Re: [Rails-devel] Rails-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 4

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

Another suggestion would be to make the background color of the revenue
circles on the tiles equal to the tile color. The current white bg, together
with the relatively large size of these circles, make them look almost like
cities. For instance, in 1835, yellow Berlin almost looks like having three
cities, rather than two.
 
For contrast, it might then be worth considering to turn the back foreground
color into white on darker backgrounds.
 
Work is needed on the correct relative placement of tile elements (name,
cost, other features), as these currently often overlap.
 
Names often extend to outside the map hex. Perhaps wrapping over two lines
should be considered in some cases, or perhaps the names should only appear
on the tooltip, or should only be shown if the map scale is above a certain
threshold.
 
Erik.


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From: Mark Smith [mailto:mar...@gm...] 
Sent: Wednesday 15 October 2008 00:53
To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Rails-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 4



And yes, my Error messages are not super-descriptive... 

Erik has expressed the preference for the light-green default background on
the playable hexes. And yes, that is very possible, just a minor change to
one line of code specifying the background color. Just have to dig into the
code to find that line. Other improvement suggestions are always welcome.