Unofficial expansions maps (Lukomoyre etc.)

[Randor244]

Hi!

I've completed The Quest and the Official Expansion.
When I looked at the World map (Freymore) everything looked great.

However, in the Lukomoyre and Mithril horde expansions, I see a great downfall in quality. The world maps look like they are all made out of squares compared the the beautiful ones of The Quest and the Expansion Pack.
Well, i know they are actually made out of squares but at least The Quest and the Official Expansion didn't showed it in this way.

Come on Cat, can't you do better than that? I think the Lukomorye exp. is great, all but the map which really make the expansion look badly done.

This is the same in other unofficial expansions.

Here is some pictures to show what I mean:

Look at the beautiful Freymore map here:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh59/Randor244/freymore.jpg

Compared to the Lukomorye map:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh59/Randor244/lukomorye.jpg

Do you understand what I mean? It really lowers the quality.

[sirian]

Well, you can't have 'em all. :p

I've yet to play an unofficial expansion (I thought HoL series was official :confused: ) so I haven't come across "this" yet.

But anyway, I don't play Quest for the graphics or the eye candy. (But for a Palm OS game, it is hands down the best in terms of this category).

The Quest combines RPG and puzzle genre very well, which is what I'm playing it for.

[Randor244]

Yes of course, I don't play the Quest for the Eye Candy either (although, as you said, it looks very good), I just find the ugly map make the expansions feel unproffessional and I am surprised Zarista Games didn't make so much effort on this...

[sirian]

Yes of course, I don't play the Quest for the Eye Candy either (although, as you said, it looks very good), I just find the ugly map make the expansions feel unproffessional and I am surprised Zarista Games didn't make so much effort on this...

There is more to effort than making an aesthetically pleasing map.

[rebdaniel]

Probably he meant "u.g.l.y", as in Utterly Great Lukomore, Yo!

But seriously Rand -- If you don't like the extensions out there now, get the editor from redshift, come up with an expansion, and let your own maps speak for themselves. Much more effective.

[Randor244]

Ok, time for me to straighten things up, I think.

After playing Lukomorye some more, I decided to change my opinion.The map actually isn't so bad as I thought. After realizing how much work is needed I instead admire your (read: Zarista Games) skills.

Actually I did requested the editor just a day ago, under the name Ivar Hill.Will be fun to see actually how hard it is.

And I just started playing Mithril horde (but will continue, I love that expansion!).

/Randor244 (Ivar Hill)

[Randor244]

By the way, I still havn't got the editor. I got a reply to my email which said they would send it to you. When will you have time to give me it?

One more thing, I don't think you need to change the world in the game to get a better map. I think you only need to modify the picture in Photoshup or something like that.

[Randor244]

Look like the editor still don't come, I've just PM'ed you.