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Not sure if this is allowed, but I'm gonna go for it.

#1 Post by Cokemonkey11 »

Feel free to lock ofc if this isn't allowed, I read a thread on the conclave and I have some comments:

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Instead of focusing on what's bad about these maps, we should focus on how to make the bads less confusing or easier to understand.

Gloomreap Mire:

Criss Crossing Lanes: Simply make less of them, and somehow terrain them independantly (although this could be difficult considering it's supposed to look like a swamp), this way players know when they've entered different lanes.

No Energy: Change the way crystals spawn and are used. Currently at the end of very long games the miners just end up sitting in the base because there is no gloom left. Make the gloom spawn during the game in random lanes, and force players to fight there for gloom. Make it so that after each successive round of gloom creation, a system gives energy to the team that mined more (had stronger pushes)

Kedge's Landing: This is without a doubt my favorite map in eota.

Crashes: Not much I can say here, we need to isolate the crashes and fix them.

Left Lane Importance: We talked for awhile about the strength of the left towers and the fact they sometimes attack the left lane. We talked about the fact that they already do loads of damage, but what about adding more of them, and triggering in the ordered attack on the right lane? make them 'attack once' then pause them.

Candleburg:

The Chaos: There's not much we can do about this, Candleburg has much fewer creeps and a much smaller facet for gameplay. Flying heroes are basically made out of the question useless, and Hero Killers just can't do their job as well. Tanks and Support heroes almost always have the upper hand here. To reduce the chaos, make the region slightly wider (I know it's massive already, but JNGP can make 512x512 maps) and make 2 very small spawns on either side of the main one. Something like dota status with a few knights and a priest (or a few bears and a troll, etc) This could hopefully widen the playing field a little, without making unnecessary obstacles in a region that's built to be chaotic.

The Mana System: Base sieges and lumber control are only useful if you use your creeps in exactly the right amounts at exactly the right time. People like to sit in their base microing it to 10 mana waiting for their opponent to spawn a mass just so they can attempt to counter it with their own mass. This deadlocks in itself. There's not much you can do to fix this problem unfortunately, but i'd reccomend changing the mana max to 6, and making it spawn the selected units for a few rounds from the base instead of just instantly going to fight.

Prevented attacks and rebuilds: Remove workers. I think. This will stop people from hording gold and just building tower after tower.

Lumbermills: Not saying change them, but at least add some objective secondarily. Making the objective "push towards their base" isn't exactly eota spirit.

Just my $000,000.02, but I hope it's got some valid points to be discussed.

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#2 Post by Discombobulator »

No, I don't think you have any valid points.
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#3 Post by BustroQuick »

Moved to Conclave Common Hall. You're free to post about anything that happens within the Conclave here.

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BustroQuick wrote:Moved to Conclave Common Hall. You're free to post about anything that happens within the Conclave here.
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#5 Post by Luftwaffles »

I don't see much here to post to, simply because you've mixed suggestions, opinions and ideas on the lane in a way that makes it hard to understand what you're really trying to do.
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#6 Post by Dark_Nemesis »

I have an idea for Candle.

What if Yak redid the lane and had it work like a switch back, but still retain the city feel? Maybe make the town larger too? Or better yet, you could have the fight slowly progress to certain areas of the town: the downtown, busy area, the more suburb area, the farming communities area, maybe even out of town a ways? Basically, the battle would go through 'areas'.

Hmm, maybe add one or even two more lanes, but still keep it small. That way there is more diversity, yet still the in-your-face feel with the huge hero duels n' all.

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#7 Post by Luftwaffles »

I don't think it makes sense for Candle to have more then one lane atm, even if we ignore the spatial argument..o_o. Also, despite demanding that Yak adhere to the Warcraft standard of lore, you completely fail to realize that there would be no suburbs in a town. Suburbs would be a very, very rare thing in EotA given it is presumably set before any sort of industrial revolution.

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#8 Post by Cokemonkey11 »

Luftwaffles wrote:
[Reborn] facepalm wasn't necessary
I protest. When I read both their posts, my response was to facepalm; in real life. The facepalm accurately describes how I feel about this thread and to censor it (again) is not only unnecessary, but imperialist and an impediment to my free speech.
You facepalmed to my post? Care to explain why? I tried to think out and explain my ideas in an organized and easy to understand fashion...
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#10 Post by Luftwaffles »

It was a sarcastic plea. I realize my facepalm images are simply too awesome for this forum.
You facepalmed to my post? Care to explain why? I tried to think out and explain my ideas in an organized and easy to understand fashion...
I facepalmed to Dark. I can understand your ideas and I'm sure everyone else could. You addressed one or two good points and said what you needed to say
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#11 Post by CryptLord1234 »

Personally, I found that Casval's idea for Candleburg sounded really fun. For those of you who don't remember/can't find it:
Casval wrote: 1. Nerf all the towers on that map and make them have 1/4th or so HP.
2. On the other hand, your team AI will constantly be building towers and expanding outwards towards the other base.
3. Rework the barracks. Don't make them spawn waves, but make them like the Arcane Generators.
4. Add some more Lumber Mill sorta things. As your team caps them, you spawn additional units/unit types.
I think that, with a slightly longer/bigger map, would make Candleburg a lot more fun than it is now.
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#12 Post by Cokemonkey11 »

That does sound cool, but would the spawned units just make the chaos even greater when the fight meets in the middle?

Also, I would be worried about the player who gets to the fight first pushing 5/6 of the lane and then the spawning units are too great for low level heroes to handle.

Perhaps make that system but have it locked until someone reaches level 10, or something.
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#13 Post by CryptLord1234 »

IIRC, he was talking not about the spawning waves, but about the barracks. For instance, you would set it to spawn X unit, and it would add that unit to a wave, rather than 1 mana = 1 unit of any type.

If you're referring to the Lumber Mill idea, I can see that it would be problematic, but at the same time, I think that structuring them properly (IE, units attack toward the center of the base, miss the path of the main force of mobs), it would be a trickle of units, but an annoying one, because your towers can't be repaired and are constantly taking damage.

I could see a time restraint on it as well, like a 10min restriction on adding to spawn waves or capturing Lumber Mills.
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#14 Post by Cokemonkey11 »

I would be down to test that trickle thing that goes straight to the towers.
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#15 Post by Thermie »

I am a big fan of the expanding base idea. Little automated workers that went out and built walls and miniature towers to help defend the ground id worked so hard to gain would be nice.

The only indicator ive found in most candleburg games as to who is winning is how close to the enemy base the fights tend to take place. If my team is winning we tend to hang out just outside their towers range and fight there (hiding there more like it), if its tied we are either centered or just off center or pushing back and forth, and if we are losing we are pushed back to our towers and trying to draw them close enough to gain the advantage.

Adding workers that would come out and build up small/medium size defenses behind you as you push forward would at least at some incentive to hold your ground as far out from your base as possible. and the benefits of holding that ground would be additional bases being built up behind you and enough addidional offenses to end the typical candleburg deadlock.

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