Challenge Maps

[Exotic_Retard]

While arguing about having a tutorial of faf with zep, (i still think its a great idea ^_^ ) , there was an idea to make some challenge maps, which would help introduce new players to some things about the game, and just be overall quite fun, so, here are some concepts of maps to have:











guide a group of units from one side of the map to the other, while not being seen, you be seen you lose! (by being artillery-d)









if possible, the challenges should be "rated", better performance gives a higher rating
the rating should be out of 3 stars to make it easy to see and not too hard to make due to many different possible "grades"

additionally, it would be nice to have these maps have coop capabilities, and difficulty settings, these would be great but are not required.

i have neither the skill nor the knowledge to make any of these, so i can only give ideas and tell others what to do : (

[ColonelSheppard]

nice concept

[nine2]

I think this is a really good idea. I had a similar idea here viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5561

[Ze_PilOt]

I did a cast to explain how to do such map.

The cast is there :
http://www.twitch.tv/forgedallianceforever/b/523229130
http://www.twitch.tv/forgedallianceforever/b/523246242

The map you can try and improve:

Challenge_001.v0001.zip

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And now, to finish it, post a replay of you, in a sandbox game in Open Palms, as UEF, building as many tanks as possible in 10 min.
Do not use the challenge map, as it will stop at 20 tanks no matter what.

Tell how many tanks you did at 5 min and at 10 min, and what is your global rating.

We need any kind of player (from totally new to pro) to do that in order to set some difficulty level.

[Exotic_Retard]

14 at min 5
280 at min 10
rating 1300
http://www.faforever.com/faf/vault/replay_vault/replay.php?id=2126177

[Blodir]

I kinda copied some of the challenge concepts from SC2, their missions are very nice reference material: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Challenge_Missions

Also survival missions like 5th_dimension would make great challenges, however the awards for beating each challenge needs to be adjusted fairly. With a 3 star system we initially thought of it might be hard to keep the difficulty consistent considering it would be nice to offer some challenge to high level players as well. Maybe there could be a whole new set of "Expert" challenges which would include extremely difficult variations of the more advanced (survivals and such) challenge maps.

now to watch zeps video -->

[ColonelSheppard]

Random try:
11 at min 5
327 at min 10
though unfortunally ugly power overbuild
1800something rating
faforever.com/faf/vault/replay_vault/replay.php?id=2126494

[Exotic_Retard]

i watched zeps vid and modifified his map so make it into a wall building thing.
player can only build walls
all acu upgrades except drone upgrade are disabled
2 objectives: build 5 walls, when that is done a new one is set: build 20 walls, the entire mission has a time limit of 10 min

Challenge_wall.v0001.rar

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im trying to get the acu to start with the drone upgrade already finished, or set it in an objective at least (not very preferable)
if i can get some documentation or lists of lua commands and things like that, that would be great.
just a list of usefull links would also be nice


also is there any progress update on dominos tool?
seems like it would be usefull in speeding up unit placement

[ZLO_RD]

i do not understand, i get 20+ tanks before 5 min passed and i complete objective and game ends, what i am doing wrong?

[ColonelSheppard]

i do not understand, i get 20+ tanks before 5 min passed and i complete objective and game ends, what i am doing wrong?

möööööp read Zeps post
"You shall not use the challange map because it will auto end game after 20 tanks"