[General] how can i port the ghost master gameplay to warcraft 3

[andreasaspenberg]

i started working on it but ran out of scripting ideas. can anybody help me. explanation of ghost master comes here. ghosts are placed in specific locations but can also be removed from there. the only resource is plasm and that decreases at all times. using ghost powers cause it decrease faster. ghost powers also have a plasm minimum that the user needs to use them and if plasm decreses beyond what the ghosts are using the player loses. ghost powers cause either belief, fear or insanity to increase in the target. fear decreses over time but the others dont.

 

[IcemanBo]

You could use mana for plasma and use abilities like mana shield as base.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

mana is unit specific but plasm isnt. i could use a timer for the basic reduction but, how can i make it decrease faster based on active abilities? how do i bind ghosts to specific areas and how do i remove them from there?

 

[IcemanBo]

If ghosts have plasma, and it decreases faster if they use abilites I would say it's as unit specific as mana, not?

I dont know what exactly this "binding to area" means, but you will have to trigger it for sure.

Idk, create a area where normaly you cant enter/leave and move unit via trigger action into it.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

the ghosts dont have plasm, the player have plasm. could you provide an example of a trigger i need?

 

[IcemanBo]

Does the player use plasma? If only the unit uses it, maybe the unit should have it, not the player.

Other way you could use gold/wood for example. And periodicly subsract it. If a player gets 0 gold he will lose for example.

And if a ghost uses an ability you substaract extra gold.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

how do i do that? i also need a system that responds to abilities based on the affected unit`s belief level.

 

[IcemanBo]

How can you do what?

 

[andreasaspenberg]

how can i make an ability make a resource go down faster.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Here's an example, I am not fully done it so just putting that ahead. This is more of a show how for you to get started yourself.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i tried to test it and i lost directly. what kind of insult are you trying to pull.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

None at all sadly, that wasn't a game.... It was triggers for you to look over and figure out on your own.

Set player 1/red gold to something higher then zero because I really didn't think you'd go directly to testing it.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i dont understand jass so i cant learn anything from it.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Don't read the MUI trigger then, plasma and ghostry in init was what you should of looked at. I am still working on a proper example for you.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

have you actually played ghost master?

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Nope, working from descriptions of it.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

then maybe you should try the demo. it contains a single level only but full gameplay on that level.