Game map related

[Adrianis]

Hello first of all sorry if my writing is bad i'm using a phone to post this message.
Last night stayed up about 4 hours and read what i found about map making.
After i've finished i had a look over what i've done and pumped alot of questions in my mind.
For a strategy game which is the best map to use? Iso or some plain table?
My map table looks like this: x,y,type(gras,tree),
And a table where i output evreything with a for loop.
Second thing: got another table towns where i got the towns including their
Position:) is it wrong until here?
How could i get the position from there and put it in the array with data from map field?
I'm pretty good at php but game developing i'm new.
Thanks for your help

[Chris]

For a strategy game which is the best map to use? Iso or some plain table?

It depends on your budget. If you can afford a good artist then go for isometric, otherwise choose "flat" tiles.
Iso will also cause more complexity with mouse zones detection and you might need (depends on complexity and size of movable objects) to make "z-buffer" to keep the proper display order.

[Adrianis]

For a strategy game which is the best map to use? Iso or some plain table?

It depends on your budget. If you can afford a good artist then go for isometric, otherwise choose "flat" tiles.
Iso will also cause more complexity with mouse zones detection and you might need (depends on complexity and size of movable objects) to make "z-buffer" to keep the proper display order.

there is no money to pay someone to do the graphics.. i`ll try to get something on papper, scan then try to get some nice colors... that's all..that would mean that would be best to go for flat tiles.
btw is there any program that might help me ? cheers.

[Barrikor]

there is no money to pay someone to do the graphics.. i`ll try to get something on papper, scan then try to get some nice colors... that's all..that would mean that would be best to go for flat tiles.
btw is there any program that might help me ? cheers.

I'm not sure how well it'll work scanning from paper... As for programs, do you have Gimp and Inkscape? I'm not much of an artist, but I use those two programs quite a lot for when I need to make images for websites, mostly buttons and banners...