Natural Selection v1.4b

[Saken]

Well unfortunatley, Callex is no longer working on the map. He has gone off to Starcraft II, and even though I helped maked the latest version, my knowledge of map making is pretty limited, and I do not know how to trigger to save my life. I only know how to terrain and make some simple units, items, and spells. I'm glad you liked the game though.

 

[threeright]

Well unfortunatley, Callex is no longer working on the map. He has gone off to Starcraft II, and even though I helped maked the latest version, my knowledge of map making is pretty limited, and I do not know how to trigger to save my life. I only know how to terrain and make some simple units, items, and spells. I'm glad you liked the game though.

Any chance callex will make this sort of map in SC2?

 

[Saken]

There's no telling, but maybe he still checks his hiveworkshop account, try sending him a PM.

 

[Daveydude]

I am an extremely good at GUI triggers and I am certainly willing to help if you need the odd trigger sorted out.

 

[Saken]

Yeah, I'd appreciate it. I mean I worked really hard on getting Callex a very nice terrain worked out, though I can barely even play on my own terrain because the triggers were changed for the worse in this version. Herbivores are way overpowered because they reproduce like vermin, the carnivores reproduce pretty fast too, but in my opinion it would all be smoothed out if they would reproduce at the slower rate they did back in the older versions where the carnivores were the over powered ones, haha.

I also noticed that when ever I save my creature, it gives me a code that isn't as long as it should be, though whenever a friend or public person I'm playing with saves, it gives them a perfect code that always works. So that would have to be worked out as well, and I've screen shotted, written down, copy/pasted, and counted the characters it gives me, and it always comes up short when I save my creatures every time. It never did that to me in the older versions.

There were a few other problems I noticed people were having, when loading their creatures, or when their creatures reproduced, bad things would happen, so those would also have to be checked into if you were willing to help out, I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[Daveydude]

Hmmm, the unprotected version link is not functioning. I will deal with looking at the 1.35 version for now.

 

[rayman6095]

I love the map the only thing i think would be cool is more creature selection

 

[Azsure]

Tested and looks Awesome!
Btw, I love my lil hydras! :3

 

[Saken]

Thankyou.

 

[mkmr]

Cool map!

 

[justice_king7]

its good but i like games that you are the one who will control it so my ratings is 4/5

 

[ACdestinydream]

its good but i like games that you are the one who will control it so my ratings is 4/5

you can control your units lol.

 

[1337lolguyman]

you should add a biome influence, like if a species is created in a snowy area, they have an increased chance to get cold resistance and cold based abilities. Also, I have noticed that when a new ability emerges, one member becomes an "Alpha Male" type thing, maybe you could make it so that the creator of the nest recieves an aura or something. One last idea, maybe you could add a hero unit that follows a similar principle of gaining skills and abilities for the player to use, but without the need to eat or breed. This hero would have the ability to coax other members of the race to follow it on raids, but the hero would strictly be controlled by a player, unless the player is selected to be an AI.

 

[ACdestinydream]

you should add a biome influence, like if a species is created in a snowy area, they have an increased chance to get cold resistance and cold based abilities. Also, I have noticed that when a new ability emerges, one member becomes an "Alpha Male" type thing, maybe you could make it so that the creator of the nest recieves an aura or something. One last idea, maybe you could add a hero unit that follows a similar principle of gaining skills and abilities for the player to use, but without the need to eat or breed. This hero would have the ability to coax other members of the race to follow it on raids, but the hero would strictly be controlled by a player, unless the player is selected to be an AI.

The first idea is good, but the hero idea will turn 'natural selection' into 'natural destruction'.

 

[1337lolguyman]

but the hero idea will turn 'natural selection' into 'natural destruction'

Im not sure if you understood, I meant it as in a creature that didn't need taking care of. I like the idea of natural selection, but I want more influence on the game, like just having a unit like that, which is only a regular member of the species just with a little more stats and a chance to get the dominant abilities, so I can actually feel a part of my race's evolution. I came up with the hero/leader idea after observing how my creatures acted more like tribes than packs or herds, as they will often guard their territory, make nests close to their general area, and generally divide themselves into groups with different abilities (like I had a fire tribe on the southeastern tip of the map and a lightning tribe on the northeastern). Also, model specific abilities would be cool, like a spider having the web ability restricted to only it, but that will probably take away from the "Natural Selection" part of it.

 

[Saken]

Although the suggestions are nice, Callex and I are no longer working on Natural Selection anymore.

 

[Renasma]

Hey

I made this account to point out a really fatal bug in the game,around the extreme sizes,10<x<150, the creatures start dying out for no reason,my tiny size 7 herbivore ants managed to extinct 3 times in a short while in a game where they were all alone with no competition.Attached is the replay for the game.Hope someone figures out a bugfix for this error or i would have spent all that time breeding smaller and smaller ants for nothing,i would fix it,but i have no idea whats wrong.

 

[Mr.Pockets00000]

when i click to get the unprotected version for terraining, it says: The entry you are trying to display has expired or does not exist

 

[justice_king7]

please make the code shorter

 

[clockwork2]

by the way you should make a mutation system...it's where one of your monsters actually turn into a whole new monster with a different ability(it happens randomly,and the chance only is used after birth)...also i think there should be a orc or human creature...or something like that....also maybe an election system?heres how it'll work,you elect a creature*under your control*who will have any of his powers gain one extra lvl and gains extra atk points and anyone near him automaticly follows him and attacks anyone nearby...

 

[Tleno]

election sysrem doesn't sound logical... thouh yes, "spraying" "Alpha Dog" pheromones on one of your units and giving him a special aura would be awesome...
Now just Mutations could screw the whole system... plus they happen all the time, just you don't loose abilities. And just replacing unit with different could messy, too.
Orcs and Humans? I recall there were zombies but they got removed.

 

[clockwork2]

well i think we should have demi primates or something like that...ortherwise in my opinion the mammals catagory is not complete
but thats just me



all in all though this map is amazing!!!!keep up the good work!

also tleno do you think you could make a mage signature for me please???if you can thanks man!!!also thumbs up on your signature

 

[Siwarone]

Really is a shame this map isnt updated...Its a great map, v.v
EDIT: Does anyone have the unprotected version of this map? Callex said he lost it, And I needss it....So if you could, PM/Visitor message me.

 

[trojans009]

This is a great game, I like evolution games but I wish you could at least the terrain a bit better and maybe add a bit more skins but all and all it is a great game

 

[Saken]

Callex and I are no longer working on the map, so any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated, because it means you guys like the map enough to play it so much, but Callex won't be coming back to fix or add anything.

 

[xXDeathXx]

Saken, would you by chance happen to have the unprotected version of this map? I'd really like to look at some of the code. Thanks in advance!

 

[Saken]

I do not unfortunately. I had done the terrain separately and passed it off to Callex for him to work on it with the triggers. Sorry man. Best of luck to ya'.

 

[Gusvato3080]

It's just like Spore... very good!

 

[ankhar]

I made a pwnt species and its code is
****

However, when I use this code, the game bugs and someone else's creatures gets all the abilities of my loaded creature if the creature they loaded has no other abilities. Its really annoying.

please, dont type code here, it ruins the game. thx
(yes, this is really OP creature, gj)

 

[hypsandar]

Truly god's work. Too bad the updates stopped.

 

[Cake is a Lie]

This map inspires me being a biologist....seriously though. Anyways,this is a unique map that I played. Can you teach me or send me a map on how they live their own life? It would me interesting...

 

[Cake is a Lie]

Really interesting concept, I really like this map. Original and unique, it's interesting watching your species trying to survive and adapt with new abilities.

Still thinking how did Callex create those triggers...

 

[Saken]

This map inspires me being a biologist....seriously though. Anyways,this is a unique map that I played. Can you teach me or send me a map on how they live their own life? It would me interesting...

Unfortunately Callex no longer develops maps for WC3 to my knowledge, and I unfortunately never had a chance to get a copy of the unprotected map from him before he went to work on SC2. Happy to hear y'all all love the game though, I had a lot of fun on the original version before working on this terrain for Natural Selection.

 

[Cake is a Lie]

Unfortunately Callex no longer develops maps for WC3 to my knowledge, and I unfortunately never had a chance to get a copy of the unprotected map from him before he went to work on SC2. Happy to hear y'all all love the game though, I had a lot of fun on the original version before working on this terrain for Natural Selection.

Well,that was sad...I wish to get ideas from there to make a survival map that involves animal's food chain,like in real life...

 

[Saken]

Sorry man, wish I could help. Best chance would be to try and contact Callex directly if you can find out how.

 

[Cake is a Lie]

Sorry man, wish I could help. Best chance would be to try and contact Callex directly if you can find out how.

I think I will further study and try...

 

[Saken]

Let me know if you need a new terrain if you do come up with something.

 

[Cake is a Lie]

Let me know if you need a new terrain if you do come up with something.

What do you mean?

 

[Saken]

If you decide to make your own map like this, if you need someone to make the terrain/world, I could try and help you out.

 

[Cake is a Lie]

If you decide to make your own map like this, if you need someone to make the terrain/world, I could try and help you out.

Wow,I never thought there iz someone to help me with this...anyways,my map that I making it right now iz all 'bout survival. Yes,like "Jungle Trolls Reborn",but this time,a snowy terrain,I will send ya a map after New Year's Day so you can check it out.

 

[Pyrogasm]

If you keep an eye out in the next few months I might post up some playable WIPs of my map that is similar to this. I'm taking a new crack at an old concept I posted on wc3c many moons ago. That thread isn't perfectly representative yet, but I did get some of the base systems working.

 

[Saken]

Pyro, if you want the Natural Selection terrain this uses for that concept, I'd be willing to hand it over.

EDIT: Just uploaded this terrain as a template free for anyone to use here.