So, I made some maps, again 
What I wanted to do is give a bit of a better sense how strong a particular allegiance is within the area it controls. Just coloring by the allegiance of the ruling faction works up to a point, but is an all or nothing thing. But of course, there are other factions in the system, so what would be a good way to visualize how Alliance, for instance, a system is that is ruled by an Alliance faction.
Instead of coloring by ruling allegiance, then, we can look at asset ownership, i.e. stations, surface ports, and settlements in the system. We have a color scheme for allegiance already, what sort of maps to RGB.
So, here is how these maps are built up: for each system ruled by a particular allegiance, we look at all assets in the system and their respective allegiance. I count non-dockable assets as 0.5, dockable stations (star ports, outposts, surface ports) as 1. Then we mix the colors accordingly:
One Fed station and an Alliance station: #FF0000 + #00FF00 / 2 = #7F7F00
One Fed station and an Empire station: #FF0000 + #0000FF / 2 = #7F007F
One Fed station, one Empire and one Indy station: #FF0000 + #0000FF + #FFFF00 / 3 = #AA5555
One Empire station and an Indy station: #0000FF + #FFFF00 / 2 = #7F7F7F
One Alliance and an Indy station: #00FF00 + #FFFF00 / 2 = #7FFF00
One Alliance station and a Fed settlement: #00FF00 + #FF0000 * 0.5 / 1.5 = #55AA00
Of course, the more assets are controlled by a particular allegiance, the redder, bluer, yellow or greener it will be.
The size of the system is based on the number of stations (again counting non-dockables as half). Colors are a little paler through a 0.5 opacity to allow some overlaps. Bigger circles are drawn first, smaller last, so they're on top of the bigger ones.
What I wanted to do is give a bit of a better sense how strong a particular allegiance is within the area it controls. Just coloring by the allegiance of the ruling faction works up to a point, but is an all or nothing thing. But of course, there are other factions in the system, so what would be a good way to visualize how Alliance, for instance, a system is that is ruled by an Alliance faction.
Instead of coloring by ruling allegiance, then, we can look at asset ownership, i.e. stations, surface ports, and settlements in the system. We have a color scheme for allegiance already, what sort of maps to RGB.
So, here is how these maps are built up: for each system ruled by a particular allegiance, we look at all assets in the system and their respective allegiance. I count non-dockable assets as 0.5, dockable stations (star ports, outposts, surface ports) as 1. Then we mix the colors accordingly:
One Fed station and an Alliance station: #FF0000 + #00FF00 / 2 = #7F7F00
One Fed station and an Empire station: #FF0000 + #0000FF / 2 = #7F007F
One Fed station, one Empire and one Indy station: #FF0000 + #0000FF + #FFFF00 / 3 = #AA5555
One Empire station and an Indy station: #0000FF + #FFFF00 / 2 = #7F7F7F
One Alliance and an Indy station: #00FF00 + #FFFF00 / 2 = #7FFF00
One Alliance station and a Fed settlement: #00FF00 + #FF0000 * 0.5 / 1.5 = #55AA00
Of course, the more assets are controlled by a particular allegiance, the redder, bluer, yellow or greener it will be.
The size of the system is based on the number of stations (again counting non-dockables as half). Colors are a little paler through a 0.5 opacity to allow some overlaps. Bigger circles are drawn first, smaller last, so they're on top of the bigger ones.
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