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Title: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: Johammeth on April 04, 2014, 04:14:55 am
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Fight your way to the top or die.

No flags needed.
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: HarunYahya on April 04, 2014, 04:17:18 am
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Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: WITCHCRAFT on April 04, 2014, 04:21:14 am
For the first few seconds after the image loaded, I thought it was this:

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(this should be a map too)
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: Johammeth on April 04, 2014, 04:37:53 am
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Legend has it that Escher entitled this piece "Meditation on the Pursuit of Horse Archers."
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: Rhaelys on April 04, 2014, 04:44:15 am
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Fight your way to the top or die.

No flags needed.

I'd also add a raisable ladder that extends from B to D (or the bridge from C to D), so that you can still get to D (albeit chokepoint) if the gate at C is closed.
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: Thranduil on April 04, 2014, 06:38:21 am
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Sadly we have no way of making the water height rise on its own.

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We don't have the physics engine for that!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: jack786 on April 04, 2014, 01:56:21 pm
Make this man a map maker and give him run
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: poikakoira on April 04, 2014, 03:41:48 pm
flags ruins always the great final battles when 5 vs 30 trying to survive in good defence positions. even if they die, it's still fun to watch how long they can survive. now theres always survivors becouse players are running to flags when its appears. or just add more time to battle, would be more fun to play. now its like just waiting when flag shows up (in one minute after battle starts). no strategy needed anymore
-sorry bad enklllish
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: [ptx] on April 04, 2014, 10:08:31 pm
Quote from: Thranduil on April 04, 2014, 06:38:21 am
Sadly we have no way of making the water height rise on its own.

We don't have the physics engine for that!  :mrgreen:

What about lowering the platforms instead?
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: Thranduil on April 04, 2014, 10:10:27 pm
Quote from: [ptx] on April 04, 2014, 10:08:31 pm
What about lowering the platforms instead?

This....maybe....JUST MAYBE, could be doable. But it'd look ugly....probably.
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: Johammeth on April 04, 2014, 10:30:17 pm
New take on the same idea:

There's a ridiculously sized "sweeper" gate offscreen that once activated moves from south to north, sweeping players into the sea, or forcing them to climb the (defended) stairs for safety.

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Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: WITCHCRAFT on April 04, 2014, 10:35:33 pm
I always wished that an occasional surreal/fantasy map would be put into rotation. A separate server for goofy maps would be cool, but that seems very unlikely to happen.
Title: Re: Now that flags are broken, we need to make this map.
Post by: Teeth on April 04, 2014, 11:59:17 pm
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Not possible, no adjustable water levels.

Quote from: [ptx] on April 04, 2014, 10:08:31 pm
What about lowering the platforms instead?
Not possible

Quote from: Johammeth on April 04, 2014, 10:30:17 pm
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Perhaps remotely possible, however nothing like a sweeper and no crank, because portcullis can literally only move about 1 meter, regardless of size. An enormous door might be able to function as a funky sweeper though.

Without trying to sound like a party pooper, making any dynamic map is extremely difficult in the Warband map maker. No levolution here guys, sorry. We literally have: movable siege towers, openable and destroyable doors, raisable portcullis and raisable ladders. Now many of these can be stretched or turned in unexpected ways which can make for some interesting maps, case and point, obitus his map Pitfalls, and I doubt all the possibilities have been exhausted. There is also falling from heights and drowning in water which can feature as environmental hazards, as I tried to do in my siege map with an underwater tunnel.

Some experimenting with this could lead to some hilarious results and I am willing to risk the respect of any serious faced player by actually implementing a bullshit, unrealistic troll map. So I encourage anyone to go ahead and actually fiddle around with this. Here's two ideas of mine that might very well be possible in Warband. They are using doors, which are probably the most moldable dynamic items, although siege towers might have some unexplored potential as well.

A tower with removable floors, eventually leading to death for everyone. Depends on whether doors can be used properly as floor surfaces and also on whether doors can be opened if someone stands on it. Fall damage, drowning, whether doors are openable or merely destructable could be interesting factors to play with.
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A huge bridge or some other somewhat narrow surface, filled with doors that are stretched sideways. Depends on the same things as the first idea. When opened these doors might in theory pivot and sort of ladderpult players while simultaneously creating dangerous holes in the surface.
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