War over the Realms

[Serenity]

This is an idea I have tooled around with before, but lacked the knowledge of the exact workings of the tool set to create, I was going to post about it earlier but stuff came up so I knew I would not have the time >.>.

Anyways,
My idea is to recreate the Forgotten realms as a strategy map that would be considered to be Lord of the ring style I suppose with spawn based unit creation, my plan would be to have a terrain as similier to the forgotten realms as it could be made (I have a way to do this but I keep making errors when I try it) Then another goal I would strive for would be making all cities, towns, ect capturable and able to be built up. Another goal of mine with this project would be to ensure that unit travel is slow if done by foot, to encourage ship and magical travel vrs trying to march an army from one side of the continent to the other in less then a day so you must also keep some units in all bases or they will fall, defenses I would prefer to see things that need to be manned by units and have walls gates and towers be build able and usable.

Furthermore my goal in this project would be to put in customizable heroes so that people could more personify what kind of hero they want.

The third goal would be to include specific things from all over the realms, like the red wizards in Thay, the purple dragons of Cormyr and so forth.

Thank you for reading my idea, and I hope that this idea seems appealing to you and you will want to join. This is a project I would love to be able to make this and it is my first Warcraft 3 project, so any help would be appreciated.

-Serenity

 

[Eleandor]

Sounds interesting...

Some thoughts on the goals:

1) How are you planning to implement cities? Do you terrain them completelly or are you planning to just place some town halls on a map that are capturable? Are cities manageable or do they just create money over time.
Also, I'm not too fond of the spawnbased unit creation...

2) If this is an RTS - type map, should heroes be customisable like this? Won't this put the focus away from controlling large armies?

I hope you keep us informed

 

[Serenity]

Well, I plan to have cities as town halls for the sake of space, but I hope to give them all a diffrent design of the area surrounding it, so not the common giant town hall that many maps I see use, but a smaller one and mabey houses and fine details surrounding it if it can be done in a way to look good without cluttering, the main problem would be that the map will be of a continent, see below. And manageable cities I have seen in other maps, I was not really thinking about that at the time because I guess I see it rarely, but that would be nice to do, what veriables can be put into it? like happyness income employment? Unfortunately I also lack any idea of where to start with triggering something like that.

And my idea for the hero customizing was to do something that most other maps do not have in this style that I would like to see, but you are right it would take away some of the focus but I would want it to be at a point where the hero is no substitute for a large army, and perhaps just pick a hero from a pool would be better. Another reason I would like that though, is the role playing potential is greater if you can wright your own story, one thing I enjoy doing on warcraft is rping on maps that are this style and I thought it would be a nice feature.

Here is the map I am trying to recreate for those who do not know much about the forgotten realms

I actually have a mathematic way of transferring most the data too warcraft 3 but I keep making human mistakes on it and get lost on what I am doing.
So if someone would like to help with that I can give all the info about how I planned to do the transfer, or if they can make a good one on their own that would be appreciated too.
But that said, my main goal at the moment is to get a team together so the whole project will be more feasible because I can not do all of this on my own, I don't know how to yet.
Again, thank you all who have read this, I hope more people can offer some advice or hopefully some guidance.
-Serenity