The Year of Science aka TYOT

Story Time Kids
"In the year of science, a mad gnome scientist created two new races.
The " Draenei " and the " Humans ". In the start everything was good, we enjoyed our lives, and lived. In time both races grew more territorial, and soon jealousy tore our two races apart, we learned the meaning of war. and the lands trembled beneath our armies, the earth was stained with blood, our blood.
The Age of War had begun.

In the wars that followed we nearly destroyed our own creators and many of the other old races. In the wake of the destruction we created, a new and terrible enemy arose. The Undead.
They joined the world war, and added even more destruction to the mayhem that raged around us. They nearly destroyed the Elven race, before they was driven back. We thought us safe, we thought that no more evil would come from that side, ever again. How wrong we were. They arose yet again, so we kept fighting.

Now 40 millennia's later it is time to end this conflict.
How to do this, is up to you."

Okay, that's the story, plain and simple...
Okay, haven't done this before, guess i'll tell a little about the map, and me and the crew.

The Crew
MindWorX = Me!
Job = Triggering, Little Terrain, Skills and Units
Age = 17
Located = Denmark

White Trash = Friend of mine.
Job = Story, Unit Ideas and Skill Ideas.
Age = 15
Located = Denmark

Detroit Metal City not DMC aka Mr. Nice Guy! = Friend, meet through a forum.
Job = Terrain and some Ideas, mental backup.
Age = 14
Located = Norway

The Project
3 Player RPG/Hack n' Slash (Hard to make WC3 - TFT a RPG only)
Terrain = Hmmm... 75%? Got the terrain done, but it's being terraformed by me, since it needs to fit the triggers, i'll upload pics soon.
Triggers = 5% or something like that, needs lots of work.
Skills = 3% needs even more work.
Units = 50% for the heroes, but 3% for the creeps.
Story = 100%, but alterable.
Quests = 99.9%, but none in the game yet, got 24 Main Quests and 10 Secondary.

Different misc stuff in the map
Special attack/weapon system, made by myself... Allows various weapons to be equipped, eg a sword or an axe, and they have different attacks, like chain lightning, and flame breath.

Select Race: Select what hero you want, by possesing them, and using them that way.

Select your own skills by visiting the right building, eg a baker, to learn baker skill.

Select religion by visiting a curch or altar of the god u want...

Select magic by choosing at a magic school.

And Race abilities, all the races have different abilities and all abilities in the game is based on spellbook, so that you'll never have less than 20abilities.

I have some more, but easier to see when i get some more of the map done.

Other Stuff
Now all i need is you, since i need to know what your first thougth is, and need someone to like it... I'll upload a ALPHA:BETA:BETA:BETA version of the map if u want, but protected, wont be when we're finished with the map tho...

If u have suggestions, Questions or maybe bug reports for the map, contact me here, or mail me at [email protected] <-- This can also be added to MSN, and i'll be online most of the time...

Other Misc Info
FTP server is coming up i possible.
LAN version of map, improved models, more skills, more races, more everything.
Maybe making a campaign.

Thx in advance all... Know this is much, but it should give you an idea of the map...

Actually... the idea sounds good. The story is rather plain... but, on the other hand, it is also very good. Hey, you gave me quite a surprise here. A project to make me, Fladian, sit up from his chair and open his eyes a bit better (not to mention closing my left eye, so I see sharp)

I have no comments on the story at all. (That is a good thing :P)

Features sounds good too, you have nothing which I get doubts on with 2 exceptions. It seems you are not here for such a long time, could this mean this is your first project? If it is, then it'll probably be too big to start off with.

You might want to tell if you need any help btw ;) You didn't say anything about that ^^
Well... hum... (usually I don't say this) if you need any help with any adjustments with the story, I am willing to help there, though I'll give a sign when I leave the forum (which could be soon... or tomorrow :P)

But by all means, good luck, you'll surely need it. I'll be keeping my good eye (right eye) on this project ;) (if you want to know what I mean by that, look in the Lord of the Clans or Dark Intentions thread :P)
-Fladian

Hehe... This is my first project online, and the first one with an accual team, hehe... But i've created some small ones before, an golem arena, and some small features, but never completed anything, since my com have a habbit of crashing when the work is going good, and loosing all my work, but this is covered, since i make backup of the map each nite... Hehe...
I don't need any immidiate help, but if i need some, i'll get here to ask...

And the story thing, me and Nice Guy is working on making it a little more interresting, and any help is appreciated...

BTW: All above in first thread is BETA only, everything is alterable, since i'll take any oppinion in mind.

Okey, I tried to alter the thing, basing it off the original story, making it more "movie-ish".... here goes:

For many years ago, in an age where craftsmanship and divine powers ruled this world, the gods were using their powers to construct new beings and races for the coming years. Two new races were born, under the names of Draieneis and Humans. Age of peace were a fact, but evil lurked in the shadows. Soon enough war was ravaging in the once peaceful lands. War kept on growing, and blood filled the green plains and hatred tore the two races apart.

For the times to come, the races grew more powerful and waged battle against their creators. Out of the ashes of war, the new evil arised, the living dead. The Elven race fell under the undead's wrath, until the last remains scorched the dead away from our lands. But the undead was yet to be defeated...

(remember I'm only 14) :-p

Yea, and from Norway, how evil can god be? :god_help_us:

Well, forgot to tell we also have a food system in the map, eat or die. (U prolly wondered what a baker skill would be good for...)
And we have 6 Attributes instead of 3, following plain D&D Atts, but does nothing like D&D..

Sounding more interesting each time I look at it ;)

And I'm 18, and from the Netherlands, age and nation doesn't reall matter :P

Okay, here's the basic idea of the skills in the game, and some items is included too...
The skills require Excel, but use www.google.com , to find a free viewer, and the items is an Word Doc, but can be opened by most text editors. Any suggestions is welcome...

EDIT: Okay... Here's an preview of the map, the map is protected, since the project isn't known in our name yet, but I wont protect the map when it's going final, since most ppl will know we made it by then...

Hi everybody...
yeah it is our first project, and i would understand why you say that the story might seem a bit plain!! hehe..
well i´ve tried adding some new surprises so that it wont be the same crab that
we all seen over and over again... and i think that it turned out pretty well... of course there is a few good old ones in there... hehe...
anyway i will ofcourse be happy for any ideas or sugestions to the story, so please write me if anythings "pops" to your mind