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New railroad graphics (and the area around Moscow is a little different from vanilla). Yay or nay?
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Don't like your fortifications. Other than that, looks good.
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Ok, fortifications. Any suggestions? Examples from other games that you think got it right? Lemme know, and I will see what I can do.
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PanzerMike wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 5:18 pm Ok, fortifications. Any suggestions? Examples from other games that you think got it right? Lemme know, and I will see what I can do.
Quite like the way they are in TOAW4. Here is an exemple:
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I'd love to hire that artist
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PanzerMike, which app are you using to draw?

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That would be Gimp
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Cyprus corrected. Famagusta was on the East side of the island.
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I like your work very much. This mod is lovely.

I have two comments:
1. Would it be possible to add the motorized dots for the units on which this is applying?

In your mod, I can't see them.
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2. Could you do the same thing to counterset number 2? I mean, I like your new counters. I am just missing the whiter part at the bottom of each counter like here:
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PanzerMike wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 1:11 pm New railroad graphics (and the area around Moscow is a little different from vanilla). Yay or nay?
And your new railroad graphics is just wonderful. When do you release it?
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Last thing, only for cities with production equal or greater than 10, would it be possible to add an urban shape behind the circle indicating the production points? I like the circle in the center of the hex like what you did. It is just the urban shape a little darker like in the vanilla version that I find interesting to keep indicating a big urban area.
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PanzerMike wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 5:18 pm Ok, fortifications. Any suggestions? Examples from other games that you think got it right? Lemme know, and I will see what I can do.
Why don't you reuse the minefield icon to add a bunker inside the blue circle? Perhaps not a blue circle anymore but a brown one. And perhaps a bigger circle can do the trick.

Quick example:
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Also, what I don't like in the vanilla version is the port without cities and the railroad going nowhere. By default, could you add a small circle to indicate a city anyway?
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I would propose something like this. A circle with a white color inside to distinguish it from the others and maybe a smaller circle than the one in Brest city for example.
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Let me see what i can do :mrgreen:
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ncc1701e wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:53 am Last thing, only for cities with production equal or greater than 10, would it be possible to add an urban shape behind the circle indicating the production points? I like the circle in the center of the hex like what you did. It is just the urban shape a little darker like in the vanilla version that I find interesting to keep indicating a big urban area.
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What I have done is horrible but this is the kind of thing I was trying to explain. A city view from space even if at this scale, this is maybe not a good idea. Not something big like the vanilla of course.

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PanzerMike wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 5:11 pm Let me see what i can do :mrgreen:
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I had already made something like that :mrgreen:

My graphics are always in flux, I tinker with it all the time.
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The light band for the alternate counterset? Your wish is my command :mrgreen:
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