Italy [Quenched]

[RjBeals]

Thanks for the feedback Ruben. I will use the Italian names use provided. I also considered using Palermo as the divided country for Sicily, but then thought it would be too small. But I could make it larger like Milano / Roma...

I want to start considering game play. The territories are placed (as close as possible) to actual borders. They may need to be slightly "re-divided" in order to keep a challenging fair game. Seeing as how I just got demoted to a private I might not be the best at determining this.

Most likely no updates this weekend. Will continue with editing next week.

[happysadfun]

Eh.... the bonuses are horrible.

[RjBeals]

Eh.... the bonuses are horrible.

Un-constructive feedback. What do you suggest?

[happysadfun]

Pink- 5
Bluegrey- 5
Insular- 5
Orange- 5
Green- 5 (Or 4, if you must)

It works! Include the cities (Milan, Turin, and Rome) in their respective continents as well as their own city +1 bonus. BTW, the Turin-Milan gap between them needs a name. Let's call it Monferatto, that's a decent city and range of Alpsian mountians...

And how about at least one "major city" for each continent. Palermo, Venice, Naples... these are ideas here.

[cowshrptrn]

Youv'e done a pretty good job trying to get rid of bottlenecks, but i tihnk Campania-Molise should be a bit wider. Maybe campania-pantalerria or something like that

[Marvaddin]

Much better. But I dislike those bridges (ok, I know they arent, I just dont know the right word in English). And I think we could still have some readjust about countries. Some are very small, but there is still room for more, like in Sardinia, or Veneto. But like I said, 32 is ok to me.

2 Italy maps? Haha! Its an important country, and it deserves a decent map, but not 2. Should I design a 2nd Brazil map??

I don't particularly like the Brazil map though (that huge huge ENORMOUS country)!

Its not the right place, mate. Post your point, I will change the graphics anyway, so I think there is a good oportunity to complain about playability.

[Lupo]

Feedbacks:

1.As i suggest you in a previous post, I would have preffered you splitted central and southern Italy in 3 continents instead of only 2.

2. the Po river idea works very well, but if possible, in the border between Liguria and Lombardia, could you use as unpassable border the Appenino mountains? in this way you could let the Po in its true position, without force it to follow Lombardia south-west border.

3. About bridges and harbours i would like you to make them different. There are many harbours in Italy, maybe you could use or a pretty harbour draft or you could put a monument or something peculiar with the city where the harbour is located.

4. Since Rome and Milan are the 2 main italian airports, you could give them the property to be linked by an airport connection.

5. you could take some ideas from the space map: if you add some more sea way connection between the harbours, you could transform the harbours into little territories and consider them as a continent.
The same it could be done with Rome and Milan (and maybe with some other airport you would like to introduce)...

6. you have to invert Trentino with South Tirol (you made a little mistake with names)

7. i would like you add Garda lake at the Veneto-Trentino-Lombardia border and use Mincio river as the natural border between Veneto and Lombardia.

8. i would llike to put some more unpassable border such as the Alps and the Appenino

9. Honeslty i dislike the way how you split Sicily...maybe you could let Sicily as it was before, adding only Palermo harbour and or airport.
the same i would say about Toscana, i would prefer if you added Florence airport, instead of spliting the whole region.

10. I still think that Corsica would work better in map playability than Pantelleria. Moreover, you placed Pantelleria in a complitely wrong position in order to make it in inside your map. I suggest you to consider Ustica in the place of Pantelleria, in the case you dislike corsica option.

11. i would like you added naples in the map if it were possible

12. you could add also Venice and togheter with Trieste transform them into harbours. Moreover, why did you linked Puglia with Friulli and not with Trieste? i would like you added also Genoa as harbour, inside Liguria.

13. So, at the end, you could have at least 3 more continents, made up by italian main cities: Adriatic harbours system, Tyrrenian harbours system and italian airport system. you could aso think about to divide Tyrrenian harbours system in 2 continents.

I have many others feedbacks, but for now let's see your opinion about these...

[Ruben Cassar]

Whoaaa Lupo you are asking for a lot from the poor guy! Hehe. However I think that on some points I agree with you. The Garda and the mountains should be in the map for sure.

About the piers or bridges whatever they are he could keep the graphics for the two that are crossing the Po in Lombardia and Torino and change the other ones to harbours or something similar.

[Balsiefen]

just one thing, that map is on a really wierd slant, its almost on its side


italy's more at this angle

[Wisse]

just one thing, that map is on a really wierd slant, its almost on its side


italy's more at this angle

read before you post -.-"
this is done by himslelf to make the look better

[RjBeals]

I didn't want to angle the map, but it works better for displaying on computer monitors. Less 'scrolling'. I will put a directonal compass on the map once I start fixing it up.

[RjBeals]

Changed:
1. Added "Parte" in front of Meridionale
2. Added Garda Lake
3. Added mountain range to landscape background. This was hard and I'm still not totally satisfied with the results.
4. Added Compass showing true north to lower left side
5. Added "Monferrato" between Turin-Lombardy gap. This gave an extra territory, so I removed Milano as it looked out of place.
6. Added more cities to make a total of 36 countries.
7. Increased bonus values
8. Inverted South Tyrol & Trentino (Removed word "south")
9. Fixed spelling of several regions


NOT Changed:
1) Ustica is very small, I think only about 1,000 people live there - I feel that positioning island of Pantelleria more north (so it's included in the mapped area) works better.

3) I still didn't make Corsica a part of the map because it's officially not a part of Italy. I read the arguments on earlier posts, and it would flow nicely with the water routes - but didn't feel it should be there.

2) I tried my hardest to keep the Po river flowing across Lombardia region, instead of following the southern border, but I could not get an impassable border (Mountain) I was happy with. If this really bothers people, I will keep trying.

3) I looked at moving territory boundaries so "Central & Southern Italy were split into 3 continents instead of only 2" - I feel it works best the way it is since there are only 36 countries.

4) I'm having trouble replacing the piers with harbour symbols. I don't know what symbols or monuments represent these harbours, other than a small anchor or ship - which I tried, I didn't feel it looked right, and it looses it's shape when it is so small. I have a few anchors placed in the map, do you like these?

5) I linked Puglia (Southern Apulia) with Friulli and not the true port state of Trieste only because the pier symbol would not fit in Trieste. I can fix if it's really wanted

6) Personally I didn't like the idea of airports being connectors, or groups of harbors being countries. I know it's been done on other maps, but I prefer playing for regions only. I had to add a few cities (Turin, Palermo, Rome, Venice, Naples & San Marino) to make 36 countries. The city boundaries are way bigger on my map than in real life because I had to allow room for the numbers & titles.

Whew - This is taking longer than I thought !!

[wicked]

what are the anchors for?

[RjBeals]

what are the anchors for?

Several people didn't like the wooden piers linking the waterways. Just a sample of a harbour symbol of sorts.... I need some suggestions if the wooden piers are not to be used.

[Ruben Cassar]

I will give my feedback about the piers/anchor debate. I prefer the piers and I didn't find anything wrong with them in the first place. They are quite 'picturesque'.

What I would like to see is the names of the regions/cities in Italian but you already told me you would look into that in a previous post so I am assuming you didn't have time to implement that change.

On Monferrato. I actually think it makes the Piemonte region a bit too cluttered. I cannot understand why you removed Milano as I think it was better that way. Was there any particular reason?

On Sicilia. I would remove Northern Sicily and replace it with the city of Messina which is actually located in that region. I think that makes more sense.

[happysadfun]

I'm assuming that the raised section is ariver but right now it looks like a varicose vein.



Man, I love using metaphors.


I like thae sandy look, though. It draws attention to the map, rather than the water. Good job!

[AndyDufresne]

Well this map is surely coming along RJ! Looking much nicer than many of the previous versions...

Right now I'll just comment on the visuals...

• I really like the overall look you have going, it's unique and a 'lighter map', something we haven't had lately.
• I would suggest perhaps changing Parte Meridionale's color from blue to a light purple, that still blends with the map, might be something to look into. Right now, Parte M. looks a little water logged like a swamp.
• The rest of the colors I like quite fine, though perhaps make Roma Premio stand out a little more.
• The water in the rivers and lake looks a little odd, have you tried experimenting with various shades? Just something to play with.
• Regarding the anchor or the pier...I like the pier. No map currently has a 'pier'...and I think it works rather well with the style and tone of the map. I'd change all to them. Perhaps you could darken the connecting lines a little so they don't get lost in the seas.
• Regarding the compass, have you considered perhaps drawing a compass that corresponds with the feel and tone of light and soft colors the map has? Just a little something that could add some effect.
• I do strongly suggest you make the names a little bigger. You might have to play with the positioning, but I think they are on the small side and could use a bump up. You also have to consider how small the names will be on the small map, when you shrink it down.
• And one last thing...regarding the Bonus Legend. Perhaps you could remove the white background, and have a light, near transparent version the of the Italian flag in the background, or something similar to that. I'm not a big fan of the strong white background.

Looking good! I'll check in later.


--Andy

[RjBeals]

I do strongly suggest you make the names a little bigger... You also have to consider how small the names will be on the small map, when you shrink it down.

Great feedback from the few posts above. Give me a day or two to work on some revisions. Also, I was not going to just simply reduce the image down. I was going to resize just the map, while keeping the text the same size. But I will look at font. Thanks !!

[Bad Speler]

It looks like you have your text layer below the army shadow layer, this is noticible on turin and rome. Great map otherwise!

[RjBeals]

It looks like you have your text layer below the army shadow layer

Correct. It will be changed. Thanks.

[gavin_sidhu]

Sorry if some of these have been mentioned already but here is what i think needs to be changed:

Treste, Venice, Palermo and to a lesser extent Naples, Turin and San Marino need to be made bigger, they are too small currently and i doubt anybody would mind if these territories took the area of other territories.

Rome should be connected to a Parte Meridionale territory, to make it harder to sercure and for more fights over them to occur.

The outside border of Lombardia looks screwed up at one place which is all white. the lake in lombardia also does not look too good.

[RjBeals]

Most recent update. Still lots I need to do, but thought & would show the new bonus's I'm thinking of. Also, I need help with Italian names. All I could find is what I have.

[insertnamehere]

thats a prettty good map , has some unique features which other maps dont have . i would enjoy playing that .

[KEYOGI]

Great map. I've tried to find something I don't like, but I can't. Look forward to playing it.

[Bad Speler]

As with Italian names, i remember from the olympics that turin is torino in italian, and rome is roma.