Dainichi Sekai Taisen - Available Soon

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by Smiley
The black and white striped railroads are a nice touch- exactly how the maps of the time represented them. What do the roads look like?

No railroad I'm afraid, the raidroads pictured are actually roads. I actually have a set of alternative cities which are just geometrc shapes like circles with inlaid borders, like maps of the time but none of the testers (like Eivind) liked it.

[curtsibling]

Can we see these, cities anyway?



They can't be any worse than those lame cities of mine you are using...

[kobayashi]

Also the title screen was not well received so back to the traditional style...

(cropped to fit the 800 pixel limitation of this forum)

[kobayashi]

Its not easy to implement, so I do think they are worse than your lame cities. However, from a strategic point of view, you can see what you control much more easily.

[fairline]

Originally posted by kobayashi
facing East means facing the right, so you mean it the other way round?

Er....yes

I like the concept of the cities identifying territory held - they could be a little nicer aesthetically but you are on to something here.

[Broken_Erika]

Originally posted by fairline


Er....yes

I like the concept of the cities identifying territory held - they could be a little nicer aesthetically but you are on to something here.

i like the idea of a scenario with simple terrain graphics and simple icons for all units, resouces and cities, is that what you were thinking?
i am going to experiment with something,

[N35t0r]

Originally posted by fairline


Er....yes

I like the concept of the cities identifying territory held - they could be a little nicer aesthetically but you are on to something here.

Yeah, I'd try to re-do them in perspective, so that they don't look like propped-up carboard cutouts

[curtsibling]

Was it the Finland WW2 scen used some nice flags as border markers?

Perhaps something like that could represent cities?

A unit square gives plenty of room for detail...

[our_man]

It's a good idea, it's just to my eyes it clashes with the terrain graphics.

[:) Smiley]

An interesting idea, maybe if the terrain contrast was lowered and blurred out, like one of those old maps from that time period, it would look good.

[Eivind IV]

Originally posted by curtsibling
Was it the Finland WW2 scen used some nice flags as border markers?

Perhaps something like that could represent cities?

A unit square gives plenty of room for detail...

Sure you're not thinking of the the Norwegian campaign?

@Kobayashi:
Actually, I liked the old title better.

[techumseh]

I'm looking forward to this one, for sure. Can't say I'm fond of the abstract cities - they clash with the realistic terrain and units. If everything was abstracted, it would be appealing though. Sort of like an Avalon-Hill flashback!

[kobayashi]

I agree that the abstract cities cannot work well when the background terain is full of detail. I've tried variations like 3D tiles but my conclusion is typical cities work the best with the rest of the map. For what its worth, I've found that when the abstract cities are all the same, it reduces the clash with the terrain so the squares and polygons will be removed for the alt cities set in the initial release version.

Erika, for a completely abstract scenario, have a look at my Battlefiled Chess Konigsburg scenario

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=49392

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by fairline

Er....yes

I can (and will) flip the US planes but the ships need to all face the same direction as some designs are shared.