Our loading time is based on ram as u say.. but at website you can see the requrements.. (they are what normal wc3 and tft requres + a lil) whit those it wont take more than 30 secs to load. (when not online) when online it alse depends on conection and hosts conection...
And the map will not be over 4 MB since that is b.net limit..
4 Gigs? you mean 4 Megs? Umm, I mean the mapsize, not the map file size is it 256x256 or else? btw, may i give suggestion here for your map? But before that, I wanna ask something. Is the features list shown in the loa.wc3sear.ch contains a complete features?
Will trading skills like one from WoW available in this map? I think it's really cool if you can compound herbs to make a potion, food or forging your own weapons, Gathering herb, minerals, or other ingredients from all over the land of Archanor.
Oh yes, another question.. how do you set the quests and quest logs, so the quest will be only available to coressponding player? Wc3 editor can't create a quest for a player only, right? Or you have your own quest log system?
Well, if World Edit can't do it (And you're right, I remember trying once, and I don't think it can either), they MUST have made up their own Uber little system.
hehe.. thats right, we figured out our own system..
I found a way, gadden triggered it.
And it is as follows:
You go to a shop/man fx. the weaponsmith, then you "buy" the quest, and a message will come on your screen, then only you know about it... (there might be added more stuff to this)
And btw, we are also working on a special place descriper, that shows what area you are in on map, since we dont use minimap... (about that i need to talk to you sword..)
Well, for private quest message, wc3 WE can do that. What about the quest list? And what about the equipment system? Hmm.. a very interesting map project
Let's not waste their time getting into the Equipment System here on the forums... I recently suggested an Item List (that will proibably include this) on their website, so let's just wait for them to finish that.
As a question... beantony pointed out something about our Quest Lists... If we each have personal quests, I assume you wont be using the Quest Log(F9), so what will you be using?
Nothing.. you will have to remember it.. (or maby if gadden can pogram that, we want the leaderboard to show current place (by name) and current quest..
Hmm, remember the quest? I think that's a bad idea. I like the leaderboard way, maybe multiboard is better.
How about this: List all quests in the quest log. Then tinker with the quest description... (Show which player/s are doing this quest, writedown the quest story, where to get this quest), but don't give quest hints and objectives in the quest log. Give hints and quest objective by using "Quest message" trigger. This way, you can see the quest's objective or hint, by using Logs, not the Quest Logs.
I think the quest system sounds great! If the quest description ain't to long, it won't be relly that hard to remember. If your memery is to bad, just write it down.
But one thing that i have been thinking of; will you be able to do the quest again after loading your hero? Becouse you can't save such things in the save codes i've seen. If you can do all quests again by just restarting the game would relly ruin it.
Lol, sure Dankiz - leave the hard work to them, They're grown up now, they can handle it.
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Whatever I was able to think up would be very time consuming to trigger, so I've decided to stop trying. I would need some better knowledge of triggers to think up a quick, or fairly simple way to dew it... sorry.
I don't think there's anything wrong making the quest again and again. Yeah it sounds a bit stupid, but it would be stupid too that you would have done all the quests and then you could just stand and do some random creeping. If the quests have even something random, you can just walk it trough everytime, but I think it's quite hard to do quests which have something else random than enemies.
I think that's a bad idea. I like the leaderboard way, maybe multiboard is better.
How about this:
I would need some better knowledge of triggers to think up a quick, or fairly simple way to dew it... sorry.