You know, this has been tried before and has a lot of flaws:
1-You will get lazy and not continue.
2-You have no set story, which contributes to (1)
3-I assume you're not an experienced designer, which make it even harder.
4-The exact number of triggers is...well, too high.

I tried one of these once and quit, but dont give up! (I quit because i started with the smallest map size on accident, and I triggerd all of the city cars, and i had 100 triggers of cars driving when i realized the mistake i made).

You're game sounds promising. I overrshot with mine wayyy to much, and i ended up with 1/8 of the game finished and a bunch of cars (which for me were rams with faster speed), and trees that could be run over.

I'll give it a shot anyway. I have no problems in handling either map effects/tricks or triggers, even though they may end up at +500 (my last scenario had +200 triggers). I'll return in a week or so with a entire map shot.

Reich you said this have been tried before - has someone finished such a scenario and uploaded it to the BS? I'd like to try one out to see the flaws and avoid them.

Btw there will be a background story, but the end will vary on which crime syndicate you work for. (Dude, I've got hell lot of work to do! - it's a shame school doesn't end when you turn 16 years old )

I'd like to see the mapshot!

Sounds awesome. Have you played Life of a Mercenery? It's liek this, but not based on GTA.

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What's your problem? This community get's less encouraging and more counterproductive every day.

Yes, try Life of a Mercenary by Death wish. it certainly has it's bugs, but it's very impressive.

I started something like this a long time ago with only a basic knowledge of triggers. It was called Life of a Saracen, I think, and needless to say, the tiny bit of it that I finished was pretty bad.

Good luck, you'll need it. (and an incredible amount of patience and will. )

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hobo- reich is correct. When I announced my project, people didn't even bother to post in my thread. See how that feels.

This will need lots of patience and lots of triggers. But, if you do manage to do so then it will be a very sucessful project.

You Need to create a story line, all of the GTA Games did.... :P

EDIT: Added The Word 'Games'

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sounds great,but get ready to work your butt of. I was thinking of doing something similiar to this also, but it was based on middle earth.

Sounds cool. I hope it works out .

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Correct. It would be like TTF....?

King Bob is back ... ?

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Since I first became a member of AoKH, there have been maybe four or five projects announced like this one, none of which were completed. The simple fact of the matter is that they are the most difficult of all AoK scenarios to design. By all means go ahead, but I am not going to be surprised if you fail.

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*Remembers*

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Fadawah' words explain my thoughts.
I have seen so many projects announced that dissapear after a while...
Plus knowing that this tpye of scenario is so hard to do, i no longer believe.

It's basically just an RPG with non linear triggers, there's nothing that makes it more difficult than a linear RPG. The only thing that would ruin it is to try and make in in the modern age, instead of the period of AoK, that would just make it utterly unconvincing.

Sounds like The Life of a Mercenary.
I have a project that will nclude some GTA styled things in it aswell, not alot but some.

Well, now I know one thing for sure: I'm gonna fail. Because it's soo hard, requires soooo much work and there's soooooo many ways that leads to failure... *smiles ironically*

Seriously, I'm not going to throw this one into the garbage. Just wait a couple of days, all you pessimists, and i'll upload a juicy screenshot.

PS. So far the trigger list is +100, and I haven't yet started to work on the missions. God knows where this'll end...

I dont care what they say, I've got faith that this one will be finished. If you need any help with city tricks, just e-mail me at dstanzovic@yahoo.com

Good Luck Oliver!

It sounds good! I like GTAIII very much... Maybe more than AoK...
But one thing: GTAIII has 3 islands not two.....

I'd much rather play San Andreas than some newbish attempt to make it for AoK, just like I'd rather replay FF7 for the 10th time than play some newbish attempt to remake it for AoK... But this sounds more promising.

The only thing that makes me slap my forehead is this

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Casino? Yes, if it's old fashioned, i.e. Middle ages.

Harbour could look good, ice hockey arena, well, I don't think so. They didn't have that then, and would just look stupid since there is no ice hockey units... Find some other sports. Maybe some races? You could have races like in GTA SA where you bet on them.

Also, you could have dog fights, other seedy stuff, just as long as it fits the time. I wouldn't recommend you try to make a soccor stadium, since soccor didn't exist. Maybe some sort of arena, like dog fights, or boar fights, something dodgy like that.

China town would work, have a big interactive market place where you can buy stuff, maybe even some black market goods. Just don't go overboard with the "trying to be modern" thing, or it'll mess up the whole believability factor.

You could also buy properties and generate income. As for missions, just play GTA to get ideas, should be too hard.

I dont think this is in the middle ages . . .

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Well, I think it'd be a lot easier for oliver if he did it in the middle ages.

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Good luck. yes. Good luck.

I suppoce it won't be realistic if it wasn't in middle-ages,since AoK has only middle-age buildings.

As other said.

Let's sort things out some...

This scenario will take place in the middle ages in that sense that it 1) Has medieval buildings, units 2) Is restricted by it's time (the computer wasn't invented, nor the car)

This scenario will not take place in the middle ages in that sense that it uses phenomenons and occurrences of our time, like 1) people may buy modern stuff avaible in the middle-ages 2) people can be involved in mafia conflicts 3) people can play soccer/ice hockey (It wasn't invented, but nothing says it couldn't have been invented that early)

Think of this scenario as an episode from Asterix. The gauls are still restricted to it's time, but they can joke with things that are restricted to our time.

war wagon = drive by

So how are you going to represent soccor without something that makes the player go "Soccor? That's not soccor, that's a relic, two lines of palisades, two villies running around and a priest standing next to a boar... I'm not playing this!". Try making some sports that you can actually make in the editor, or it will ruin the credibility of the scenario. Swimming is another one, using porex, maybe some boat racing, but not soccor. I can't imagine what you could do to make anything even vaguely resembling soccor.

This sounds good, but what if you worked in medieval stuff to fit with AoK? Instead of a casino you could have a tournament. Have missons like killing the King or whoever. Take the GTA idea and make it medieval, then you would have a really good campaign.

Good luck

You should take a look at Boar Ball(2). It is just like soccer, or football, well sorta. It was made by James Blond, and it is a great example of what a medival GTA game should have.

There are also some other good example games, you could get some ideas from, like snow boarding, and Monk football by Ace23

Update:
Soccer skipped, added instead a large colosseum where you can a) bet on different kinds of duels/tournaments b) watch a colosseum show (expect lots of blood =)

Added hospitals, police stations, bomb shops, stables and miscellaneous shops. You can call them healing- and potion shops, sheriff offices and black magic shops if you insist on giving them medieval names.

Added a new game at the casino (gold-mining competition).

Started planning on the missions.

Intend to use "El Cid" and "El Cid Campeador" as main character(s). Why? Because El Cid has both a with/without horse unit. Therefore, you can add a function of buying/selling your horse without renaming the new units.

Screenshot will be avaible in three sizes on saturday.

Trigger amount so far: 130.

Sounds like its going good, I am anxious to see the outcome.

BTW: did you look at the links in my previous post?

Yeah, I'll try them out tomorrow. But now, I'm going to bed. Sadly, it's night over here in Europe!

Ok, I think this sounds weird but don't you need some mods for this project or something? Hey just wondering... I like the idea though Going to be a long campaign

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No offense but how many years will you spend on doing this? Many people might be attracted to AOE3 because the editor seems damn cool so.... Your chances become much less of impressing people inspite of such hard work.