The Spice Must Flow V0.01

[Moderator]

01:16, 11th Jun 2011
Dr Super Good:
The map has failed to show effort being put into it (quick terrain and few updates) and so does not pass nescescary quality standards to be approved. Feel free to update the map at any time (where it will be remoderated).

 

[Tleno]

Three races? wait, I recall Dune series had three factions... what are other three?

 

[MagusTheGrim]

I'm having one more generic faction, rather than doing some lame great houses thing. Basically, you are humans. I'm not gonna do the dune game Harkonnen, Atriedes, Ordos set up, since in the novels, Harkonnens are rich, Atriedes are poor, and Ordos don't even exist. I'm gonna have 6 sub-factions, similar to Emperor: Battle For Dune. For those of you who don't like wikipedia/google, I'll explain: You select up to two sub races from among Ix, Tleilaxu, Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild, Fremen, and Sardaukar.

I also realise I forgot the win conditions. I'll get that fixed later today. EDIT: Done.

 

[Tleno]

Oh, right, forgot about those lesser factions...

Now you should add screenshots to map descriptions and hide them in

Hidden

tag so it wouldn't get to cluttery.
Screenshots always help when trying to make more people intrested in your map.

 

[MagusTheGrim]

Well, like I said, atm its standard melee basically, just in a kinda cool map. Havent even got sandworms in properly. It's actually quite interesting already, since it makes you be really nomadic, which is part of why it's terran only. Once I have, say, working sandworms, harvesters, etc, I'll start on real screenshots.

 

[asdfADRiAN]

Interesting, I have always been a die-hard fan of the Dune series. Its a shame that the latest one Emperor of Dune is completely dead. No online game play, nothing.

Thank you for bringing Dune back from my childhood
Keep it up!

PS. Now that you mentioned it, Sandworms would be a great model to create. Thanks for the idea (;

 

[MagusTheGrim]

For the moment, my plan is to use slightly scaled, tinted infestors for small sandworms, and nydus worms for large ones, but I haven't decided on the correct mechanics. Emperor: Battle For Dune is my made inspiration for this map, but I'm also planning to stick closer to the books. It should work out well overall. I've got some ideas for the factions, which I'm pretty confident about, but I plan to get sandworms done first.

EDIT: Decided to start working on harvesters and carryalls. My goal is to have carryalls be automated but destructible, though certainly rebuildable. Can't seem to make it work, though. I set up a trigger to pick all of a player's carryalls when a gather or return order is executed by a harvester, and have idle ones pick it up. I'll probably also filter it so it just grabs the closest one, but atm none respond.

Second, I want harvesters to collect multiple deposits before returning to the base, but the resource system doesn't seem to work that way. I also don't seem to be able to make harvesters buildable.

I'll upload the current version to mediafire soon, since it's a non-functional version, while all the ones I post in the main post here will always be functional.

EDIT2: Now the carryalls pick up my harvesters when the harvester is ordered to go gather, but only when the player does it. Also, the carryall doesn't bother going and unloading the harvester. I've got some ideas, but its coming along.

 

[Cthulus]

It's a good thing you're going for the Ixians and the Bene Gesserit and all those (Face-dancers will be amazing), because they were the real big factions; whoever said that they were lesser or minor factions doesn't know shite about this series...

Well, going to try out this map soon, hope it turns out well when you complete it, mate.

 

[MagusTheGrim]

Well the thing about Dune is that they're all basically humans, no matter what their allegience. My races will be made taking this into account.

In my current version, which I won't upload yet because it's still non-functional, I've got harvesters working and have almost finished carryalls. Still a bit buggy, since they seem to interfere with eachother, but I'll get that ironed out soon enough and upload what I've got.