Baseball: King of Diamonds (v15 p.27)

by **natty dread** on Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:14 pm

Oh, and with a larger scoreboard, the "At bat: 3" part wouldn't be visible...

by **Evil DIMwit** on Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:41 pm

I'm not liking the scoreboard at all. It fills in the background but the rest of the background is so plain that I think the scoreboard looks out of place. Does everyone else disagree?

by **carlpgoodrich** on Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:45 am

Evil DIMwit wrote:I'm not liking the scoreboard at all. It fills in the background but the rest of the background is so plain that I think the scoreboard looks out of place. Does everyone else disagree?

I'm completely with you. Personally, I think it was great with no scoreboard at all. I do think there is a way to make it part of the background, but everyone keeps shooting me down.

by **natty dread** on Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:45 am

How about this?

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by **Evil DIMwit** on Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:33 pm

A bit better but still kind of weird.

Regarding the circles under the fielders: Can we see how those work with army numbers?

by **natty dread** on Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:04 pm

Sure. I think I already posted one for the small version... here's the large:

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So, which is it going to be... no scoreboard, scoreboard under the title, or scoreboard below the title?

I would be absolutely fine with going back to no scoreboard.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:14 pm

I think below looks good, but with less opacity. And where is "Turtle Park" coming from? Why turtles??

-Sully

EDIT: Oh, haha, I get it now, never mind...

by **ender516** on Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:19 pm

Have you forgotten our fearless leader, the teenage mutant ninja admin?

by **natty dread** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:05 am

Ok, so the options are here:

A) No scoreboard

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B) Scoreboard under

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C) Scoreboard below

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by **carlpgoodrich** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:13 am

I vote A

by **ender516** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:59 am

I prefer A as well, then B, then C least of all, because the scoreboard in perspective view looks odd when obscured by a bird's-eye view of the field. If you do use B, the little detail of MONKEYS on the top line and TURTLES on the bottom line used in C would be nice in B.

by **isaiah40** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:09 am

I think A is the best bet now that I see all of them together.

by **natty dread** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:22 am

A seems to be the most popular choice.

by **Evil DIMwit** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:59 pm

Yeah, everything but A just looks weird.

by **natty dread** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:21 pm

Ok, let's consider the scoreboard idea officially scrapped.

Is there anything else we could put behind the title? Maybe a big baseball, faded on the background?

by **natty dread** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:38 pm

Kinda like this?

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by **carlpgoodrich** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:00 pm

Unrelated XML question: is it possible to have the batter start with 1 neutral but reset to 2 neutral? Just so that the player who goes first isn't at a disadvantage for having to kill the extra neutral. The batter does need to reset to 2 IMO so people don't just stack on the pitcher and assault the batter for a card.

I'm undecided about the baseball in the background. It kinda conflicts with the border around the legend.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:08 pm

carlpgoodrich wrote:Unrelated XML question: is it possible to have the batter start with 1 neutral but reset to 2 neutral? Just so that the player who goes first isn't at a disadvantage for having to kill the extra neutral. The batter does need to reset to 2 IMO so people don't just stack on the pitcher and assault the batter for a card.

Unfortunately, no. This was why Maze Craze got binned, actually.

carlpgoodrich wrote:I'm undecided about the baseball in the background. It kinda conflicts with the border around the legend.

Agreed, it conflicts with the baseball stitching you already have in place.

by **natty dread** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:21 pm

How about I edit the legend stiching a bit:

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by **natty dread** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:25 pm

On second thought, that doesn't work either. Let's just go back to version A.

by **natty dread** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:57 pm

Ok, back to █ 1:

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So maybe we'll just go ahead with this version.

by **Army of GOD** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:10 pm

Ok, one thing that's kind of annoying is the top of the outfield and the foul area at the edge of the field. The outfield should be more of a semi-circle, and Idk, it's kind of an OCD uncomfortableness seeing like a "peak" on the map. Also, the foul area at the edge of the field should follow the same path, I don't really like how it's jutting out to the side.

by **Evil DIMwit** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:05 pm

The field's shape is based directly on that of Shea Stadium.

by **carlpgoodrich** on Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:08 pm

All ballparks are shaped differently. I have no problem with the shape of the field from a baseball perspective. If there are aesthetic reasons for making changes then I'm all for it.