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Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 10:12 am
by tobieee911
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I wanna play if you will have me

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 11:43 am
by teccles
tobieee911 wrote:
Sat Aug 15, 2020 10:12 am
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I wanna play if you will have me
Yep, glad to have you :-)

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:06 pm
by TestSubjector
Not a Forum user, but would love to join in for gunboats.

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Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:54 pm
by Peregrine Falcon
Are we doing anything special to facilitate learning? (ie. EoGs, etc?)

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:00 pm
by AleaIactaEst
Count me in!

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Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:42 pm
by teccles
Peregrine Falcon wrote:
Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:54 pm
Are we doing anything special to facilitate learning? (ie. EoGs, etc?)
I assumed that this was just a nice topic title... but I'm very happy to take some note to write a decent EoG, and would be glad if others did the same.

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:14 pm
by jasnah
I AAR just about everything - no problem at all :)

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:39 pm
by Durga
teccles wrote:
Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:42 pm
Peregrine Falcon wrote:
Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:54 pm
Are we doing anything special to facilitate learning? (ie. EoGs, etc?)
I assumed that this was just a nice topic title... but I'm very happy to take some note to write a decent EoG, and would be glad if others did the same.
Ah damn I don't think I can do 4 games right now :(

Also, I will not be writing anything due to a combination of being busy and being lazy but others are free to do as they wish.

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 3:05 pm
by Durga
New England Fire Squad wrote:
Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:42 am
jasnah wrote:
Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:29 am
Ooh, can I play as the last? I am not amazing at GB but I have been speedboating nearly daily (Claesar and NEFS can testify) and know the basics :)

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I testify in support of jas
You don't need to! I have a feeling I'd love to play with them ;)

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 4:59 pm
by Durga
Oh, I will make the games on Monday and send out the links :)

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 1:20 am
by TheFlyingBoat
AleaIactaEst wrote:
Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:00 pm
Count me in!

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2. Claesar
3. jasnah
4. Tobieee911
5. TestSubjector
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count me in as well. I can't even count how many games I'll be playing at once. I'm excited.

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:16 am
by Peregrine Falcon
By Jove, aren't you in the 7 gunboats flight as well?? I have no idea how one can handle so many games... I can barely handle one!

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:51 am
by TheFlyingBoat
Peregrine Falcon wrote:
Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:16 am
By Jove, aren't you in the 7 gunboats flight as well?? I have no idea how one can handle so many games... I can barely handle one!
Indeed in Top 100 GR series flight A along with this haha.

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:24 pm
by Durga
Link to the first two games sent! God this map hurts my eyes but yolo. Let me know if you didn't get an invite for some reason.

I assume someone else will take the lead on the other two games? If they haven't already started

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:48 pm
by Peregrine Falcon
Where've you been playing that makes you unused to the webDip map? And for curiosity's sake, what do you think should be improved?

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:54 pm
by tobieee911
Teccles's games are already at Autumn 1901 ;)

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:55 pm
by captainmeme
Peregrine Falcon wrote:
Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:48 pm
Where've you been playing that makes you unused to the webDip map? And for curiosity's sake, what do you think should be improved?
Probably Backstabbr

-map needs to be bigger, as does almost everything on the site, half the screen is out of use on a modern monitor :D
-units should pop out more and should be coloured according to owner (you get used to knowing that if it hasn't got a box then it belongs to the province owner, but that's really unintuitive)
-order arrows should be thicker and stand out more, should have borders so they don't clash so much with the map, and support orders should be drawn in a way that better shows which way they're supporting a unit

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:03 pm
by Durga
captainmeme wrote:
Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:55 pm
Peregrine Falcon wrote:
Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:48 pm
Where've you been playing that makes you unused to the webDip map? And for curiosity's sake, what do you think should be improved?
Probably Backstabbr

-map needs to be bigger, as does almost everything on the site, half the screen is out of use on a modern monitor :D
-units should pop out more and should be coloured according to owner (you get used to knowing that if it hasn't got a box then it belongs to the province owner, but that's really unintuitive)
-order arrows should be thicker and stand out more, should have borders so they don't clash so much with the map, and support orders should be drawn in a way that better shows which way they're supporting a unit
Yeah, once you get used to the backstabbr map it's hard to go back to webdip. It's so much prettier.

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:15 pm
by Peregrine Falcon
Yeah, backstabbr's definitely more aesthetic. Especially now that I've learned you can also make it colour provinces, I like it much more than I had in the past.

There's a couple thing I prefer about webDip when compared to backstabbr, though. (Partly because I've played almost exclusively here for seven years.) Mainly, with the colours, it's much easier to distinguish support holds from moves on webDip. Same goes for convoys. Backstabbr doesn't even try to show on the map what the fleet's actually doing. I find it makes it a bit easier to see what's going on when just glancing over the webDip board.

Somewhat unrelated, I've also been wondering about the feasibility of switching webDip's map drawing over to being vector-based? I know almost nothing about our map-drawing code, however.

Re: Help me get better at gunboat

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:30 pm
by Durga
Now that I'm not playing mafia I'll play another one, any takers?

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