see larger armies and battles. For the game I'm playing right now on this map... ERMOR has 950 units sitting in his capital.

Peter Ebbesen · #7 February 27th, 2004, 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SATANS PAWN:
You can play it for hours ? Your kidding, right ?

Try The Kingdom of Karan map. Once you do, you will never torture your eyes again playing World Map.

Eye candy is not the determining factor in the playability or fun of scenarios for everybody. Personally, while I like looking at beautiful maps, I tend to value the actual setup and gameplay higher, and the worldwar scenario has a very nice setup.

That does not mean that I would not appreciate a more beautiful worldmap, of course, but it is not essential to my enjoyment.