Mage Wars Map

Hey, Im makin a Mage Wars map, before I ask my questions, here is a description.

A group of mages in a castle trying to battle it out to get ultimate power or sumthin, each mage has a SET classification of spells, Fire,Ice,Death, etc... There will be EDITED spells, as well as TRIGGER only spells(Like typing the spell) There will be set places around the map that are mana sources, you can store the mana within your own body, and use it at Summoning Gateways, or just for a spell later on, And/Or you can cast specific spells at mana sources.

1-Ok, now any Ideas for spells? Or just any general ideas anyone has would be helpful

2-When you edit a spell, can you edit its Icon and such in ANY (Race)ability.txt or what ever the **** its called, I dont remember, or does it have to be in the TXT that the spell you made it off of came from?

Hm... I dunno if that makes sense, Ill try askign the #2 again, reworded

Ok, when I make a spell, and I want to edit its Icon and tooltips, can I just put its alias into any of the TXTs that hold spell info, or does it have to be in with the race it came from?

2a You need to have it in the <race> text file that it original came from.

Thanks, but any Ideas? Suggestions or comments about my map?

c0nnick, may I ask when you got the idea for this... And just to let you know, I've been working on a map similiar to "yours", for the past month. And yet, you somehow come up with the same idea, not to mention you post with the current name of my map?!

I jus thought it up, I didnt mean to steal, if u dont want me to make the map, Ill stop, I havnt gotten that far.

Did you just steal my idea? Lol. I'm also making a mage wars map.... how's yours coming? Maybe we can trade maps.... Mine is still in the very early stages...... anyway, i'm curious to how yours is coming.

A map called Mage Wars already exists by the way. It's a pretty cool map too. Anyway I've been thinking of a similar idea too. I guess it's just a good idea and you know what they say... "Great minds think alike". If you want any help with work on the map then I could help out some, and I'll see what spells I can think of in the meantime.

It's starting to seem like a cliche but I to wanted to create a Mage wars map only mine revolved around the idea of magical gladiators. Magic users enslaved to duel to the death with thier magical abilities. Only problem was I have so many problems with multiplayer compatibility that I decided to create a single player map where you fight AI mage's and weapon wielding gladiotors or beasts. As far as suggestions well..... thinking up is half the fun. Enjoy.

a while ago I make a really cool ice spell called "ice bolt." It is very simple but none the less cool.
Anyway, I based it off stormbolt, and changed its mana cost/damage. For the icon I used an orb of ice icon, and the tagert art was a dragon hawk's attack, which just happens to be a ball of ice.

I have some other spell if you think this one is good, but if you use them please give me some credit. My account name is IamJames-KoL.

Looks like everyone is going to have to come up with a new name for their maps! How about Mage Battle, Mage Duel (I think there is one alraedy but it sucks and nobody plays it), Mage Skirmish, Mage Conflict, Mage Warfare. I dunno. Maybe think of a more original name :P

make it something that sounds better than "Mage Battle" like "Clash of Magus' " or "The Tournament of Wizards." Those are just off the top of head and I think the sound much better than "mage battle."

heh, yeah my names were pretty much just jokes anyway ;)

Hm... this looks like a competition!! Im gonna have to work really hard on mine now, and we can all see!

BTW, check MarSara's post around here that asks for Ideas, I put up like 20 spells Ideas(I thought of them all as I wrote it, I felt so special!)

Oh, and for that fire thing I said, I think it should be shoot a fireball at target, stunning him for a sec, and then every 2 seconds for like 10 seconds a meteor falls from the sky and hits him for a bit of damage!

So anyway... Can anyone help me out with mine? I want some sort of abilities that create buildings/wards or sumthing that are permanent.

I want those because I want the Mages to like try to control as mana mana sources as possible, but always keep theMage himself moving

Perhaps it could be sumthin like they have to capture these giant magical beings to get Energy(Not to be confused with Mana) and Energy can be used for UBER spells like high lvl summons, and defensive spells that can only be cast at enery vents or sumthin weird

Help? My idea isnt very developed, Right now Im just making the terrain.

Dinadan87, you're right, there is a MageWar map already out, actually I think I made it 3 1/2 years ago for StarCraft BroodWar. Anyway I'll post it if anyone wants it.

And for everyone else, hope you can catch up, I'm already 85% done... just looking for a few spells.

I'm talking about Mage Wars for WarCraft III though. It's pretty much an altered melee but you get to pick form 11 mages which pretty act as seperate races even tho some of them share certain units they are all a unique set of units and buildings and each one you get ONE hero which you lose the game if it dies (but ankhs are REAL DANG EASY to get). I could post if you want. It's pretty fun. (darn clockwork knight takes way too much wood too build anything good :P)