Hi, everyone! I'm sure all of you are following the new Tribe info dumps closely, and some of you may have noticed that I've been working on creating graphics to help visualize the friendships and rivalries that exist between the twelve Tribes. I've been posting them in the past few Tribe threads, but I decided that it's worth having a dedicated thread to discuss how the tribes view each other, since it will presumably play a considerable role in in-game diplomacy.
(EDIT: Updated to v4)
So what do you guys think about how the politics of Elyria are shaping up? I'm interested to hear what you all think! :D
Amazing work, thank you so much. I can see this becoming an absolutely essential, go-to graphic :)
All of your observations seem to be spot on. Have you considered adding some sort of overlay or additional indicator for religion? The relationships between tribes of the same religion so far seem to be quite interesting!
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Posted By Caelestius at 04:53 AM - Mon Jun 19 2017
Have you considered adding some sort of overlay or additional indicator for religion? The relationships between tribes of the same religion so far seem to be quite interesting!
I've actually wanted to do that since the beginning, but I haven't quite come up with a good way to represent it. I thought about adding little icons next to each circle, but I don't really know what imagery would be recognizable, especially at such a tiny scale. Color-coding isn't really a great option since I'm already using color-coding for the climate regions... I'll give it some more thought and see what I come up with.
Posted By Imshada at 11:34 AM - Mon Jun 19 2017
Posted By Caelestius at 04:53 AM - Mon Jun 19 2017
Have you considered adding some sort of overlay or additional indicator for religion? The relationships between tribes of the same religion so far seem to be quite interesting!
I've actually wanted to do that since the beginning, but I haven't quite come up with a good way to represent it. I thought about adding little icons next to each circle, but I don't really know what imagery would be recognizable, especially at such a tiny scale. Color-coding isn't really a great option since I'm already using color-coding for the climate regions... I'll give it some more thought and see what I come up with.
I don't think colour-coding is such a bad idea! How about a border around the edge of each icon, colour coded per religion? That would make it very easy to see to which religion each tribe belongs, while not being obstructive or distracting.
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Looks great Imshada. For the religion, a couple ideas would be to use a border, or to layer a recognizable shape behind, leaving space if you wanted to add text. Assume neither would be distracting.
I decided to go with tiny symbols next to the Tribes' names, hopefully they're intuitive and not too hard to see at that size.
Posted By Imshada at 6/19/2017 11:43:13 AM
I decided to go with tiny symbols next to the Tribes' names, hopefully they're intuitive and not too hard to see at that size.
Very intuitive, not too hard to see, and unobtrusive. Great addition.
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This really helps me understand the intertribal relationships way better than reading every one of those lengthy write-ups.
Is it possible to put legend in a corner for the religion icon?
Great work though.
Really looking forward to the complete picture beside a map to see what is only theory and long term to what is possible border tensions at least between NPCs
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Excellent work, I look forward to improved versions. I suspect in the long run that a circular format isn't going to be ideal though as the known contacts between tribes are very geography limited. The full set of relationships will be needed before this can be figured out.
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