"Eye of the Beholder" SP Game

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Multiculturalism!

re: the whitening of leaders: glad you caught that, and good that your including Chavez. I can definately work with him in EotB.

I figure Hubble is a lock for University, so I think I'll look for someone as black as I can find for the Consiousness...

(I guess I could darken the Alien, too!)

[Darsnan]

I think, take out the money in front of him/draw in more space shirt at the bottom. I can probably do it in an hour or so.

If its easier I'd say just get rid of all the money in the pic. Or maybe just run with the original background in the Mbudake Morgan pic.

I figure Hubble is a lock for University, so I think I'll look for someone as black as I can find for the Consiousness...

(I guess I could darken the Alien, too!)

btw I'm probably going to ask Illuminatus to de-top this thread in the near future. FYI so your not caught off-guard in case it does happen.


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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

If its easier I'd say just get rid of all the money in the pic. Or maybe just run with the original background in the Mbudake Morgan pic.

Nah, it's easiest to draw in more shirt. See the Hubble pic below, which I consider ready to go- all done since I last posted

FYI so your not caught off-guard in case it does happen.

Pet peeve of mine, FYI. It's you're. You are. Your is the possessive. Sorry to be a rude grammar nazi.




-I'm thinking The Academy, a name Zakharov would much more likely have used in the the first place...

[vyeh]

btw I'm probably going to ask Illuminatus to de-top this thread in the near future. FYI so your not caught off-guard in case it does happen.

Maybe it would make sense to have a single thread indexing all of your scenarios and topped just that thread.

[Darsnan]

Nah, it's easiest to draw in more shirt. See the Hubble pic below, which I consider ready to go- all done since I last posted

That is very good!

Pet peeve of mine, FYI. It's you're. You are. Your is the possessive. Sorry to be a rude grammar nazi.

Point taken: I will try to remember in the future.

-I'm thinking The Academy, a name Zakharov would much more likely have used in the the first place...

Sounds good: do you have any thoughts on a name for this guy?

Maybe it would make sense to have a single thread indexing all of your scenarios and topped just that thread.

I believe something along these lines is already in the works. Regardless, good thought on your part (or is it "you're part" - oh, I could have sooo much fun with this.... ).

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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

That is very good!

Yeah; I'm getting good at this, and conceited about it. I playtested it, and I think the faction may look even better than Zhukov's New Spartans. Bases, logos, faction colors and all are pretty "University After Dark" appropriately enough.

Point taken: I will try to remember in the future.

Awww, don't encourage me. Nobody likes a grammar nazi. (Also, it's they're. They are. Their is the possesive. You don't do that one nearly so often)

Sounds good: do you have any thoughts on a name for this guy?

I put the French form of his name, Édouard Hubble, in my pcx credits, but something completely not Hubble would be better. Maybe Édouard LaPierre' or something. It breaks the illusion when gamers recognize the source, y'know? We really ought to rename Marshall Zhukov, too.

(or is it "you're part" - oh, I could have sooo much fun with this.... ).

Your is the possesive. Don't encourage me.

[Updated zip 4/9/09]

[Illuminatus]

Maybe it would make sense to have a single thread indexing all of your scenarios and topped just that thread.

Heh, heh. It is already being dealt with.

If you are going for a French name, how about Jules Durand? Didier Galopin? I favor Camille Flammarion or a variation.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

If you are going for a French name, how about Jules Durand? Didier Galopin? I favor Camille Flammarion or a variation.

Those are good suggestions, where mine were uninspired. D?

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In case anybody flew past it, I updated Morgenthau again. The Scrooge thing is fixed. While I was redoing the picture, I improved the washed-out look of his head and adjusted the background to stand out less. Then before I saved it, I toned down the over-bright bases a little.

...Incidentally, I glanced at the time when the portrait was ready for scan lines, and it only took me 38 minutes to resize, scan line, and paste the portraits in, adjust the bases, update the webpage and make the fake ad below...

[Darsnan]

I favor Camille Flammarion or a variation.

That sounds good: I'll update the text file accordingly.

In case anybody flew past it, I updated Morgenthau again.

I did miss it. I like the shirt: nicely done. I'll DL the file tomorrow before I playtest.

btw I'm working on updating the borehole datalinks to reflect the -2 nutrient modifier. This is what I've got so far:

Prone to accidents such as penetration of underground rivers, poison gas pockets, and magma flows, boreholes are prone to high attrition rates amongst its workers. This, coupled with the fact that it is typical to assign the least desireable of your workers to these sites makes the working environment a veritable psychiatric leper colony. To simulate this toxic environment a -2 nutrient modifier is assigned to worked borehole squares.

Any thoughts on this?

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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I like the shirt: nicely done.

You can't really see it in the fake ad's .jpg format, but he has green stripes coming over each shoulder, like super-cheesy science fiction. I wanted to raise them into low epaulettes, but it would have looked way too stupid. They're quite dark now and don't jump out at you at all.

btw I'm working on updating the borehole datalinks to reflect the -2 nutrient modifier.

I heard someone made icons for stuff like that...

I]Prone to accidents such as penetration of underground rivers, poison gas pockets, and magma flows, boreholes are prone to high attrition rates amongst its workers. This, coupled with the fact that it is typical to assign the least desireable of your workers to these sites makes the working environment a veritable psychiatric leper colony. To simulate this toxic environment a -2 nutrient modifier is assigned to worked borehole squares.[/I]

Any thoughts on this?

I like it.

Hmmm, would "steam explosions due to penetration of underground rivers" be too verbose?

You've got a subject/verb dissagrement with "boreholes are prone to high attrition rates amongst its"
(It strikes me that there ought to be a "I'm being a grammar nazi ironically" smiley.)

Instead you might try "a borehole is", or even better, "borehole technicians are subject to high attrition rates."

Then "This, coupled with the with the standard practice of assigning the least-valued workers to such sites, creates a working environment that is a veritable psychiatric leper colony."

[Darsnan]

Hmmm, would "steam explosions due to penetration of underground rivers" be too verbose? "?

I think its getting too busy as it is (I've got a history of trying to shove 10lbs of crap into a 5lb bag). I'll see if I can wedge that in, though.

You've got a subject/verb dissagrement with "boreholes are prone to high attrition rates amongst its"
(It strikes me that there ought to be a "I'm being a grammar nazi ironically" smiley.) "

This is good. The above was my first draft, so your saving me edit time.

Instead you might try "a borehole is", or even better, "borehole technicians are subject to high attrition rates." "

How about "boreholes are prone to high attrition rates amongst their conscripted workers". I like the idea of conscription: I think it plays well to the darker elements/ themes of the game. Then I follow on with your statement below:

Then "This, coupled with the with the standard practice of assigning the least-valued workers to such sites, creates a working environment that is a veritable psychiatric leper colony."[/QUOTE]


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[Russia4Life]

Just my $0.02
You said "with the with the" in your description, only need "with the" one time. Other than that I think it sounds very good.

To: Buster's Uncle
What Program do you use to edit PCX files?

[Darsnan]

Just my $0.02
You said "with the with the" in your description, only need "with the" one time. Other than that I think it sounds very good.

thats what I get for posting before I've had my 5 cups of coffee in the morning. Hopefully I would've caught that before the final edit.

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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

What Program do you use to edit PCX files?

I started out opening/saving them with PhotoShop 5, a program I don't care for much, and doing most of the work pasting back and forth between Microsoft Paint and Lexmark Photo Editor- which came with my printer.

Between them, the later two are good for most of what I want to do, save color manipulation. Paint isn't bad for drawing and pasting smaller elements of an image in or moving them, but won't do a lot of things at all. Photo Editor is lousy for drawing and pasting/moving, and won't do a lot of things at all, but great for things like cropping, rotating, and altering brightness/contrast.

I later found out that Photo Editor will open/save .pcxs, but I think saving with it is what caused a brief rash of blue boxes around my bases.

Increasingly, I'm tweaking colors in PhotoShop. I'm slowly learning how to do stuff and using it for more, despite its over-complex interface.

We're off-topic for the thread, now. If you have any more graphics questions, (and I hope you do,) you might want to start a new thread in the creation sub-forum, or ask in "How I spent MY day". I know two ways to do scan lines that I've never seen anyone describe...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

(I've got a history of trying to shove 10lbs of crap into a 5lb bag).

You've read a few of my posts; I'm worse.

your saving me edit time.

That's you're.

How about "boreholes are prone to high attrition rates amongst their conscripted workers". I like the idea of conscription: I think it plays well to the darker elements/ themes of the game. Then I follow on with your statement below:

Then "This, coupled with the with the standard practice of assigning the least-valued workers to such sites, creates a working environment that is a veritable psychiatric leper colony."

Wouldn't you agree that datalink entries ought to err on the terse and dry side? Not as terse as the originals, I hope, but still.

In that light, your lovely phrase "a veritable psychiatric leper colony" is too colorful.

I like the insertion of conscripted, but it's poor form to assign possessives to things when you could attach them to people, so how about "borehole technicians, invariably conscripts, are subject to high attrition rates." (The simpler "conscripted borehole technicians are subject to high attrition rates." would imply that there are a lot of non-conscripts.

...I'm embarrassed that I misspelled disagreement while correcting someone...