Anyone here with some ideas?

I've been goofing around with the WE for the past few weeks to see if I could make up anything decent with it and so far I've managed to create a sort of a Hero Arena-map in the a blood bowlish fashion.

The map has 6 heroes on two teams pitted against each other. So far there's only 2 teams, the humans and the orcs, both with 2 types of heroes, but the map is supposed to have 4 teams from which you can choose, each with a yet undecided amount of heroes on them. The heroes will be divided roughly into 3 categories. The heavy bulking ones - such as taurens, the quick and agile ones - such as trolls and the All around chaps - such as grunts and raiders.

The aim of the game is to move a ball to the opponents end so that your team scores a point. The ball can be carried by any hero aswell as thrown. To make things interesting there's a change that everytime anyone hits a hero, the hero gets stunned and if he's carrying the ball, the ball gets dropped. Now I'm trying to make the gameplay as hectic as possible so for example the heroes wont stay long down if they happen to get killed etc.

So, this is where I need you. I've almost done the whole core now, but I'm still missing about 95% of the heroes and their skills. So, please, if you've any ideas, even if you wouldn't know that much of triggering (ofcourse it wouldnt hurt if you did know a bit about it ) let me know. Would be a massive load off my back if I would have someone who could help me come up with the heroes and their skills.

Post here if you're interested in helping, or contact me via either ICQ: 152367171 or MSN: [email protected]

A few skills might be invisibility for a short period of time, a skill to make you run faster for a short period of time, and maybe a skill that automatically grabs the ball if the hero is close to it. Maybe only the melee attacks should get the stun attack? That way you cant be stun locked forever from a ranged hero. Also, maybe try something funny, like maybe polymorph :).

sounds like wc3 soccercraft to me.

Nice ideas Foosh, and i'd like to add some to it.

An ability that can make the hero speed up in a short duration
A "kick" ability will shoot the ball in the facing angle of the hero kicking the ball and it'll fly out like shockwave and reach the destination like 600 range or so.
A flying metamorphosis, that way you can fly over terrain (oh and be sure to make terrain interesting, not just a blank patch, have hills and caves and both large and small paths)
An ice prison sort of thing where you summon a ring of ice around a ground of heros (the ring is VERY huge) and they are slowed down by it but they can still move. In order to break out, they must destroy ice pillars or something.
A gravity sucking move where you can pull all surrounding enemy heroes towards you to allow the runner on your team to score and you act as a decoy.
A jumping move, self explanatory.
Statis traps, sentry wards, anything goes.
a buff spell that makes a hero move REALLY fast, but it's defense is DECREASED Immensly and so it dies on one hit. (thinking maybe use berserk as a template and make the damage taken percentage really high.)
Have a hero that can of course use mirror images --> but the cool idea is to make the hero able to create "decoy balls" so that if ANY player picks it up, they'll get stunned for awhile because they picked up the booby trap ball.

that's all for now, happy map making!

some of the sneaky peoples should have a stunning ability that stuns for 5-10 seconds. Range guys should have slow. Big guys could have a knocking back ability.

a short cooldown, low mana cost blink spell would make things hectic, mirror image would also be cool. Maybe a summoning spell, the summoned unit can't attack but can taunt or devour, and mass teleport would be great depending on how big the map is.

Windrunner is right, this looks just like soccer maps on WC3, and those are excellent in quality. You can do jump kicks, you can upgrade stats which make you shoot farther, run faster, etc. It also has a really nice camera angle. So that's probly going to be hard to top if you want to make it like soccer. But it looks like your just aiming at a map like Mutant Leauge Hockey, which altogheter is not of the best quality, so I hope you make this better.