Stargate: Atlantis

IF YOU KNOW WHAT STARGATE IS, SKIP THIS PART:


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Ill resume it quickly: a crew of 200 people went to another galaxy using some very-advanced one-use energy source (ZPM) because they wanted to learn more about the ancient humans, who had an incredible technology. so they used it on the Stargate(teleportation door) to go to Atlantis, a city in another galaxy, full of wonderful technology goodies. there, they discovered that a race of mean aliens (wraith) who also have a very-advanced technology, were feeding on the vital energy of the resident of that galaxy. When the wraiths learned that a crew of humans had taken control of a powerful anti-wraith device (all the stuff in Atlantis city), they sent a fleet of ship to Atlantis. NOT TO DESTROY IT. they learned that they could use Atlantis to go on Earth, then feed on the millions and millions people there is on Earth. When Atlantis crew was exploring the planets around Atlantis (they use the Stargate to travel), they discovered another race of humans(Jenneis), wich found a way to develop a decent technology (guns and explosives) in the back of wraiths, and they became enemy of the people on Atlantis and are now trying to steal their city for their own survival against the Wraith. Atlantis has 6 tiny ships, very effectives who can cloak themselves, and those ships also use a very advanced type of projectiles: drones. the drones are inteligent missiles who spot the first wraith ship and then rush to it, exploding in a nuclear explosion (wheee).

Afther a few months, 10 hours away from the arrival of the ennemy ships,when they were about to evacuate,Atlantis received a message from the Earth, who is coming to their aid (against the wraith fleet) with a godly battlecruiser: the DEDALEUS. but they will only be there in 4 days, so they have to hold the city from wraith attack until the arrival of the Dedaleus.
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Yep... i noticed there isnt many(there isnt any at all IMO) good maps of stargate..
So Ive decided to make a giant map of stargate atlantis episodes 19-20 season 1 (the siege)

Its a city defense wich will involve alot of strategy from all sides.

it will include
-6 unique heroes for atlantis, 2 unique heroes for Jennei and 6 uniq heroes-ships for wraiths (all heroes start at max level. Spatial cruisers dont get experience as they kill stuff....)
-stargate network 4 planets: Earth(only used for starting cinematic, and ending cinematic, if Wraiths win), Atlantis, Jennei World, Athos
-Stargate shield, wich prevent intrusion on atlantis from other worlds
-Control seat wich will have many city-defense abilities: Drone attacks, city shield, Pinging of all wraiths/wraiths ships on map (each of those require a % of their starting ZPM (wich is only charged to 50 %))
-quests for ZPMs, one-use items of power used with the Stargate and Control seat
-Player and computer controled wraith raid attacks.
-Puddle jumpers,humans spatial ships(with drone armement) and laser canons(manually aimed) at the disposition of humans
-limited number of respawn for Wraith cruisers, no respawn for hive ships, and 1 min+1 min X number of total deaths= respawn time for humans
-wraiths will be able to enter the city by bringing any of their small ships over delimited zones of the city, behind the defenses. if a ship enter that zone, it will destroy the ship and create wraith units IN the city.
-it will require alot of strategy from all sides. eg: Wraiths hive ships have the meteor shower ability, wich doesnt do any damage to any unit. but destroy the spatial mines around the city. leaving the city without one of its most powerful defenses.
-Every seconds, Atlantis will gain 1 energy(gold) Per Naquada generators alive in the city. every actions taken in the city, like control seat, stargate activation, Stargate shield, ships activation,etc will take energy. if the wraiths manage to destroy most of the Naquada generators, the City will no more be able to defend itself until a scientist hero/unit go repair the generators. so the Wraiths/Jenneis that destroy them should guard them afther.
-Manual Stargate codes. this mean if you want to go on Athos, you have to use the DHD console of the Stargate and click 1-6-3-4-2-6 In order(numbers are spells wich will be on the DHD), then click GO button and stargate shall active to Athos location. wrong code=no vortex. there will be a few secret planets...*

*=(numbers will appear on circles of power near the stargate, but not sure i will keep this cool thing: numbers can be seen trough the war fog, so i might just place glowing blue lights, and not the numbers themselves. you will still need to compose the code...you just wont see the numbers around the stargate)

-voted boot system
-anti-on-purpose-tking system
-DD-like save code. (not sure how to make. gotta ask Weevilman if im allowed to make one like him's, and how to do it) when you end game, points are giving to you. you use points, then on next game you load points. if all the points of your team added are over X number, youre team getting something special. if i cant do this, i wont put it in the game.
-You can see what happens INSIDE of the ships, when your unit board a ship, it is moved to another zone of the map, its like if you were IN the ship. then you can do things in that place wich will influence the actions of the ship unit itself. if ship dies, all units who were in that zone die.
-Much Much more..

Wraiths are coming to Atlantis at a very slow speed. they start with a ZPM, and their goal is to take possesion of Atlantis, place the ZPM on a circle of power, to be able to open a vortex to the Earth. if 20 wraiths manage to cross the vortex leading to Earth, they won.

Atlantis must hold 4 game-time days for the Dadaleus to come save them.
They officialy win afther they killed both wraith hive ships

Jennei start with 2 ZPMs also, but they have no use of it. they must defend it because Atlantis is more likely to come to try to steal it. if they lose their ZPM, they lose the game. if they protect their ZPM for 2 in-game days, they will acquire subtles powers alowing them to change their chat name and color, and changing the name/color of anyone in the game. causing much trouble on Atlantis side...



Wraiths ships will be able to teleport themselve in the city on pre-determined spots of the city. they are also able to use a spell wich will grant them the ability to kill anything they pass over, during 5 seconds (cooldown 2 mins)

Wraiths themselve only have 20 % chances to hit their target every time they shoot, and when they hit the target, it will stun it for 45 seconds, then, wraiths can use their lifeleech ability to kill the stunned humans (the ability act as a melee life-drain)


Wraiths have really high regeneration but slow movement and attack speed
their regeneration rate increase depending on their current Mana (mana increase when they eat a human)


lets just hope ill have time to do it before summer :P


PS: i also lack ALOT of models, so if you feel like making me some, PM me. BTW i have no ****ing Clue how to make cinematics......

HIRING:
Modellers.
Terrainers.
Cinematic maker.
Beta Testers.(but not now)



Yet completed: (i edit this part every days)
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Map:
Anything related to the Stargate
Most of Atlantis defenses
Hive ships, Cruisers, and a few of their spells
Energy network and Naquada generators
Puddle Jumper #1
Save/load codes (wehee)
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Stats:
Current numbers of triggers: 247.
% completed: 11-12 %
longest trigger ATM: 420 lines.

Screenshots:
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Screenshots:
Favourite one:

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/4...dshield2vr.png (Vortex and Shield)
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/5134/closing5gi.png (closing)
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/6...rcannon6sf.png (Laser cannon, Laser and half a Wraith ship)
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Try writing that so that people who've never watched Stargate can understand it.

Done.

So will the teams be divided 4v4v4? Wraith vs SG teams vs Jennai?

6 atlantis,5 start on the city(Weir, Sheppard, Mc.kay,Ford,Everett), and one start on a near planet, the Alpha site (Teyla)
4 wraiths (hive ship, hive ship, 3 cruisers, 3 cruisers)
2 jenneis (Golia and another...)


i made it impossible for wraiths to go on Jennei world instead. so in fact, its atlantis Vs jennei+ wraith


IF jenneis manage to takeover atlantis, then its atlantis team (who fleed to alpha site) Vs Jennei Vs wraith i a FFA.
I cant make teams even. Jenneis dont have a big role, they just need to protect their ZPM for 20 mins, if they do it, their army will receive a huge boost and they will be alowed to turn their name and color to the identity of anyone in the game (so itll be very easy to enter the city)

Ancient humans? I thought that the Ancients were an alien race (like the Asgard)? Secondly (not so sure) isn't the Dedaleus not all that godly (since we are nowhere near as advanced as the Ancients, and they were beaten by the Wraith), but rather that they would be able to use its generator to power up the city, thus enabling them to make use of the cities own defences?

1) ancient humans are exactly like you and me, they just have wierd powers and godly technology, they lived on Earth until they build Atlantis, then travelled to another galaxy, 6 millions year ago.
2)its godly because a ZPM is loaded into its motor..yeah u are right they will use it to power up atlantis defenses, the ship itself isnt very good.

will the daedalus be an actual model?

I can do some of these, but am away 13-19th, so PM me to remind.

i guess il just take a battlecruise model :)

using star destroyers for darts, phoenix eggs for ZPMs,stargate model for stargate, blue portal for vortex, yellow portal for shield, dummy units for symbol.



i took the last week making a dark-deeds like code. u use the DHD control, type a number, and that number will appear on a circle of power around the gate, fills all 8 slots, press GO. and if the adress you entered matches a existing adress, vortex will open to there.

You should really use the list tags inn BBCode to tidy that up a little. Seems like you're planny everything ok. Good luck!

Talking about cinematics? or models?

Thanks alot!

I also noticed i am one of the rare-ones to make something new...most people just take existing maps and remake them...


my map looks like a city defense but its much, much more than that....im working on it 3-8 hours/day..thanks for support.

Just so you guys know: if you want to suggest anything, go ahead!

...while what you're doing is taking an existing TV show and making a map about it.

Original!

In my opinion, to make the map seem in any way decent, you will need a lot of custom artwork. I don't mean just models, there's also terrain and the UI. A difficult task, but that's what you get for choosing a preset map theme.

The asymetrical mission objectives are interesting, but difficult to balance, and with 3 teams, only one of which can win, there are going to be more loosing than winning players, which kind of sucks for them.