I've just finished developing my first map. It's a very big diplomacy style map, and I'm looking for 12-13 people who might be interested in testing it. The testing game will not be Diplo in itself, but keep in mind it was built around Role playing functions. It's quite a large, complicated map, but well worth the fun. Anybody who's interested let me know and I'll send you an invite. Keep in mind it's early development.

I'm looking currently for
-Errors in territory connections
-Confusing bonus's or features
-Balance
-Spelling Mistakes
-Ease of use and Aesthetics
-Pretty much anything else.


UPDATED MAP.
https://www.warlight.net/SinglePlayer?PreviewMap=44894

Edited 10/17/2015 19:06:44

I'm always up for testing. Count me in.

i'll test it.

i have questions though.

what's up with all the bonuses in Unity?

is this based off a book/Movie?

is there supposed to be a certain way this is played?

I like the shapes in the cities. it makes all the cities different in a nice way.

Edited 10/16/2015 23:10:43

Yeah, it's quite experimental in many ways.

The many bonuses for the unity section are meant to create a council similar to what's found in Dameon's Westeros Diplomacy. Controlling one seat on the council will give you 6 units, but taking any more seats that that will give no additional units. The King's seat is worth twice as much. For instance, controlling just the king will give the player 12 units, but controlling the entire Council will still only be worth 12.

Nope, not based off book or movie. A few inspirations for territory names come from Mervyn Peake and such, but mostly its based off a world I created with some friends.

It's meant to be played as a diplomacy map. I suppose you could use it otherwise, but you might want to disable some bonuses. Holding the powerful cities is important.

Thanks!

I would like to help test, It looks like a very interesting idea for a diplomacy map!

Nice map! Beautiful.

(Not so sure about the rectangular ocean territories, though.)

In.

I'll test, it looks really good.

However, with the text it seems you have drawn it yourself. It would look nicer if you selected a font the matches your world then add it through the text tool. You can make text appear in WarLight by selecting it after you type it, then go to Path - Object -> Path. Unless you've done this, in which case what kind of font is that?

That's all. Good map :)

Connections in the city of "Equality" (north part) need fixing I think. -- FIXED
N Ardean Coastwaters connects to Isleway and it shouldn't.
N. Aristan Open Sea doesn't connect to Eliza's Scorn and it should.
Slander Mouth & Morzathal Coastwaters don't connect, but should.
Thripden & Port May doesn't connect to Whaler's Bay, but it should.
Watching Bay and East Verinik don't connect, but should.
Mandiarl and Thriz Rainwash don't connect, but should.
City of Canais and City of Felais connect, but shouldn't.
In Fort Mary the Rustpierce Wall doesn't connect to the outside, but the Hardshot Wall does.
Shineport & Dustflower Sea don't connect but should.
Frakjil Route & N Aristan Open Sea don't connect but should.

Is there any reason that some gates connect to the walls (through towers) while other gates don't?

I personally don't like the fact that walls are all one territory, but it's consistently true in the map, so I assume it was intentional.

Edited 10/17/2015 18:13:25

looks nice so i'll test it

I shall test it

A bit complex.

I usually find having a blown-up section of the map annoying, but this seems nice. I'd recommend making the large cities on the main map have a unique shape. That way, people can understand what cities are big. I like it

invite me

OK, great, thanks everybody who's up for testing! Tchaikovsky / M. Poireau / Masterpierround, not sure if you'd like to test or just giving suggestions. Either way it's appreciated, thanks. I'll send you invites in case you would like to test.

Diplomatic Immunity> Yes, the font does look a little crude. The reason is actually that I ran out of SVG space. :p I had to cut down on nodes as much as I could in Inkscape, and currently it's barely within the limit. I could rework the font possibly though...

E Masterpierround> Nice catch! Should be fixed.

Tchaikovsky Reborn> Hm... That would be interesting, might look nice. I'll play around with it in the SVG and see how it looks.

+1 Tchaikovsky.

The problem is that your cities are all hexagons, but there are 2 types of cities, and it would be better if they were visually different from each other.

E Masterpierround> Great, thanks for finding all these. All the big cities are octagons, but I could make them more unique possibly. The gates/walls are confusing, but any all of the gates should connect to walls they are adjacent to, with the exception being Antioch. Otherwise it's an error on my part.
Thanks for being so active in spotting errors!

-Oh, and in Port Edward, that gate isn't meant to connect to the towers.

Edited 10/17/2015 18:11:06

What about Norpine, then? Are the gates to the castle intended to be the way they are?

Also, +1 for Norwa, Sweda, and Finla. Clearly 100% original names.

Map is a bit confusing at first sight, but looks amazing! Really want to check it out.

Norpine> Ah no. Those are wonky. I'll fix that... was thinking of a different concept when I connected those walls. The reason most of the walls are 1-territory is because they're easier to defend that way, and it frees up space from additional defense penalty bonuses.

And yeah. Original. Huehuehue...

Edited 10/18/2015 01:14:40

Why are there so many odd bonuses in Unity? Surely those can't all be to make it so you can't get more than one council seat?