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[Short Stuff]

Hey All You out There! I'm Trying To become a map maker for The Shockwave Team. I need ideas for maps!
For The Maps I would like no ideas about cheat maps or anything that will give one side of the map an advantage... I want them to be equal, other than that all ideas are welcome and you will be accounted for in the maps creation for the suggestion!

Short Stuff
(Website Name:Runeturtle)

Edited by Short Stuff, 20 February 2006 - 06:03.

[Ironside]

Maybe something like the Bay of Pigs map from Yuri's Revenge.

[Short Stuff]

Ironside, on 20 Feb 2006, 02:03, said:

Maybe something like the Bay of Pigs map from Yuri's Revenge.
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Thanks for the idea but there have been way to many versions of the bay pf pigs map made for zero hour. I would like some thing a little more creative (as in your own ideas)
Good Idea though.

[Ironside]

O.K. How about a map where the bases are in sinkholes, if you turtle in the sinkhole your dead. You have to take the high ground around your base defend it.

[Alias]

There is a remake of bay of pigs for generals (only works on Vanilla sides)

[Short Stuff]

Ok that has to be one of the best ideas for a map i have heard in a long while That will be difficult to render but will be fun and interesting to play. Good idea

[Short Stuff]

I'm going with the sink hole idea for now but if any one comes up with any other ideas post me Rember think outside the box

[The_Hunter]

neat do you perhaps have any screenshots of examples of other maps you have made before as we could use some people who have time to make maps for us

[Short Stuff]

Right now i have all my maps saved to another computer i'll get them off soon and post the screen shots you should see some soon. if that takes to long ill just make up a new map for you
(Wouldn't mind that sink hole idea that would make an awesome map.)

From The little man to the big hunter

[Rumpullpus]

i like maps with lots of buildings like citys mabe you should make one were the map is a city and have spaces between the buildings to put a barracks and stuff.

[Short Stuff]

Rumpullpus, on 20 Feb 2006, 14:31, said:

i like maps with lots of buildings like citys mabe you should make one were the map is a city and have spaces between the buildings to put a barracks and stuff.
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Interesting idea but the battles wouldnt be as fun it would be better if you used infantry on the entire map there wouldn't be much room for you to use armored units
Thanks for idea though

Edited by Short Stuff, 20 February 2006 - 23:11.

[BillyChaka]

That's what nukes are for! Leveling whole blocks!

[Ironside]

I would like to see some maps that give us turtlers a reason not to turtle. If you want turtlers to get aggressive you need to give us an incentive. All weak defences will give us is a reason to stick with certain generals, or change mods. The answer lies in map design.

[Rumpullpus]

i just like city maps because it forces people to be creative in their tactics they cant just run up with 50 tanks and stuff because of all the buildings. and i love to nuke the whole city so fun to watch the civilians and cars fly into the air.

[Ironside]

A fellow sadistic, I'M NOT ALONE!!!!! Nothing beets crushing an uprising....village and all.

[Short Stuff]

Ok ive come to a discission... I'm makeing both a city map and a sink hole map

Both will be well designed and will be out in a couple weeks. Ill post them on here for people to play and when their done they can post their opinion. the map that gets the best opinions will be the one im going with.
Keep throwing me map ideas in the mean time

[Babylon]

Nice, a fellow mapper.

If your making a city map, I've got some tips for you. Maybe you can use 'em:
First, you should think about the slower pcs, for even at my reasionably fast machine, big cities often slow the game down. Also, don't make (a lot of) cars driving around for this will kill infantry and it's very annoying.


Maybe you can make an "island hopping map". A lot of islands on a map, connected by bridges. Some islands feature bunkers, war fortresses, tech buildings etc. The players will have to fight their way pass the islands to reach the opponent and new supplies.

[Rumpullpus]

ya i know that some of the city maps with the builder going heavy on the building is fun but it starts to lag and also island hopping maps are fun too.

[Rayburn]

Hey, can you also make SinglePlayer-Maps like we see them in the campaigns?
If yes, I'd have some ideas, but tell us first if you could do that

[SomeGuy]

hey! i know this has already been rejected but i'll try again: how about making a map on the moon.
all the land ius grey with some darker grey. then a little hills and stuff.
you can also add civilian structures like the Baikonur missile at each base representing your rocketship, water/oil tanks for oxygen and maybe a few tech oil derricks

[The_Hunter]

SomeGuy, on 21 Feb 2006, 10:14, said:

hey! i know this has already been rejected but i'll try again: how about making a map on the moon.
all the land ius grey with some darker grey. then a little hills and stuff.
you can also add civilian structures like the Baikonur missile at each base representing your rocketship, water/oil tanks for oxygen and maybe a few tech oil derricks
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oil on the moon

but you should realize that this would require new terrain textures too which is going to be quite some workd if you want the map to look nice

[SomeGuy]

you wont really need new textures, you can use the already ingame grey tiles like cement and such

[BillyChaka]

There has already been a discussion on moon maps. Besides, why have a map on the moon!? That like, doesn't make sense.

[Babylon]

This is an old 2vs2 idea I made for myself. Anybody who likes it, is allowed to build it for I've got a better idea myself.



As you can see, it s a map for SW1.0. You should have a second thought about the warfortresses, though. If you want to change something else, go ahead.

When someone uses this, please post it in this topic, so everybody else knows and we won't get two about the same maps.

Edited by Babylon, 21 February 2006 - 20:14.

[Waris]

Looking good. And hell there's a lot of derricks... to BLOW!! lol j/k