Will you help me playtest my new map? Looking for up to eight players.

Topic Subject: Will you help me playtest my new map? Looking for up to eight players.

Kanibeos
Member

posted 09-08-14 05:54 PM EDT (US)

Dear everyone,

I've made a new map, The Lost Realm, and I need your help in playtesting it before I make it publicly available here on Heavengames. Will you help me? There are nine available races and I will take the last one. They are:

Highmen, halflings, elves, frostlings, humans, azracs, orcs, dark elves and undeads.

You will all receive the map before the game begins.

I'm looking forward to sharing the map with you!

(You will of course all receive playtesting credits in the description of the final map)

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Map: The Lost Realm

AoW Ruleset: Standard rules

Leaders on map: Nope

Sphere customization: Nope

Allied victory: Allowed, with one race which may not be of the opposite alignment. An evil or pure evil race may not win together with a good or pure good race and the other way around.

Exploration: Yep

House Rules: Standard AoW Heaven house rules. In addition we use the following house rule: "You may not retreat from a tactical combat in which you have attacked, shot at or used any spell or ability on enemy units unless at least one of your units have been attacked, shot at or the subject of a spell or ability by an enemy unit. The exception to the above is if either you or your enemy is unable to deal further damage. It is also forbidden to draw the same enemy stack into a tactical combat more than twice each turn."

Activity expectation: You should only sign up if you will generally be able to play turns within at most 72 hours from receiving them. If you are unable to play your turn within 72 hours you should post in the relevant topic in advance. Writing turn logs is optional but you should always post a "turn sent" when you have played your turn so we know who's turn it is.

Players:
Humans - Laplace_demon - ulrik_voelcker[at]hotmail[dot]com
Azracs - Radiantt - beerbeer[at]hotmail[dot]es
Undead - Nosferon - rueface[at]abv[dot]bg
Frostlings - AI Emperor
Elves - Ramillies - ramillies[at]email[dot]cz
Halflings - Boarungg - boarungg[at]gmail[dot]com
Orcs - Pato - pato[dot]elz[at]hotmail[dot]com
Highmen - Kani - aow[at]own[dot]web[dot]id
Dark Elves - Zsaber81 - zhengzjm[at]hotmail[dot]com

#7373DE for Humans #EFB573 for Azracs #4AA58C for Lizard Men #9CC6E7 for Frostlings
#6BB54A for Elves #EFE773 for Halflings #D6AD8C for Dwarves #EFEFDE for High Men
#B563BD for Dark Elves #F74242 for Orcs #BD7352 for Goblins #947B73 for The Undead
Thank you to TravisII for this great idea!

[This message has been edited by Kanibeos (edited 09-15-2014 @ 03:52 PM).]

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Ramillies
Member

posted 09-08-14 06:02 PM EDT (US) 1 / 18

You can count with me. I'm glad to see that there are still new maps being made for this 15 (at least) years old game ...

I'd take the Elves and the address remains the same: ramillies, email, cz (, = @ and . respectively).

[This message has been edited by Ramillies (edited 09-08-2014 @ 06:02 PM).]

Kanibeos
Member

posted 09-08-14 06:04 PM EDT (US) 2 / 18

Thanks, Ramillies! I'm very happy to have you join

[It's actually my first map. I figure it's about time after having enjoyed the creations of others for 15 years

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[This message has been edited by Kanibeos (edited 09-08-2014 @ 06:05 PM).]

Ramillies
Member

posted 09-08-14 06:24 PM EDT (US) 3 / 18

(I mentioned making maps because it's not very long ago I was pondering over something like "map balance tool" which would load your map and use some simple criteria (defined using big lot of pathfinding) to determine the its balancedness, mainly evaluating distance from your starting possessions to all other resources on the map, plus giving some score for those starting possessions etc. After a while I started rather thinking about whether some maps are still being made and if it could have some use.)

I like joining new games.

Generally whenever a game pops up here, I join.

Laplace_demon
Member

posted 09-09-14 06:41 AM EDT (US) 4 / 18

Great idea Ramillies

Do you have any idea of how to extract information for a map-file? I think it is difficult to actually calculate how balance a map is (because there are many factors that matters), but if tool could calculate fx how much there is within say 100 move point of each start locations it could help give an idea of how balance the map is.

Ramillies
Member

posted 09-09-14 06:52 AM EDT (US) 5 / 18

The biggest catch is that the HSM format used for maps and saved games is not hacked yet (as far as I know, but for example the Wrapper contains some basic routines for extracting things like game name, map name, turn, player names and addresses etc. from the games, so maybe Davespice knows more about this?).

Yes, I didn't mean anything super-exhaustive, it would be something like you said. Just a program which you could ask what can every side get its hands on by day 5, and you get it; plus some very rough scoring which could be used to quantify how advantageous the starting position of each race is.

[This message has been edited by Ramillies (edited 09-09-2014 @ 06:54 AM).]

Nosferon
Member

posted 09-09-14 06:54 AM EDT (US) 6 / 18

Congrats on your first map, Kani! I will join as the Undead if possible.
Plus I would expect you to return the favor when I post my first map here

#7373DE Human #EFB573 Azrac #4AA58C Lizard #9CC6E7 Frostling
#6BB54A Elf #EFE773 Halfling #D6AD8C Dwarf #EFEFDE High Man
#B563BD Dark Elf #F74242 Orc #BD7352 Goblin #947B73 Undead

~ Honeyvale Falls ~ won by PawelS 2011 | ~ Extremism ~ Fourth week 2012
~ Swolterwood ~ NO winner 2012 |

Kanibeos
Member

posted 09-09-14 07:05 AM EDT (US) 7 / 18

Certainly, Nosferon! Is it a work currently in progress?

Kanibeos
Member

posted 09-09-14 07:07 AM EDT (US) 8 / 18

I also think that's a great idea, Ramillies! It could really result in some better maps. And considering Nosferons coming map it seems that map making is not dead

Laplace_demon
Member

posted 09-09-14 07:57 AM EDT (US) 9 / 18

BTW, I take Humans

Boarungg
Member

posted 09-09-14 01:29 PM EDT (US) 10 / 18

I'd like to get Halfings again.

boarungg[at]gmail[dot]com

[This message has been edited by Boarungg (edited 09-09-2014 @ 01:30 PM).]

Kanibeos
Member

posted 09-09-14 02:35 PM EDT (US) 11 / 18

You guys rock! Do we have four more volunteers?

Zsaber81
Member

posted 09-10-14 04:24 PM EDT (US) 12 / 18

I'll take the dark elves.

paatoo
Member

posted 09-11-14 00:33 AM EDT (US) 13 / 18

you have one more! i want orcs pls =)

Kanibeos
Member

posted 09-11-14 08:56 AM EDT (US) 14 / 18

Great! We will start the game in a few days but it would be even better if we could fill the last few spots so feel very free to join!

RadianTT
Member

posted 09-11-14 08:52 PM EDT (US) 15 / 18

Azracs

Mac_Biodiesel
Member

posted 09-12-14 12:04 PM EDT (US) 16 / 18

Kani,

Can you give the specs of your map, please? Like how large, how many cities, how many levels, etc.?

I might be willing to sign on if it's not super-XL with 200+ cities.

Ramillies,

there are lots of new maps being added, just check the downloads section.

Kanibeos
Member

posted 09-13-14 04:56 PM EDT (US) 17 / 18

Radiantt: Cool. By the way, have you received the Land of Merhal game?

Biodiesel: I've sent you the map. I hope you'll join. That way we can play the map with all human players like it is meant to be.

Kanibeos
Member

posted 09-15-14 03:51 PM EDT (US) 18 / 18

Let's make do with eight players. I will take the highmen and start the game in a moment. I ask all of you to keep your eyes open and let me know about any problems with the map.

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