Whoa, I like this a lot. Is this being implemented here anytime soon?

Don't think so. I have it on my own server.

Ah. It's very well done. I'd love to see it here.

Annoyingly, the order form uses separate graphics that aren't in the vairants folder, and not dependent on variant.

Here's another fun one:
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/390/ancn.png

Ooh, that's pretty neat. I like the army being represented by a guy with a sword and shield. I can't make out the fleet details but it looks to be in a similar vein as the army.

Yeah, the ships are triremes.

A very similar map was suggest a couple of years ago (possibly by Kestas himself), but no change was ever made. Kestas originally chose the colours based on the British version of the game which his father owned (the British version is pretty ugly). The traditional colour for England and its colonies on maps is Pink - which might be a reason that we have kept it that way on our present version.
I don't mind which coloring we use, but a change in unit icons would nice. Not sure about the stars for armies though. The anchors are all right.

I based in the Dip board I have, the old AH one with plastic units, anchors and stars.

And the colors are from that board too, sort of.

Oh: I wasn't suggesting any change, I just thought it looked cool and wanted to share.

It looks good. I like it.

You can change the icons in the orderinterface from a variant too. Many of the variants on my server do this. You can check out the code for new icons in the SailHo variant for example: http://www.vdiplomacy.com/download.php?download=16

Nice stuff manganese (and good tip sleepcap), check out the developer forum if you haven't already (see the help page)

@spyman; that's true, though having a white russia would make country text coloring trickier. Personally I prefer the British version, but I guess it's just taste. When IE9+ is widespread and we move to SVG people will be able to customize icons/colors anyway

Sleepcap, I couldn't find it for ancient, it seemed the code picked icons from the /images instead of /resources in the variant.

For text color I just put black text on country color background.

@managese: You can check how Sail-Ho does this and adjust the code to your own icons... The code is not that hard to understand.

Cool. Will do.

Any of you guys play on Dipbounced? Good interface and the maps are really clear, just not that many players on there now. It colours the units rather than the land.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4497/dipmap.gif

Personally I like the way the map changes color as territories are gained.

^Same here. It makes me look bigger than I actually am sometimes. :D

PJ, Spyman, Acmac. Dipbounced has several map modes, this is the one I prefer:
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9471/dipbounced.gif
And I also prefer that DB has one map for each phase, instead of a flurry of arows from the previous turn.

I don't agree that the interface is good though. But the maps are excellent.

I like the icons.

Yeah, icons with color is definitely preferrable.

Hey manganese? Are you the same name on DB? I also like having the map per phase.

Looks great, manganese! I especially like your color scheme.

Is your personal server public?

The colors are beautiful, but the pieces are too small.

What about going fully retro, where [] was an army and [---------] was a fleet. Easy to see and you wouldn't need a color border around them when off their land.

Yeah, they're to small for the big map. Works fine on the small one.

3 years on from its first drafts, there still isn't an SVG map. If only someone would write one / finish the one I started we could offer all this sort of stuff as a user setting.

Figle. Give me a link and I'll take a look at it.

What is an SVG map?

SVG is a vector-based graphical format.

I think the easiest option is for you to email me, then I'll send you the code/data and a few thoughts. That said, unfortunately quite a lot of it will need to be corrected, since the AJAX system put in place on the site uses a different format from the one that was under discussion when it was written.

OK; I've pmed you