Custom Map #616: The Mine. By: Zeroster

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Author: Zeroster
Size: 93x93

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one of my first maps please enjoy

[Grayzzur]

Fun map to play. Good balance on the enemy difficulty, in my opinion.

I noticed that you stacked several emitters on top of each other. That really doesn't make them stronger. An emitter emits creeper at a set interval -- on that interval, it sets the height of creeper in it's cell to it's strength (20, 10, whatever) but will not lower if already higher. Two emitters on top of each other will not add extra creeper. If they're both 10's, one sets the cell to 10, the other also only sets the cell to 10. Then the creeper flows down into the surrounding cells. If you want creeper to fill in faster, speed up the interval.

[Joker]

Thanks for your comment!

apreciate the advice, but this was just a side-effect of the CRPL tower i made, wich keeps creating emitters to make up for the destroyed ones, thanks to a bug in the code he kept making them even if there's one emitter at the spot. since it has no effect gameplay wise, i kept it there as going through the code is a lot of work.

[Grayzzur]

Interesting. I assume that would be the large red and blue emitters? I didn't notice that behavior. The only emitters I blew before those were the very bottom two.

[Joker]

well actually the giant blue and red emitters are a sort of wireless creeper spawner they spawn creeper to the middle 2 emitters (and a little bit on their own location when activated to let them produce digitalis)

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when you use the strafers to clear them afther you have taken care of the rest of the digitalis in front of it its stops ompletely with spawning so maybey its hard to see when people don't know about it.

[close]

to make them stronger and even as the 2 middle emitters are destroyed there will still be creeper spawning there. the one who is causing the *stacking* emitters on the top is the middle one of the 3 in the castle there are 3 crpl stacked there for making the terrain and the *stacking* emitters. they are the only ones who are already there. They will spawn the defences (the terrain will be changed a bit and they will spawn the emitters thats all but my friends asked me to do that ^^)

[Asbestos]

I can't get a foothold on either of the big middle islands. The runners keep disabling all of my buildings and cutting off all of the connections.

[Joker]

I know what u mean. thats a pretty tricky part and even i had problems there. the only thing i can say to you is that you must use the snipers to thin the runners and use anti creeper with mortars to get a stand there. and when you have done that the part is not that hard. because if you take over the 2 islands on the middle left and right the central middle island is weaker because you destroy the 2 crpl towers that makes it stronger. (sorry for my bad grammar though i don't know the language that well :| )

[mzimmer74]

I got my hold on the center the easy way: strafers.  Use two strafers moving across the digitalis over the two emitters.  Then use a third strafer over the digitalis on one of the side areas.  With mortars taking out the creeper it's pretty easy to clear out the rest of the digitalis with canons and then simply build over to nullify the nest.  I'd recommend taking out the island on the left so you can use the forge to make the other side even easier.

[ZackNAttack]

I know what u mean. thats a pretty tricky part and even i had problems there. the only thing i can say to you is that you must use the snipers to thin the runners and use anti creeper with mortars to get a stand there. and when you have done that the part is not that hard. because if you take over the 2 islands on the middle left and right the central middle island is weaker because you destroy the 2 crpl towers that makes it stronger. (sorry for my bad grammar though i don't know the language that well :| )

I think that instead of :| , you meant  :-\ . (NOTE: The reason that no smileys appeared in the place of :-\ was because I deactivated smileys in Additional Options... .