A Hand Drawn Ancient Paper Map
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BETA wrote:
I have been really enjoying playing on this map, and especially with the new connections.
Thanks a lot, Aero!
Axobongo wrote:
Brethren has its unique character and is good, in both capitals and deathmatch.

The only feedback i have received was from someone who had a hard time seeing the territory links.
 Some may have problems seeing the sea routs and border , perhaps those who play on smaller devices.

i would agree they are a bit washed out, which works fine for the lovely graphic images which are at a good tone, and yet the light territory border don't matter so much since there is an army indicator. So a compromise would be to darken the sea routs (15-20%?)

%<--- hey! THATS our percent symbol?? % _it looks more like a sapsucking whitefly (but black), consider this my formal complaint on the percent symbol
Axobongo is online.
aeronautic wrote:
I will try darkening the sea connection lines, but if they stand out too much, they will look false (added later).
I have tried sharpening the map albeit a little too much, but still, this is a sharper and bolder version of others that were submitted and the general opinion was that this was the better version.

See here for a sharpened sea connections version tonight.

In the meantime, I was about to say that extensive tests have been done recently with great success from 2p - 6p games.
More than 6 players on this map are just silly as there are too few troops to start and too easy to be virtually wiped out before your 1st turn. Whereas 6p is fine as you get 5 territories to start and nobody gets an unfair advantage.
The new connections are working very well and get a lot of praise for connectivity in fortification. They also allow multiple attack routes and even though there are many bonuses, they are now not so easy to hold and defend.
2 test games are still running a 3p DM (stalemate, but being played out to look for ways to overcome a stalemate) & a 6p DM, just slow coaches here, LOL.
I must point out that out of 15 test games and about 5 or 6 live games, there has only been 1 stalemate on this map version that I can remember and as I said above, that game hasn't actually been stopped and declared a draw game.

I am a little gutted that I won about 75% of the test games and they were point-less and I played a normal 4p Caps game and the dice absolutely annihilated my strategy.
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aeronautic wrote:
Okay I increased opacity on all the connection dashed lines.

Please let me know if improved the map or not?

I am pretty sure this is ready to come out of Beta so I will need to finalise the graphics.
Brethren Bold Connections (click to show)
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Matty wrote:
The dashed lines over the compass are still blurred. Otherwise it's good.
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aeronautic wrote:
Brethren Bold Connections 2 (click to show)
Okay there it is! Please let me know if there are any others problems or concerns?
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PsymonStark wrote:
I can find nothing else, I think it's ready to go.
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aeronautic wrote:
I have overwritten the game map, please refresh it.
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aeronautic wrote:
Here are all the latest (point-less) beta tests I have completed personally:

2p Caps = done (can't remember the link, but Fendi won)
3p Caps = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=396526
4p Caps = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=396538
5p Caps = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=396545
6p Caps = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=396554
2p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398053
2p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398055
2p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398058
3p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398060
3p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398063
4p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398065
5p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398069
6p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398075
7p DM = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=398078
3p Dom = http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=400459

There were also loads of live games played as well.
I moved a 4p Capital position after finding it uneven in the tests. Everything else looks okay to me, game play wise.
As mentioned previously, this map is only good up to and including 6p, but it has worked well with all three game types in the tests.

Are there any concerns about the map graphics / game play?
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Virtuosity98 wrote:
I'm pretty sure this one's ready now...?
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aeronautic wrote:
Well it's had 147 full completed games on it, not counting the test games except 1 which had to be reimbursed, as they were mostly cancelled before completion. This is a heck of a lot of testing and bare in mind the only alteration needed was made right at the beginning of the test games so all the live games had the change to the 4p Cap positions.

I think perhaps, there is concern with the look of the map or something else holding up the release from Beta?
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Fendi wrote:
The map is now out of Beta and is available for all! Thank you aeronautic for the great work.

And sorry it took so long to remove it from Beta.