As DTV is dead atm because of the income nerf, Im not gonna test any more maps until its fixed.DTV is a new mapmode. One of the two parties are changed into npcs, and the other one are players beating these npcs. This creates a lot of new challenges for the mapmakers. Npcs arent smart enough to get to all those nice camp-places, so every spot a player can reach, the npcs also needs to be able to reach. Trust me, putting up rules about where people cant go wont work, people will exploit, so we need to make these maps unexploitable.
So we are making an official mappack, that means were choosing which maps you are allowed to run on your DTV servers.
Who decides what maps are allowed and not? Well, that would be me.
How to get a map accepted?
First you make a thread on this forum. Post pictures, explain the idea behind the map.
We will let the post be there for a while, and let people comment on it, and give you some time to work on the map from the responses.
Then write a post in this thread, and Ill have a look. If I like the map, we will put it up for a test on our test server. If there are any weaknesses, exploits, I will give you feedback on those so you can fix them (you can ofc also play on EU 6, find em and fix em yourself).
When they have ran on EU 6 for some time without any exploits, we will allow it as an official DTV map.
Important to remember:
The map must be under 600 kb.
NPCs need to reach the player wherever he is.
The map should give the players tactical challenges, but also tactical support.
They should have 4 spawn-points (81-84 entry points), except if the whole design of the map says othervise.
Also, it seems like this is a good thread for discussing how to make DTV maps:
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,5953.0.htmlTo install these maps on your server you need to name it to one of the two old maps (I recommend Kir'thaen as forest hideout is used in other game types too), and replace those files (remember to update terrain code). We will be adding better functionality for this in a future patch!
Remember to update the maps, as exploits will be removed and the maps will be re-balanced!Official maps:
Kir'Thaen (by Airith)(23.05.11 version)
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,6031.0.htmlForest Hideout
Comes with the mod.
Sea Raid (by Ozin)(28.05.11 version)
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,6135.0.htmlSvill (by blaint)(24.05.11 version)
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,6492.0.html
