Fortress Builder V1.95o

[Moderator]

04:19, 27th Dec 2009
ap0calypse: Approved

 

[wereguy2]

Glitches glitches glitches and bugs!
For example, when summoning with the Leader, both spells are used!
It was also incredible imbalanced, why would I pay 1000 for a tower that is weaker than before!
There was lots of typos and bad tooltips.
But despite all these things, the map could get very fun with some work, there were a lot of different units (though you should change their icons) and this has potential!
But for now...
2.5/5

 

[Tha Flamestorm]

Maybe some more good looking terrain aswell would do?

 

[Arcmage]

Thank you for your help I fixed the bugs you mentioned i'm afraid its hard for me to test my map as testing single player is both boring an inefficent and i cant host so i can only test online if a friend is willing to host it for me. I would be thankful if you posted any bugs you see on this form or send them to me at [email protected]

 

[wereguy2]

I test offline

 

[Arcmage]

I did do some offline testing but its not as efficent as online testing because 12 people are more likely to find a bug then 1 person also i'm sort of new to testing and map making so I missed quite a few bugs anyway thanks for you help and comments and please message me if you find bugs.

 

[wereguy2]

Well in my experience, more than a few of those 12 people cant be bothered to tell me about bugs and just quit... -.-

 

[Arcmage]

It just matters who those people are I usually test with my friends who tend to be patient with my map but when I have joined other peoples tests I do see lots of people who say "this map sucks!" then just quit

 

[Tha Flamestorm]

This map is incredibly boring, no offense but it needs more things added to it or even better, do a new one!

 

[Arcmage]

I have been adding more content to the map with each release (orignaly there where 3 tiers of units now there are 5 as well as additional creeps and items) also I have plans to add more content to the map more balances in next version as well as a new hero lich which will be an upgrade to archmage

 

[Septimus]

set those changelog into hidden tag, they are not consider as part of the description.

and saying this is your first map would not help at all, elaborate the part of your map.

 

[Arcmage]

this probably sound's noobish but how exactly do you put it into a hidden tag?

 

[ap0calypse]

this probably sound's noobish but how exactly do you put it into a hidden tag?

First of all, read my tutorial (in my signature).
After you've done that, here are some BB-codes that may be useful:

The BB-codes (remove the space in between the square brackets)

[ hidden="How it looks"]

[ simpletable=Your Map]

[ center][ h1]Header 1[/h1][/center]
[ indent][ h2]Header 2[/h2][/indent]
[ h3]Header 3[/h3]

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[ list]

[*]Note 1

[*]Note 2

[*]...

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[ hr]500[/hr]

[ box=Extra Info]

[ list=1]

[*]Note 1

[*]Note 2

[*]....

[/list]

[ list=a]

[*]Something

[*]Another thing

[/list]
[/box]
[ /hidden]

How it looks

Header 1

Header 2

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Header 3

Here you can type whatever you want, the basic gameplay, the story, ...

• Note 1
• Note 2
• ...

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1. Note 1
2. Note 2
3. ....

• Something
• Another thing

That's about it I guess... once you're used to it, it's really easy.

 

[DrazharLn]

5 different tears of units

You mean tiers, probably.

I'll edit this when I've played the game.
EDIT: I never got round to playing your game, sorry about that

 

[Aesthetics]

Sorry, but is this another clone of "Village Builder"? :\

 

[ShadowDemonLord]

Wow arc, your going through updates pretty quick, got people to help ya or something? Lol, perhaps they could help me out on Kingdom Wars. Anywho, looks pretty cool on the preview, I'll play it when I get back home from the hospital today.

 

[Arcmage]

No its a clone of Empire Builder which predates Village builder I think And it has the added bonus of Imported models, random events, custom ability's, and zombie invasions!

When I played created this map Id never even played Village builder (although I had played Empire builder) I'm not trying to claim this is incredibly original but I definitely think it has some unique features and Unlike village builder your not likely to archive a virtually unlimited amount of money and unit spam.

 

[Aesthetics]

No its a clone of Empire Builder which predates Village builder I think And it has the added bonus of Imported models, random events, custom ability's, and zombie invasions!

When I played created this map Id never even played Village builder (although I had played Empire builder) I'm not trying to claim this is incredibly original but I definitely think it has some unique features and Unlike village builder your not likely to archive a virtually unlimited amount of money and unit spam.

Well put.

 

[Arcmage]

Ideas

Well as has been brought to my attention there are quite a few "Builder maps" I aim to make mine more than just a bunch of spam units. I would like to add some original ideas to the map, already I plan on a system of bomb planters and defuses (bombs being high damage after delay weapons used to take out forts/army's and defusers being special units that can deactivate them) But I would greatly appreciate it if anyone posted a practical way to make this map more unique. Feel free to post any idea that comes to your head but I don't promise I will implement it.

 

[triptick]

here is a minimap image i made for this map
just put it in imports and set the path to overwrite the current

 

[Malcous]

You should improve the terrain

 

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Add a bit more info to the description.

 

[The Templar]

there are quet a few glitches butttt i think it has a lot of potecshal so give it some work and im shur it will play great.

 

[ACdestinydream]

one serious mistake : do not allow the repair to be done on anything except the scout tower, ppl usually uses repair on castle and they were gg-ed

 

[Hordeon]

I think empire builders are boring...

 

[DrazharLn]

Ok, do you also have a useful comment to add?

 

[Lee_Go]

Yeah you need to really balance it. Unit collision sizes are off, their costs are off especially in the really high barracks'. I don't think bombs should be buildable by the beginning worker, most building hotkeys don't work. Need more building variation. I personally think you should remove the ground textures for the buildings, and of course you need new walls, the WC3 walls are horrible. The game is really boring in beginning because everything is expensive but the income is slow.
I like the random events idea and zombies/vampires but I see it still needs a ton of work, otherwise the layout is nice.

 

[Kagedviper]

I demand a credit in the credits >=O

Also knowing when you update would be nice <.<;

 

[Arcmage]

Currently I update approximately whenever I feel like it, and you are in the credits inside of the map I mealy forgot to update the credits on Hive workshop. (btw if anyone is wondering KagedViper redid the blight terrain and is going to be helping me re terrain some of the map)

 

[huntere15]

Arcmage i remember testing this with you anyways i have a suggestion for the demons move the demon spawn thing closer to the portal it's too far away and fix the random biobombs everywhere most likely caused by memory leaks also

 

[Arcmage]

@hunter
I fixed the random bombs a long time ago (twas caused by a dummy unit not being deleted properly) and the demon terrain will be redone soon probably not by me I suck at terrain) so the portal will probably move.

 

[knight26]

how the hell do i release my demon lord??!

 

[huntere15]

Hey Arcmage i found nice model for this map http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/doombeast-89842/?prev=d%3Dlist%26r%3D20%26c%3D33%26t%3D1

I didn't make it.

 

[triptick]

1.77 is broke, after choosing a culture your hero losses the repair item

 

[screamza]

Hey arc it's Alcoyte i am getting my clan bots to download this today the testing will commence. my clan has bots so this should aid in your test.

 

[CyberDuelX16]

Screenshots?

 

[aznL-iPawD]

I kind of dislike the neutral creeps in this game =\ <THEY KILLED ME AT THE START>

I went into a castle, and when i finally arrived in the watch tower two guys ambushed me with their guys.. I escaped with the sacrifice of my guards. So i went out and ran into a bunch of neuts that circled me... And yeah you.. you know what happens next

*EDIT, I rmked and succesfully started a pwnage empire

Anyways, I found out that you had 3 problems
1. The Tower '20/20' system... I built 20/20 towers, but i destroyed one because i needed to move it.. But it still says that i have 20 towers?
2. Why do some units (E.G 'Mage Knight') look like they can upgrade their weapons and armour but theres no blacksmith =\ ?
And Finally,
3. Why do Demon Slayers have the 'defend' ability, but its not avaliable to research

Anyways thats all.. LOL

 

[Arcmage]

I will look into the tower bug if you could tell me the circumstances under which you noticed the glitch (how did you destroy the tower) it might help because I thought I fixed that. There are no upgrades in Fortress Builder because I think there lame in long games (because they are worth there price 20x over and basically just punish anyone too noobish to know to get them). I will attempt to remove the icons that where giving the impression of upgrades.

 

[aznL-iPawD]

As soon as it said MAXIUMUM OF 20/20 TOWERS (Or something like that) I Killed a tower with a Siege Cannon, since (as said above) i needed to move it....

But i tried to rebuild 1 again, but it still err.. says that i have 20/20 towers?

 

[HOooDy]

screenshots ???????

 

[Mr.Pockets00000]

Good, but reminds me of an older map called empire builder on ROC

 

[Arcmage]

Empire builder was the inspiration for the map however it has allot more features than the original Empire builder. Also Empire builder is a dead project.

 

[Shadow293903]

Seems interesting, despite the bug reports. Although that just means its good enough for people to keep playing despite them, and the map motivates them to give their input

Downloading.

 

[Bugz]

Maybe add more text to description? and use some more BB codes? and even add a image i test later on

 

[Arcmage]

Yes I guess the description is rather outdated (although the changelog and credits are fine). I will update it next version. If you play on US East you can whisper me (my game name and account name are the same) And I will join your test. (assuming I am online)

 

[Bugz]

sadly i am playing on Europe :/ but i will try and bring my clan mates to play, so we can be a full game.

 

[MR.Tricky]

it is fun but we do not know how to summon demon lord

 

[Arcmage]

I think the instructions are in quests I will check and put them there next version if they are not.

You have to find the Demon Soul (I won't tell you where it is search) and bring it to the alter of damnation then wait tell midnight.

 

[Tleno]

You know, lots of time passed since you have released your map... I think you should finally start immproving the terrain...