Scott-Land wrote:I think I've hit all your points and mostly the others as well. I haven't updated the large one and don't plan on it until I can get affirmation on the small one. I've done it several times in the past only to have it scratched along with my time that I put into updating it. I did however fix the small dimensions to 630x600.
The jury's still out on the one liner describing the terr rail bonus-- once I hear back I'll update it as well.
Now I am getting a little confused about the legend. I'm okay with the Loop station, which I grant is a special case worthy of explanation with regards to its shared position in the bonus. But you seem to have two other kinds of stations:
rail stations, with plain white squares, and
territory rail stations, with coloured squares with a white edge and a white inscribed circle. Looking again, I think I see the distinction now. A
rail station should be considered elevated and has troops separate from the ground level territory beneath it, which it can attack as well as the stations adjacent to it, while a
territory rail station is at ground level, is in a sense combined with the ground level troops that the territory might have had, and can attack the station(s) adjacent to it and the territories adjacent to it as well.
So maybe the solution to the legend conundrum is this: call them
elevated rail stations (whose plain white square I will show here with ☐) and
ground-level rail stations (whose square-circle I will show here with ⚪), and write the legend as follows:
☐⚪ Any rail station can attack any adjacent rail station.
☐ An elevated rail station can attack the territory beneath it.
⚪ A ground-level rail station can attack any adjacent territory.Now the only problem I see is that, of all the elevated rail stations, not one happens to have its troop number north of ("above") the troop number of the territory beneath it. So instead of searching south ("below"), we find that for two stations, we have to go west, for one we go north and another we go northwest. I don't see a graphical solution to this, so I suggest that an alternative wording in the legend might be:
☐ An elevated rail station can attack the territory on which it sits.or if you need to shorten it,
☐ An elevated rail station can attack the territory it sits on.It is hard to say whether an elevated station
sits on a territory or
stands on it, so there is still some room for debate, but
sits is shorter, and legends are often pressed for space. Further shortening could be achieved by using the word
region for
territory, like the Instructions do, or even
ward, which I think is the term used for the areas with the city. (Yes, these regions may not be a match to the wards, but it is a compact term. I tried to check the ward map at cityofchicago.org, but the site is a little flaky right now.)
EDIT: Finally got to the Aldermanic map of Chicago. Many more wards than regions on this map, so Chicagoans would likely object to using the term here. Take a look at the map for a laugh, though:
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_EDITORIAL/2008%20Ward_w%20Alderman%20List.pdf and check out ward 1 -- can you say jerrymander?
maybe just make them not as BAM.. a little clear, but not as clear as before? something in between..
Stamp very soon 
