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Wake Island

The battle for Wake Island in 1945.
The U.S. Marine Corps attacks the island, which is defended by the Japanese forces.
The U.S.M.C. has to destroy five towers on the island within 45 minutes to win the map.
For most fun, you should play full house (5vs5). Red is required for the air support.

Thanks to illidan and kofi_banan for the models (Credits are also in the quests).

I'm still working on this map and updating it from time to time.

I updated some things. It's more balanced, and has some new and nice effects. Feedback please!

Keywords:
world, war, 2, ww, wake, island, battle, battlefield, modern, warfare, war, usmc, japan, pacific,
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Wake Island (Map)

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02:54, 12th Aug 2008 Septimus: Poorly Develop Trigger, fix those leak. http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/778901-post8.html

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02:54, 12th Aug 2008
Septimus:

Poorly Develop Trigger, fix those leak.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/778901-post8.html
 
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I tested this privately and I see great potential. Though I'm sure it's even better with a full house ^_^

Suggestions:
-Re-do terrain. Not the shape of the island but the terrain. Make it more complicated and add variation.
-Rename "Rifleman" to "Marine"
-Use more custom models. For Medic and Mortar in particular.
-45 mins is somewhat unrealistic. Make the time set by the host at start.

I'm excited for the potential of this map :)
 
Level 2
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I think you got the facts wrong. The U.S were defending the island and the Japanese were attacking. I think you also forgot another landing beach on the island.
 
Level 3
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This in in 1945, so the Japanese defend. They got Wake Island in December 1941, shortly after Pearl Harbor. In reality, the Japanese forces on Wake Island surrendered to the U.S.M.C. without any fighting in 1945, but I made it a little different.
 
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If you think this map review is not accurate or require another review, feel free to contact Alexis Septimus. But, map would only be review again for second time and also for the last time unless under certain circumstances. It would be selfish to request constantly a mod/admin to keep review your map as there is many other maps waiting for approval as well.

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Map Review
1) Terrain - Good (4)
2) Ingenuity - Horrible (1)
3) Minor Error - Bad (2)
4) Replay Value - Horrible (1)
5) Fun factor/gameplay - Bad (2)
6) Use of imported material - Excellent (5)
7) Single player - Average (3)
8) AI support - Horrible (1)
9) Camera - Not Available
10) Originality - Average (3)
11) File Size - Good (4)
12) Balancing - Not Available
13) Packaging - Good (4)
14) Credits - Excellent (5)
15) Storyline - Average (3)
16) Theme - Good (4)
17) Protection - Excellent (5)
18) Quality - Horrible (1)
19) Description/Information - Excellent (5)
20) Hiveworkshop rules & regulation - Excellent (5)

Total Accumulation Point : 58/90 * 100 + (-28) (Review) = 36

[+] -
[!] -
[-] - Leak and poorly develop Trigger
[-] - Some trigger could constantly repeat over and over again.
[-] - Hotkey error, Machine Gun and Mortar "M" hotkey clash with one another.
[-] - A lot of fire at those ruin building, it cause a major lag. Reduce the amount of fire.
[-] - Some dummy unit can be selected, give them locust ability instead.
[-] - Reduce the size of aircraft.

Review : First of all, I would like to state the trigger are poorly develop. It have a serious leak which could eventually make this game lag if been played for a period of time.

There is no single variable used to fix those leak. No local variable and no global variable had ever been used either.

And some trigger could repeat over and over again, such as this trigger.

  • Wetter3
    • Events
      • Unit - A unit enters Regen <gen>
    • Conditions
    • Actions
      • Environment - Create at Ganze Karte <gen> the weather effect Ashenvale Rain (Heavy)
      • Environment - Turn (Last created weather effect) On
      • Wait 80.00 seconds
      • Environment - Turn (Last created weather effect) Off
And here is part of the minor leak trigger that I found in this map.

  • Rot
    • Events
      • Unit - A unit owned by Player 1 (Red) Dies
    • Conditions
      • ((Triggering unit) is A peon-type unit) Equal to True
    • Actions
      • Unit - Create 1 Engineer [U.S.M.C.] for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of Arbeiter Flugzeugtraeger <gen>) facing Default building facing degrees
I did not post major leak cause the list is kinda long, the rest of the fellow can check his map and would notice that most of the trigger have such a poor condition. Which eventually I had to give Ingenuity - Horrible (1). :thumbs_down:

In addition, this trigger I do not think it is suitable to be used shall it been played at Lan/Internet.

  • Win Jap
    • Events
      • Time - Elapsed game time is 2701.00 seconds
    • Conditions
    • Actions
      • Game - Victory Player 7 (Green) (Show dialogs, Show scores)
      • Game - Victory Player 8 (Pink) (Show dialogs, Show scores)
      • Game - Victory Player 9 (Gray) (Show dialogs, Show scores)
      • Game - Victory Player 10 (Light Blue) (Show dialogs, Show scores)
      • Game - Victory Player 11 (Dark Green) (Show dialogs, Show scores)
      • Game - Victory Player 12 (Brown) (Show dialogs, Show scores)
      • Game - Defeat Player 1 (Red) with the message: |cffff0303 The Jap...
      • Game - Defeat Player 2 (Blue) with the message: |cffff0303 The Jap...
      • Game - Defeat Player 3 (Teal) with the message: |cffff0303 The Jap...
      • Game - Defeat Player 4 (Purple) with the message: |cffff0303 The Jap...
      • Game - Defeat Player 5 (Yellow) with the message: |cffff0303 The Jap...
      • Game - Defeat Player 6 (Orange) with the message: |cffff0303 The Jap...
Another -28 points for this map.

Off-Topic : Actually I would reduce 41 point based on the trigger condition.
Rating & Miscellaneous information
Score - 36/100
Rating - 2/5
Condition - Average
Status - Approve
Review - 1
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Terrain is pathic.
Triggering is intricate made and also patheic.
Gameplay is very bad because it is unbalanced, it ruins the game.

That are just a few things I told you. I totally agree with Septimus and I say you can even be happy of getting 2/5.
I will rate like him.
 
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I made some AT cannons (like 5 or 6) and killed the first enemy base with them in less than 7 minutes (including knowing how the game even works).
Also, if the engineers die you have to opportunity to build tanks, building creeps is also a stupid idea.
Maybe you could make them to be trained.
 
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I made some AT cannons (like 5 or 6) and killed the first enemy base with them in less than 7 minutes (including knowing how the game even works).
Also, if the engineers die you have to opportunity to build tanks, building creeps is also a stupid idea.
Maybe you could make them to be trained.

Wait, let me get the things clear:
You had an enemy, that was unable to build a defence against 5 or 6 AT cannons within less than 7 minutes? Was he AFK? Playing against noob has nothing to do with balance.
Just try to get some enemies, that are not completely brain dead.

And the second one: Your opinion, I think that idea is good.
 
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Wait, let me get the things clear:
You had an enemy, that was unable to build a defence against 5 or 6 AT cannons within less than 7 minutes? Was he AFK? Playing against noob has nothing to do with balance.
Just try to get some enemies, that are not completely brain dead.

And the second one: Your opinion, I think that idea is good.
2 things:

1. I am not a Septimus Fan ... -.-
2. No, I played versus a computer player, the green one and I rolled over his base in less than 7 minutes what means that those units are too strong.
-> Unbalanced
 
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