A Fresh League With Some Unusual Nicks

[enuttage]

Need some help on these, if anyone is willing, able, and feeling kind and creative. One day, I might be able to duplicate the output of some of you talented folks here, but it doesn't appear to be 'in the blood'. My sister, ironically, is a successful, well-paid graphic artist.

Anyway...

These are from my World Baseball Alliance league, which I hope to release as a quick start at some point in the near future.

I've used the 36 (I already have logos for Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Toronto) most-populated countries in the world, and then taken the most populous city from each country to represent in the highest league level.

Each team has a nick based on some part of the cities history.

They are, in alphabetical order...

Addis Ababa Lions (DONE - justafan)
Algiers Corsairs (DONE - justafan)
Bangkok Kings (DONE - justafan)
Bogotá Scholars (DONE - justafan)
Cairo Eagles (DONE - justafan)
Cape Town Seven Stars (DONE - justafan)
Dar es Salaam Peacemakers (DONE - justafan)
Dhaka Cyclones (DONE - justafan)
Ho Chi Minh City Foresters (DONE - justafan)
Istanbul Golden Horns (DONE - justafan)
Jakarta Jaya Raya (DONE - justafan)
Karachi Lights (DONE - justafan)
Khartoum Elephants (DONE - justafan)
Kiev Angels (DONE - justafan)
Kinshasa Rapids (DONE - justafan)
Lagos Islanders (DONE - justafan)
London Ravens (DONE - justafan)
Madrid Black Vultures (DONE - justafan)
Manila Mangroves (DONE - justafan)
Mexico City Aztecs (DONE - justafan)
Moscow Dark Riders (DONE - justafan)
Mumbai Stars (DONE - justafan)
Nairobi Green Sox (DONE - justafan)
New York Metropolitans (DONE - justafan)
Paris Revolutionaries (DONE - justafan)
Rome Wolves (DONE - justafan)
Seoul Capitals (DONE - justafan)
Shanghai Mariners (preferably not the Seattle colors) (DONE - justafan)
São Paulo Bandeirantes (DONE - justafan)
Tehran Mountaineers (DONE - justafan)
Tokyo Pacifics (DONE - justafan)
Warsaw Citadels (DONE - justafan)
Yangon Monsoons (DONE - justafan)

[justafan]

Lemme know if you like this style...

[enuttage]

Looks fantastic to me, justafan. I really dig both of those. Very different than what I usually find/use, which is awesome.

Thank you very much.

[justafan]

Cool, we'll stay with that then.

[justafan]

[timlowery]

These are beautiful..... Can't wait for the quick-start!!

[justafan]

Originally Posted by enuttage

Each team has a nick based on some part of the cities history.

I hope the images I choose for these are OK. These are pretty tough.

[falkonisback]

Wow justafan..those look really cool....do you maybe have a template that I could get my hands on so that I could try to create some of these for my own teams?

[justafan]

Originally Posted by timlowery

These are beautiful..... Can't wait for the quick-start!!

Thanks

Yeah, me too.

enuttage, do you have anymore info you would like to share about the quickstart?

[justafan]

Originally Posted by falkonisback

Wow justafan..those look really cool....do you maybe have a template that I could get my hands on so that I could try to create some of these for my own teams?

I use a few programs (Xara Xtreme, The Gimp, AAALogo and others if needed.) to create most of my logos, so a template is not possible. Sorry.

[enuttage]

Originally Posted by justafan

I hope the images I choose for these are OK. These are pretty tough.

So far, so great. I love 'em. The Seven Stars is great, and the Scholars is a version of what one of my GMs in our online league is using, only yours is circular. Nice.

My only further request, before you get too far along, is if you might be able to lighten up the shadow just a tad. Keep in mind that I'm in a REALLY bright sunlit room right now, so that may be why I'm seeing them as darker.

And if you think they're fine, then let 'em be. I'm just really thankful you've done these. They really look super slick.

[justafan]

Originally Posted by enuttage

My only further request, before you get too far along, is if you might be able to lighten up the shadow just a tad. Keep in mind that I'm in a REALLY bright sunlit room right now, so that may be why I'm seeing them as darker.

I think it's because I'm on a laptop they look much brighter to me than some others monitors. I may have to trash the slight beveling to brighten them up.

[enuttage]

Originally Posted by justafan

enuttage, do you have anymore info you would like to share about the quickstart?

Sure. All of the stadia are real-life facilities with their actual names. Most of them are football stadiums, since that's the popular sport in most of the world, but there are a few cricket fields, and a few (S. Korea, Japan, Mexico) are actual baseball facilities. I only altered the stadium capacity on one stadium, which was in Warsaw, since they had an extremely low capacity, comparatively to 'normal' baseball stadia.

Stadium effects are (roughly) based on elevation of each city, so naturally, Mexico City (7,349 ft.), Bogotá (8,661 ft.) and Tehran (~3,900) are bigger hitter's parks, vs. most cities, which are often port cities (which is how they often got so big and important to begin with).

Weather is adjusted to any OOTP in-game capabilities, but I'll be going back and filling in the gaps for at least the Pro level teams.

There are a full five levels of minor leagues. Each lower level is represented by the next largest city of each country in the league. So in the U.S. it would be L.A., Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Phoenix. Mexico (non-Mexico City DMA) would be Guadalajara, Puebla, Monterrey, Tijuana, and Ciudad Juárez...and so on.

My first release will probably be without real stadia and nicknames for the minor league levels. But hopefully, I'll slowly add all of these as well.

For now, all the financials will be the default. I did an experiment a little while back with adjusting financials to be relative to the dollar (I know it was culture-centric, but it was also real easy to find the info ), but it didn't end so well, so I left it to the end user to adjust these to their liking.

I have the incoming player pool at 90% foreign, with the league based in the U.S. I figured that'd give a pretty wide variety of players from the appropriate baseball-player-producing countries.

I'm actually thinking of releasing a spreadsheet or other quick reference sheet that includes all the vitals on the world's largest cities for public use here. I know I keep going back and re-using a lot of the info, and I know there are others that dig on the global league setups as well. Could be a lot easier than using disparate sources and might save players a bunch of time, including me, the next time 'round.

I figure I could include:

City
Country
Population
Weather
Precipitation
Primary spectator sporting venue (non-automobile)
Elevation
GDP (if available)
Currency value vs. U.S. Dollar (percentage positive or negative and real numeral)

[justafan]

Bevel vs no Bevel







What should I stick with?

[falkonisback]

IMO, I much rather it without the beveling.

[enuttage]

Originally Posted by justafan

I think it's because I'm on a laptop they look much brighter to me than some others monitors. I may have to trash the slight beveling to brighten them up.

Man, do whatever you like. I think they're fantastic either way. I think some of the darker colored backgrounds might look better without the bevel, but I dig the depth the bevel lends to it also.

[justafan]

Decisions Decisions hmmm...

OK I'll do both.

[enuttage]

Ho ho ho!

Fantastic!

[justafan]

[justafan]