Island of Doom

[DiM]

The Military Base and Volcano don't serve much purpose other than for their respective objectives. Maybe include some nice one-way attacks, like Volcano ---> Netiro, Volcano ---> Polt, Volcano ---> Vuner, Secret Base ---> Jurib. Also, the dark, "gritty" metal background for the legend doesn't really work well with the font. I'd suggest picking a different font for the legend. You should make the map overall darker and "grittier" to give it more worthy of the descriptor, "DOOM"

-Sully

the legend is still a work in progress. in fact the background is taken from the steamworks map

[DiM]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

maybe in the next one

[Victor Sullivan]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

Yeah, and the DHARMA stations and giant stone foot? The hell is wrong with you, DiM??!

-Sully

[grifftron]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

Yeah, and the DHARMA stations and giant stone foot? The hell is wrong with you, DiM??!

-Sully

Please don't go towards LOST because that would be silly... but I do agree with lostatlimbo.. this is the f'ing "Island of Doom!"... you gotta make it dark, scary.. have monsters, fires, blood and whatever else makes things scary!... looking at your past maps, you obviously could do something like that, its just not living up to its name atm IMO

-griff

[Victor Sullivan]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

Yeah, and the DHARMA stations and giant stone foot? The hell is wrong with you, DiM??!

-Sully

Please don't go towards LOST because that would be silly... but I do agree with lostatlimbo.. this is the f'ing "Island of Doom!"... you gotta make it dark, scary.. have monsters, fires, blood and whatever else makes things scary!... looking at your past maps, you obviously could do something like that, its just not living up to its name atm IMO

-griff

Lol, griff, I was JKing.

-Sully

[DiM]

ok so despite what people might think my inspiration source is not LOST. in fact i have never seen a single episode of LOST. maybe they had a dark scary place there but that's not really what i'm aiming for.
in fact my inspiration source is DEAD ISLAND, for those that played the game they surely know it was a bright lush nice place with gorgeous scenery and yet any time you heard a screamer you'd shit your pants not knowing where the freaking zombies would attack from. point is it doesn't have to be dark to be scary.

[AndyDufresne]

I like the overall aesthetic of this map, and knights and warlocks. I'd probably play this a lot more than knights and warlocks though, since K&W feels like some of your other maps dressed up a little differently.

Best of luck.


--Andy

[Gillipig]

Reminds me very much of your other map Knights and Warlocks. Are you planning to go ahead with both of them or just trying two ideas out and then choosing one to go ahead with?

[DiM]

Reminds me very much of your other map Knights and Warlocks. Are you planning to go ahead with both of them or just trying two ideas out and then choosing one to go ahead with?

aside from some graphic resemblances the rest is completely different. both the theme and the gameplay are completely different than Knights and Warlocks.

so obviously i'm going forward with both.

[Gillipig]

Reminds me very much of your other map Knights and Warlocks. Are you planning to go ahead with both of them or just trying two ideas out and then choosing one to go ahead with?

aside from some graphic resemblances the rest is completely different. both the theme and the gameplay are completely different than Knights and Warlocks.

Graphics is the first second and third thing I look at. Takes me a long time before I even start looking at the gameplay. Just how my eyes work I guess.

[lostatlimbo]

ok so despite what people might think my inspiration source is not LOST. in fact i have never seen a single episode of LOST. maybe they had a dark scary place there but that's not really what i'm aiming for.
in fact my inspiration source is DEAD ISLAND, for those that played the game they surely know it was a bright lush nice place with gorgeous scenery and yet any time you heard a screamer you'd shit your pants not knowing where the freaking zombies would attack from. point is it doesn't have to be dark to be scary.

I was just teasing you, but this actually surprises me. There are so many elements of LOST here, and especially with the winning condition being All temples + Volcano... that's almost the plot. Plus the military base, the antennas, etc.

Perhaps the creators of LOST were also inspired by the Dead Island game.

At any rate, I don't think any semblance to the show is a bad thing. Someone suggested a LOST map in the melting pot a while back and I thought it was a great idea and I like the look of this one on its own too.

[DiM]

so, what else needs to be done here?

hit me with feedback people
what do you think of the neutrals? the bonuses?

VS said i should "include some nice one-way attacks, like Volcano ---> Netiro, Volcano ---> Polt, Volcano ---> Vuner, Secret Base ---> Jurib"
thoughts?

[zimmah]

so, what else needs to be done here?

hit me with feedback people
what do you think of the neutrals? the bonuses?

VS said i should "include some nice one-way attacks, like Volcano ---> Netiro, Volcano ---> Polt, Volcano ---> Vuner, Secret Base ---> Jurib"
thoughts?

in the legend you're reffering to military base, however on the map it's named secret base.

also, i like the fact that you have no classic continents in this one. I'd suggest removing the territory count bonus as well (like get 4 armies for 12 territories and 5 for 15) and instead just have everyone get 4 armies regartless of how many territories one has. (or maybe just the standard 3). Also i'd like to have some kind of system like in the England map where you get bonus armies for holding x amount of territories in a certain region, however unlike the england map it would be nice if those regions overlap. so in essense you'd be able to craft your own little continent.

not sure if it fits the theme and style of the map, if it does, implement it, if it doesn't use it in a future map.

[DiM]

in the legend you're reffering to military base, however on the map it's named secret base.

will change

also, i like the fact that you have no classic continents in this one. I'd suggest removing the territory count bonus as well (like get 4 armies for 12 territories and 5 for 15) and instead just have everyone get 4 armies regartless of how many territories one has. (or maybe just the standard 3).

this can be done.

Also i'd like to have some kind of system like in the England map where you get bonus armies for holding x amount of territories in a certain region, however unlike the england map it would be nice if those regions overlap. so in essense you'd be able to craft your own little continent.

not sure if it fits the theme and style of the map, if it does, implement it, if it doesn't use it in a future map.

it doesn't quite really fit this style. however i coult try and implement this into knights and warlocks. i'll see.

[isaiah40]

This here is your stamp of Doom!