Crazy Europe: House of Habsburg

[Hepps]

Work continues on the leviathan that is the HOH map. I am about 50% there.

Here is a sample of one small section with a before and after....

[Frostion]

The new borders look great. Like a 1000% improvement.

The PU value markers are also very stylish and fitting for the era. I like that they are transparent looking, so that players do not confuse them with the units. It’s more background and secondary info.

I also like the shadow of the Danish soldier, but if one unit has it, all units should have shadows.

One thing I would change would be the unit flags. The look good, but I find them much too large. Maybe you could try to shrink them just a little bit?

A second thing that I would work on would be the city unit picture. It might be a good picture, but such a detailed picture gets blurry and unrecognizable when shirked. Either you could allow it to be a bit larger, or look for another city picture?

Question: What does the green + mean? If it is a symbol for a place where units spawn, then maybe the City should have a symbol that expresses something “better”. Maybe a ++ symbol, or the village could have a silver/cobber + and the city a golden +, or maybe the two factories could have a small green cross and a large green cross?

[Hepps]

@frostion said in Crazy Europe: House of Habsburg:

The new borders look great. Like a 1000% improvement.

The PU value markers are also very stylish and fitting for the era. I like that they are transparent looking, so that players do not confuse them with the units. It’s more background and secondary info.

I also like the shadow of the Danish soldier, but if one unit has it, all units should have shadows.

I had only worked on the Pikeman during my experimentation. I just haven't even started dealing with the units as of yet... just a quick cut and past as an example.

One thing I would change would be the unit flags. The look good, but I find them much too large. Maybe you could try to shrink them just a little bit?

The Flag image is the 'large' version of the flag... there would still be a 'small' version as well. I just used the one I had designed initially.... and of course these would be able to be toggled on and off by the user.

A second thing that I would work on would be the city unit picture. It might be a good picture, but such a detailed picture gets blurry and unrecognizable when shirked. Either you could allow it to be a bit larger, or look for another city picture?

Is a first prototype. Just put it in as it is an improvement (IMHO) over the 270 BC image.

Question: What does the green + mean? If it is a symbol for a place where units spawn, then maybe the City should have a symbol that expresses something “better”. Maybe a ++ symbol, or the village could have a silver/cobber + and the city a golden +, or maybe the two factories could have a small green cross and a large green cross?

Just another prototype. the idea is that since the villages and the cities function in very different ways as it pertains to unit production, those differences should be underscored visually on the map since the current mechanics for the villages can be quite confusing to the player while purchasing units.

In the end I am at the disposal of the Holy Roman Emperor as to what he wants the finished images to include or not include.

[Frostion]

If you need a PUs picture, you can use the new ones from Caribbean Trade War map. Maybe they would fit the style of Crazy Europe also:

[beelee]

@frostion "Crazy Europe" lol
Sorry : )

[Raville]

In the interlude a Thirty years' war was crazy!

[Cernel]

The prevailing currency at the time was the "Florin", under a series of different versions and names, ad imitation of the "Fiorino" of "Florence" (Firenze, Italy), but generally retaining the currency sign "ƒl.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilder

[General_Zod]

@Hepps

Dude, that map is looking awesome, your the man.

Wondering at what zoom settings are your new map images set at 75% zoom, 125% units?

[Hepps]

@general_zod Well new look is everything at 100%. Because it is just a drawing. I just cropped a small portion of the map and them inserted the rest of the images to make it look like a screen shot of the game.

So once everything is put into the appropriate game folders there would be lots of room to play around with the settings.

[CrazyG]

I'm pushing a massive update today. Changelog

Updated a ton of images, credit to Hepps (base tiles still in progress)
Changed to 12 sided dice and updated unit stats accordingly
Castles now take two turns to build
Spain and France both start with a half castle
Removed a few Habsburg units
Added more Ottoman cities and navies
Added a couple Russian units
Denmark now starts with Holstein
Added clarifications and corrections to game notes

[General_Zod]

@crazyg I thought Russia was holding it's own in our game. Sweden was buff only because Denmark got diced on key battles.

I was playing Poland-Lithunia +Sweden, so my perspective on that area was decent.

But lets try it.

Other changes sound cool, I can't wait for the new hepps map to be completed. I was jonesing for multi today. But slave driver president made me work, lol.

[CrazyG]

Its officially updated and can be downloaded. It will register as a new map as soon as a git admin approves me.

I have not updated any of the names because I wanted to get this up in time for the Sunday multiplayer. I do appreciate everyone who volunteered help for this, I certainly will implement that later.

[redrum]

@crazyg Merged should be able to update from in game. If you either @ me here or it the github PR then I can make sure to take a look next time

[CrazyG]

Hepps pointed out an issue with the convoy icon, it should be fixed

[CrazyG]

@crazyg
It is not fixed. I do not understand what the issue is. Where are convoy files supposed to be stored? This isn't documented in the PoS file (that I can find)

My local version works, but the downloaded version fails. Everything is identical as far as I can tell

[Hepps]

@crazyg Look at the POS folders.

[CrazyG]

@hepps
I copied the PoS folder style, and its working on this computer.

However, when I download it on my other computer, its not working. Anyways I ran an update that has convoy flags turned off, I downloaded it and it appears to work.

[redrum]

@crazyg Not following what the issue is. Are you not seeing convoy zone images or something?

[General_Zod]

@CrazyG @Hepps

I think the territory values is symbol is fancy and all if zoomed way in but its very intrusive. It should not overlap unit like that. Can we use something more basic functional style for next update.

This version isn't working for me at my zoom preferences, 50%zoom, 87%units. Villages, castles got huge too, can no longer see the qty values well enough to play. Bigger units is not better imo. They only clutter the map more. I really preferred previous unit proportions.

[redrum]

@crazyg The problem isn't the location but the name. You need to use "_convoy" (all lower case) not "_Convoy". It probably works when you have it non-zipped because you are using a non-case sensitive OS.