"War of the Ring" thread

jowe01 · #1 January 9th, 2004, 11:14 PM

Any news on the progress over christmas? I am very much looking forward to this one.

Keir Maxwell · #2 January 11th, 2004, 06:33 AM

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Originally posted by jowe01:
Any news on the progress over christmas? I am very much looking forward to this one.

I'm sorry to say but I'm suffering from patch watching. When I heard the patch was going to out before christmas I put away my text files. Since then its always been a case of the patch is coming soon (not meaning to complain as I understand there are valid reasons for these things) and so I've kept hanging off for the patch with the mod tools - I'm not that up on the whole scripting/programming side anymore so the thought of what might be an easier interface is very appealing. Hopefully the patch with mod tools will be any day now but sadly much of my holiday time is gone. Still seeing the Return of the King was a big boost and I'm looking forward to making some progress.

I did spend the down time usefully though as I played alot of dom2 and have a better feel for the game now.

Cheers

Keir

Keir Maxwell · #3 January 13th, 2004, 10:44 PM

If anyone has a preference on the map I use please speak now. The links to the maps I'm choosing between can be found early in this thread.

The choice is between a very tidy, somewhat cutsy, map in light colors and a somewhat roughy scanned map in the old map style with light browns. I lean towards the older looking map but worry it won't look so good once the interface is over the top while the more colorful map might suit the dom interface better. Looking at the map of Britain gives you an idea of what I'm talking about.

If you have an opinion speak now or forever hold your peace.

Cheers

Keir

#4 January 13th, 2004, 10:48 PM

While I dearly love the old map (I actually have one of the fold out ones from an old hardback copy)...

I hate Brittan's map look. I can never seem to tell what type of enviroment a province is so I know what to expect.

I vote tidy and neat for playability while my soul says "Remember Helm's Deep!"

Keir Maxwell · #5 January 14th, 2004, 02:48 AM

Goto:
http://www.taylorcustom.com/localink...mearthmap.html

The map with no names:
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/...tr_noNames.pdf

Clean, easy to work with, and looking the most likely. I'll probably tone the black of the mountains down.

cheers

Keir

Keir Maxwell · #6 January 14th, 2004, 07:13 AM

Things are going well with adapting Ashen Empire Ermor to Mordor. The amount of differnet creatures that turn up due to your dominion makes getting a varied bunch of orcs easy.

One issue that has come up is that what with Ashen Empire getting no castles with supply its pretty essential that Orcs are rated as not needing to eat. This is a bit sad given the wonderful orc eating scene in the second movie - "I'm hungry, I haven't had nothing to eat for but maggoty bread for three stinking days". Still its not hard to justify as orcs eating habits are a large part of Saurons destructive dominion and if they can always eat each other *shrugs* its ok.

Cheers

Keir.

Saber Cherry · #7 January 14th, 2004, 08:18 AM

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Originally posted by Keir Maxwell:
One issue that has come up is that what with Ashen Empire getting no castles with supply its pretty essential that Orcs are rated as not needing to eat.

"Chuckwagon" unit. 40 gold, 1 strat move, produces 25 supplies. Similar to Vanheim's Boar, but way cheaper because an Orc can live on maggoty bread for days. The icon could come from Civilization / MoM pioneers. Why not give something like that to all nations, actually?

Possibly, a "Corpse-eater" ability could be added... a corpse could supply maybe 2 such units per turn. And when corpses run out, they turn to the living...

-Cherry