Star Cluster Map

[The_Great_Lestrade]

This map has been heavily influenced by Bartmoss's black and white space maps, but its also black and white because it will probably be printed and used in an RPG game, possibly Traveller. It also has a sort of Homeworlds look. I'm not a massive fan of the traveller hex maps, although they do have that retro look. Point to point makes more sense in space to me. One of the basic concepts in the game is that a normal hyperdrive has a range limit of 5ly and you have to use a fancy mass driver thing that shoots your ship across space to go further. From a game perspective this is really there to balkanise space and create a smaller area to lock players into.

The map is quite simple to make. Its just a good starfield image grey scaled with some Gimp drawn lines and text over the top of it. Some of the distance text is a bit big to fit in the gaps between star circles but other than that Im fairly pleased with it. Any improvement suggestions would be welcomed.

[chris.raposo]

I'd probably make the background star field more faded (probably less than 50% visibility) and have the only stars darker being the system star. This is because right now the text and the the stars make it a little harder to read (at least it looks that way on my monitor).

I would probably make the font on the distance a little smaller and add a darker grey bar making a reverse L, where the vertical line contains that side text so its easier to read, and the horizontal line underlining the "Clusters Seminary and Ibis".

[The_Great_Lestrade]

I'd probably make the background star field more faded (probably less than 50% visibility) and have the only stars darker being the system star. This is because right now the text and the the stars make it a little harder to read (at least it looks that way on my monitor).

I would probably make the font on the distance a little smaller and add a darker grey bar making a reverse L, where the vertical line contains that side text so its easier to read, and the horizontal line underlining the "Clusters Seminary and Ibis".

thanks Chris

This is the kind of feedback i need. I'll give these a try.