Publishing map help?

[mjllonir]

I know it is very early in this new patch, but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who tested this feature out.

Does anyone know how to publish a map? I changed the server and all, except each time I try to publish it, it crashes at the beginning or in the middle, saying it Transmitting Header Failed and stuff like that.

Please help guys I'm really looking forward to this one.

 

[Dark.Revenant]

You have over 14 playable slots. That's the reason it bugs up.

Don't ask me why it does that.

 

[mjllonir]

Ummm, I only activated 10....

 

[Dark.Revenant]

That is very weird. I had the same error and the only way I could fix it was by deactivating two players. Maybe it's your loading screen...

 

[mjllonir]

No, doesn't seem to be the case either, I unimported all my stuff, and it still gave me the same errors. I tried rebooting the computer, no good. Right now I am re-installing the game to see if it did anything.

 

[mjllonir]

I figured it out, COMPLETELY. Solution below :

1. You have to go in Game Variants (I think it's under Map)
2. Create a new Game Variant

The Default one is for a 3v3 game, if you have more players, it won't work unless you change it to what you want.

3. Change the name, category and stuff, but the main thing that you have to change is in the 3rd section (I think it's called Attributes)

4. Change anything that you have to change in there (Such as the team placement, player colors, race, game speed, game type, number of players, and teams.)

 

[Dark.Revenant]

Makes sense. But why would 16/15 players not work, in that case?

 

[mjllonir]

Did you look at the Game Variant settings? I believe there are some Custom Teams Settings and a Custom number of player settings as well. I'll look into it and tell you what I find.

 

[Dark.Revenant]

I know all about the editor. There is no field in the editor that would cause 15- or 16-player games to work.

 

[mjllonir]

If you weren't meant to be able to make a 16 player game, they wouldn't have put 16 slots into the game, but they did, so there has to be a way to do it. Maybe not in the BETA, but later they probably will.

 

[mrzwach]

Unless Player 0 is hardcoded to be neutral and player 15 hardcoded to be hostile.

It could be that there is a player limit of 14, and 0/15 are just neutral-exclusive slots.

 

[mjllonir]

Very plausible. As a matter of fact, I tested out Neutral (player 0), and it doesn't seem to be a slot in particular. I haven't tested it out to it's full extent, and maybe my systems had a mistake in it, but the Neutral player cannot be played as of right now.

 

[Anteep]

What's the problem? I made a 15 player map and it's fine. The limit is 16 players, turn neutral and hostile into human players. Of course, if you are going to have minerals and vespene geysers etc, you will need a neutral player, unless you want all the minerals to be owned by someone.

 

[Dark.Revenant]

I don't think you can publish a map with over 14 players.

Though, to be fair, the publishing system is extremely finicky.

 

[Vengeancekael]

I think the limit was changed to 15 with one of the recent patches...

 

[Dr Super Good]

Its a bug caused by bad game varients.

If you lock team slot placement and other stuff like bad team slot placememnt it will occur. Keep undoing game varients until it works, its definatly broken with that.
Like wise if you try locking default attributes from the attributes menu it will publish but be unplayable with an attribute error ingame.

 

[Statharas]

Heh, you imported a custom minimap right?

 

[Mille25]

im also experiencing strange publish maps.

if i change my player slots from 1 player to 2, it wont publish anymore because of a "game variant error". i dont have any game variants defined.

if i create a new game variant it seems to work, but not always. seems like publishing is totally broken for me. even if i create an entire new map and only change name and maxplayers it wont work.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You must have atleast 1 game varient for non melee maps.
Locking some fields in game varient will cause publishing to crash.

 

[M0RT]

I have a question related to map publishing: Are the maps published world-wide, or only on "local" battle.net? Since they are bound to accounts, it would seem logical that they will appear only in local battle.net, but that would be incredibly stupid from Blizzard.

 

[Dr Super Good]

They are published by area (local?). Atleast in the beta that is the case. EU, ASIA, US are the major devisions as far as I know.

They might add better support for world wide publishing in the actual game release as currently even local publishing is broken to a large degree.