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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Citabria on September 13, 2003, 01:26:17 AM
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if anyone would like to see the latest of this new MA map that might be the last one to squeek into the MA before AH2 I can send you the gif of it in email to post here.
all land bases have been installed and all strat facilities are installed. elevation map is completed but requires some more detail work as do the texture tile arngements, I'm not making new texture maps since its such a short time till ah2 I would like to see this map get to the MA before its too late :)
carriers (4 per side maybe more) still need to be added and are drawn in over the map in black, green lines represent each country zone (4 per country) and yellow indicates each countries front. Couldnt use cv waterways in the middle it got very messy and ugly so am saving the total cv war for my island map.
cheers hope you guys like it. all the hard stuff is done just need to detail it up.
I'm contemplating not adding in trains and convoys until I revise this map for AH2 so I can have it finished sooner since it needs to be into htc asap to be used for a few weeks or so till ah2 comes out
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oh coastline isnt finished yet either.
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You can send it to me again, Fester. :)
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This better not be another monstrosity, a la infinity and bigisles, fester :mad:
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Originally posted by wetrat
This better not be another monstrosity, a la infinity and bigisles, fester :mad:
If it is we can taunt him on squad channel everytime hes on :D
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Fester if it's not over 200Kb large then this link might help
Nacho's File Uploading (http://r1329776.hostultra.com/upload.html)
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...and you can get to Saintaw's image hosting site here:
http://www.onpoi.net/ah/
I don't know if there's a limit or not.
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thx flossy :)
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You know... this map actually looks promising.
The lack of huge mountains and/or sector/field dividing terrain makes it so the front can move in any direction. Especially in the middle "pocket" in each country's geographical center. The front could go any direction in those areas.
For some reason in Trinity, the southeastern country always bites the big one. I think the reason for this is because the majority of players are used to reading left to right, top to bottom... and so when looking for a fight, a majority of flight paths normally head left to right, top to bottom.
If the player base were to, say, speak arabic, then perhaps the northeast country would get banged :)
Anyway, Keep it up Festardbria! looking good
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Originally made by fester
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:D :D i love it. smfa except bigger:) come on fester get it out before AH2!
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i'd change 1 or 2 of each line of gv bases to an airfield...
and sprinkle a few more gv bases around... gotta keep everyone happy.
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Looks good fester wtg you sure been working on that havnt ya. I cant wait to try it.
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There's a big baseless gap in the south..
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Is there anything more annoying than people who "quote" an image? I have one of the fastest connections available, yet the server upload for this map is a little slow. Please don't do it out of courtesy to those with slower connections.
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Originally posted by Rutilant
There's a big baseless gap in the south..
I think it's that way on pirpose to promote CV importance in south... and the GV route through middle...
Also it does apear to have mountains .... but they should be small .. 'beta style' i think Cita said in earlier post ... 5-6k nothing crazy but does create a line...
also apears the they are all setup with bottle necks these 'gaps' are part of that but without un earthly 30k mountains ... plus there is lagre front and then a 'back country'
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looks familiar :)
(http://www.evo.org/sherlock/images/england.gif)
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looks good so far .. except i noticed that the HQ for the north is farther then the distances of the two lower countrys HQ's are apart ... 15 vs 13 grids ... dont know if that will make a difference in gameplay .. but give it a look :D
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best map I have seen so far.... certainly the best big map by a long shot.
lazs
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Where will squiddy be on this map?
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wow, Fester wasn't lying to me when he said that the bases are close together. I look forward to seeing that map in the MA... I hate having to commute ;)
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Looks really great, love the cv port placements and the resulting access to other countries.
Think Roscoroo brought up a good point about the top side having its HQ too far out of reach of the other countries, could be wrong though.
I noticed that the cv ports don't really have any airfields near them for defense, don't know if that was intentional or not.
The right bottom still looks like gangbang corner. Octavius seems to have made a good case for the reasoning behind that. Don't know what could be done to give that portion the leverage that it'll need.
Overall it looks great, must agree that it looks very promising. Excellent work there Fester :)
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Looks promising Fester. Have a suggestion. Number the fields in rows from left to right with each row being one sector in height, eg.
a1 a2 a3 a4 a5
a6 v7 p8 a9 v10
Makes it a lot easier to find your way around the large maps. We treid to do this with the pizza map but they were skewed at some point.
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Fester,
A couple of suggestions to keep the CVs in action ...
I would close the water gap on the west side of the island so that the Northwest CV groups don't mix with the Southern CV groups. This would keep the CV action local to that body of water.
I would close in the amount of open space in all 3 bodies of water so the CV hiding would be hard to do and also make the chances of CVs running into each other that more probable. I would like you to really make CV hiding almost impossible. You want this map full of action and CVs seem to play a big part in your plan, so CV hiding would defeat your purpose.
Looks like a great map and <> for putting it together.
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thats it slapshot ... just ruin all my plans for the cv's .... curse you and the plane ur flying .... :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
thats it slapshot ... just ruin all my plans for the cv's .... curse you and the plane ur flying .... :rolleyes:
Just tryin' to help .... ;)