Formerly the Map Ideas Thread, now CLOSED

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:11 pm

Hmm, I think the entire east american bayou area could be underwater and be called Atlantis II.

I also think Amsterdam / Netherlands could be called El Dorado. Call Jota!

Unit_2 · Post by **Unit_2** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:04 pm

unriggable wrote:Hmm, I think the entire east american bayou area could be underwater and be called Atlantis II.

I also think Amsterdam / Netherlands could be called El Dorado. Call Jota!

we on the eastcoast are high from the water deeps.. the onlything that maybe under water would be Florda/Georgia.

godo idea volfan

oaktown · Post by **oaktown** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:21 pm

Levet wrote:Now that's a thought. It might be too much coding on the admin's parts, but if we could get it to start with 6 different spaces on the first square, and have the rest neutral, and not have anything able to attack square one, and win at square 100. It would be even awesomer to be able to fortify to an enemie's territory, like using your enemy as your weapon of mass destruction to clear your path.

I don't know if they'd be able to code it like that, but that would make the game a LOT more interesting.

This is totally do-able given the recent additions to the XMl options. You can code squares 2-100 as neutral to open, and you can code square 100 as the "objective."

XML tutorial wrote:Optionally, you can specify winning conditions for your map. An objective is a set of territories that when held will give the player an early victory. A map can have several objectives and a held objective ends the game in both Assassin and Terminator games. In the case of a Terminator game points would be earned from all opponents who haven't been terminated.

You'd have to make the opening attack one-way, i.e. square 2 can't attack any of the starting squares, or else everybody would just play for quick eliminations. In fact, you'd probably want to make ALL of the squares one-way attacks, because nobody ever goes backwards in the real game unless it's on a slide.

turtle32 · Post by **turtle32** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:01 am

you couldn't split the first square into 6, but you can make 6 diffrent starting squares that can't attack each other and only attack space 2

100 is a little bit excessive, unless you do something like recieving an extrodinary amount for holding the starting square
ie turtle32 recieves 3 for have 1 territory
turtle32 recieve 10 for holding their starting territory...everyone would start with the same number and it would be a very intresting game

the one thing i have about this map is that you would not be able to eliminate another player from the game.

if you get the map worked out i would LOVE to work on the xml

turtle32 · Post by **turtle32** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:09 am

sent you a pm, i'm up for xml

johloh · Post by **johloh** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:33 am

san andreas isnt a real place. its a fault (why we have so many earthquakes) that runs the entire length of california. rockstar created an imaginary city that had imaginary parts of LA and SF mixed together even though theyre like 6 hours away from eachother...its based in reality but not real.

and i wont support a map about LA...not because it wouldnt be a good map, but just because i hate LA, the dodgers, and everything to do with southern california.

that being said, you'd have to think of an interesting way to implement the freeways. if the freeways were not some part of this map to make it different (ie not just borders) then theres really no point...LA is freeways.

johloh · Post by **johloh** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:35 am

I'm in the process of moving from the bay area to southern California

oh man oaktown...dont do it, its not too late....come back...

Gnome · Post by **Gnome** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:00 pm

are you going to post us an image of your work so far? I realy like the idea,
I want to see it done :wink:

oaktown · Post by **oaktown** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:07 pm

johloh wrote:oh man oaktown...dont do it, its not too late....come back...

Actually, johloh, it is too late. Gots me a job and everything. But I'll be back. It sucks being surrounded by both Dodgers fans and Angels fans. if one more person mentions Kirk Gibson...

And I wouldn't say that L.A. is freeways, I'd say L.A. is traffic. The freeways are just concentrated traffic, and thus they are concentrated L.A. And when you're in a car without A.C. on a freeway that isn't moving it's canned, frozen, concentrated L.A.

I'd like to play around with this idea, but I've got two other ideas I'd like to see realized first.

DiM · Post by **DiM** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:16 pm

i was bored and i had a few free minutes so i remembered this idea so i decided to see if i can do any good space images.

like em?

cairnswk · Post by **cairnswk** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:22 pm

OK everyone....this is about to go back into development. Are there any good suggestions for something you want on it?

Should i keep the spider web concept?

Chirondom · Post by **Chirondom** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:16 am

I had an idea for EuroApocalypse. France was going to be a caliphate...

Gnome · Post by **Gnome** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:07 pm

so Levet, are you going to make this map or is it ok if I or some1 else take it over? I'd like to try this idea...

JerenYun · Post by **JerenYun** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:35 pm

Now THAT is a nice idea.

I just wish I knew how to make a magic eye image (or even that text you did).

jako · Post by **jako** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:43 pm

what the f*ck is this?

go put ur time into something worthwhile like actually making sense. looking at that text above made me light headed and also gave a headache H2SY

turtle32 · Post by **turtle32** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:35 pm

who ever does have a good idea, in xml there is a new bombardment code, which could be cool for this map, it lets you weaken territories but not conqueror them. Might be nice for a ladder or a chute

DeBlaze · Post by **DeBlaze** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:29 pm

johloh wrote:san andreas isnt a real place. its a fault (why we have so many earthquakes) that runs the entire length of california. rockstar created an imaginary city that had imaginary parts of LA and SF mixed together even though theyre like 6 hours away from eachother...its based in reality but not real.

and i wont support a map about LA...not because it wouldnt be a good map, but just because i hate LA, the dodgers, and everything to do with southern california.

that being said, you'd have to think of an interesting way to implement the freeways. if the freeways were not some part of this map to make it different (ie not just borders) then theres really no point...LA is freeways.

Don't hate. :cry:

Unit_2 · Post by **Unit_2** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:53 pm

how about someone trys to make a revamp of germany

oaktown · Post by **oaktown** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:18 am

knallkar wrote:What about a London underground map, where every line is a region, and every station a "land"?

This was attempted months ago and abandoned because of copyright issues. Too bad, too, because the map looked great... largely in part because the Underground map looks so good to begin with.

jako · Post by **jako** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:24 am

Unit_2 wrote:how about someone trys to make a revamp of germany

i agree, the graphics and textures in the germany map is outrageous, and very ugly.

gimil · Post by **gimil** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:39 am

Unit_2 wrote:how about someone trys to make a revamp of germany

revamps go through KEYOGI

the_fatty · Post by **the_fatty** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:39 pm

Computer Keyboard

it would be the basic shape of a keyboard on a comp. it would have all of the letters and other keys. thats all ive got right now, but i hope to have more soon

Levet · Post by **Levet** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:52 pm

I don't have the resources from my computer to draw or code anything, so I guess it's up for grabs. I don't mind, or care about credit, just as long as the map turns out good. If you need/want any more ideas or want to bounce some ideas off of me, you can pm me.

oaktown · Post by **oaktown** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:08 am

Mappa Mundi

those of you out there who've studied some cartography may be familiar with mappae mundi, medieval european world maps which were meant to demonstrate the perfection of God's creation (earth) rather than actually help you figure out how to get anywhere. The T-O format in which I'm interested shows the earth as a big O with Asia at the top and water flowing into the Mediterranean from the great rivers, the Nile and the Danube, like a big T:

There are hundreds of variations and surviving examples, so it'd take some serious development time to come up with a good CC model. I have no idea yet what the territories or bonuses would look like, but it could include all sorts of good suff from early Christian dogma... Europe could be inhabited by the 15 tribes of the sons of Japheth, Paradise would site on top of the world, etc.

I'm just curious to see if there's any interest in such a project BEFORE i start (berlin, anyone?), and I want to make sure such a project wouldn't upset anybody's religious sensibilities (though I suspect that anybody who still adheres to 12th Century papal decrees probably isn't wasting their time at this site.)

here's a very busy example of an old mappa mundi, which obviously isn't in CC shape but it gives you an idea of what I'm thinking stylistically...

yamahafazer · Post by **yamahafazer** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:51 am

What about a London Underground Train map..... could be cool!!

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