Aka Paperfriend worshipper.

Indeed.

Looks great and all, a nice and better spin off of the original CTF game. However the eyecandy critics will say that the balck looks ugly and to use more terrain. However Im more bothered with the triggers .

No matter what the eyecandy critics say... The whole scenario is a work of art of its own.

I think eyecandy is really irrelevant in this case. Havn't played any capture-the-flag maps in AoM, but I think this may be the first one. Anyways, looking good. Gooooooood.

^ Just like me in the old days .

I agree that eyecandy is nothing compared tot riggers but its still important, however it can create lag. Its your map, do it your way.

The best advise I can give is to add variety, maybe a power that flares a players flag?

Yo ho ho ho ho! Just by looking at that map, I can tell this'll be good. It's good that you don't have to mine gold.

Just like Yeebaagooon said, don't make a capture-the-lag.

Gotta love that joke. Heh.

I guess all those small areas scattered around the map works as some kind of strange portal areas, which you're teleported to at random... or something eh?

That would be interesting. Please make it better than the last one I played, which was crappy & in french.

Lol great joke . I cant wait for this.

Good to see you again

The map design looks interesting, I hope to play it soon

It looks pretty cool.

When is it out?

Quoted from Sponge of Honor:

I guess all those small areas scattered around the map works as some kind of strange portal areas, which you're teleported to at random... or something eh?

Yes, the small areas will only be accessible by teleportation. However, only a certain, limited number of units will be able to teleport. I will post in more detail soon what I have in mind for gameplay. In the meantime it is enough to know that the blue squares are "take-off" pads and the black squares are "landing" pads.

Quoted from Potato_Monkey:

Please make it better than the last one I played, which was crappy & in french.

Yes, I believe I played that one once. Oh, and of course no gold mining! In this scenario you will have to fight over the plenty vaults for gold. Again, I'll post the details soon.

Quoted from nottud:

When is it out?

Unfortunately I'm facing finals right now so I won't have much time for designing. If I work on it over break I will probably be finished with it sometime in January or February of 2008.

That's a long time. Is the map really that complex?

Quoted from Mephiles:

That's a long time. Is the map really that complex?

Well, yes and no. In terms of tedious triggerwork it is rather complex, especially the teleportation. I'm just allowing myself enough time to fully playtest the scenario and refine it before its release.

the map looks sweet to met
the teleportation is also a nice idea
and overall,i've never played a CTF in AoM so i am willing to play it =D

I used to play a board game called Wiz War. It is essentially a capture the flag game. Each player had a 5x5 board with walls and doors like a maze that you fit next to your opponent's board and in the center of each wizard's board were their two treasures. The point was to take any two opponent treasures to your home square. The rules were excellent:

you can only carry one treasure at a time

you could double your moves/turn or slow the other wizard's movement

you can attack the other wizard if on the same square but only for 3 points/turn (wizards had about 20 hp)

you can drop a thorn bush on a square that can be destroyed (it had about 15 hp) or you could walk thorugh it but take damage.

you could make an impassable wall that could be destroyed (20 hp)

you could swap positions with the other wizard.

You could lock a door forcing the opponent to go around unless they had a key (one time use and door relocked) or remove lock

you walked slower when you were carrying a treasure

I realize that was a board game, but I hope this gives you some ideas....

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Huh? Terrain variation and object placement? What's that for? ^_^

This map is designed so that terrain variation won't be needed. There are different design styles, and this one has a great map design just through its linear, thorough work. Eyecandy critics criticise when a "regular" map lacks terrain mixing.

But yes, this does sound good. Good luck with completing this.

Quoted from Elrich:

The point was to take any two opponent treasures to your home square.

This is one component of the game that I still have not decided on. How do people want to see the game won? Should a player win once they have captured all the other flags, captured a certain number of flags for a certain period of time, or should a player score a point for every captured flag until someone reaches the number of points needed for victory? Any other ideas?

The map wets my eyes.

So, how's progress going?

I've tried to make a CTF on countless occasions. Had some great ideas for game concepts and stuff. I never seem to finished multiplayer scenarios I start shame.

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You beat me to it .

Glad to see this thread back .

Nice map design!

Sorry for the lack of updates, but my schoolwork has been a bit overwhelming. Anyways, I've started work again and it's getting a lot closer to being able to be beta tested. At this point I've almost finished the triggers for purchasing units and god powers and leveling up. All that really remains is the teleportation triggers, but they're very tedious and so will take some time.

Again, I'm want feedback on how the gameplay should function. How do you want "winners" determined? Some suggestions have been: one wins when they have collected a certain number of flags (which continually reappear) or one wins when they have collected all of the flags simultaenously.

I'm thinking of making some other maps that are of similar design style to this capture-the-flag scenario, but with different gameplay. Some ideas I've had are a mythodea, a new version of my colosseum game, or a mini-game collection. Let me know what kind of scenario's (restricted to multi-player) you guys want to see!

I think it should either be determined by time limit, or by number of captures... or... BOTH!



If a team captures the flag a total of [#] times then they win, or... after [time] the game is over and the team with the most scores wins!