MrBenn wrote:Conditional AutodeploysThe tag for autodeploy is currently a <bonus> tag within the <territory> collection. It would make more sense (and add more versatility) to add a conditional autodeploy to the <continent> collection.
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<continent>
<name>Oceania</name>
<bonus>0</bonus>
<components>
<territory>Indonesia</territory>
<territory>New Guinea</territory>
<territory>Western Australia</territory>
<territory>Eastern Australia</territory>
</components>
<autodeploy=”2”>Indonesia</autodeploy>
<autodeploy=”-1”>Eastern Australia</autodeploy>
</continent>
Killer Neutral Tweak **NOTE: There is a known bug when players are eliminated by a killer neutral – it may be worth resolving this!
There have been requests to update the killer neutral code to allow for the neutral to respawn/reset to a different value.
Description: At the moment you can have
<neutral>2</neutral>
or
<neutral killer="yes">5</neutral>
The Maze Craze map requires this to be tweaked slightly... could we change to?
<neutral killer="5">2</neutral>
So the neutral initialises with 2 but when captured it returns to 5.
Alternatively add a separate <neutral reset> tag, which could be used with the neutral killer, or proposed decay?
Decay to Neutral Negative autodeploy currently stops when a territory has a single army on it. With killer neutrals, a precedent has been set for territories to revert to neutral, and so it would be logical to extend the behaviour of decaying territories. However, in order to maintain backwards-compatibility, I would suggest the addition of a <decay> tag:
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<territory>
<name>No Mans Land</name>
<borders>
<border>Dalhart</border>
<border>Clayton</border>
<border>Boise City</border>
</borders>
<coordinates>
<smallx>90</smallx>
<smally>90</smally>
<largex>200</largex>
<largey>111</largey>
</coordinates>
<bonus>-1</bonus>
</territory>
<territory>
<name>No Mans Land</name>
<borders>
<border>Dalhart</border>
<border>Clayton</border>
<border>Boise City</border>
</borders>
<coordinates>
<smallx>90</smallx>
<smally>90</smally>
<largex>200</largex>
<largey>111</largey>
</coordinates>
<decay>1</decay>
</territory>
Conditional Borders Previously (and frequently) referred to as Dynamic Borders, conditional borders have been mentioned a number of times under various guises. Their addition would open up Conquer Club to a whole new level of strategy, and further differentiate from the well-known Hasbro clone
Previous suggestions have incorporated multiple map images, although this could initially be done within a single static image: a 'green key territory' could be used to open attack routes through 'green doors'... hold a ladder/rope to climb/descend... etc. etc.
The below example is an idea of how it could be implemented - continents have been included for versatility.
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<territory>
<name>Door</name>
<borders>
<border>Hallway</border>
<conditionalborder>
<required territory>Key</required territory>
<required continent>Guardhouse</required continent>
<border>Drawbridge</border>
<bombardment>Moat</bombardment>
</conditionalborder>
</borders>
</territory>
Permanent Visibles There have been murmurs of approval for some sort of sentry/scout/lookout post territories for use in foggy games – territories that can see through the fog, without the ability to attack.
Note: Visibles could theoretically be included in conditional borders (above)
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<territory>
<name>Lookout Post</name>
<borders>
<border>Inner Wall</border>
<border>Outer Wall</border>
<visible>Over The Hill</visible>
<visible>Far Away</visible>
</territory>
Perma-fog The antithesis to the lookout post/permanent visibles, would be permanent fog (for non-adjacent territories)
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<territory>
<name>No Mans Land</name>
<borders>
<border>Dalhart</border>
<border>Clayton</border>
<border>Boise City</border>
</borders>
<coordinates>
<smallx>90</smallx>
<smally>90</smally>
<largex>200</largex>
<largey>111</largey>
</coordinates>
<bonus>-1</bonus>
<permafog>True</permafog>
</territory>
Grouped Starting Positions If there was any way of assigning starting positions to teams, then that would be a very welcome addition. Rather than specifiying positions for particular players, is there any way that the starting positions could be grouped so that groups of positions will be given to the same team… The maximum number of teams in a game is 4 (4x doubles), so perhaps <group> tags could be added each position – and then each player will be assigned positions corresponding with their teammates – but you could keep it randomised so that team 1 would not necessarily be allocated group 1...
If there are more teams than groups, then the start positions should be ignored. Equally, if there are less teams than groups, then each team could be given two positions (ie if there are 4 coded groups in a quads game, then Team 1 (red, green, blue, yellow) would receive two groups, with team 2 receiving the other.
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<positions>
<position>
<territory>Britain</territory>
<group>1</group>
</position>
<position>
<territory>France</territory>
<group>1</group>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Holland</territory>
<group>1</group>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Spain</territory>
<group>1</group>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Portugal</territory>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Inuit Homeland</territory>
<group>2</group>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Comanche Homeland</territory>
<group>2</group>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Aztec Homeland</territory>
<group>2</group>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Mapuche Homeland</territory>
<group>2</group>
</position>
</positions>
Default Starting Position It would be nice if you could select a single starting position that would always be allocated – ie. In a Humans v Aliens map, with 7 different species of alien, you could ensure that somebody would represent Humans in every game…
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<positions>
<position>
<territory>Humans</territory>
<default>True</team>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Ewoks</territory>
</position>
<position>
<territory>Vulcans</territory>
</position>
</positions>
Objectives Tweak Amend objectives to include <continent> tags as well as <territory> tags. This would allow for more flexibility of objectives (such as “Control 60% of the board.”)
Starting Bonus Override/Delay One of the things that we have become semi-obsessional over with maps, is to reduce the probability of the first player receiving (large) bonuses. In order to help mitigate the luck of the drop – and to try and add more balance to the game, it would be nice to be able to specify bonuses to be ignored during round 1 (or possibly to be reshuffled in the same way as when an objective is held on the drop)
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<map>
<title>Classic</title>
<smallwidth>600</smallwidth>
<smallheight>325</smallheight>
<largewidth>800</largewidth>
<largeheight>433</largeheight>
<filetype>jpg</filetype>
<delaybonus>
<continent>South America</continent>
<continent>Oceania</continent>
</delaybonus>
Game Start Message Just a simple xml tag to define a message posted to chat or the game log at the start of every game on that map.
Mostly for storytelling or "setting the mood"
Would need standards set - under x number of characters, yes/no to "map created by", "Beware the prison of Alcatraz for you shall never escape it" is a gameplay tip but in character so to speak where "Alcatraz has no outward borders" is just an explanation - which, if either is acceptable, etc etc etc.
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<map>
<title>Classic</title>
<smallwidth>600</smallwidth>
<smallheight>325</smallheight>
<largewidth>800</largewidth>
<largeheight>433</largeheight>
<filetype>jpg</filetype>
<startmessage>”"Beware the prison of Alcatraz for you shall never escape it."</startmessage>
</map>
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:11 pm
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