Custom Map #420: Abraxis, Rambo! ( Part 1 ). By: Vanguard

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Author: Vanguard
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Notice: Don`t complete map faster than 13:15. In an alternate Reality, meet Commander Abraxis, who is more a doer than a thinker since an incident involving Lia talking, loud music, Beautiful Girls and a chicken ( don´t ask. ). Follow this daring and handsome Commander in his trails as he sets on his epic journey of Galactic conquest. Meet his newest best buddy, a military AI picked up on a distant star system and of course, loveable Lia. This crew has it all! #AC #Story #CRPL #Vanguard #AbraxisRambo

[Vanguard]

2nd Edit: I just reminded myself, that I wanted to warn you, that I used some strong language in there. Nothing too serious, but if you are easily offended, you might not want to play it. So, I´d say it´s suitable for ages 12 and up.  ::)

Synopsis:

In an alternate Reality, meet Commander Abraxis, who is more a doer than a thinker since an incident involving Lia talking, loud music, Beautiful Girls and a chicken ( don`t ask. ).

Follow this daring and handsome Commander in his trails as he sets on his epic journey of Galactic conquest. Meet his newest best buddy, a military AI picked up on a distant star system and of course, loveable Lia. This crew has it all!
#AC #Story #CRPL #Vanguard #AbraxisRambo

Don´t Complete faster than 13:15 if you want all of the (moderately well written ) story.

Many thanks to my better half, who proofread my terrible writing.

If you want this series to continue, drop me a note. If you want to see my GF suffer, drop me a note as well and make me do another one.  :D

Edit:

This map was made following the community established rules found here:
http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=15934.0

Luckily, I didn´t know about those rules beforehand, but I bugtested extensively. And I am pretty sure, noone had the same idea as me for this particular silly, short, story driven map.

Creation Time was about 8 hours.

Edit 3: Difficulty Spoiler

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At some point the map may get impossible to win, I don´t know. So if you find that you are minute 30 and your base is getting bombed by 30+Spores, then you need to be faster. But it certainly is easy enough to win within 5-6 minutes seeing as some pros here have unbelievably fast times.

It is REALLY difficult to judge the difficulty overall, but to keep it accessible to everybody, I didn´t go overboard with Creeper. :)

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[Katra]

This might well become impossible if most of the spores weren't duds.  ;)

This could have used a few added weapons (other than beams) scattered around.

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*Kicks the new AI in its tin can.* Just tell me the alien device creates ore deposits you hunk of junk!

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[Vanguard]

This might well become impossible if most of the spores weren't duds.  ;)

This could have used a few added weapons (other than beams) scattered around.

Spoiler

*Kicks the new AI in its tin can.* Just tell me the alien device creates ore deposits you hunk of junk!

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What?   :-\  All Towers except one are created via a function. That makes no sense that MOST of them are duds, because all of them then had to be duds.  ??? I will take a look at this and try to fix it. But I think there is no mechanism to withdraw a map once it´s out there, so basically I am screwed.

And here I was so proud of myself having gotten rid of all the bugs I found.  :'(

The limited number of weapons and energy available was exactly what I wanted. Did you really feel they were too limited?

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Haha, yeah. It´s a clunky piece of Virtual Intelligence. It´s not really AI, but tell that to Skars "Rambo" Abraxis and he´ll just go "SHUT IT!" :D

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[teknotiss]

2nd Edit: I just reminded myself, that I wanted to warn you, that I used some strong language in there. Nothing too serious, but if you are easily offended, you might not want to play it. So, I´d say it´s suitable for ages 12 and up.  ::)

no bad language is tolerated in KC fora or the maps that are published.
please avoid all swear words and even slighty adult phrasing and themes.
in general it is safest to use language that you would use in front of someones grandmother or a parent would use to a 10 year old child.
since some of the language in the scripts you included is in contravention of this i'm afraid i have to report it.
perhaps you could resubmit with the bad language re-edited to something less offensive?
cheers dude  8)

[Vanguard]

Ok. COnfirmed. All CRPL created spore towers shoot duds.

Problem was a too low set value on the Spore Towers.

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SetScriptVar(<-SporeUnitId 0 "sporePayload" 25)
where it should´ve been

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SetScriptVar(<-SporeUnitId 0 "sporePayload" 25000000)

The reason for not catching it was that the Spore Creeper value was initially set too low to break the AC shield on top of them, even though I checked that the AC shield took a hit from the first spore tower.

I am terribly Sorry, everyone, for wasting your time. Turns out, I am too stupid to read the documentation. It´s a bit counterintuitive that it shows 25 in the editor if you edit a tower, but you need to set it to twentyfive million on the script. Still, no excuse for being stupid.  :-[

I uploaded the fixed version. Please flag this as duplicate, if you´d be so kind.

I take this as a lesson and if I ever get to make another map, I will hopefully listen to the very good advice of uploading it here first for playtesting and then uploading it to the Colonial Space.

Tons of apologies, really.

Edit: @ Teknotiss: Roger. The map has been edited. I just thought that it was a fitting style for the alternate reality abraxis having a bit of a roudy character. "Damn" is just not as powerful as the F word.  ::)

Thanks everybody for your time and reviews.

[teknotiss]

no worries  ;), we all understand it's frustrating sometimes when you can't express things the way you like.
love the positive attitude in response too, nice one dude 8)