1. Hello. We're sorry for not having brought you the news for some time now, but time is so scarce this year that it's impossible to find room for the news. Anyway, what I really wanted was a banner, so I picked the image from "December News Batch", removed the snow and resized it for our monthly announcements thread. The trouble I went through because of the transparency was greater than drawing the missing parts of the plant (which turned out horrible, sorry, I am the worst art designer on Earth). Turns out the Pastebin was turning the images to .jpg without us noticing, and it was displaying black or white backgrounds. Pyritie taught me a way of fixing it using layers. He provided me with an image that I ended up not using. Still, I am very grateful for all the help.
2. Three more moderators have abandoned us: brad.dude03, Hanky and Traxamillion. They should keep in touch, though. I thank them (especially Hanky, who was promoted by me) for their free service and time spent here, on behalf of the administration!As they leave, new faces join our team.^{edit} Welcome WILLTHEALMIGHTY, Deathcom3s and Squiggy! You might have noticed Eccho's spell reviews as well. Yup, he is our new spells moderator! But he's not the only one. You'll find someone else among us soon.
3. Check out the index. Our new edition comes with a few innovations.
Happy Easter (and holidays, if that's the case)!
_{Opening picture by Samwise. News Batch content by Rui.}

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Top+
The Hive's Top 5! It started working on the 2nd or 4th of April (I don't remember exactly when), so the downloads only range from then until now.The gathering of these informations occurred at 10 o'clock of the 11th of April.

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The Hive's Projects

That's it, buddies! 1)ark_NiTe is back on charge and a new trailer has just been released! Check it out here!

The project which attempts to take you to an artificial World of Warcraft in Warcraft III has gained a lot of new fans thanks to an April Fools joke at ModDB.com by its creator.
As for developments, there are no good news. All the new data was lost, forcing the team to the November 18 version of Wc3:WoW (which is not a public version). The bug list remains the same. The team is planning on adding newer stuff.
hvo-busterkomo is resigning from the team, but Eleandor has already been hired and he's fixing bugs and implementing new features. Hanky will also lend his JASS knowledge to the project.

It's really hard to get scared in Warcraft, but in this map you will feel like death is behind you! The producer of this Horror game is trying to make the gaming darker and scarier.
The first beta will come out in five or six days, according to the creator.

Age of Heresy is a heavily altered melee that draws a lot of elements from the Warhammer universe as well as gameplay elements from the original Battle for Middle Earth. It features two races, Empire and Chaos, as they battle it out on fields of war.
Recent updates include the laying of all subraces for the two primary races, while the terrain is slowly progressing.

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The Hive's Arena

• Speed Mapping Contest #1: The Speed Mapping Contest is still on its first edition, but it has already generated polemic. The cheating on contests dominated the staff's topics of discussion.
  The poll results can be checked by pressing the link.
• Cinematic Contest #3: Sorrow: Like the name states, sorrow will be theme of the entries for this competition. The participants list counts 9 people.
• Terrain Contest VI: Ancient Mythology: Six days left for the end of the Terrain Contest's sixth edition. The goal was to create a mythological terrain, resembling cultures such as the Greek, the Japanese or even Norse. Check out the thread to see how well the contestants managed to do this.
• Texture Contest #13: Another Texturing Contest has taken off. Its thirteenth edition was launched on the 6th of this month. Every skin must be at least 75% freehand.
• Modeling Contest #13: The Modeling Contest #13's theme is buildings. The contest started on March 24 and its end will be on the 28th of April.
• Comic Contest #2: With "Recessions are FUNNY" as a subtitle, this competition challenges you to make a comic... when unemployed! The prize for the winner is a profile icon and 30 reputation points!

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First Plane
The First Plane is a new page of the Hive Workshop News Batch. It is a spot to interview the author of a featured map. Each edition comes with a new project and several questions for its creator.
This month, the page debuts with "Tides of Darkness", a map by Kam.
^{Interview by Rui. Screenshots provided by Kam.}
Rui: First of all, what is "Tides of Darkness"?
Kam: It's what I had envisioned Warcraft III would be. I was very bothered that naval units were left out, and even more so that the extreme sections of the two main races were splintered off into Night Elf and Undead. I never felt that either of those were real races, they were merely lost children of Humans and Orcs.
This map is placed after the fall of the demonic legion and the departure of Medivh at the end of WC III. As with most great wars, recovering nations tend to throw themselves into furthering their technology to prevent the same thing from happening again. As a result the remainder of the Scourge was absorbed by the Horde and the now mortal Night Elves sided with Humans. In addition Ogres, Trolls, and Dragons found their way back to the Horde. Both races have heavy magic reliance and spells specifically aimed at the other race (Exorcism, Disruption Ward, Unholy Spikes, Revenge of Quel'tallas). This is not meant as a re-make of WC II, rather it is the logical next step in the conflict.

The end of WC III leave the scourge decimated, and the elven race lost to mortality. It seems logical to me that they would seek to become part of a greater entity, if only for protection.

What does "Tides of Darkness" have that other altered melee maps don't?
I am constantly balancing units and spells and making sure that things make sense for the race structure. As a result, and I have been told by many people, there is an abnormal amount of balance and sense of unit placement. No unit can do what another can, there are no wasted spaces. Really what this brings though is naval unit integration. I've seen a lot of WC II based maps that never were able to balance ships with air and ground units, and I think I've done that here.

If you are using more food than you produce all of your units and structures will starve or suffer damage.
Camera distance can be adjusted.

lack of naval units, that was my favorite part of WC II. I think I'm about satisfied with where it is.

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Caught!


{EDIT}
I apologize I had to fix the images. I didn't know people needed permission to see them.

The punishment table has been removed as the standard of determining rule breaking.

It did not work out and really didn't improve the situation at all, so we're getting rid of it.

Thanks,

The Hive Workshop Administration

A new patch for warcraft 3 has been released.
New banner ad system! Well I guess we should just consider this as a bugfix release

Hey guys!
I am happy to tell you that I have fixed some things that have been bothering us all for a while.
I have finally fixed the youtube tags! Check this out:

Also. The icons section had a problem with red and blue colors being switched so icon previews looked wrong. I have applied a fix for that too.

And last. Before we had hiveworkshop limited to use 900 kilobytes/sec of our home connection which is 90%. But now the connection has been upgraded so I have let hive use 2000 kbytes/sec (which is only 60% of our connection) but it's a great upgrade.

Thank you all

Ralle

I have finally taken the time to update vBulletin. I have been lazy with that, but I saw that they just discovered a hole in the security, so I updated immediately.

There comes a few new features with this version, discover them yourself