Community Map Project - Bridges, bridges and more bridges

[Jacko]

Introduction

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This project is aimed towards Strategus, fixing up scenes and making the battlefield more diverse and interesting.

We will do this by adding in features such as bridges, rivers and mountain passes. We will also focus on reworking the current strategus castles. Looking over spawn points, fixing and tweaking. You are welcome to completely overhaul a castle, but our main focus will be just touching it up, painting over the ugly parts and duct taping the rest.

There will also be something added called Unique Battle Locations, more on this later, suffice to say it will be unique battle locations on the map.

I will try and keep the OP as uncluttered as possible, only posting Needed and Finished scenes here. For everything else, see the document.

The scenes below have the highest priority.

Practical (entry points etc)

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Map of Calradia

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Working document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WO1rH-iSHUsvipHKrzp0PVtVq9iSv3caRHs_l7Kth8g/edit

Entry points needed for the scenes:

Attacker; 0-9 (equipment spawn behind 0)

Defender; 10-63 (use no more than 10-15)
                 32 (needed)
                 65 (needed, defender gear)

Prioritized Scenes:
   
Castles (no specific order, go ahead and request a castle)
Bridges, 5 out of 14 done!

Scenes in the making:

Jelkala Bridge
Vayejeg Bridge

Finished scenes

Unnamed Bridge 1:

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Khudan Bridge:

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Prezzar Bridge:

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Haringoth Bridge:

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Curaw Bridge:

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First update

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So, we are back in scene editing. Back in our comfort zone, away from that crowded General Discussion place. We are, basically at a tie here. Half the voters want us to remake villages, to make them more battle friendly, and the other half want us to stumble in to this new third focus in strategus, Battle Locations.

I say we go ahead with Battle Locations (BL). I think it's a more suitable cause for a community project. I'm of course open for other suggestions, but unless there some really insightful answers in here, I'll start putting up guidelines and other need to know things in the coming days.

Original Thread

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Greetings!

A couple of months ago, we completed the Strategus Town Revamp Project (STRP - it took a good while, with varying degrees of success).
And now it's time for another one.

Mappers are spread thin, and we only have so much time, so what would you like us to focus on?

Is Strategus castle improvement the most important thing we could be doing, or should we overhaul village maps for the battle servers? What do You think would benefit cRPG the most?
Feel free to give other suggestions besides those in the poll.

Poll results from General Discussion:
Overhauling and remaking Strategus Castles: 26 (20%)
Overhauling and remaking village maps for Battle: 38 (29.2%)
Creating new scenic locations for Strategus battles (Bridges, mountain passes, beaches and so on), tied to specific spots on the map: 39 (30%)
Other (please specify in thread): 5 (3.8%)
Oh come on we all know At fifteen, I had the will to  learn ; at thirty, I could stand ; at forty, I had no  doubts ; at fifty, I understood the heavenly Bidding ;  at sixty, my ears were opened ; at seventy, I could  do as my heart lusted without trespassing from the  square.: 23 (16.9%

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

Glorious poll sir.

[Jacko]

Lies and slander!

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

Lies and slander!

So the poll isn't glorious?

[Moncho]

I would say improve and adapt castles to the siege mode that ozin was working on some months back, though not sure on how progress is on that

[SeQuel]

Stategus needs work, rework the castles and all that. Battle is fine how it is, Stategus needs a lot of love.

The 3rd vote option you would see a lot less of compared to the 1st vote option, so 1st.

Not to mention there still a lot of castles and fiefs with broken shit in them. An example would be one of the sieges on a fief that TKoV had recently where Hospitallers attacked them and one of the flags were unreachable and couldn't down it since it was 1 way wall.

Another would be the steepness of certain castles and how it breaks siege towers. Fix wooden walls while you're at it but I doubt that's a map thing.

[Arathian]

I know this is probably outside the scope of the poll but...herebI go:

I want some non-strategus maps reworked so that they can get placable ladders and siege towers like in the days of old.

I miss that :/

[Meow]

All of the options in the poll should probably be projects in the long run.
Also might bring new mappers in which can never hurt

[Miley]

Yeah, I didn't really know what overhaul meant, so I just voted that the mod was dead.

[Teeth]

How would having a community map project that's focused on making or fixing battle maps change anything to the current process of mapmaking for battle? It's still going to be whoever wants to make a map makes a map, right?

[Jacko]

It would simply focus a group of mappers to do the same thing, resulting in more and better village maps (or whatever is the outcome). People would still be able to submit maps as usual (but from experience, the quality will be higher in a Project).

[Arathian]

It would simply focus a group of mappers to do the same thing, resulting in more and better village maps (or whatever is the outcome). People would still be able to submit maps as usual (but from experience, the quality will be higher in a Project).

well, sounds nice.

Still would love a few "you can now place ladders anywhere" maps. Is it possible to have ladders enabled only in specific map or is it an on/off switch per server?

[Havoco]

Strategus castle FO SHO. Every part of a castle seems buggy. Btw, any confirmation on the wooden walls being fixed? They're invulnerable to catapults.

[karasu]

* karasu selects "Creating new scenic locations for Strategus battles (Bridges, mountain passes, beaches and so on), tied to specific spots on the map"

[Miwiw]

What karasu said. And also some time for battle mode. Villages are mostly fine but if you have some spare time, check them out and improve a bit.