[Abandoned] - Danelaw

by **captainwalrus** on Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:28 pm

YOU NEED IMPASSIBLES! Right not there are way to many boarders. Nothing is easy to hold.

by **miniwally** on Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:50 pm

captainwalrus wrote:YOU NEED IMPASSIBLES! Right not there are way to many boarders. Nothing is easy to hold.

what like the penines i'd agree.

by **captainwalrus** on Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:31 pm

by **el-presidente** on Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:05 am

captainwalrus wrote:
I now se several things that would make the map much better.
1 Impassibles (as mentioned before) A new version is working on that.
2 A better background I have a much better background in the a new update that will come soon but I havbe a slight problem that I don't know how to fix so I will have to ask around before finishing that.
3 a more evident theme. (ading a picture of a norse worrior or sheild or something would do wonders for it) I am considering getting rid of the norse nations and then adding nust denmark and perhaps a picture of something norse-ish
4 Get rid of the nordic nations and add just denmark with tribes and such (There is a map of midevil denmark going on now, perhaps the author would know a thing or two about the teritories.) That was suggested but I want some more debate.
5 different font for the outside text (something less plain) Will be done

by **el-presidente** on Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:59 pm

Click image to enlarge.

I notice some misakes (the nordic nations needs to be taken out of the bonuses) and I will fix them.

by **herschal** on Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:23 pm

I like it a lot more. The background fits better. A better font would look good though.

by **MrBenn** on Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:45 pm

Your drafts are certainly improving ;-)

The borders still feel quite pixelly, and the whole map feels a bit squished (ie compressed vertically).

You'll need to be really careful with your attack lines and the boat... the boat in the Bristol channel appears to border a couple of places, and I'm not too sure where it lands? The boats in the Irish sea seem a bit of a mystery... where do they come from? The map still feels a bit disparate, and you've lost the Viking invaders theme... for me, that was the unique selling point of this map!

by **el-presidente** on Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:52 pm

MrBenn wrote:Your drafts are certainly improving Thanks

The borders still feel quite pixelly, and the whole map feels a bit squished (ie compressed vertically). Unfourtunently I think that it is a bit too large mabey 20 pixels on each side larger than the size requirements but I will see what I can do.

You'll need to be really careful with your attack lines and the boat... the boat in the Bristol channel appears to border a couple of places, and I'm not too sure where it lands? The boats in the Irish sea seem a bit of a mystery... where do they come from? The map still feels a bit disparate, and you've lost the Viking invaders theme... for me, that was the unique selling point of this map! It should be better when the either the Nordic countries or Denmark is added after the poll gets some more votes.

Thanks for the comment!

by **herschal** on Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:18 pm

Well, first, I think that it is odd that there is a low number of posts, cause this is a pretty good map. Don't get discouraged. Secondly, I think that you really need to add Denmark because the map is the Danish invasion of england. I like the new boats, and somemore impassibles would be nice.

by **Dublanous1** on Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:02 pm

Awesome so far guys, I just think the bonus font is a bit messy, you may want to color it the color of the territories that are within that bonus. And Naxus, you have such a great Sig!!! Who made that? Lol Jk

by **Balsiefen** on Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:47 pm

Sorry for not posting for so long-I did get your pm.

Lovely Idea BTW, me and Telvannia got pretty far with something similar a while back. I think maybe you should try using the Saxon boundaries for territs rather than the modern counties (it really doesn't fit). You also ought to make the northern boundary that of Northumbria and Alba/Strathclyde (though you may want to add in Strathclyde: I'm not sure what happened to it historically)

As for Denmark, I think you should do it but I can't help you much further than that, all my sources are in the first page of my post and in the 6-7th page where people corrected me

by **naxus** on Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:52 pm

3.2

Click image to enlarge.

Some army #'s added to see how it fits.Possible denmark added.It'll be refined more.a ship will be added to connect england with denmark.

any thoughts?

by **ustus** on Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:28 pm

You have an extra a in border.

Are the red lines impassible? If so, you may want to extend the red border of Breknoc and Hereford a bit past the Breknoc - Monmouth border. i'm having a little trouble telling if there's a border there or not (or i might be wrong and there is, in which case the line moves the other way...). Keep an eye out for such places, that's the one that stands out to me as a little confusing, but other ppl might have trouble with other borders.

mm... that's all i see. looks good!

by **miniwally** on Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:17 pm

What about including the penines?

by **LED ZEPPELINER** on Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:43 am

if I am correct, then your map is over size restrictions. That needs to be fixed sooon.

by **pridekiller** on Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:41 pm

i dont know i guess ill attack

by **naxus** on Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:28 pm

ustus wrote:You have an extra a in border.

Are the red lines impassible? If so, you may want to extend the red border of Breknoc and Hereford a bit past the Breknoc - Monmouth border. i'm having a little trouble telling if there's a border there or not (or i might be wrong and there is, in which case the line moves the other way...). Keep an eye out for such places, that's the one that stands out to me as a little confusing, but other ppl might have trouble with other borders.

mm... that's all i see. looks good!

There is no border between hereford and breknoc but i see what you mean.Will extend a little.

miniwally wrote:What about including the penines?

Um explain please?

LED ZEPPELINER wrote:if I am correct, then your map is over size restrictions. That needs to be fixed sooon.

Will change, dont worry

pridekiller wrote:i dont know i guess ill attack

lol wrong topic buddy

by **rjz115dude** on Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:44 pm

map seems kewl, too big and the lines seem too hard, not smooth enough

by **thenobodies80** on Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:21 pm

Actually the map seems another england map with ships added, you should probably focus more on the danish invasion.
But my biggest concern is about the numerous informations on the map.
Try to make the map more clean...

The map seems a bit compressed, you could find the space required removing scotland (useless).
Finally i suggest you to resize the map (next update if possible :mrgreen:

) to respect this: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=241&t=78808#p1868811, and to enable all members to have a better understanding of the map and give you more helpful suggestions
This one was good (about size) http://f-i-w.wikispaces.com/file/view/Danelaw_new+with+names+and+such2.bmp

Good work !
=D>

TNBDS

by **MrBenn** on Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:59 am

Hopefully the next update will take into account many of the concerns / thoughts that have been raised - most notably adherence to the size restrictions, and the further development of the Danish Invasion theme ;-)

by **tlane** on Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:06 am

This map is looking nice, and when you fix the size you should try experementing with differant texts, and maybe the size of the text.
currnetly i think the text isnt the best, and you could probubly makie it one size smaller

tlane

by **el-presidente** on Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:49 pm

The next update will take a bit more time because I am really trying to figure out how to get the theme more in the gameplay, but we are working hard on it.

by **Teflon Kris** on Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:59 pm

I like the prespective of the map- I'm sure a blue sea would be preferable to long/lat lines?

Nice work - hope this map goes far - I'm sure you'll get plenty of support

by **alexandrois** on Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:19 pm

I think this is great, i would like to include the scandanavian countries but make them start nutrael and have bonus's on them. Also i would think of maybe putting hadreins wall on the map just to improve the look of it. Overall this is an amazing map