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by **MrBenn** on Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:54 pm

Judging from the lack of comments, it would appear that there is not a great deal of support for the map as it currently stands.

I'm not sure whether it's the idea or the implementation of it that isn't grabbing people though :-k

Personally, I would prefer a map with some sort of backstory that I could associate with - I think you should settle on the story that you're trying to tell, and run with that.... there are too many versions wit/without crystals/wizards/monster-groups.... I'm not too sure what exactly you're trying to achieve here, and am starting to wonder whether you may be better off applying your talents to a different project?

I'm not insinuating that you should drop this now, but I'd urge a bit of caution in case this does turn into a dead horse :-(

by **dolomite13** on Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:44 pm

I'm back from vacation and will have a concrete idea on how I would like this map to proceed later today or early tomorrow ... I believe that the neutral monster map is the one I would like to pursue first and will be open to alternative monster maps after I complete this one.

by **dolomite13** on Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:46 pm

I have decided I want this map to follow the mostly neutral starting monsters format and to have some sort of victory condition that does not necessarily mean defeating all of the wizards or that grants a big enough bonus by capturing a certain set of monsters or items on the map that a stalemate would be impossible.

I have added 8 more small monsters and an orb. The rob in the center marked with an "X" is one way attack into it. It allows you to reap an increased bonus from controlling the colored monsters "Z" (or mini orbs if I decide to change them). A possible bonus structure would be as follows.

Base + is listed as well as the total units from bonus in parenthesis.

Z = +2 (2)
X = +2 (2)
X+Z = +1 (5)
X+Z+Z = + 3 (9)
X+Z+Z+Z = + 5 (13)
X+Z+Z+Z+Z = + 7 (17)
X+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z = + 9 (21)
X+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z = + 11 (25)
X+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z = + 13 (29)
X+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z+Z = + 15 (33)

I still want to autodeploy 3 to a wizard each turn and to do a reset of shields to 15 that are player controlled.

As for a backstory... I believe that the wizards have gone into the monsters lair to try and recover the orbs of power. The orbs will help their kingdoms defeat the other kingdoms.

Please let me know what you think. I will have a nice mockup map done in a few days based on this model.

Connection Map

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/325 ... f872_o.png

by **dolomite13** on Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:50 pm

OK the official map name is now..

Monsters!
Battle For the Powerstone

As a powerful wizard you have volunteered to go into the lair of the monsters to retrieve the legendary "Powerstone" to help your kingdom defeat your enemies. This won't be easy as each kingdom has heard of your quest and is sending their own wizard to retrieve the stone as well.

I have settled on a single powerstone in the center of the map and the connection map in the previous post.

Any future maps will be more polished versions of this one.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/325 ... 802c_o.png

When I have completed this one I was thinking of doing a "Monsters Classic" using the classic connection scheme and bonuses.

--Dolomite

by **sailorseal** on Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:03 pm

Very nice but can you make it clearer how each monster attacks each other. Could you add it to the legend?
Great map!

by **LED ZEPPELINER** on Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:44 pm

how are you supposed to tell which monster is which

by **the.killing.44** on Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:48 pm

LED ZEPPELINER wrote:how are you supposed to tell which monster is which

The glow, no?

.44

by **dolomite13** on Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:00 pm

I will be adding names to the monsters as well as some way to show attack paths, it is pretty obvious which are adjacent to each other but the colored ones being able to attack the wizards that match their color it is about the color aura/glow.

by **dolomite13** on Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:39 pm

I can't get the poll creator to work. So I am adding the poll here for now.

How should the monsters be named?
1) 3 letter names like "Ago" "Zox" "Ead"
2) 2 letter names like "Ag" "Zo" "Ex"
3) Numbers like "21" "22" "23"
4) Other (I will post my idea to this thread)

by **sailorseal** on Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:54 pm

I like non-real place maps. I would like to see the variety of colors used on the power stone, toned done because it makes it hard to look at. Could you make it much clearer which monster attacks what? I can tell for most of them but a few are so so. I would make something bombard something.
Very nice map and great graphics...

by **Joodoo** on Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:27 am

I have a suggestion for an objective:
Hold the colored orb, 4 wizards of any color, and it's 4 corresponding monsters for one round to win!

by **dolomite13** on Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:43 am

My photoshop died on me (corrupt file) and I finally found my install disk so I will have an update for the map this week sometime. Just wanted to provide some status so the map doesn't get marked as dead =)