🕹 Funmap Evening Event 🕹

WaterKnight · Nov 4, 2013

Announcement Note

Date of appointment: 9th of November (Saturday) 9pm CEST (UTC+2)
Meeting Channel: #inwc.de-maps-FA (quakenet irc)
Hosting bot accessibility: Battle.net Northrend, Azeroth, Garena: >War3 RPG >Europe >Europe RPG Room 06, 08, 13

3ICE · Nov 9, 2013

I was there! 6 players, everyone arrived right on time. We played an AoS (RoW), a football game (Banjo), Sunken Defense, Warlock, Obsidian Depths, Uther Party, Dreamvale, three rounds of Kung Fu Chess, two rounds of a sled racing game (schlitten rennen). Sadly it was in german and I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I understood the "Not enough snow!" part. We also tried space orks but that isn't meant for 1v1. Finally Hot Potato.

+rep WaterKnight for organizing and hosting.

WaterKnight · Nov 19, 2013

Announcement Note

Date of appointment: 23rd of November (Saturday) 9pm CET (UTC+1)
Meeting Channel: #inwc.de-maps-FA (quakenet irc)
Hosting bot accessibility: Battle.net Northrend, Azeroth, Garena: >War3 RPG >Europe >Europe RPG Room 06, 08, 13

Kyrbi0 · Nov 20, 2013

Interesting; with the later start time (and me working less hours), this starts right as I get off. Maybe I can convince my wife to let me play for a bit.

edo494 · Nov 23, 2013

what it takes to join, and how long seasson's(maps) you want to play?

WaterKnight · Nov 23, 2013

Showing up, preferably joining the chat channel for centralized communication. Entering games from either BNet (Northrend, Azeroth) or from Garena (RPG rooms 6, 8, 13). Motivation and patience.

The duration of a game should not be longer than an hour because not everybody has the same taste and we want to be somewhat flexible if players show up in the meantime. But that depends on the constellation. Sometimes would we fade out the evening with some endless map like Escape Builder. Personally do I like and promote tests of innovative maps.

edo494 · Nov 23, 2013

is it big problem that I dont know shit in german?

Well, If I will be at computer at the time, I will show up

WaterKnight · Nov 23, 2013

I would not have announced the event on this site if it required german. We may talk german at times out of habit but then we do not address you and it's not of importance. Anything else will I gladly translate and others will understand your English too.

edit: Important: I have mistakenly just copied from a prior announcement and not considered that we have wintertime by now. So I actually meant UTC+1. Thanks to edo494 for the hint. Due to the lateness of that insight, I will still be ready according to UTC+2, so we may fill the hour with whoever's there meanwhile.

bhusta · Nov 23, 2013

less then an our left until it starts. I might be there

WaterKnight · Nov 23, 2013

You can already join, we are 4 atm.

Kyrbi0 · Nov 23, 2013

Hey, if anyone's still on, I should be jumping on in a second. Yeah!

WaterKnight · Nov 23, 2013

Currently playing sailormoon castle defense with 4 people.

Kyrbi0 · Nov 23, 2013

Hey, can't seem to find anyone on the prescribed channel ("#inwc.de-maps-FA" with or without the "#", right?) Any help, Waterknight?

WaterKnight · Nov 23, 2013

We are there, go hive chat for instructions.

Kyrbi0 · Nov 28, 2013

Had a great time, though a small group. Definitely look forward to it again sometime, and encourage others to do so as well!

bhusta · Nov 28, 2013

We should pimp this thread a little bit more with some visuals.
I think some people don't get that everyone is free to join.

Ralle · Nov 28, 2013

When is the next one? I can make a notice about it

Daffa · Nov 30, 2013

Ralle said:
When is the next one? I can make a notice about it

Put it in the news will do

WaterKnight · Nov 30, 2013

Announcement Note

Date of appointment: 7th of December (Saturday) 9pm CET (UTC+1)
Meeting Channel: #inwc.de-maps-FA (quakenet irc)
Hosting bot accessibility: Battle.net Northrend, Azeroth, Garena: >War3 RPG >Europe >Europe RPG Room 06, 08, 13

Ralle · Dec 1, 2013

I put up a notice about it. I hope it will generate a lot of attention.

You should modify the first post to be more informative about who can join (everyone) and a link (or copy) of the latest announcement note.

EmoBrother · Dec 1, 2013

Play the maps through Garena Plus or Battlenet ?
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I hope this will be annually

becuz my map hasn't be done yet

WaterKnight · Dec 1, 2013

Hosting bot accessibility: Battle.net Northrend, Azeroth, Garena: >War3 RPG >Europe >Europe RPG Room 06, 08, 13

Both. BNet is to be preferred though because Garena has its own problems. Often need to rehost because the game is not visible/the menu shows only up to 20 games and a set of permanent bots siege that space.

EmoBrother · Dec 1, 2013

Then I'm doomed -.-

WaterKnight · Dec 1, 2013

Daffa · Dec 1, 2013

He's a Garena Player I guess.
Anyway, what you have been doing here is pretty great! Keep it up.

EmoBrother · Dec 1, 2013

Nevermind, I will make a fun map for other players even I can't play the game

Warcraft 3 Fun map = RaW (what is raw ? just wait and see ^_^)

WaterKnight · Dec 1, 2013

Garena is okay and we do usually have 1-2 players that join from there. The hosting bot opens the game in BNet and on Garena simultaneously, so we can participate from different sources. If I would be able to, I would have even added other services like w3arena and Eurobattlenet.

EmoBrother · Dec 1, 2013

I'm in Asia, I think my game won't smooth so better not play :/

WaterKnight · Dec 1, 2013

We can test it if you want. My location is in germany. "WaterHostX" currently hosts "SunkenDef" ("Sunken Defense") in Garena: >War3 RPG >Europe >Europe RPG Room 06, 08, 13, respectively "inwc" in BNet. If you have any trouble, you can contact me in #inwc.de-maps-FA or the Hive Chat.

Dr Super Good · Dec 1, 2013

It would probably be best to stick to maps that were made/supported by this site. After all, why play others?

bhusta · Dec 1, 2013

Dr Super Good said:
It would probably be best to stick to maps that were made/supported by this site. After all, why play others?

Because it's a fun map evening and not a support "hive maps evening".

Luorax · Dec 2, 2013

Out of curiousity, why isn't TTW on the map list? It's one of the best maps ever made for WarCraft 3, in my opinion.

bhusta · Dec 2, 2013

Luorax said:
Out of curiousity, why isn't TTW on the map list? It's one of the best maps ever made for WarCraft 3, in my opinion.

You shouldn't see the map list as a static program. It is just what you can expect to be played. It is a list of maps we actually played multible times.
Everyone is free to suggest maps for the next session.

Luorax · Dec 2, 2013

bhusta said:
You shouldn't see the map list as a static program. It is just what you can expect to be played. It is a list of maps we actually played multible times.
Everyone is free to suggest maps for the next session.

Yea, thought so, but still, it kinda surprises me that it's not played frequently. It's a really, really high quality map that's well polished, fairly well balanced and it's got a lot of thoughts put into its mechanisms. I just love playing it - too bad after the host bots updated it to the last version a few months ago on bnet, people stopped playing it, for some reason.

I definitely recommend giving this beauty a go. I might join the next one too, though it's not really likely (I'll have to study, and I honestly rather spend my free time on practicing and learning, or with PoE, than with other things).

EmoBrother · Dec 4, 2013

A simple map won't be in the list right ??

WaterKnight · Dec 4, 2013

The list is just a collection of maps we played in the past that I found to be playable and replayable for funmap evenings. Depending on the amount of players, I have to have fitting suggestions in case nobody else comes up with something. It's not something complete or outstanding. I should indeed update it.

The maps do not have to be complex in order to be fun and as said before, since we mainly consist of mapmakers, we also like to dip into new experiences like map tests. Yeah and no reason to limit it to Hive maps. The event is not even exclusive to Hive.

Of course can we try Tropical Tower Wars.

bhusta · Dec 4, 2013

Ah_Xian said:
A simple map won't be in the list right ??

What do you mean by simple?

As WaterKnight and I said before the list is not static it is just a list of played maps. It is even possible that we play none of the listed maps.

Statharas · Dec 4, 2013

I've got a Draft Tournament for the card game I'm playing, so I can't attend this year :<

EmoBrother · Dec 5, 2013

@ Waterknight, just like test map ? Ok

@ bhusta, totally understood ! (Simple meant it's not a great map)

WaterKnight · Dec 5, 2013

Statharas said:
I've got a Draft Tournament for the card game I'm playing, so I can't attend this year :<

Apart from this saturday, we will have another Funmap Evening before the next year on 21st.

Anachron · Dec 5, 2013

I don't really get it. Many of these maps are outdated and wont work for the latest version. Why not create a new list and ask in a poll for it?

WaterKnight · Dec 5, 2013

Which ones are outdated? Rather than a direct download link, for most maps, I posted the urls to their project thread, so you can view the latest update. And yes, those do work with wc3 1.26.

By creating a poll, do you mean I should ask for the popularity of the listed maps in order to push back those unwanted? This I can do. But of course I can list only maps I know and that may not be your preference, so user suggestions are still helpful. I want to note that the few nominations here were indeed given a go.

Anachron · Dec 6, 2013

Here we go:
Elimination Tournament 2 is not downloadable anymore, seems like wc3c is buggy.
But even then, if you still have it, last time I tested it was not possible to play it with latest patch.

Mad Balls Arena does not correctly load in warcraft 3 (latest patch).

There may be others, but that are the only ones I known without downloading and testing all of them.

Garfield1337 · Dec 6, 2013

There's a version of Mad Balls that works properly on latest patch.

Luorax · Dec 6, 2013

^ Yup, we play it sometimes on LAN parties too. I can send you the file that I have, if you want me to, either by posting it here or by sending it to you in private. Just PM/VM me if you're interested.

Tanasren · Dec 6, 2013

Eliminatyion tounrmaent 2 works, it's on makemehost too i guess
And no Wc3 patch for months

Anachron · Dec 7, 2013

But not the version that is linked in this thread ...
Could you send me the latest version?

WaterKnight · Dec 7, 2013

waiting for participants

Ralle · Dec 8, 2013

When is the next time?

WaterKnight · Dec 8, 2013

Announcement Note

Date of appointment: 21st of December (Saturday) 9pm CET (UTC+1)
Meeting Channel: #inwc.de-maps-FA (quakenet irc)
Hosting bot accessibility: Battle.net Northrend, Azeroth, Garena: >War3 RPG >Europe >Europe RPG Room 06, 08, 13

I also want to call attention to the Fun Mapmaking Challenge, which takes place before the Funmap Evening.