Thanks for the input. I I guess I will see what I can do that second map.
Thanks,
Al
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not a fan of star ship fighting, but the second one sounds excellent! i
would play it for sure.
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Thanks for the input. I think Ian worked out a solution that allowed maps
to be bigger, but not sure how much bigger.
I know I was having freezing problems with kobold dungeon and the bigger
warlords maps. I think once the map started hitting 30 or 40 turns things
started to get wonky.
al
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Hello,
Never even saw your Starcraft map, but I'm still sorry that you
have to let
it go.
Between the two ideas, I'd personally probably prefer the second.
Although the freezing thing could be a bit of a problem...I
wonder if that's
something that can be fixed by the developers?
On 5/20/15, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
To anyone who is interested.
I don't think I'll be able to finish StarCraft. Mostly it's for
the
same reasons Craig had to kind of stop with command and conquer.
It's
too difficult right now to report a real time cited computer
game into
a turn-based audio game. Dannged if I didn't give it my best
shot
though, sigh. There is just a bucket full of features yet to
implement
and/or fix as well. Not that Craig and others haven't been
doing an
amazing job, they have.
I'm not even sure if anyone cares about this, but just in case I
want
to ask what people might think of two different map pack ideas.
In
other words would it interest you, and would you bother playing
them.
I'm forced to use a voice recognition software program to do
most of
my typing so I don't want to blow a lot of time on something
that no
one cares about her is interested in. In addition it sounds
like we
have two great map packs coming from to map pack makers, and
people
are pretty eager to play them, from what I've read so far.
Okay enough rambling.
My first idea was to take my defunct StarCraft map pack and turn
it
into an almost direct clone of the age of warlords. Of course
it would
feature future factions with guns but it would play identical in
many
respects.
While the units would have some differences of course, but
overall it
would be age of space balls. errrr. I mean age of Star lords.
Although
with guardians of the galaxy out Star lords might not be the
best title,
grin.
The second idea would involve a large map, maybe 100 x 100
tiles. It
would be a mixture of SimCity, warlords, and just a little bit
of solara.
I believe I might be able to add environmental factors that
involve
pollution, whether, natural disasters, criminal activity, and of
course monsters.
The story would basically be this: the player is a noble lord or
lady
who was sent by an emperor to tame a vast wilderness. This
entails the
building of a city that would require money, natural resources,
and
food. I think there might be a way to add quests, and a stable
of
different adventurers.
With the first map pack, I know I would use the StarCraft
factions
although they be a bit simplified. I would probably make a Borg
faction as well as a Imperial faction meaning Star Wars. I'm
not sure
what other factions would work. Maybe old school Battle Star
Galactica?
The second map pack could have a problem with freezing up,
because I'm
thinking of a pretty big map with lots of terrain and at least
100
structures and units at any given time.
I guess that's it. Thanks for letting me take up some of your
time.
Thanks in advance for any input you might have. Even if your
input is
"man, those ideas stink" would help me out.
Al
"The truth will make you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33AD
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