East Indies

I couldn't "pick it up" if it was purple with green spots, I am totally sleep deprived. That aside, this map is looking very nice! I can't see anything I would change.

[b]East Indies Capitals Placement[/b] (attempt) [Spoiler=Capitals Placement][img]http://s8.postimg.org/7x4j4j0ur/East_Indies_Capitals.png[/img][/spoiler] 2 Player = KL & Aru 3 = Luzon, Padang, Timor-Leste 4 = Jambi, Palawan, Bali, Manokwari 5 = Thailand, Jami, Mindanao, Bali, Merauke 6 = Thailand, Bengkulu, Timor, Merauke, Mindanao, Sarawak 7 = Thailand, Riau, Lampung, Mindanao, Palu, Merauke, Timor 8 = Thailand, Riau, Lampung, Palawan, Palu, Bali, Timor-Leste, Manokwari 9 = Laos, Singapore, Medan, Lahat, Banjarmasin, Fakfak, Pulau Sumba, Arnhem

2 minutes remaining to make that image work Hoody.

[spoiler=working link capital placement][img]http://oi59.tinypic.com/qx2f6d.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

[spoiler][img]http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/5367406.jpg[/img][/spoiler] New background texture courtesy of Vexer. EDIT: Cap proposals. What a headache! And I don't know if they are any good... [spoiler=EI29][img]http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/5367407.jpg[/img][/spoiler] [spoiler=EI47][img]http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/5367408.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

You have done a good job of the Cap's Spy. I also like the new background, we can always rely on Vexer to go the extra mile. 2,3,8 & 9 seem fine. I tried to find alternatives with better evenness for 4,5,6,7 but each had pros & cons! Here is an example of an alternative 4 Cap's with similar distribution. Your suggestion has steps of 5,6,5,6 in a loop and steps of 6 & 7 diagonally across the map, which is the best I could also find for equality in steps. [i]Mine has steps of 6,6,6,5 in a loop and 7 & 8 diagonally[/i], so yours came out the best in steps equality. Both have no ability to hold a region and still use the cap', so both are equal there, yours has 3,3,2,2 adjacent territories and [i]mine has 4,3,3,3[/i] so mine has the least likeliness to spawn block. Take a look at it and if it is preferred, feel free to use it. [spoiler=4 Caps Alternative][img]http://www.the-inkstore.co.uk/resources/4 caps.jpg[/img][/spoiler] I am still reviewing 5,6 & 7 Cap's @Hoodlum, for capital placement, there's a rule of thumb where either no Cap's should be on a Bordering territory or all have to be on one. Otherwise, a player can have an advantage of holding a region and still using their Cap to attack. Notice Psymon's 7 Cap placements.

There is the same problem on your layout than in mine. Both have an effective adjacent paths of 3/3/2/2. Kampuchea and Pulau Sumba (or Laos and Flores) only have two paths out. They get a territory for a free card but that doesn't improve its connectivity. Mine is 3/2/2/2 but the extra path in KL may compensate for the overly complicated region and the extra length of a route via Penang.

Yes, all good points Spy, it is probably best to keep them as they are. As I said, you did a good job of the Cap's, because in these island maps with some regions that have few to zero borderless territories, you are restricted to where to place Cap's. Therefore you have found the least unfair combinations. If there are no other concerns or objections, I think you guys are ready for Beta?

PS. After further checking, I think 2p cap Jambi can be in Padang, because it makes it shorter to go via Medan. Moved the circles to make sure caps won't overlap: [spoiler][img]http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/5372535.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

So what's this map waiting for? I'm anxious to play on this masterpiece! :P

[spoiler=Map edits required][img]http://www.the-inkstore.co.uk/resources/East_Indies_Edits.png[/img][/spoiler] Below are lists of the things I believe that need editing for this map to go to Beta. Using the last image of the map uploaded, I have placed some circles and squares. The circles are used to highlight points. The squares are for gap / size differences. [spoiler=Circles] 1. Noticeable narrowing of Timor-Leste outline. This could also be the overlap of the connection line glow effect. 2. Outline stops short of the edge of the map giving a noticeable round shape of the brush, this needs continuing off map or touching up to give the desired effect. 3. Outline stops short of edge of map. 4. Outline stops short of edge of map. 5. Connection line overlaps the land, this layer/s needs to be moved below the land layer and points 1,5,6,9 & 10 should then be solved. 6. Connection line overlaps the land. 7. This island might well be part of Sumatra? However, for the sake of the game map, it is closer to Singapore which has the colour of Malaysia and so this should be the same colour as Malaysia. It has no purpose to game-play and so there is no reason to associate it to Sumatra. 8. This island should be the same colour as Malaysia. 9. Connection line overlaps the land. 10. Connection line overlaps the land. A lot of the circled points are duplications of the same problem and can mostly be corrected by the layer order mentioned.[/spoiler][spoiler=Squares] In the gaps between the map and the wooden frame, mini map & legend, I have taken into account the anti alias and only put these perfectly symmetrical squares to physically show that the gap differences are noticeably different. Yellow squares are used as what I would consider to be the correct size gap due to the majority of chosen gaps being this size and the red squares are where the gap is noticeably smaller or larger. There are also large red squares placed on the wooden frame, because all horizontal and vertical sections are different thicknesses. Cropping the map by 1 pixel on the right side will solve the gap issue and the frame could be kept the same size there as it is only 1 pixel difference to the left side. The top and bottom frames are more noticeably thicker, but mostly the bottom section. This is not a problem, as you can crop the height of the image, but not the width to even out the frame thickness.[/spoiler]

I have a clue how to fix these touch ups, but I don't have the finalized version of the last edits which are in Psymons safe hands. Luckily, because I had to reformat my computer recently and just deleted the 100's of files I had accumulated helping to build this masterpiece ;)

Seriously, how long will it take ppl to make backups of important files.

It depends on what people thinks it's important! The "definitive" version: [spoiler][img]http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/5383582.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

since i didn't have the latest edits it wasn't as important. and the latest one that I had before I sent to Psymon to polish it off is still retrievable from the upload i sent. Otherwise, it would probably be the only thing I would save on my computer lol.