"Bad-Ass" 4 Nation FFA

Hepps

@general_zod 0_1511017716701_Canal example chainlink2.jpg

Something like this?

General_Zod

Yes, that looks cool. You are the man! thank You.

The Malaca Straits canal restriction. Can change the color of the chain to signify, it is permanently closed to all naval and air.

Maybe not change color of the chain itself , but the outline.

Both versions are cool!

Hepps

@general_zod Just a prototype... will work on it more when I have the time. I'll tighten up the graphics a little bit.

This was really just to make your morning.

General_Zod

@hepps

Yes indeed. It put a smile on my face.

The chain gives me inspiration for a motif of a new mapskin.

I will remove the faces from the map skin too, I think.

Hepps

@general_zod 0_1511019244349_Canal example chainlink3.jpg

There it is a little more defined and cleaned up.

I Like the idea of removing the political figures since they really aren't relevant to the FFA. Might also consider replacing the national cap markers with some hypothetical faction names. Would definitely give it more flare as a FFA.

Hepps

Maybe some clever use of the names of all the people that helped develop this.

Zodians
Elkenites

Whimsical and pays tribute to the creators.

General_Zod

@hepps

Actually, regarding Malaca straits, I really need to redraw the borders of sea zones 36 and 37. Or the ideal fix would be to add a couple extra sea zones to create the separation that the Malaca straits provide.

But once I start redrawing sea zones. I will lose the benefit of the familiarity factor which is provided by using an existing popular map. Something I need to consider before I tweak sea zones and or territories to be ideal.

Hepps

@general_zod Well to be honest the map itself is absolutely horrible to begin with. But I do get what you are saying about people being accustom to it.

General_Zod

@hepps

Changing nation names isn't so easy anymore, I have a lot of conditions and triggers referring to them. I shoulda did it before. If I do decide to do it, I kind of like concept that was used in "Mutant Chronicles".

"In the 28th century, four rival corporations are in a constant state of war for control of the Earth."

Something like so, off the top of my head.

Russians could be the "Slavic Energy Consortium"
Japan, could be "Orient Robotics"
Germany, could be "Franks & Sax Group"
New Britain, "Anglo Mining Company"

Working off of this , could add, special technologies that fit their type of businesses.

Hepps

@general_zod Wouldn't really be that hard with Notepad ++ , using the filter and search you could replace everything in minutes.

General_Zod

@hepps

Assuming everything was neatly coded and uniform throughout, perhaps.

Hepps

@general_zod Nope doesn't matter. All the things that need to be uniform... are uniform.... otherwise your map wouldn't work. Neatness is a moot point since you'd just be using the "replace all" function.

General_Zod

@hepps

I give credit in current game notes, and I will add as it continues.

I don't know the people personally that created the map. I just copied their names over from original xml. So I'm not sure getting whimsical is appropriate there.

But I can do that way with help to current mod.

General_Zod

@hepps

The code for diplomacy is certainly uniform, wouldn't even be practical for me to attempt if I couldn't use the replace function. Other areas I have to go back and check what I did.

Since I wasn't aware of many shortcuts in the beginning.

Hepps

@general_zod Yes but what I am saying is there are only maybe 2 terms per nation that have to be replaced across the entire XML.

Anywhere it says British.... or Britain. There shouldn't be any other references other than that.

General_Zod

@hepps
Also, upper case, lower case, singular, plurals, and context in which they were written. Meaning I wrote a lot of conditions and triggers to be viewed in history and appear to read like a informational statement and not some piece of code that will never be seen.

But I know what your saying.