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balcough_dra...
Supreme Hero
unlucky? i want to pump you up
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posted December 02, 2003 01:50 AM |
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ah blue have an ego *gasp*
i don't think i can believe that 
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slayer
whos your daddy and what does he do?
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Aculias
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Pretty Boy Angel Sacraficer
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posted December 02, 2003 05:32 AM |
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Na Balcoupher it just seems like that because he feel head over heels on Lealths pic in toh pictures  .
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Dreaming of a Better World
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insatiable
Supreme Hero
Ultimate N00bidity
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posted December 02, 2003 06:43 PM |
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A Mapmaker on December
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the_teacher
Supreme Hero
Talk to the hand!
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posted December 02, 2003 09:36 PM |
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is santa riding a mapmaker??
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valkyrica
Supreme Hero
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posted December 03, 2003 02:16 AM |
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no he's sticking out of the gift bag !
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I'm Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate
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Dalai
Hired Hero
Equilibris Project Coordinator
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posted December 03, 2003 01:31 PM |
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I think one thing that would help is if the equilibris guys would add a bunch of new adventure objects so that mapmakers don't end up putting 20 learning stones or 10 trees on a map
I'm reading this
Well, I agree that this... Quote:
the main reason we have so many maps where you can get tons of big heroes.. mapmakers feel a need to fill the space with stuff to do, so they fill it with a bunch of powerups
... is a problem.
We are ready to add new adventure objects, if we have an artwork, of course. So the next question is - what kind of objects mapmakers need the most? "Empty" objects without properties (mountains and trees, some ruins, may be)? Some movement/morale/luck boosters? Something else?
And one more important thing - if someone has ideas and is able to make a good artwork - you are welcome! Artwork should be in PSD-format with 4-9 frames for animation.
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[url=http://equilibris.celestialheavens.com]Equilibris project[/url]
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Blue_Camel
Famous Hero
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posted December 03, 2003 07:36 PM |
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although animation is of course nice, there are at least a decent amount of h4 objects that don't have animation (or at least the animation is so slight that it isnt noticeable). i'll post some ideas that i have later, when have more time.
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Blue_Camel
Famous Hero
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posted December 06, 2003 12:40 AM |
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today i saw the "lord's estate" object in the screenshots section.. i'm encouraged that you're makin new adventure objects! 
is the lord's estate the same as libraries of enlightenment from h3? we already got these in some h4 maps using quest huts but they arent truly the same as the ones in h3 since the best that mapmakers can do using scripts is have one HERO for each player visit it, but it'd be really cool if you could make it so each hero can visit it, but only once. (which is how it was in h3, of course).
other ideas i thought you might like..
an adventure object that gives the hero of the player's choice the ability to cast a spell, but ONLY FOR ONE BATTLE. then it goes away. just like hp and dmg bonuses from a pool of power go away after one battle. you might have 10-20 possible spells that it might give. It would be even cooler if you could allow mapmakers in the editor to customize which spells it may offer.. just like you can customize which magic skills a witch hut may offer. and mapmakers could really have fun with this... since you only get to use a spell for one battle, no spells are really off-limits, even really powerful ones. it would probably be best to allow the player to visit this object once a week, with a new random spell offered each week.
or you could give the hero the ability to cast the spell for 3 days then the spell goes away.
and i think the same idea maybe could be applied to artifacts... an adventure object which gives you a random treasure/minor artifact for a limited time... maybe 3 days, then the arty dissapears. this might be pretty hard to do, but it would be cool
and i really liked your picture of the "lord's estate".. can you find maybe 10-20 more cool pics like that and just make them into empty quest huts? there's so few quest huts right now.. mapmakers sometimes end up using the same quest hut in the SAME map for 2 completely different purposes... it would be nice for each quest hut to have it's own identity surely making empty quest huts doesnt take that long does it? 
also a new special ability you might give a walker unit is ability to climb castle walls i think would be cool way to make an underused unit a li'l bit better.
a new spell that might be cool is a spell that would make a unit "ethereal" for a round or two.. meaning the unit is immune to physical attacks, and IT can't make physical attacks either, but it can still have spells cast on it and it can still cast spells. would be useful for genies or any creature spellcaster maybe a L3 spell.
might make a relic artifact which gives the hero the ethereal ability. and then maybe a minor arty which makes the hero ethereal for first 3 turns of battle..
EDIT: ohh almost forgot.. a really cool thing which h4 does not have right now is a GIVE/TAKE HERO script.. we have GIVE/TAKE CREATURES, but not heroes 
mapmakers so far, in giving heroes, have used a bunch of prisons or had an unreachable neutral hero which is changed to the player's color and bombs are used to clear the path so he is reachable. but these ways are cumbersome..
also, if you could make a slight modification to Prisons.. when you have the prison as a "random hero" make it so that you can customize in map editor which heroes it may possibly be. just like you can customize which skills witch hut may give.
also if you could do the same with the external tavern, i would kiss your feet !
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balcough_dra...
Supreme Hero
unlucky? i want to pump you up
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posted December 06, 2003 01:10 AM |
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that would have to be level 5 bluely
to keep a hero immune to phyiscal attacka and can still cast spells lol
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slayer
whos your daddy and what does he do?
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valkyrica
Supreme Hero
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posted December 06, 2003 01:26 AM |
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that's dumb, you'll never kill him, i told you, you can't implement ideas from other games, this is unique, let's think of new ones (pfff, age of wonders - climb walls, warcraft - ethereal ..., like msg's post with diablo)
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I'm Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate
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balcough_dra...
Supreme Hero
unlucky? i want to pump you up
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posted December 06, 2003 01:31 AM |
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lol i wouldn't want that spell i would make a rule against if it was made lol to strong
lets say its order spell and you play ip
you could have 3 mages casting it lol
plus theres a problem with sprint islands on maps page
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slayer
whos your daddy and what does he do?
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Blue_Camel
Famous Hero
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posted December 07, 2003 03:55 AM |
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that's dumb, you'll never kill him, i told you, you can't implement ideas from other games, this is unique, let's think of new ones (pfff, age of wonders - climb walls, warcraft - ethereal ..., like msg's post with diablo)
what's wrong with wall climbing? and ethereal would not be too powerful if you limited it to one casting per hero.
you shouldn't not use ideas from other games just for the sake of not using ideas from other games. if an idea is cool, and would work well for h4, then use it
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Thunder
Responsible
Famous Hero
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posted December 07, 2003 12:16 PM |
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Balcough, could you specify the problem with/in Spirit Islands?
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balcough_dra...
Supreme Hero
unlucky? i want to pump you up
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posted December 07, 2003 03:29 PM |
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when i click to download the map sp islands and when i open in the map editor it brings map to the sp valley with nothing on it
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slayer
whos your daddy and what does he do?
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Thunder
Responsible
Famous Hero
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posted December 07, 2003 04:33 PM |
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Check underground; there is the map. The above layer is there because it couldn't be removed with standard editor. Both Spirit Islands and Valley of Spiritless are essentially under and surface layers of Spiritmongers, with some light differences (some cooperative elements of the original are removed or replaced) and, of course, the map's filesizes are about only half of the original.
They also have the same unique rulings of Spiritmongers (readme file is in Spiritmonger's zip).
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Blue_Camel
Famous Hero
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posted December 07, 2003 07:02 PM |
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only problem i have is that for some reason whenever i try to look at any script in your maps the map editor crashes
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insatiable
Supreme Hero
Ultimate N00bidity
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posted December 07, 2003 07:24 PM |
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has advanced finlandian anti-scriptheft systems
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Thunder
Responsible
Famous Hero
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posted December 08, 2003 09:30 PM |
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I can't view them either when I'm using Windows 2000/XP, but with 98/ME I can. I have no idea what could cause it. Nevertheless, they work in the game itself with all Windowses to my experience.
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Dalai
Hired Hero
Equilibris Project Coordinator
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posted December 09, 2003 04:37 PM |
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2 Blue_Camel
Not a bad wish list!
Of all that I can promise only a dozen Quest-Huts If we receive artworks from some creative community members, it will be great.
May be some prison customisation.
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[url=http://equilibris.celestialheavens.com]Equilibris project[/url]
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insatiable
Supreme Hero
Ultimate N00bidity
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posted December 09, 2003 06:29 PM |
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If we receive artworks..
.. is there some programm to draw buildings and such? does it need programming skills- knowing some cpu language?
forgive my ignorance
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