Maps in Development (post info about your maps)

[wcaclimbing]

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY POSTED YOUR MAP IN OAKTOWN'S GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD, YOU DO NOT NEED TO POST IT HERE, ALSO. WE WILL BE TRANSFERING INFORMATION BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO.
To all of the Map Foundry Cargoraphers, this thread is the newest place to share your maps and make the Foundry run more smoothly.

This is NOT a discussion thread and NOT an advertisement thread. It is simply a list of maps and other important Foundry information that will be used to make the Foundry much more user-friendly and easier to use.

To participate, all you have to do is post a small description of your map (using the form included at the end of this post). Then, whenever I get the chance to (probably every few days), I will be copying every map description posted in this thread into this first post, so anyone and everyone, foundry regulars or new members, can come here, browse through each map included, and get a better idea of whats going on here, rather than digging through the forums trying to find the good maps.

Yes, this is similar to what used to be the Foundry News, but this time around we have a team of members backing this all up.

Here is the form to use:

Map Title (please include a link to your map thread)
Thumbnail Image (optional. keep it within 150x150 size)
Mapmaker
Description (keep it small, please)
Territories.
Special Play Features (bombardments, neutral starts, etc)

And now here is an example to get you guys going:

Map name: Duck & Cover [/b]Clicky

Mapmaker: Oaktown
Description: The year is 1953: do you know what to do in case the Russians drop the bomb? Bert the Turtle does! This map was begun in response to requests for another small map to accompany Doodle.
Territories: 24
Special features: bombardments

All updates will be added to the second post below:

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Descriptions are written by the individual mapmakers and indexed according by the map's current stage of development. This list will grow as mapmakers submit descriptions, as outlined in the second post.

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Final Forge (maps nearing completion)

Age of Realms Trilogy- Chapter 1: Age of Might Clicky

Mapmaker: DiM, gimil, yeti_c
Territories: 93 (87 start neutral)
Description: Age of Realms Trilogy- Chapter 1: Age of Might. Each person starts with just 1 territory (a castle) and expands by 'liberating' villages' resources and factories. Chapters 2 and 3 of this "Trilogy" will feature the same map, but have different borders, themes, and goals. Each "chapter" of this series will have a different goal to achieve victory.
Special Play Features: it has 90 terits that start as neutral and it's the first map that has a win objective (holding all castles). PS: it also has 199 continents, so expect lots of bonuses.

Madness - Clicky

Creator: cairnswk
Description:
* Occupy the normal areas of the Madness House: Bud's Romp and Siss' Sauna amonst them.
* Try getting the weird neighbours over for dinner in the Dining Room including the one that is continually spying on his neighbours.
* Have the dog attack the neighbours and anyone on the paths around the house.
* Hold all the toilets in the house, and clog up the crapper system.
* Loads of imaginative fun!!!
Territories: 33
Special Play Features: Nil

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Foundry Proper (The middle stage of map development)

The American Civil War - Clicky

Mapmaker: Elijah S
Description: A variation of the Classic board style, The American Civil War map will appeal to those who enjoy strategic advances and tactical manuevering.
With many ways to obtain bonuses, the gameplay will be lively and require constant evaluation of player's strategies.
Set in 1861, the onset of the war, this board combines an historic scenario with a design catered to both novices and highly experienced players.
Number of Territories: 42
Special Play Features: 13 different bonuses possible; A unique one-way attack from Maryland to Union Ships; Designed to promote North vs. South gameplay.

Battle of Gazala: Rommel vs The Allies - Clicky

Creator: cairnswk
Description: 1942, Rommel's Panzerarmee and Italian Motorized Division advances on the Allied positions held south of Tobruk, involving The Cauldron and The Gazala Line. This is a diagramatic map using icons to represent tanks, desert fox-holes, airports and minefields. Attack occurs along connection lines similar to those used in Pearl Harbor. Play includes Artillery Bombardment, and terit identification using flags played on a desert sand background.[/quote]
Number of Terits: Approx 60 plus several neutral starters for tank advancement
Special Play Features: Mortar Bombardments; neutral position starts

Conquer Club Bracket Tournament - Clicky

Creator: Coleman (Idea from bspride)
Description: Play in a Conquer Club themed Bracket Tournament on an actual map. Start in several entrant spots and work your way up. Win by defeating all other players or conquering the Final.
Number of Terits: 66
Special Play Features:Victory Condition
Some One Way Attack Routes
Teleporting (Non-Standard Movement)
Neutral Territories

Conquer-Man - Clicky

Mapmaker: WidowMakers
Description: Conquer-Man is a remake of a classic 1983 arcade game. Can you guess which one? There are no territories in Conquer-Man. Just collect as many pellets as you can. Various combinations of special territories can give you -/+ bonus as well.
Territories: 151, 141 to start (10 neutrals)
Special Play Features: neutrals, overrides, territory bonus; standard CC maps give each player 1 army per 3 territories they occupy. Conquer-Man adjusts that number. The more territories you have, the less armys you get per territory (see map)

Crossword 2.0 - Clicky
Mapmakers: spinwizard & WL_Southernener
Description: A new take on the Crossword map
Special Play Features: Some neuteral starting points.

Duck & Cover Clicky

Mapmaker: Oaktown
Description:The year is 1953: do you know what to do in case the Russians drop the bomb? Bert the Turtle does! This map was begun in response to requests for another small map to accompany Doodle.
Territories: 24
Special Play Features: bombardments

The Dungeon of Draknor: The Halls of Testing - Clicky

Mapmaker: WidowMakers, Jota
Description: This map is the first level in a series of three dungeon maps. You have entered the dungeon of Draknor and must fight you way thought to survive. However, all of the doors are 1-way. When you pass through, the door locks behind you. You must plan your attacks accordingly because the route back to the room you just came from is sure to be filled with danger and death.
Territories: 37
Special Play Features: neutrals, overrides, territory bonus
Every attack/fortification route is a 1-way border. This is not a new XML feature but it is new in terms of concept here at CC.

DUSTBOWL Clicky

Mapmaker: RjBeals
Description: Map based on the dust storms in the high plains (Central USA) during the 1930's. I am trying to keep a neutral dust or dry look to the map, with straightforward gameplay.
Territories: 36
Special Play Features: Negative Bonus for holding drought areas.

Galactic Conquest - Clicky

Mapmaker: ApophisNL (I dunno why he hasn't posted this himself)
Description: Each planet you conquer gives you the strength to conquer more Solar Systems. Conquer all 15 Solar Systems and/or your Foes for complete Galactic Conquest
Territories: There are 15 Solar systems with 47 planets for a total of 62 territories.
Special Play Features: All +2 Earth-likes & all +0 Gas-Giants start neutral; Teleports (Distance Attacks) include Wormholes, Space-Time Tears, and Stargates; Planets are worth +1 bonus (unless Earths or Gas-Giants)

Japan - Clicky
Map makers: Unit_2 & Gnome
Description: this is a map of modern day Japan, we used the bullet train for a underground passage, its pritty cool, come check it out!
Territories: 46

RAIL EUROPE - Clicky

Creator: cairnswk
Status: On Vacation
Number of Terits: 98
Special Play Features: Impassables (at some stations)
Description: Larger and has different play than RAIL USA. Mixes the lineation of RAIL USA attack lines with more standard style continents (7), in conjunction with attack barriers at some stations.

South America Clicky

Mapmaker: edbeard and Marvaddin
Description: South America. nothing complicated.
Territories: 44
Special Play Features: none. it's a pure/basic map

Spaceness Map Clicky

Mapmakers: bloknayrb and ninjastar13
Description:The Alien Spacenesses are attacking! Bombard them from the planets or gain access to them from the The Buckle. Victory is at hand!
Territories: 41
Special features: bombardments, one way attacks

SUPERMAX: Prison RiotClicky

Mapmaker: mibi
Description: A riot has just broken out at a Supermax prison. Your gang is spread out 5 cell blocks and the yard. Its chaos and only by uniting your gang will you survive.
Number of Territories: 145, 90 to start
Special Play Features: No territories. You get bonuses by uniting members of your gang. The more members you unite, the stronger your gang, and larger the bonus, but you also have to protect the gang leader, because a gang without a leader is worthless. Also capture weapons to help you survive. Watch out for hidden passages and bonuses. Sadly, this map needs an xml update for certain elements to work.


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New Map Ideas (New maps that have just started)

[quote="cairnswk"]WATERLOO - Clicky

Creator: cairnswk
Number of Terits: 102 (will be reduced)
Special Play Features: Bombardments (artillery across map), neutral terits (for advancement), One Ways, Impassables (fences, hedge-rows and brick walls), Cavalry can attack two terits ahead.
Description: Re-creation of Napoleon's famous last Battle of Waterloo (at Mont St Jean, south of the town of Waterloo). Utilises standard map layout with lots of special features described above to make gameplay interesting and arduous. Not made for speed games or the unwilling-to-strategise.

Wheel of Fortune - Clicky

Creator: DiM
Number of Terits: 6
Special Play Features: none
Description: you get 100 troops from round 1 and you can attack anything. so basically the one that goes first wins the game in round 1. quickest way to win/lose points.

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If there are any mistakes above, or you have a new update for me to add, please post it.

[Unit_2]

Japan http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28733

Map makers: Unit_2 & Gnome

this is a map of modern day Japan, we used the bullet train for a underground passage, its pritty cool, come check it out!

there is 46 territorys and 8 bonuses.

The bullet train, you can attack form one territory to the other that has a station.

[Coleman]

Well if we are going to do this. Could you get consistant formating? I know you want to just copy paste information from other people into the list but SUPERMAX very much breaks the red bold name, clicky to the right standard set by everyone else. While your fixing that adding , Coleman onto mibi would be swell.

Age of Realms Trilogy breaks the formatting a bit too. Actually the more I look the less consist things become. As Spaceness didn't do the title the same at all, and has the whole link spelled out in a rather ugly way.

On that note, you probably need a range for thumbnail size. Is 100x100 the max? Spaceness's thumbnail seemed to big and SUPERMAX too small. At the moment there is no standard there. If you intend to build something moderation can use, which I would like to believe you do, then we need a standard for thumbnail sizes, formating, ect that is being kept in the 'official' list.

Hopefully you get what I'm saying.

[oaktown]

Well if we are going to do this. Could you get consistant formating? (

In the GD thread I'm going to do what i can to keep the formatting consistent. No thumbs in the first post for sure - fine in an individual post. If something is close I'll let it slide just so I have less work to do.

[yeti_c]

This would be a really nice way to make the Development Atlas look...

C.

[wcaclimbing]

Well if we are going to do this. Could you get consistant formating?

I am planning to do that, eventually.

I was a little rushed last night when I was creating this thread.

I will probably have all the formatting issues ironed out within a day or two.

[Coleman]

Works for me, thanks for taking this on. I could maybe pull a bunch of descriptions from news and make thumbnails myself for a lot of the maps sometime in the next week.

[wcaclimbing]

That will be very helpful.


I just updated the list and changed some formatting, so it should all look much more consistant.


and i am going to set the thumbnail size limit at 150x150. yes, it is a little big, but i feel that, at least for some of the maps, a thumbnail that big is needed to show the image correctly.

[wcaclimbing]

Im bumping this from the bottom, guys.


The point is for you guys to post descriptions of your maps, in case you havent noticed...


It would just take 5 minutes and your map would be featured here.

[DiM]

please edit the info on AoR. it has 93 terits 6 playable and 87 neutrals and here is the thumbnail. oh and you can add a funfact : it has 199 continents

[Coleman]

The point is for you guys to post descriptions of your maps, in case you havent noticed...

We can't help people who won't help themselves, although we sure do try a lot.

[RjBeals]

Dustbowl moved out of the ideas into the foundry.

[oaktown]

Hey WCA, I added a few maps last night to the GD thread, and rather than PMing all of them to you individually it seemed easier to just post here. I'm posting map descriptions in the order in which they were received, so just figure out what was last for you and copy/paste everything below it.

As for formatting, it'd certainly be easier if we were consistent between each other so we can just c/p map info. Take a look at what I have going and let me know if you'd like to do something different.

[wcaclimbing]

please edit the info on AoR. it has 93 terits 6 playable and 87 neutrals and here is the thumbnail. oh and you can add a funfact : it has 199 continents

Done.

@oaktown:

Im working on that right now. will be done in a sec.

The only inconsistency i see is that your map titles are blue and mine are red.

Im going to change all of mine to Blue.

[DiM]

Map title:Wheel of Fortune - Clicky
Creator: DiM
Status: Map Idea
Number of Terits: 6
Special Play Features: none
Description: you get 100 troops from round 1 and you can attack anything. so basically the one that goes first wins the game in round 1. quickest way to win/lose points.
Thumbnail: