Expanded idea of Map editing

This Topic was made to suggest a few things that should be added to the scenario creator for a better and much more appealing sense of environment in a player created scenario. Below I will be giving the new feature that should be added then a description of what this will do and what I mean by it. I shall also give a few Major things that should be added and a Few minor. Also these are not only my ideas but I have heard complaints from many scenario creators, Thanks for taking your time and reading this.

Major Additions

Ability to change borders - By this I mean changing the boundaries of preset regions, I shall be using America as my biggest example. The North-East territory of America(This is an example) Should be allowed to be split up into different regions, This would give players a wife variety of extending games by creating more regions with cities(Another topic coming up) that let other players expand more in tiny areas. They could change the few areas in N. America and recreate the states for a better civil war game or a Fallout Scenario that lasts much longer with much more combat.

Ability to create/remove/and switch capitals and cities - This might be one of the most important topics. I have seen plenty of games were people complain how inaccurate the city locations are and saying why are "Blank" cities missing and so on. Adding this option could increase the sense of a much better scenario. People would see the time and effort that the creator put into the map if he had all the major cities of his Fantasy/historical battle and in the correct areas. This has been a complaint from many people and it's my complaint as well.

More Unit depth - By this I mean having the option to ban the creation of some units for one scenario, this would only work for scenarios were you do not pick a country but you pick a premade faction. This for example could allow people in a Vietnam war scenario to let the North only make militia while the south could create Tanks. This would be a great impact for scenarios were fantasy comes into play and militia are something like orcs. This wouldn't make sense when a Human captures a city and they recruit Orcs into their army. Also with this topic I suggest having the option to place and edit rare units. This would create much more diversity in Scenarios that require many troops types.

Terra-forming - I think this would be a great topic to talk about. I know that this will be hard to do and might involve a lot of money and work for the people at Afterwind but I think this would greatly improve that scenario creation. This topic mostly covers those futuristic, alien, prehistoric, and fantasy scenarios. By this I mean give players the power to go into the editor with the intent of creating their own world. They could create huge land masses that aren't part of our known world. An example, Someone could create the land of Dinosaurs and have a massive battle between Dinosaurs and even monkeys! This is should probably be a minor topic but it adds so much to the scenario creation that it could impact many people into wanting to upgrade to premium.(Scenario creation got me into Premium) This subject would create so many possibilities by just forming your own land masses and oceans.

Minor Additions

Variables - The main reason most of the Minor topics are minor is because of the complexity of them. Such as this topic. It's quite simple, just add variable events. By this I mean; Three countries are fighting and every few turns they receive reinforcements but once country finally dies that could trigger a variable that then makes it so only the two factions get reinforcements but on their borders and not all three, Also when two people are fighting and usually you would get reinforcements in Lets say Ukraine but the enemy took Ukraine then the variable would create the units closer to your territory. This would be very hard for a map creator but it would be a cool addition.

Adding Units - This is also a big thing I've heard people complain about but I decided to make it minor because if we were able to change rare units in most cases we would not need to create new units. Also this is minor because people could abuse this by creating units that are cheap but have very powerful stats.

Thank you for reading this and please support me in any way you can if you like this, feedback is good and so are questions also ladies and gentlemen at Afterwind I hope you consider these ideas. Also if anyone has any other ideas to add i will be sure to look over them and add them if they are good. Goodbye

Most of the ideas are aready suggested.
and are hard to implement..
dont expect new maps anytime soon...

The map editor sucks balls. I can't even use it to create a map based on the main world map to restrict countries.

Escrito por Krebs, 27.04.2014 at 17:54

The map editor sucks balls. I can't even use it to create a map based on the main world map to restrict countries.

If I am not wrong this post was made even before custom maps could be made.
Do not revive old topics.