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Makes sense to me.koontz1973 wrote:You have to have an RPG in a government lab. Official documents left over from the Nixon administration say these are the preferred weapons for mad scientist and must be installed in all Labs where the head scientist has a loony scale close to Daffy Duck.
Will get changed.nolefan5311 wrote:The legend needs a lot of work, but you know that. "Hold the Administration Office" needs to be changed to "Hold the Adminstrator's Office". And the apostrophe needs to be added to all instances in the legend and map. These are things that can be fixed in graphics, but you might think about getting them fixed now.
If you have trouble then it needs to be sorted. Will look into the glow but I find it hard to justify. But it will become clearer.I think you need to do something to make the door colors more distinguishable. Perhaps have the outlines of the rooms the color, or make the backgrounds have the tint needed or something. But this could be just be me and my colorblindness.
The idea behind the decays is that the virus is out and all players become sick depending on where they are. If we had the ability to decay to neutral, I would of added that, but as we do not, it becomes a matter of survival. The rooms because of doors that can be closed have a lower decay of one as there is a barrier but the hallways which are large get the higher decay. I wanted to give the players the ability to have to really think about the deploys. By round 3, all armies will be at one troop so even though all players have a large initial territ count, this becomes a lot smaller very fast. So by round 5, most players should of managed to carve out an area of dominance whilst the weakest fall. The idea behind the knife auto deploys is this. The virus is killing you whilst the weapon gives you the ability to fight the undead. I did not want another bonus so troops can be added anywhere. So the auto deploy cancels out the decay in the dorm rooms and reduces it to -1 in the hallway. Remember, a knife is a weapon, but not a very good one.You have a knife (+1 auto) in Hallway 11, but that's also a -2 decay. You'll need to do something about that. In fact, this seems to be theme throughout the map. 5 Hallways are given +2 each, but each one is a -2 decay. I would probably remove these bonuses (the top 2 boxes) since you already have an unusually high tert count bonus. I also don't like that normal rooms decay by 1; seems like an unnecessary amount of work for a playet to keep up with. I like the hallway decay though, but I do think you should trim the amount of total hallways. Hallway 20 for instance provides access to 8 rooms where Hallways 16-19 only provide access to 1 room each, etc.
Will make the antidotes easier to find. As for adding them to the winning condition or making them a border, not sure I like that as it would make a map that is already complicated more so. The cocktails may be an antidote but they are that in name only. Will think about the removal. Will remove the molotovs.The antidotes should probably be made more distinguishable. And if the point of this map is to escape this virus, I think the antidote should have a more central role in the GP, don't you think? Maybe make holding an antidote a conditional border to getting to the Helipad. Additionally, the molotov cocktails seem a little out of place and I don't think they add anything to the GP. Of course, this is zombie related, and there is no antidote after you've been bitten, so perhaps they can be removed altogether.
Been thinking about this for a while now. I want it to be a short cut to the main lab so you do not need to go all the way around. Before changing it though, can I get you to look at the placement of cards and doors for me.The Atriums take up a large portion of the central part of the map but have little relevancy in the gameplay of the map. The blue card can be had by Sec 1 and Admin 6, and there is only a beretta in the Atrium 1. Is there a chance you can get rid of Hallway 9 & 10 and perhaps funnel the winning condition through the Atrium? And maybe just trim it down to only 1 region instead of 3 of them.
What I need is to keep the basic layout but have the doors and keys moved around, add some, lose some so the three main areas of the map are kept separate (offices, dorms, labs). The atrium needs to be a short cut or changed to something different.What are your thoughts?
Cool, looking forward to it.koontz1973 wrote:I will do, but I was coming up against a brick wall creatively. Will find my mojo soon for this map and will get it into play next year.
