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

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

As for the Revenue Circles background the same as the tile background, I was
attempting to mimic the way the tiles are drawn on the actual board, which
is white circles. 

Some games do it this way, yes, but others don't (for instance 1830 and
1835).

I will agree that they do appear too large on the default scale of 8 (or
smaller). But I don't think making them the exact tile background color
would work either. I feel the revenue value would be lost.  Maybe some other
neutral color... say maybe a pale blue background might be better. 

Ouch...

I am not sure what you mean by the "for contrast... " statement. 

The idea was to draw a white circle and number on dark tiles (keeping the
background as is). Just an idea. Keeping the tile colours on the light side
is probably better.

As for the over-laps, yes, the City Name overlaps have bothered me. A the
idea of simply having the names on the tool tip would be fine. For the costs
for Terrain features, one update I had not gotten to yet was the currency
symbol.  But yes, the overlaps even without the City Names do happen at a
few points, and to fix those, requires tweaking the placements a bit this
way or that way, which ends up being more a tedious data change, rather than
the fun coding bit... :--)

As for wrapping a name, Yes, it could be done, but may not be worth the
effort. The code is designed to draw the map hex, by hex. And draw the names
as the hex is drawn, rather than after all the hexes are drawn to go back
and plot the names down. But maybe do a combination of the Tool Tip for
Scale < X, and drawn when Scale is >= X is feasible. I shall look at that
option. But do note, when the Scale is increased, the Font Size is current
not increased to match. I was figuring that when I got to that bit, I would
actually look at each scale level, and determine by eye which font size was
best.




On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:


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.