I agree entirely, I currently play DoTA more then any game at the moment.

However, the experience and leveling up in each game is wildly different, although someone could maybe mod the XP model.

<3 Nevermore + Venge

[This message has been edited by I Am Hollywood (edited 04-20-2006 @ 10:13 AM).]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah omg dotaxor!

seriously though, on warcraft III about 8-9 out of every 10 games hosted in the custom games section were DOTA

i usually make games *sorta* simmilar to DOTA, but have never tried making something as expansive as DOTA itself, either way there is no item system in RoL, which was pretty much half the game in WC3, the game could be modded, but then it could prove harder to find a gaming community, as a lot of people will still be playing the vanilla version of the game and won't want to get their game modded just for one kind of game.

when the game comes out and i've finished the campaign (on hardest difficulty of course ) then i'll see the map editor and what it's like, but from what i hear it's a lot like the WC3 editor in scripting (uses triggers) but has a lot of other cool stuff (not to mention it's in game, so the UI is a bit better)

no doubt someone will find a way to bring DOTA to RoL, but the time it takes all depend on the capabilities of the map-editor

on the subject of WC custom games, i wonder if it's possible to make a tower defence (TD) game! those were the best! (especially zoator:TD)

[This message has been edited by storm legion (edited 04-20-2006 @ 11:35 AM).]

lol.. I've been trying to do this for a week now with the beta

Ended up making a few suggestions for the editor too, hehe

I was thinking of running either a straight pay to level up your powers which levels up your heros type of system, although the 'gold' for creeping has been more difficult to produce.

we could always have a RoL style DoTA, otherwise what would be the point of playing dota on this apart from different graphics?

we could have "Defence of the Realm" or something, where each side has a capital town (three way of course, 2-way dota is wcIIIs arena) some defencive buildings (sand-spires... turrets etc.) and unit producing buildings like dota. execpt the objectve is to take over the capital city of the enemy. if there's a way to change attributes then items could just be permanent, eg permanent +50 health or whatever.

or you could for-go items all together and simply give each player their own "mini-city" which can be upgraded with districts etc. and (if it is possiblee) the map changes all city upgrades to hero upgrades that you research as normal via magus guilds/research labs/whatever. the red line could be offensive abilities, the green line to do with health, poison immunity etc., the blue one defence and the top one (forgot the colour) could be something else.

one game i can tell will be made for this if enough wc3 fans come over is footman wars, in wc3 it was just too hard to control (with max unit selections so small) but in this it'll be like a dream come true for them :P

Footman Frenzy would be damn intersting to try and design...