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I was just scrolling through the old contest entries to look for tech trees that contained interesting compilations of buildings or other things I could take inspiration from for a similar 15-year old WIP project of mine (that I'm coming back to for probably the third time, after a 7 year break from wc3) - and it occurred to me...
these tech tree projects get submitted to contests as SINGLE maps, and are sometimes buried in the contest threads without even an external post.
The winners of these contests are supposedly chosen for being balanced enough to play well against the default races.
Has anyone ever tried making a big map collection that combines all of these tech trees (or at least the top 1-3 from each contest - whichever ones are balanced) into the same maps so that people can actually enjoy playing warcraft with a greater variety of factions?
I imagine some work would need to be done to enable proper selection of your desired tech tree from all of the available ones (which could be like 30), and maybe a bit more balancing would be required, but that's all the more reason I feel like it's a worthy project (not that I know how to do that lol).
For example, for my own project, I have like 26 melee maps I want to copy everything into eventually, to basically make a new game mode. Currently I'm just developing everything in a sandbox map. It got me wondering - is there a way to externalize the triggers and everything to make it easy to plug them into a new map on the fly so that people don't need to distribute all these maps in order to give their tech trees life beyond these contest threads?
I guess that's a separate question, but regardless, I feel like someone familiar with the past contest entries and who knows how to set up the race-selection aspect could make a really cool contribution to the community by making and even maintaining a project that distributed maps combining all the balanced tech trees.
Ideally there would be a map pack (or separate map packs) that works on both a stable classic version like 1.27b or 1.30.4, as well as reforged for online play.
Any volunteers lol? Or, has this already been done???
these tech tree projects get submitted to contests as SINGLE maps, and are sometimes buried in the contest threads without even an external post.The winners of these contests are supposedly chosen for being balanced enough to play well against the default races.
Has anyone ever tried making a big map collection that combines all of these tech trees (or at least the top 1-3 from each contest - whichever ones are balanced) into the same maps so that people can actually enjoy playing warcraft with a greater variety of factions?
I imagine some work would need to be done to enable proper selection of your desired tech tree from all of the available ones (which could be like 30), and maybe a bit more balancing would be required, but that's all the more reason I feel like it's a worthy project (not that I know how to do that lol).
For example, for my own project, I have like 26 melee maps I want to copy everything into eventually, to basically make a new game mode. Currently I'm just developing everything in a sandbox map. It got me wondering - is there a way to externalize the triggers and everything to make it easy to plug them into a new map on the fly so that people don't need to distribute all these maps in order to give their tech trees life beyond these contest threads?
I guess that's a separate question, but regardless, I feel like someone familiar with the past contest entries and who knows how to set up the race-selection aspect could make a really cool contribution to the community by making and even maintaining a project that distributed maps combining all the balanced tech trees.
Ideally there would be a map pack (or separate map packs) that works on both a stable classic version like 1.27b or 1.30.4, as well as reforged for online play.
Any volunteers lol? Or, has this already been done???
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