Hi Austen,
So far, I like what you did with Shadow abound! The background info and the
maps to get someone familier with the items and the units is a good idea.
Because some of those magic spells are unique to the standard, I was
wondering if they could be explained more as you press on.
I did notice that , I think it was the third or forth map which caused an
infinite loop. It was force shield I think. The shadow mage kept casting it
over and over again.
Also the random potions seem to always give the same amount of actions back
as it takes, but the movement points are more like I think you intended
which can help or hurt the unit.
I like your intro maps a lot actually, and wish I did something like that
in kobold dungeon, to get players used to the various spells and equipment
etc..
al
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Subject: [ian-reeds-games] back in action, with a few suggestions and a map
pack in the works
hi all, its been a while since i've been on here.
due to my gmail being spammed and my anoyance at all the changes causing me
to have to redo everything in the current map ideas i was working on, i
decided to take a break, but am back to work on some things.
right off the bat, i'd like to post my first map pack since i've restarted,
and its only in developement stage, but i think you'll find it has a lot of
things you havent thought of so far.
along with this pack, i have several suggestions and high interest feature
requests, all based on what i've sceen so far.
the map pack is called shadowsabound, and features multiple teams.
the idea is that you play a character, but controll many in they're quest
for a lost city.
heres the link to the map pack,
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18725707/shadows-abound.zip
check it out, theirs some awesome sounds and skills, including items and a
bunch more.
now for my suggestions, as i've read through everything and it seems like
knew flags and things have become a rare occasion and scripting is the main
focus, which is fine but i honestly don't understand the scripting part of
tb so i'm sticking to what i know for now.
1 i would like to see a cost_mod= flag for items, i'm trying to make ranged
weapons i.e bows require an arrow to use when equiped, but swords and what
not not use them, but using attack_arrows_cost_mod=1 doesn't give an error
but doesn't make the attack skill use an arrow point.
2 i'd like to see a way to either have a flag or a way to controll
structures, that arent on your team.
this comes from my idea of making shops in the game, and so far it works to
a certain extent, but enemy focus on the shop too much and making it a
different team from the players means you wouldn't be able to use the buy
skill.
so a flag on the unit saying its controllable by a team would be cool,
without having to use the charm scripts.
3
i'd like to see a way of organizing the give_item flag, so that a structure
could use a skill to give 1 particular type of item, and another for another
particular item, so buying an item wouldn't allow you to buy a potion or a
great sword with the same amount of gold.
currently i have the structure with a buy skill that is a give skill but
that costs gold, and the units have a give gold skill to give the structure
the gold and then when the structure buys an item it gives it to the
friendly unit.
4 i'd like to see a way to put permanent effects on an item, so when wearing
the item it would affect the unit with that effect, but with no end round,
and when unequiping the effect would go away, like a ring of flying that
allows the unit to fly when warn.
5 i'd like to see an effect that can use the summon= flag, as i've come up
with an awesome idea. currently when units die, an effect called blood is
placed on the tile and is a move inflict modifier for the tile, and lets the
player know where units have died but only lasts for about 2 of the players
turns.
my idea is that when a particular unit dies, it summons a zombie in its
stead, for a zombie game or even for other things like killing a monster
that just grows every time you kill it.
6 i would like a way to have a skill that only works on a tile that has a
certain effect on it, where i have a necromancer unit that can summon
zombies skeletons and zombie guardians, but i'd like the summon skills to
only work on blood effected tiles giving the effect of using the corpse or
blood from that tile to summon the creature.
7 i suggested this back in december, a sub map system, where when on a tile
say 2 1, you could press a key and go in to a small sub map of that tile,
that could contain say a small building a shop or city, so that on the main
map it would only take one tile instead of a bunch, and would make building
interior maps easier.
8 would be cool to have a terrain flag of keypass=, where keypass means a
unit can only enter the tile if they have a spacific item, where as
keypass=wand means the the unit would either be wielding or have a wand in
they're inventory matching the name wand, so that a locked door in a dungion
would only be unlocked/walked through with the key.
also, if the summon= flag for effects came in, it would be possible to have
a structure called door, and when it lost it's lock point it would disappear
and an effect called open door would appear, and when the effect fizzled the
door would be resummoned in the tile, so the door wouldn't permanently go
away for a more realistic doors system in game and to keep monsters from
following unless they break down or open the door.
9 a splash effect that is directional, so that a dragon could use firebreath
and all tiles in one direction would be effected but not the tiles ajacent
to them, so if a dragon was at 1 1 and use firebreath at a unit at 3 1, 2 1
and 3 1 would be hit with fire, but 3
2 and 2 2 and any other tiles would not be effected.
10 a text flag for skills, items and effects, so when the skill item or
effect was used a text message would appear, similar to the intro and
victory texts of the game, so when a unit used fireball on an enemy, you
summon fire and hurl it at your enemy, play fireball sound, where in the
skill this would make this happen,
text=you_summon_fire_and_hurl_it_at_your_enemy
sound=fireball
11 a victory sequence in a map would be nice, so instead of completing one
objective like escape=bob|safezone // victory conditions they're would be
stages to complete to complete the hole map, so the first objective is to
get to 8 1, then once their a new message plays that tells you you must get
to 8 8, then once their the victory text and music.
this would make it nice for a map with changing variables such as more
monsters, multiple objectives and the like.
where for example in the star trek themed maps where you have to rescue a
party from an astroid and take them to the space station, that would be
objective 1, where as if it wasn't met before objective
2 the map would still fail, or even once that objective was completed the
enemy ship would be summoned, or released from ai_wait.
12 an encumberance flag for units, so a unit could only carry 12 items, not
including equipment or a weight flag with items, where the unit would have a
weight capacity and each item would weigh a certain amount.
13 an ignore unit flag for effects, so if a unit was effected by cloaking,
with cloaking having an ignore unit flag, all enemy units would ignore that
cloaked unit untill the cloak fell, giving it invisibility essentialy, and
for the player the enemy unit effected would disappear from the map until it
lost the effect.
so effectively making a way to hide, be invisible, and cloak in the game.
14 a way to make different unit have different effects when health is at
zero, currently you have to make different health to have different units
have separate effects, for example, at_zero=death is the default effect for
units, but i've found you can use blaze, blood which is just an effect that
inflicts 1 movement when stepped on, and etc...
but it would be nice to be able to specify on the unit document what effect
that particular unit would have if any when health whent to zero, like this
health_at_zero=blood where health_at_zero is giving first the point, second
the at_zero flag within the point, and the effect that is used for the unit
when health is at zero.
15 a terrain_block= flag, to go with the terrain_limit flag, where instead
of listing all the terrains a unit can go on, terrain_block lists the
terrains the unit cant go on, for units that are afraid of water, who can
fly but cant go over a tower, zombies that can go everywher but over pits,
etc...
it would be much easier than writing out all 20 terrains that the unit could
go on and would simplify certain units.
16 a remake of the replace_terrain= with one terrain that the skill places,
so instead of terrain_replace=forest|grass the skill would replace any
terrain with grass, and could use the terrain_block flag so that only
certain terrains are not buildable on, as i've noticed that the skill will
attempt to build on certain tiles and fail, but it uses the actions and acts
like it works, and it makes the ai confused.
17 fix the bug where if you reload a map, or go to the map pack menu from a
map, the music stops playing when going back to the map
18 add a skill to along with the ignore unit flag that allows a unit to see
invisible mobs, lol kind of like a detect cloaking or detect invisibility.
thanks, i'm seriously impressed with the map packs tb has now, and i hope
mine will get looked at as i realy think its awesome, though only
1 real map so far that i would call done.
that is the crossing the dark forest map, i started with it and am just
working around it to create a story line.
austen
