Map: Antilarium

[llamabeast]

Wow, nice look! So you did that all within Photoshop? That's amazing.

The only negative thing I could say about it would be that the mountains look a bit odd being transparent.

[DigitalSin]

Great water-colour effect dude. Sounds like a great map.

[PashaDawg]

Cool map! Thanks. I look forward to playing on it.

My three cents: I agree that the ghost mountains are a bit funky to the eye. Also, I wish that it was higher resolution so that it still was so pretty when one zoomed in.

[Gandalf Parker]

Pros and Cons. High resolution means longer downloads, and longer load times within the game. Sometimes even crashes on scrolling.

Not that it affects me personally but Ive had complaints when Ive made maps that work for myself but were too much for other peoples machines.

[PashaDawg]

That's a good point, but you can get pretty darn close up on Glory of the Gods. Is that map too big for many people's machines?

[Tichy]

I've started two games on this map, Late Age, with 11 random AIs on impossible. It's been fun, but there are some oddities:

Both times four or five nations went dominion-kill on the first turn. I'm not sure if this is a problem, or if I started with too many opponents.

I continued playing the second game I started. It's a lively game and no one else has vanished, but some of the special indy provinces have serious starvation problems. For example, the Ulm-based one on the north of the map disintegrated over the course of several turns.

[Psientist]

Thanks for the compliments!

I don't know about the dominion-kill, I haven't seen that on any of my playtests. I just uncovered the starvation thing myself; I unthinkingly made some of the Victory provinces just too overloaded with defense troops, so they all disease and die off. I'm going to have to scale back accordingly, find a way to mod those provinces' supply rating (I don't think that's an option, but please correct me if I'm wrong!), or start doling out cauldrons to the defenders. Either way, I'll post an update later this month after I've done more testing.

I could have generated a slightly higher resolution, but I thought the current size was a good compromise based upon some of the other maps out there. I even worked with Photoshop's ability to reduce size through color indexing.

The ocean size isn't as big as it appears, in gameplay. However, I have witnessed the Thetis Blessing be *quite* significant on this map.

I might be able to tweak the tranparencies of the mountains and trees on the update. I didn't want them to be too obtrusive, however, and muss up the watercolor effect too much.

Thanks for the feedback!