01010101 - V1-pg 1

[DiM]

Map Name: 01010101
Mapmaker(s): DiM & zimmah
Number of Territories: TBA
Special Features: TBA
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: it's awesome

First of all the map will have several images available at once. one for each player, one for the legend and one for the battlearena. then each of these will have several variants according to events that may or may not happen during a game. if all this seems confusing take a peek at this thread: Dynamic Shapeshifting Maps
basically you'll start with a base and then expand getting bonuses then entering a battle arena and smashing your opponent. your very own base image will change according to what terits you own. for example the VR Tunnel will appear as closed and not connected to anything unless you hold all gates.

thanks to this and to the bonus system the map will be very dynamic. bonuses will change from one turn to another, troops will come and go and new paths will be created or broken. i'm also trying to offer various strategies ranging from cautios ones to head on rush tactics. more details can be found in the legend image. the battleground image is not yet available as i'm not sure on how many players i'll make the map for. right now it's 1v1 as there are very few 1v1 maps. but it will be possible to modify it for more players. however it might be rather difficult to switch between so many map images to see what all players are doing.
especially since the map images will be correlated not just through attack routes but also through bonus influences. a terit captured on your base might give you bonuses in the arena or a terit from the arena might attack one in your opponent's base and affect his arena troops.

anyway, here are some drafts to get the idea going. i'll keep on bringing more images and more details later this week and hopefully i'll get some feedback in the meantime.
Map Image:
Blue Base:
[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/010101-bluebase.png[/bigimg]
Legend:
[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/010101-legend.png[/bigimg]

[zimmah]

I just hope this won't be another million lines of XML code dim, I'm still not even halfway on the other monster

Anyway I love your work, your maps are always fun to play and I'll do my best to support the map making process in any way I can.

I'll have a better look later when I am at my computer

[DiM]

years ago i would have received plenty of feedback and maybe even make a couple of versions within the first hours of creating a map thread.
the current state of the foundry makes me kinda sad.

[zimmah]

agreed, the forum is completely dead right now.

[thenobodies80]

I would give an hand and some feedback, just more i look at the map more I can't get it....lol
It's a bit cryptic now...so forget the pretty images for now and please give me more details about what you want to achieve with this one.
As player it's not clear who am I? what I'm playing? why? So before producing tons of images, please explain a bit more in detail "the story to play" you're going to give to players.

Thanks
Nobodies

[DiM]

i haven't even started producing tons of images. i planned to but seeing as how nobody bothered to post here i kinda assumed there's no point in continuing.
if i remember correctly a map must have honest interest from the community in order to move forward and apparently this map doesn't.

ignorance is the key word here. this seems to be the case with most of the foundry so at least i can say it's not about this map but rather the foundry as a whole.

[thenobodies80]

as said we will change things soon. If i'm posting here is because at this stage you don't need community interest anymore....
It's stupid to continue to think that someone else on this site is interested in post in the foundry. Simply they want good maps to play but they don't care what we need to do them so...how we do them...it will be just our job.

Forget the foundry we were used to know....there's nothing left of it here. No one is longer interested in spend time on other people project.....if you need inputs or feedback, just ask to me directly....otherwise you'll just waste time.

Follow me and trust me, as soon the new process will be unveiled, things will make more sense and will be simpler and managed differently.

[Teflon Kris]

Sounds like we will get some interesting news - and hopefully a DiM map in the world of Tron

[bigWham]

as said we will change things soon. If i'm posting here is because at this stage you don't need community interest anymore....
It's stupid to continue to think that someone else on this site is interested in post in the foundry. Simply they want good maps to play but they don't care what we need to do them so...how we do them...it will be just our job.

Forget the foundry we were used to know....there's nothing left of it here. No one is longer interested in spend time on other people project.....if you need inputs or feedback, just ask to me directly....otherwise you'll just waste time.

Follow me and trust me, as soon the new process will be unveiled, things will make more sense and will be simpler and managed differently.

... and moments after saying this thenobodies80 spontaneously vaporized into a puff of cosmic dust.

so, back to the exciting maps! i for one would love to see this thing created. cartography has a new leader and the plan will be to streamline things and encourage creative mapmaking while making the process less onerous and lengthy.

[RedBaron0]

as said we will change things soon. If i'm posting here is because at this stage you don't need community interest anymore....
It's stupid to continue to think that someone else on this site is interested in post in the foundry. Simply they want good maps to play but they don't care what we need to do them so...how we do them...it will be just our job.

Forget the foundry we were used to know....there's nothing left of it here. No one is longer interested in spend time on other people project.....if you need inputs or feedback, just ask to me directly....otherwise you'll just waste time.

Follow me and trust me, as soon the new process will be unveiled, things will make more sense and will be simpler and managed differently.

... and moments after saying this thenobodies80 spontaneously vaporized into a puff of cosmic dust.

so, back to the exciting maps! i for one would love to see this thing created. cartography has a new leader and the plan will be to streamline things and encourage creative mapmaking while making the process less onerous and lengthy.

And that's me, thanks for the kind words BW! Lets not throw thenobodies under the bus too much, despite the way he has departed the site, he still made many maps for the site, and faithfully lead the Foundry for many years and oversaw a very prosperous time here. We don't know for sure why he left, but I for one hope I can be 1/10th as good as him here. I hope for nothing than the best thenobodies80, and wish him good luck and godspeed in what ever he does in the future.

As for the future, all I can hope for is continued support and innovations from mapmakers like DiM here. This is a wonderful concept and uses some of the newest features quite well. We've got a couple more ideas stewing in our pot as well that use these features as well! We are looking to streamline our process here, keeping up our quality but decreasing the time needed to get maps made. We will be keeping our quality controls up to snuff, the standards we have always kept will continue as always, it just that the CA's will be a bit more active in making sure that that a mapmakers is taking care of players concerns.

So look out in the next couple of weeks as we all revitalize the Foundry!

[codierose]

Dim great looking map will watch with interest how this unfolds

[DiM]

sorry i haven't posted more on this. the starting feedback was rather scarce and i have taken a new position at work where i'm responsible for restructuring a whole department and that involves lots and lots of work so very little free time for me. however i assure you this is not forgotten and will be done at some point.

[RedBaron0]

sorry i haven't posted more on this. the starting feedback was rather scarce and i have taken a new position at work where i'm responsible for restructuring a whole department and that involves lots and lots of work so very little free time for me. however i assure you this is not forgotten and will be done at some point.

no worries DiM, I completely understand.

Get on it as time permits.