Chicago

[b]Chicago[/b] 9 regions and 60 territories Changes since the last post in Map Dabble thread. Bigger N (compass). Corrected spelling. [url=https://i.imgur.com/hZ8jILV.jpeg]100% view[/url] [spoiler=Chicago][img]https://i.imgur.com/hZ8jILV.jpeg[/img] Style Theme: Blueprint Noir / Municipal Sector Map • Chicago District Warfare Chicago-themed territory control battleground, redesigned from the original flat version while keeping the core gameplay and district layout intact. The city is divided into 9 regions and 60 territories [spoiler=To Input][b] Far North Side:5[/b] Rogers Park West Ridge Edgewater Lincoln Square North Park Albany Park Forest Glen Jeffereson Park Norwood Park [b]North Side: 3[/b] Lakeview Lincoln Park Logan Square Avondale [b]Northwest Side: 3[/b] Irving Park Portage Park Belmont Cragin Dunning [b]Central:2[/b] Near North Loop Near South [b]West Side:5[/b] West Town Near West Town Lower West Side Humbold Park Garfield Park North Lawndale South Lawndale Austin Park [b]South Side:5[/b] South Shore Woodlawn Great Grand Crossing Hyde Park Washington Park Bridgeport Kenwood Douglas [b]Southwest Side:5[/b] New City East Englewood West Englewood Brighton Park Gage Park Chicago Lawn Archer Heights Garfield Ridge [b]Far Southwest Side: 3[/b] Ashburn Washington Heights Beverly Morgan Park Mount Greenwood [b]Far Southeast Side:5[/b] South Chicago Calumet Heights Chatham Roseland Pullman South Deering East Side Hegewisch Riverdale West Pullman [/spoiler] [/spoiler] What are we deciding on with the bonuses?

Cool, I waited long time for this map! The bonuses look fine to me, the only decision to take probably is if the Center is worth +1 or +2... They all respect the formula, so basically they are fine. Otherwise my way to fix the formula (sometimes) is: 4 territories or less, round down; 5 to 8 round up; 9+ add one. This would mean the Central region to be +1 and the two largest regions (Far North and Far Southeast) to be +6. But since the Center is in the middle, and the two largest regions are far apart, on the edges, then I would say [u]they are just fine as they are.[/u]

I'm kind of neutral but I tend to like +2, because the fight for the city center makes sense in relation to the map theme.

+2 seems very generous, when all the other regions on the map are comparatively very difficult to defend. Even defending the +3 territories is much much harder. It seems to me that whoever gets the sole +2 region will have a massive advantage throughout the game. But +1 does seem slightly underwhelming. I also noticed a four corners problem in the bottom left (NW) of the map. From the region bonus, I'm guessing Norwood Park and Portage Park are not meant to be adjacent.

i guess we will leave as is for test play for now and see what our thoughts are while testing. i will get around to do the adjacents soon for testing. yeah norwood park and portage park aren't meant to be adjacent. i should tweak that a bit with line drawing. that's another interesting bit of geography like the Hopi reservation within Navajo nation. in that space, there are two villages (Harwood Heights and Norridge )that are completely landlocked and surrounded by the City of Chicago, together form an enclave within the city of Chicago

ok. this is the latest image with it's little updates. addressing 4 corner issue. there will likely be some more pixel edits here and there when i get around to it. as for the bonuses, they seem fine to me by looking at it, as i compare it to other maps and the formula, but we can probably get a better idea if we need to drop them down due to how the capitals are selected for capitals play and some beta games. that might make the difference. it will be playable soon as the hard part of adjacents have now hopefully been input correctly. i didn't realize how big the map actually is until i started adding it into the systel. visually it looks small to me, but yeah 60 territories is a biggish map. EDIT - It's live. **I have chosen capitals, it took me a while, and as i thought i got them all good I had forgotten to lock certain counts in the system arghh. so then i jotted some counts down quickly as i was getting tired, so there will be some thoughts on better capitals placements. [spoiler=current input version][img]https://dominating12.com/assets/img/maps/114.large.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

Nice job Hood! :thumbs: I think at some point we should establish that [u]corners do not connect[/u], because for two territories to border they need to share a border: just one point is not a border, at least this is my idea, but okay, as you made it it's fully clear.

Everything looks fine! The only thing not really convincing for me is the [u]city center [/u]region being [u]so gray[/u]. There's almost no contrast with Lake Michigan and the canal. I don't know what color to suggest, maybe something yellowish or a sort of dark red. As it is now that region looks uncolored, it's almost equal to the water body background.

P.S. I forgot one thing: that large letter N of the compass perhaps could have a bit more of style..

ok. i changed the city center colour. yep, agree, and not sure how i didn't notice that. also, i only made a subtle change to the N - just matched the font of the title.

Great, thanks Hood! :thumbs: