I suggest uploading the image to
Imgur, as it is typically pretty good about things.
As for the map itself: I think the geography definitely allows for some good map design, so it's an interesting area you chose. Some things stand out immediately though, and will have to be addressed either way:
- We don't allow 4 borders coming together into a single corner. It makes it unclear whether allowing diagonally across that point is allowed or not. The territories will have to be reworked to prevent any of those situations existing.
- I think the port symbols add unnecessary complexity to the map. I think it's better if we use dashed lines to connect the ports instead, because it makes it much easier to understand the topography of the map. In some cases, it's not super clear which territory an anchor belongs to either (the Downtown one is also very close to Pioneer Square, and the Bremerton one could be confused to connect to Port Orchard). Dashed lines would make it really obvious;
- I haven't measured it, but I feel even the map is wider than 1024px, or the territory circles are smaller than the full size circles. I foresee some problems with fitting in the circles in the dark green region, since it's already quite busy there.
Overall though, I think this map shows promise. It's a pretty well connected map, but at the same time doesn't feel like everything is too connected. There are some really nice regions in there, but we may want to look at those again once you worked away all the four-way crossings, since right now there are a lot of regions with bonus 4, and it would be good to have a bigger variation of regions.
I suggest uploading the image to [url=https://imgur.com/]Imgur[/url], as it is typically pretty good about things.
As for the map itself: I think the geography definitely allows for some good map design, so it's an interesting area you chose. Some things stand out immediately though, and will have to be addressed either way:
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[li]We don't allow 4 borders coming together into a single corner. It makes it unclear whether allowing diagonally across that point is allowed or not. The territories will have to be reworked to prevent any of those situations existing.[/li]
[li]I think the port symbols add unnecessary complexity to the map. I think it's better if we use dashed lines to connect the ports instead, because it makes it much easier to understand the topography of the map. In some cases, it's not super clear which territory an anchor belongs to either (the Downtown one is also very close to Pioneer Square, and the Bremerton one could be confused to connect to Port Orchard). Dashed lines would make it really obvious;[/li]
[li]I haven't measured it, but I feel even the map is wider than 1024px, or the territory circles are smaller than the full size circles. I foresee some problems with fitting in the circles in the dark green region, since it's already quite busy there.[/li]
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Overall though, I think this map shows promise. It's a pretty well connected map, but at the same time doesn't feel like everything is too connected. There are some really nice regions in there, but we may want to look at those again once you worked away all the four-way crossings, since right now there are a lot of regions with bonus 4, and it would be good to have a bigger variation of regions.
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