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The DOTA Template
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was DOTA (Defense of the Ancients). It took WC3 like a storm. Everyone was doing a DOTA map and everyone had questions. For some reason, the mods of the WC3 Editor Forums did not like the DOTA questions, as well as many of the other people in the forum. So what did we do, did we start a DOTA forum? No, we banned DOTA talk in the Discussion areas.
To this day, I think this was one of the daggers in the heart of getting the site popular with the General Public rather than an elite group of WC3 Mapper Helpers. However, I did not do WC3 Mapping and I was not about to go up against the powerful Mods that seemed to hate DOTA posts especially when I knew Jack about it. Maybe it was just DOTA general discussion in the WC3 Editor Help forum but either way, nowadays we would create a forum for it.
Then Ace and SDRyoko created the DOTA Template. The great shut up to all the DOTA questions. If you were asking a question about the template, then that was different than a regular DOTA question. It was not DOTA, it was the the DOTA template. In the end, people came for the Template and not to discuss DOTA - they did that elsewhere.
Still one of the most downloaded maps in the Map Database (even I downloaded it). Probably horribly outdated this Tutorial Map is, as far as I know, the best resource to creating your own DOTA that there is today.
The DOTA Template: http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/maps.php?view=137
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was DOTA (Defense of the Ancients). It took WC3 like a storm. Everyone was doing a DOTA map and everyone had questions. For some reason, the mods of the WC3 Editor Forums did not like the DOTA questions, as well as many of the other people in the forum. So what did we do, did we start a DOTA forum? No, we banned DOTA talk in the Discussion areas.
To this day, I think this was one of the daggers in the heart of getting the site popular with the General Public rather than an elite group of WC3 Mapper Helpers. However, I did not do WC3 Mapping and I was not about to go up against the powerful Mods that seemed to hate DOTA posts especially when I knew Jack about it. Maybe it was just DOTA general discussion in the WC3 Editor Help forum but either way, nowadays we would create a forum for it.
Then Ace and SDRyoko created the DOTA Template. The great shut up to all the DOTA questions. If you were asking a question about the template, then that was different than a regular DOTA question. It was not DOTA, it was the the DOTA template. In the end, people came for the Template and not to discuss DOTA - they did that elsewhere.
Still one of the most downloaded maps in the Map Database (even I downloaded it). Probably horribly outdated this Tutorial Map is, as far as I know, the best resource to creating your own DOTA that there is today.
The DOTA Template: http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/maps.php?view=137
