Salamandre wrote:You will have to script instructions and win conditions, as without them you will have many bugs for completing each map. I am sure you know it, just in case, a reminder.
I don't really get, what do you mean ^^ I have played like thousand of skirmish games (random maps) with wogify and goal was always to be the last warlord standing - and it worked every time (though many times i got owned by 6 teamed up ai on impossible in first weeks:P).
Maybe you think about that wogify could replace my quest artifacts that are needed to pass? If yes then, well i'm not very sure, but I believe that if they have custom text specified then they wont be replaced at all in wogification. At least it works for me, played my map few times and those "specified" artifacts were always in place.
Also its great to hear you did not use the obstacle tool, times of uniques layouts will be back then, too many maps nowadays done in a couple of hours with the obstacle generator, a shame. I like that you placed every town (in screens) linked to its main terrain, it is quite rare.
Of course! Manual placing of everything is and art
), even if my maps are not so beautful (but I dont think they are ugly as well). I just dont like how obstacle generator works, it just plopls thousands of objects that dont even match the terrain, and they are placed without any sense. Well its understandable because script won't be better than a human. I believe that obstacle generator could be used to fill some empty spaces by placing few blue squares and apllying layer, but i still not convinced for it.
12 XL maps? I was hoping to make myself the first WoG campaign and I was thinking at 4-5 maps for one year of work. You beat me.
Creating map takes about 10-12 hours, its not too much, about few days of workin
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Just a suggestion: your minimap looks like a common random map. Try to adjust better the different terrains so the player is every moment happy to look around.
I should try that but I dont really care that much because player wont end opened all map usually, and it still dont work brilliantly with black parts of shroud on minimap.
Random artefacts usually destroy the playability, be them in AI hands or in human player's.
Screen with random artifacts is of course on AI side, because of construction of that particular map it wont be possible for player to get there earlier than AI unless it get stuck with starting city and wont move at all (what sometimes happens to me on random maps). On player side I always place random artifacts but with number so it will never lead to unguarded relic artifact
) Its just the way I boost incredible weak AI, because its very weak even if playing on impossible difficulty. I sometimes add AI-Only town events that build full magic guild at day 30-35, because usually AI "forgets" about building it even if it has 100+ of each resource, it ends with fully built AI town on month 3 with magic guild lv1. And AI can still use town portal/dimension door/elemental/imposion spells quite good, why shoudnt it have that advantange? When player is battling necro forces played by AI I am making an erm script that adds some % of killed wandering stacks to necromancer's hero army, because AI *ALWAYS* let monsters go if they want to escape.
Its quite stupid on random maps that I'm battling agains 6 teamed up "impossible" AIs and when I'm taking their castles, they have mage guild lv1 80% of time. I know when AI has TP or DD spell because it takes eternity to calculate possibilites in AI turn on my weak computer and it happens quite rarely, mostly he get it from Lv4 book or pandora box.
In order to boost AI you should also place some magic wells near player cities because AI tend to attack cities without mana points. Thats just how Heroes AI works..
Its just the way I tweak AI, its not fair but it makes game more challenging
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