Big Letter typography on map

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dee-
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Big Letter typography on map

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This evening I played around a bit and wanted to give my base a small "Welcome home, commander" message when I return back with my "taxi train".

As rails are very visible on the overhead map I chose rail pieces to create the letters and to my surprise they turned out way better than I expected. This is mainly because the rails have 45° rotations which can be put to very good use when designing the letters.

So I went on and gave all my (still few) POIs a small label :) Not that there's already one because of the train stop, mind you, bit I just think it looks cool, so there ya go ;)

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On greater zoom level the train stops vanish but the text labels can still be read:
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This is a pretty cool way to label things. I like it and will have to incorporate it in future plays.

Though in reality, I will be joining my friend's game and writing "penis" on his map before disconnecting.

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Oh this opens up a whole bag of awesome tricks. Thanks for the idea! I'll be sure to abuse this on our next MP game.
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Cool Idea it shows up on the map better than I expected.

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That's pretty cool. It looks pretty natural on the map, as if someone typed it almost. :D
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Cool suggestion: Eatable MOUSE-pointers.
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I still like small signatures...

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Great Idea, especially at multiplayer to coordinate each other I would say.
Maybe my english isn's good, but compared to our train conductors my english is high level (Sänk ju for träwelink wiss deutsche Bahn!)

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Good Idea, thanks man.

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