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Subject:< Seismic >
Topic:< Variants >
Category:General >
Author:AceRimmer
Posted:Oct 21, 2010 at 11:48 am
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When I ran a game of Seismic (DC 211), I used a professional cartography / mapping program called ArcMap. It's a side benefit of being a map-maker by career.

Like Mike, I had to do adjudications by hand. It's more work, but there is something to be said of the old-school handicraft!

So... in conclusion: try out Mike's suggestion. He knows whereof he speaks. But, the bottom line is that, since you'll be doing adjudications by hand, your main challenges are going to be: (1) the ability to change your map image (.bmp, .gif, .jpg, whatever); and (2) the ability to move the units independently of the map.

Once you get the technical stuff out of the way, you may want to consider rules. I re-wrote (and need to improve) rules for the formation/deletion of canals/straits. That way, you can run canals through Rome or StP if the right conditions arise.

Adam

This message is in reply to post 18210:

I would recommend Cyberboard (available in downloads). It will allow you to routinely apply a new map over the game board. I've run Seismic twice... it's not easy. The basic process is...

* Move the units (in CBPlay)

* Edit your base map (in something like Paint Shop)

* Apply the new map to the gamebox (in CBDesign)

* Go badk to CBPlay and export the map with units

Note it won't DO the adjudication for you, as Cyberboard is basically a collection of units sitting on a map that you can freely move anywhere. There are no logical provinces like in Realpolitik.

If you understand layers, you could do a similar thing w/o using an adjudicator program at all, just say, Paint Shop. Put the units on one layer and move them around, keep the map on the base layer so you can edit it as needed for Seismic activity. The benefit of Cyberboard is it keeps the units as objects so they're easy to move, add, delete, etc.

-mike

Does anyone know of a program for adjudication of the Seismic variant?

There are 5 Messages in this Thread:


Seismic (zyxw59) Oct 20, 10:00 am

Seismic (FuzzyLogic) Oct 20, 10:37 am

Seismic (AceRimmer) Oct 21, 11:48 am

Seismic (FuzzyLogic) Oct 21, 12:03 pm

Seismic (AceRimmer) Oct 28, 11:02 am

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