Middle Earth: Battle For Arda - Official Thread
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@hepps We know that the banner of Harad contained serpents. And the flag of Dol Amroth contained swans. Too bad they aren't a player... Beyond that, I know of no flag referenced in canon. But there are iconic things for several players that could be symbolized: Rhun - wainriders; Orcs - the balrog, fire and shadow; Lorien - golden trees; Free Folk - well, pipe weed I guess
"For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air."
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@alkexr Left the Long Leaf reign over them all!
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@alkexr Here is the progress...
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Almost done...
When I designed the Rhun symbol I kinda steered away from the original bright pink (No nation should ever be bright pink in my view unless you are designing a "Hello Kitty" game)
He is a quick mock up of the before and after if you were to tone down the Rhun colour.
Before...
After...
The only other thing I would suggest... is switching the purples between Isengard and Dol Guldur. There is far more opportunity for Dol Guldor and Moria to interact and have units sharing the same territories. It might be nice for their units to have more colour differentiation than the current setup. At the same time making Isengard the darker shade posses no issues to the game since all of the surrounding colours are significantly different.
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@hepps I said I'd been tweaking colors. Pink is probably the last color I consider, but there are too many players to be choosy. Okay, maybe pink is still better than the now obsolete blinding Dale-yellow. Currently Rhun looks like...
As for Saruman and Dol Guldur, I would be much more afraid of the Saruman-purple and the Rhun-pink next to each other than Saruman-purple and Orc-red. To me those two colors appear perfectly and easily distinguishable. But then I will pull them apart a little bit.
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@alkexr All good. At the end of the day I am just making suggestions and offering options. Once the game is in the repository... who knows what my version will end up looking like.
Here is a before and after mock up of the entire screen.
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Oh and all the Flags are done now.
"A joyous heart sours with the burden of expectation"
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@hepps Is that reference to the Two Trees intentional? I like it.
And the reference to the seven clans, with the brightest being the Longbeards? Nice and deep symbolism.Will you send the (small and medium) flags over as separate images along with the map fixes whenever you are finished with them?
"For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air."
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@alkexr Just finished the flag folder now.
Where do you stand on a Legend for the bottom left corner of the map?
"A joyous heart sours with the burden of expectation"
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@alkexr said in Large Middle Earth - official thread:
@hepps Is that reference to the Two Trees intentional? I like it.
And the reference to the seven clans, with the brightest being the Longbeards? Nice and deep symbolism.Everything I do is deeply rooted in symbolism... making it much more enjoyable when people notice.
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@hepps Flags look really cool. Only thing that jumps out is that Angmar and Orcs are a bit similar in color/style.
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@hepps Don't hold yourself back with the Legend until you run out of space. But don't spend too much time designing a unit ability list or something, at least not until units are finalized. Which will be soon.
"For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air."
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@redrum Yup my feelings aswell, but its good enough for the cowboys I date.
Working on changing the Orc on a little from a colour standpoint since I really like the Angmar flag.
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@alkexr Was just going to a Title and credits like the one I posted previously.
then later you can let me know what other game details you want included and we can redesign it at that point.
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What about these options...
or...
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@hepps I'd vote for option #1.
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Download version 1.3.1
which is a somewhat hacky version that features the new relief tiles by @Hepps alongside with the old ugly hobbits. Contains the minimum amount of gameplay changes that was conveniently achievable. Should be playable, but very likely unbalanced. No effort will be put into polishing this version (except bugfixes maybe). -
@alkexr Nope....
Get an error.
No data of type centers for territory: West Grey Mountains
No data of type centers for territory: Glittering Caves
No data of type centers for territory: Harrowdale
No data of type centers for territory: Folde
No data of type centers for territory: Fenmark -
@alkexr Looks like all the territories you added are missing from the map you uploaded.
Failed to start game
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No data of type centers for territory: Tolfalas
No data of type centers for territory: West Osgiliath
No data of type centers for territory: East Osgiliath
No data of type centers for territory: sz Bay of Tolfalas
No data of type centers for territory: Halifirien
No data of type centers for territory: Amon Din
No data of type centers for territory: Firienholt
No data of type centers for territory: The Undeeps
No data of type centers for territory: South Misty Mountains
No data of type centers for territory: Eagles Eyrie
No data of type centers for territory: Lands of the Lossoth
No data of type centers for territory: Northern Waste
No data of type centers for territory: South Forodwaith
No data of type centers for territory: Halls of Gror
No data of type centers for territory: North Dale
No data of type centers for territory: East Dale
No data of type centers for territory: West Dale
No data of type centers for territory: River Running Bank
No data of type centers for territory: Carnen West Bank
No data of type centers for territory: Northeast Rhun
No data of type centers for territory: Carnen East Bank
No data of type centers for territory: Celduin North Bank
No data of type centers for territory: North Rhovanion
No data of type centers for territory: River Running South Bank
No data of type centers for territory: Realm of Vidugavia
No data of type centers for territory: West Wilderland
No data of type centers for territory: Kingdom of Rhovanion
No data of type centers for territory: South Rhovanion
No data of type centers for territory: Celduin South Bank
No data of type centers for territory: West Rhun
No data of type centers for territory: South Wilderland
No data of type centers for territory: Sea of Rhun Coast
No data of type centers for territory: Southeast Rhun
No data of type centers for territory: Grey Mountains
No data of type centers for territory: West Grey Mountains
No data of type centers for territory: Glittering Caves
No data of type centers for territory: Harrowdale
No data of type centers for territory: Folde
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@hepps Err... 1. It works for me 2. The map does contain the centers for these territories.
I think you will need to remove the old version and unzip the new one. TA must be trying to load the map from the old folder.
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