Graphics Collection from CD's Ultra-Fine House of Style

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Yes, you're clear for 1878, at least. I don't plan to spring a surprise player profile on you for that season, for sure. Besides, you wouldn't like it, and we have only agreed on eight players so far for this particular generation of your IPA's rebooted version, as well, most definitely, jg2977. I don't think we'll want or need more than eight in it at this specific point in time, either. And we've both mutually decided to wait and see how things work out with this generation of your IPA 2.0 before we both even start to consider the idea of adding any other potential players to it past eight to ten or so such players for the second generation, I believe.

Talk more with you soon, I'm sure. Thank you very much for your time and attention and all here, as always, of course, jg2977. That's all for this particular post here, then, at least, I think. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Looks like either you or the game changed a number of the values from the ones I proposed for him to start with, if not both. Some rather significantly too, from what I gather, based on the profile information I provided you with when I proposed him to you:

For instance, here's what I proposed for him, in terms of personality values. Of course, those often change as a player's career develops, you know:

Leadership: 107
Desire for Winner: 93
Loyalty: 121
Greed: 56
Work Ethic: 118
Intelligence: 109
Adaptability: 116
Controversy: 61
Handle Success: 120
Handle Failure: 118
Handle Critics: 145

For his batting values, I suggested:

Batting:

BABIP: 80/170
Avoid K's: 50/110
Gap: 60/158
Power: 84/130
Eye/Patience: 64/130
HBP: 15/550

PA: 645
AB: 550
H: 187
2B: 44
3B: 8
HR: 28
BB: 80
HP: 15
SO: 85

GB Tendency: Normal
Flyball Tendency: Normal
Running Speed: 88
Stealing: 97
Baserunning: 123
Sacrifice: 75
Bunt for Hit: 105

And his proposed fielding ratings:

Fielding:

Pitcher: 0
Catcher: 0
First Base: 0
Second Base: 80
Third Base: 150
Shortstop: 0
Left Field: 0
Center Field: 0
Right Field: 0

Infield Range: 114
Infield Errors: 132
Infield Arm: 127
Turn DP: 88
Catcher Ability: 42
Catcher Arm: 19
Outfield Range: 73
Outfield Error: 60
Outfield Arm: 79

Of course, all those values seen above for him can certainly change, and likely often do change, even quite considerably at times, as any particular player's entire playing career ultimately develops for them in any game, et cetera. Whether you started with the above values for him in the applicable areas of his profile within the editor or not, you know, or if the game gave him those ratings at any point once he was in the game, that is.

Talk more later, as time permits and all. Do as you like with his player-related ratings and all, within reason, as long as you think it won't unfairly affect things in your applicable dynasty here, or not, if you do think it would. He doesn't necessarily have to be a superstar, or even a star, mind you, in his playing career, ultimately, of course. But if he does develop a solid career, then that would really be quite nice to see, I think, jg2977. It would give some people related to him some real statistical targets to shoot for in their own careers, later on, it seems to me, if he does well enough in his own career. CD out.

[jg2977]

I'll make him into a very good player again, but try not to make him into something superhuman like I had in my last IPA. I'll give him a good work ethic, intelligence and leadership ratings, hopefully that will help keep him in shape, and keep his ratings up.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

For any player I might propose, among the five players yet to be proposed profiles for so far in this current IPA generation, please try and remember to let me know what their planned teams will need for help at certain positions after the last season prior to their likely entry years. Meaning, for those likely entering in 1880, I'll need to know what their likely starting team or teams will most likely need for a player, for instance.

I will decide soon if Jethro goes to college after finishing high school in 1878. IF he does, he will go either to the University of Missouri at Columbia's campus or the University of Missouri at St. Louis's campus, I think. Probably the former, and not likely the latter. If he doesn't, then we need to have him perhaps come out of University City High School in the St. Louis local area. Chances are good that I'll have him go to college. Although I probably won't make him as intelligent as his brother was proposed to be earlier. Just so you know, jg2977. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I don't know if the game would ever put ZRM in the outfield, or behind the plate, but I do know that when I proposed HCF, I proposed him as a corner OF/corner IF, for sure. I don't expect to see KJW ever play any position outside of pitcher or catcher at this point, but we'll have to see what the AI does with him during his career, as well as what it does with the other two players already created so far here, of course, during their respective careers. I hope all three are eventually good enough to merit potential Hall of Fame inductions as players when their IPA playing careers are done, jg2977.

But that's not something we can exactly control here, now is it? I don't think it is, you know, for obvious reasons, jg2977. IF I decide to have KJW have at least one or two baseball-playing sons to go along with the four daughters who will marry the Freeman brothers, they will potentially start their playing careers several years later than the first members of the second generation do, I think, in your IPA, if approved by you for inclusion in it.

Talk more later, as time permits and all, I'm sure. Lord willing and all, in any case, that is, jg2977. Thank you for your time and attention and all here, then, of course, as always. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Here are four more prospective items for the Kenwood Wildcats, per jg2977's earlier request for new items here from me related to them. The whites have the Maiden Word font used on them, while the grays have the Baxter's Slab font used on them. I used just the blue and gray colors from the previous team-related items already posted earlier in this thread, so if you want the specific information related to them, search for them, if needed and desired, for future reference and/or memory refreshment, please, folks. That is all for this post, then, I think. CD out.

[jg2977]

Those are better than your first attempt at Kenwood. I think if you reduced the shading it would provide much better contrast for the lettering on the jerseys. Hopefully EC chimes in and he could give his opinion.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by jg2977

Those are better than your first attempt at Kenwood. I think if you reduced the shading it would provide much better contrast for the lettering on the jerseys. Hopefully EC chimes in and he could give his opinion.

Yep, I agree with you... too much shading... the jerseys look much too dark.

Here is the way I prefer shading to be... these are my Kenwood set... the bright white is better than CD's off-white color.
See how much better the contrast is between the lettering and the jerseys on my set that knuckler did.

CD, your work would look better with much less shading, a brighter white and a lighter gray... in my opinion you use far too much shading, which hurts the contrast between the lettering and the team names.

The gray jersey is too dark... your lettering would show up better on a lighter gray... would prefer blue sleeves on the home white instead of the gray sleeves... also use blue color on the collar on the home white jersey.
The font is OK, but it would be better to get a cleaner, clearer font... the font is a little hard to make out.
The K on the cap looks too much like an H.
You need to pick a bright white color for the jersey... this would be better contrast for your lettering, too.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I'll definitely consider the suggestion(s) to lighten the shading used for this team at least a little bit, if not a lot, and then I'll get back to you both on Kenwood sometime later, if at all possible, when possible and all. Perhaps we can have lighter-shaded items ready for you by the 1880 or 1885 seasons of jg2977's rebooted IPA, at the latest, if enough things go sufficiently according to plan and all here. May want or need to work with them more past that later, of course, you two, as well. Just so you know. Thanks a lot to you both here for your current related input, too, as always. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I am reposting the uniforms I did in some thread for the Zothar City Emperors sometime back, although I don't remember exactly when I did them at the moment, nor the thread I actually posted them in at the time, et cetera, so that you can see how well they might match the caps I just did for them a little bit ago here. The font in use on all these items, including the caps I am going to show you here, is Star Guard. And the related information for the colors currently used for this team besides pure white and/or pure black is as follows:

516d37 Dark Olive Green (81, 109, 55)
95c1de Pale Cerulean (149, 193, 222)
352123 Old Burgundy (53, 33, 35)

Hopefully I did a very good job here matching up the new caps with the related uniforms for the Zothar City Emperors, of course. In any case, this knocks off another team from the list of teams I need to have caps for to go along with already-made uniforms, as well, for sure, folks. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

As for all the various teams currently on that aforementioned work list, I think I'm quite possibly going to go from the bottom up, which would then put the Wimborne Lakers next to do. That's supposing, of course, that I don't go from the top of it instead, starting with at least one take of mine on the Boston Red Sox from before, folks. Or just pick out certain teams to do on a semi-random basis here, perhaps, in any case. Just so you know. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

The applicable current work list can be found in post 2774 on page 139 of this thread. It will most likely be updated as I might then periodically knock off items for certain teams on it, or might add certain teams to it every so often, just so you know, folks. That is all. CD out.

[jg2977]

The color combinations for Zothar City don't really appeal to me, but if you like them and they're for your dynasty, that's all that matters. The majority of people on this forum wouldn't, because most of us prefer traditional colors and designs.

[jg2977]

Remember that when my IPA gets to 1901, I will be adding the current MLB teams to my IPA world. I plan to have the World Series and Pro Cup winners battle in a best-of-seven series to determine the overall champion. I'll have to figure out what I want to call that series. Perhaps it will be called the Universal Cup. So maybe we can get a St. Louis Cardinals vs. Denton City Redbirds Universal Cup, for example. If you want some of your created players to go on an MLB team, we can do that too.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Well, that team is based in a city of one of my fictional nations, jg2977, and each nation, whether real or fictional, often has certain traditional looks and/or styles, et cetera, for it, I'm sure. Game of Thrones is set in a fictional nation or several fictional nations, right? And even it has traditional looks that aren't entirely just like those of real nations, as well? Sure, its styles may have some similarity to certain real nations or cultures' traditional looks, of course, but they may not necessarily be exactly like them, or at least not at all times, anyway, if I'm not too mistaken here. Just a few thoughts here, you see, that's all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Would you probably use the traditional locations and traditional names for the teams in MLB, and what about franchise moves and renamings, et cetera? I have no objection to using certain team names, even if they may not seem suitable for use, to be honest.

Others may not actually like seeing certain historically-used team names, but I don't necessarily think like they do, of course. I think that most, if not all, historical names should be used wherever possible and appropriate and all, even if not popular with certain people, in truth. At least when it comes to referencing historical teams' histories and all, that is, jg2977.

Talk more with you soon, and all, as time permits and all, I'm sure. Thank you for your input related to Zothar City's Emperors here, at the very least, in any case, jg2977. That's all for this post here, then, I think. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

Well, that team is based in a city of one of my fictional nations, jg2977, and each nation, whether real or fictional, often has certain traditional looks and/or styles, et cetera, for it, I'm sure. Game of Thrones is set in a fictional nation or several fictional nations, right? And even it has traditional looks that aren't entirely just like those of real nations, as well? Sure, its styles may have some similarity to certain real nations or cultures' traditional looks, of course, but they may not necessarily be exactly like them, or at least not at all times, anyway, if I'm not too mistaken here. Just a few thoughts here, you see, that's all. CD out.

I suppose that's true. Some fictional nations would have different artistic preferences, and I suppose that some uniforms would look non-traditional, unlike what we have here in the United States.

Perhaps you'll want to help create some Game of Thrones uniforms for me, and I could add a GoT league to my IPA dynasty instead, instead of MLB teams. That might make more sense. I already have logos for a GoT world, just need uniforms to go along with it. Since it's a fictional world, I'd be more apt to use non-traditional looking uniforms too, especially if they looked like they were from an earlier era. And for GoT, the map is already created, of course.

If I went with MLB teams, I would use the current teams and their actual names. I'd likely add some of the defunct teams who have moved to other cities as well, such as the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns and Montreal Expos. And add some expansion franchises as well to bring the number of teams up to about 50.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Not really at all familiar with Game of Thrones, AKA A Song of Ice and Fire, past the basic minimal information. Plus there is definitely extreme adult content in at least the television series, I'm sure, that I'd rather not see any of, et cetera, if I don't really have to, jg2977.

I quite seriously have to actually guard my own heart and mind and soul from unclean things as best as I possibly can, you see, to hopefully better follow the will of my Father in Heaven, it seems to me. Not to be holier-than-thou, mind you, of course, but so I can do what is best in this world for me and for those around me, as best as possible and all.

I don't think I could do Game of Thrones-style items easily enough, given my extreme unfamiliarity with the relevant media franchise, actually. But maybe I could do more items inspired by certain other media franchises, like Star Trek, for instance, to name just one such franchise. Wordmarks or logos, though, might be very difficult, if not impossible, for me to make easily enough here, if I were even able to make them at all, I think. Just so you know, jg2977. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Many of my teams are from fictional nations, hence the frequent use of multiple colors on certain items for them, jg2977 and EC and everyone else who drops by this thread every so often. I know they may not often have looks more like those we see in various real-world nations, of course. But as I've probably said at least a few times before now, these teams are often from one or more of my various fictional nations.

That basically means, then, they may often look quite different from the usual looks teams we know of well enough might often have for themselves, of course, folks. While some teams may have certain looks and design styles, et cetera, more like we're often familiar with, not all those teams and/or leagues, et cetera, may have such looks, you know. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

Not really at all familiar with Game of Thrones, AKA A Song of Ice and Fire, past the basic minimal information. Plus there is definitely extreme adult content in at least the television series, I'm sure, that I'd rather not see any of, et cetera, if I don't really have to, jg2977.

I quite seriously have to actually guard my own heart and mind and soul from unclean things as best as I possibly can, you see, to hopefully better follow the will of my Father in Heaven, it seems to me. Not to be holier-than-thou, mind you, of course, but so I can do what is best in this world for me and for those around me, as best as possible and all.

I don't think I could do Game of Thrones-style items easily enough, given my extreme unfamiliarity with the relevant media franchise, actually. But maybe I could do more items inspired by certain other media franchises, like Star Trek, for instance, to name just one such franchise. Wordmarks or logos, though, might be very difficult, if not impossible, for me to make easily enough here, if I were even able to make them at all, I think. Just so you know, jg2977. CD out.

You certainly wouldn't have to see GoT in order to do the uniforms - you'd just have to base them off of the logos that I provide. All of the graphics and lettering would look old-fashioned as the show takes place during what could be considered medieval times.

Of course if you'd rather not do it, a simple "no thanks" would be acceptable. It's probably easier for me to just do either an MLB league in my IPA world, or another fictional league using graphics of the other fine designers here, or maybe even incorporating my NHL graphics in the IPA world.

You can see some Game of Thrones uniforms that have been created, and logos, here
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...thrones&page=2