Custom Map #147: What if we tried more power?. By: planetfall

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Author: planetfall
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You discover an unstable technology that can summon power zones -- for a price. (Much harder than it sounds.)

[Flabort]

No kidding it's harder than it sounds!  ::)  :P

[Grayzzur]

Very interesting concept. I like it. Except for the noise those zone generators make... that is annoying!

[Helper]

Interesting concept, but games without Totems seem to inevitably turn into a slog.
H

[planetfall]

Interesting concept, but games without Totems seem to inevitably turn into a slog.
H

I never much liked totems (or tech domes, for that matter). I would much prefer a map with only aether packs because it makes selecting upgrades that much more strategic, but there's not a ton of room to put a forge and anyway making "vanilla" maps isn't much fun to me. So the generators are like an alternative to the totems that have a higher ongoing cost and can only upgrade one unit at a time.

[teknotiss]

Interesting concept, but games without Totems seem to inevitably turn into a slog.
H

So the generators are like an alternative to the totems that have a higher ongoing cost and can only upgrade one unit at a time.

so.....not really like totems at all then?
how about crafting a crpl Forge that only takes a 3x3 footprint? (not you necessarily, but a code monkey could do it!)

[Helper]

I never much liked totems (or tech domes, for that matter). I would much prefer a map with only aether packs...

I don't really care what the source of the Aether is, but without it most games are not worth playing.
There just isn't a lot of fun in slogging through Creeper for an hour, when it could be a nice tight 15-20 minute game.

[planetfall]

so.....not really like totems at all then?

Precisely  :D

[MizInIA]

I liked that powered power zones. I look forward more maps that use them.

[stewbasic]

btw it seems like CW doesn't deal well with power zones appearing and disappearing. If the PZ is there when I place a reactor, but disappears before the reactor finishes building, the reactor still gives +4 energy (at least for game version v1.61).

[planetfall]

btw it seems like CW doesn't deal well with power zones appearing and disappearing. If the PZ is there when I place a reactor, but disappears before the reactor finishes building, the reactor still gives +4 energy (at least for game version v1.61).

Well, that's annoying. At first I used GetAllUnitsInRange to destroy the units on depowered zones, because I thought it would cleanly get the PZ's as well, loop, destroy, bam. It didn't, but I decided not to mess with what I thought to be working code so I left the original function in. Can GetUnitAt select unbuilt units?

[Asbestos]

This was really hard. The power zone makers took too much energy and the only spot to land is on digitalis.

[Katra]

Victory - by carefully avoiding connecting the doggone power leeches to my network.  ;D (I did briefly activate one by accident - cost me a cannon.)  :o

[Flabort]

I tried that, but didn't have enough power anyways, lack of space.

[Clean0nion]

I tried that, but didn't have enough power anyways, lack of space.

What if you tried more power?