Here is what the battlemap map skin is:
It looks like battlemap, but it plays like triplea. That means that the “images” are changed. The images for the units are changed. The images for the map and territories are changed. Everything like that is changed.
I am also keeping the “chart” stuff, but moving it to the bottom of the screen to be more out of the way. The chart stuff will include all the 2nd edition NOs and also some details on the rules and on the units, etc.
However, the interactivity of those charts will disappear for the most part, because TripleA’s charts are on the right side of the screen. If you want to see the current income for a player, you go to the stats tab on the right, etc. So this means all that extra non-map stuff is going to be more of a static display of the rules and helpful information, rather than whatever battlemap currently does.
The main of this is to have the battlemap units and battlemap map, with the ability to see most of the entire board without zooming out (you can still zoom out on it even more, though, which is cool). That is the main complaint I hear on the forum (that the current global map is too zoomed in, and that the units on it are distractingly nice looking).
I am also thinking of ways to add more information on national objectives, etc, but it will never appear “on” the map, and would instead appear in a new tab of some kind. You can send me a pm or make a post telling me what additional information you want to appear, and i’ll let you know what is and what is not possible.
thx,
veq