(10) SimCity Wars v0.40

The Major Terrain and Tooltip Revamp is Complete! -With a bonus cinematic too.

Background:

Two cities are at war. Neither can stand while the other survives. Your job is to destroy the rival city.

Roles:

Mayor : Like Simcity, build a city and fund yourself, your army and your defense. You have to take in account gold factors, technology and food. Listen to your teammates.

General: You are in charge of your cities army. Research, build an army and attack. Do not feed the defense of the other team. Choose your army types carefully.

Defense Minister: You are in charge of building fortifications for your city. Remember that your towers can be upgraded, and do not underestimate the power of barriers.

Features
9 Units [3 Tiers, 3 types]
9 Offense upgrades
3 Tanks with Destructive Abilities
7 More Unique Spells - 6 Upgradable
A New Command Post for Buffs

3 Levels of Barriers
6 Levels of Towers, 2 types.
3 Special Upgradable Towers
2 Levels of Mobile Defence Units
6 Upgrades, 1 Unique.

Simcity RCI buildings
Farms - 2 Levels
R&D - 3[!] Levels
Banks

Automatic Upgrades
-Residential
-Commerce
-Industrial
-Agricultural
Use the -tech command and check quests if you are not sure.

Changelog:

-New Command Post Structure for Generals.
-Balance Changes & Overall bug fixing
-A more Helpful Quest Menu
-An Intro Cinematic
-Totally Revamped tooltips that are a lot more helpful and descriptive
-Totally Revamped Terrain with 3 Entrances
-New Cinematic
-Automatic Upgrades Based on Tech Level
-Mayor Income Check down to 22.5% from 50%


Map can be played with as little as 6 people, up to a full team (2 defence and offence) of 10. The subbing feature causes leavers not to affect the game as much.

Have fun!

*To all those that contributed suggestions (Gadden and Tim.), thanks a lot, and please also review this version and comment on it. I will always try to improve my maps.

The reason it's taking so much time is because im not sure yet, keep waiting ^^

Any other changes i should make?

GaDDeN and I tested this yesterday with Wc3c staff and members. We will write our reviews shortly.

still waiting xD

Bah GaDDeN you lazy ass! :P

Okay let's see...

• Light posts block pathing of structures, very annoying
• Defense and offence stay in continuous stalemate, especially due to the mines
• Only getting income each morning is a bit annoying, perhaps give income at dawn and at dusk.
• Mines seem overpowered
• Opening cinematic is not altogether necessary, and is not all that interesting

There's some more, but I'll let GaDDeN say those since I cannot remember what they were :P

Hmm mines weren't overpower, i realised after getting owned by them a few times that i had to send in lesser units before the real wave to clear up the minefield. That was just a fun addition to tactic.

One problem with the game was that defense and offense were equally good, unless the mayor chose to focus on either of them. When we played, both mayors started by focusing defense, and then Tim (our mayor) started focusing offense. If he had continued to focus defense, that game would never end.

Defense was VERY easy in beginning (meaning offense was near impossible) and then in the end this changes, so that offense become easy (just mass meat wagons and attack move) and defense near impossible.

The game has to work this way or it will never end. But in some way i felt that what I did had no affect on the outcome, only what Tim did. As long as the defense / offense ministers aren't complete morons, it's really a war between the mayors.

Oh and this time i played as offense minister. A fun thing with this map is the variation of playing a new position every time. I think micro management played very small part in attacking; it was really all about massing a unit type and attack moving. Maybe if you had more varied unit types, with different abilities... Some units have high health and can "tank" the towers, while the mortar units have long range and stronger damage vs some towers. And as tim says, the mines are kind of boring. I tried building two strong units and then massing mortar teams with upgraded damage, but the mortarteams died on first mine i bumped into. Of course i COULD have cleared the way with one mortarteam, but i forgot.

A fun addition to the offensive units were the special units. These had abilities like healing wave, cluster rockets and spirit link.

And no, i really don't have sollutions to all this, im just the guy that say stuff sucks and ur the guy who fixes it :)

Not sure about whether i approve it or not, u'll have to wait alittle longer for that.

I see, i'll think of solutions.

Task List:
- Nerf / Completely Remove / Make it an upgradable Minister's attack completely.
-Make Mines bought from a shop that the mayor builds which will sell some new stuff as well
-Buff the higher level defence towers
-Special Random Events?
-Make Lightposts Pathingmap nothing (might look kinda weird sticking out of a building, have to see) -----------------Done
-New Units, Defence Shields and Nukes, Propaganda Towers Hospitals etc.
-Cruise Missles (hehe.) ----------------------- Planning

-Voting Kick Trigger ---------------------Considering
-Anti TK Trigger -------------------------Done
-Cinematic Tutorial ----------------------Doing
-Warning Msg for Mayor Income Cap + Specific Amount Capped ----Done
-General Buildings/Defence Buildings Voluntary + Mayor Tech Req
-Make Tech Chance Higher. -------------------------- Done
-Tech Icons ----------------------------------------- Done
-Decrease Cap to 40% ------------------------------- Done

Hmm thats about it. Will be rather bz this week so probably wont be updating.
Do Continue posting your feedback though..

I will move this to the Map Projects forum for futher updates. I suggest you request it moved back here when it is more complete.

Winter Scaze - I'm the original creator of Sim City Wars. I accidentally leaked an unprotected version once, and it led to your mods. I would appreciate if you would give credit in the map to its original creator.

Here are some of my old versions, submitted long long ago.

Build 8: http://www.warcraft.org/maps/details/c2507
Build 13: http://www.warcraft.org/maps/details/c4090
Build 24: http://www.warcraft.org/maps/details/c5861

I still have every one of my versions backed up on my computer from build 1 to build 29.

This thread is long since dead, however thank you for this information. Closed.