Tribal Warfare

[montee]

Ok here's my idea for a map, the game starts, each player then chooses a 'Tribe' of creep for example ogres or dragons each with a different objective to achieve. Army building would work as such, each tribe would have a central building or unit that produces 'young' every 30 seconds or so. These young after a period of time would grow up into more powerful units and then dependant on certain researches could become even more powerful and specialised. Each tribe would have it's own specific strengths and weaknesses which it needs to work with to achieve victory. For example ogres, would be cheap and powerful in combat but lack ranged units and vulnerable against flyers. Dragons would feature the most powerful units but they would produce young twice as slowly. Some other ideas of tribes are Demons, would inhabit a separate area of the map and then open a portal for an invasion. Beasts, made up of wolves and bears focusing on a fast moving army and hit and run tactics. Bandits who would be able to set up ambushes but would lack the phyiscal strength of other races. Some ideas for the objectives, Demons would simply need to kill an number of units, Dragons and Bandits need to amass a certain amount of treasure. The map would also feature a large well defended city of neutral humans which would act as a secondary objective e.g. to destory the city. There would also be various outlying towns of humans less well defended which could be attacked for rewards. The idea is for a fast and competative game with each tribe trying to reach their objective first by any means. Anyway do you guys think the concept is worth putting time into? The other tribes I am considering are Kobolds, Nerubians, Mutants (faceless ones) and maybe trolls.

 

[Blizard Of Oz]

Woah, Big wall of text.

Anyway, juding from the title (lol i aint reading big wall), it sounds like a good idea. Tribal Warfare is always fun.

 

[Jsprat100]

Wall. Of. Text.

If you are going to have an informal, unstructured plan, at least press this special button that is found just underneath backspace and above shift - its called enter.

When you press enter, the text moves down a line. You can do this multiple times to split your paragraphs.


Anyway, the game. Why are the races fighting? Why are dragons killing ogres? And hasn't the whole tribal warfare thing been done before? I am a bit uncertain about the concept, though you could sway me if you were to give it a bit of a plot and evolve the idea a bit more.

 

[Army_Strong]

Wall. Of. Text.

If you are going to have an informal, unstructured plan, at least press this special button that is found just underneath backspace and above shift - its called enter.

When you press enter, the text moves down a line. You can do this multiple times to split your paragraphs.

Lets calm down the sarcasm and be a little bit more gentle on the guy... seeing that this IS his first post he probably doesnt know about all of the forums posting functions (ex: Hiding text, simple table, ect...) which also means he probably doesnt know what an appealing post would look like... so give a little nicer critisism eh we all start sloppy?

Anyways about your idea,

Jsprat100 is right the tribal warfare has been done a many times over especially the whole "these races have these benifits over others... while others have these" this isnt a really new concept to maps (alot like just balancing a map). Another thing, your idea lacks a story to it... your story doesnt need to be jaw dropping but something new and with a meaning or purpose to it.. these races shouldnt be fighting to fight? Also your objectives add some value to the overall game but they have no meaning almost since there is no story (why are they destroying the city) just keep asking yourself "Why are they doing this" and you can make your map alot better. Add more to your story and keep developing your ideas and this could turn out to be a decent map, but right now this idea would make a very dule map with no meaning or point. Keep at it and dont give up just keep thinking of new inventive ways to make things and better your idea.