Gates

[v3ck]

Are the gates supposed to open earlier than in 5.01?

 

[Ralle]

hmm I cant see any difference.. can you count the seconds between both versions or something?

 

[v3ck]

The monsters are going into the centre 1 gate earlier than in 5.01.

 

[non_skilled]

I've played 5.05 verry often last days, and sometimes the gates open in lv 22/23 directly at the begin of the level, so that the creeps dont go through some mazes, instead they go directly to grey, which causes in public games -20 life0.o.

Hope u can find the bug

 

[Ralle]

Hmm.. Does it always open one gate earlier?

 

[non_skilled]

thats the problem....it doesnt happens everytime, but when it happens all gates open at the start of the level....

 

[non_skilled]

Last game i realised where the reason of the gate opening lies: when someone use the "move"-skill the selected creep moves directly to the mid and the gates open at that moment. This cause, if there are other creeps circling around, that they go directly to mid after they reach the next waypoint, too.

 

[Ralle]

yeah. thats right.. the gates open when someone uses MOVE or when the monsters attack someones towers.
both events, a monster is ordered to go directly into the middle so if gates were closed, they would continue attack.
I got an idea. Instead of ordering the monster to go to the middle, it could first check if there were monsters around the selected monster. If there were, the monster would start following the other monster and that way, go to the middle properly.

 

[Robi]

its so that first grey uses often MOVE to get kills. second is that there are alway two or three creeps which stuck in each other and so dont move. so if u would do that it follows the others make it so that there must be 4 creeps.

Yours
Robi

 

[non_skilled]

one way to handle the problem would be:
a.)for blocking opening problems:
your idea ralle^^, check in an area of 500aoe or so for creeps to follow them....
b.)for move abuse:
block the move-skill the first xx-seconds each round....

sorry for bad englisch^^

 

[Ralle]

or maybe make it so only the admin can use the move spell with his tower

 

[v3ck]

But then if the admin is ignorant, the game is ruined.

 

[Ralle]

yeah.. I made it so it is ordered to follow a fellow unit