Ok I have (relucantly) walled off the seaport in Gilneas City to make the area easier to defend and I agree Gilneas needs more mid game to late game events.
In response to events for Gilneas, I have been researching wow events and have now included a new mid-game Quest: Rescue Lorna Crowley. You will get this Quest once you have reinstated King Genn Greymane, you must bring a hero to the Forsaken base of Sepulcher to free Lorna, then you must escort her safely to Gilneas city.
As a reward you get a gold/lumber award plus a new hero: Darius Crowley.
I like the idea of 7th Legion scouts and Submarines for Gilneas and they won't be too difficult to include, previous versions of LTA actually included Submarines but they were since taken out. The scouts will be good to provide true sight so Worgens can see invisible units.
I'm looking up lore but the 7th Legion dosnt seem to have any connection to Gilneas?
Do you think Arugral joining with Scourge would be non-lore compatable? Some people really don't like the bits where I've bent lore a bit (like the Absorb the SDunwell event).
I have a question, the newest version is the "LORDAERON: The Aftermath v1.14" right ?
Yes, the next version, V1.15 is coming out on make me host on Sunday 19th.
This I wanted to talk about for a while. Your map is based on actual lore and that's why most of us love it really. I never understood this possibility given to players to ruin games just typing "-ally w/e". It is possible in every strategy map I can think of (non-LTA games being just not played anymore), but I fail to see the point in it.
How many times did we loose to Scarlet crusade allying with Twilight's Hammer, Legion with Twilight's Hammer, Naga instantly coming back into the Alliance or any nonsense alliance you can think of?
If a player lost well sorry but that's it. As it is, only Scourge, after having lost the Lich King, is really over. Any other faction can just find an ally and restart from scratch (mostly with heroes). Not gamebreaking you'd say, but when we talk Cho'gall, Dreadlords and such, that actually makes a difference in fights between two major and nearly balanced powers.
Apart from Scourge aligned factions and Twilight's Hammer (things being different for the later as it can now get into the Horde), the perimeter of the alliances changes a lot throughout a game (think about Blood Elves' switching allegiances, Forsaken starting with Legion, going their way then entering the Horde and so on). You really don't need other means to change sides.
Straight to the point, this command brings nothing to the map except ruining it from both a lore (ok this is pure crap lorewise) and gameplay point of view.
You should really consider getting rid of it entirely.
I understand your points but let me explain why the alliance system is in place.
I have allways aimed to give players as many options as possible, thats why each race has different paths and options available to them. This keeps the game fun and unpredictable and increased re-playability.
I don;t want players to leave the game just because they feel they have "lost" I actually want them to find ways to survive not force them to leave, finding new allies is an important part of this.
It's not fair to have a players game ruined just because his ally is either a complete noob or has left, for races such as Cult of Damned/Scourge they need to be able to find new allies should this happen to them.
It can also act as a balancing mechanism, as if one faction is getting too powerful the others can ally and band against him, this isnt against the lore as didnt Horde ally Alliance during the 3rd war to fight the Legion?
I know some people may use it to make stupid or unfair alliances but I hope most people use this alliance system fairly. When I'm playing I am careful not to ally any powerful factions and often if I think we're getting too powerful I'll even unally my allies and go solo.
I think the alliance system add alot to the game.
By the way Illidari should NOT be to re-enter the alliance, if they've somehow managed to do this i need to know as it will be a trigger bug.