Making a TD

I feel for you :-)

my TD ended up being a mess, really cool but a complete lagfest. I might resurrect it someday, but time is running out cause the life cycle of warcraft 3 is drawing to a close...
 
What stands TD for? Propably some tower defense level like "the crossing". (The crossing is a secret level in the episode "The Curse of The Blood Elves". The Secret Level Powerup can be found in the level "The Dungeons of Dalaran".)

How are such levels difficult to make?

EDIT: Err, what's this topic for?

EDIT2: You're probably thinking I'm being whiny, but I'm truly simply asking questions.
 
A TD is a tower defense. Creeps line up in a turkey shoot, and you mow em down or lose. Some loop around twice, some you can maze. Mine is a one shot walk by, no maze.

Whats hard? Hmmmm...

30 Tweaked creeps. Not too bad. Names, armor type, hit points, speed, bounty, etc.

5 Races. 10 Upgradeable towers. Thats 100 towers or so to make.
Graphics, projectile art, attack speeds, special abilities, tool tips, upgrade dependencies, gold cost and damage.

Play each one 20 damn times to balance out gold costs, damage, and attack types.

8 Player lanes, 5 movement regions each, thats 40 triggers for handling movements. One huge trigger with arrays would fire a couple hundred times, and... you don't want that.

Custom triggers, abilities, and variables to do neat cool things other people can't.

Difficulty, diaglog boxes, player conditions, forces, and triggers to handle em all.

Making an 8 lane map beautifull.

Making it ALL balanced together, and not suck.
 
lol

LOL!! Alrigt man i want the map when ur done..lol
 
the reason you should use it is because it can be minimized. A lot of people dont like all the space a leaderboard takes up, and would prefer it wasn't there in the first place. With a multiboard, the user can freely choose whether to display or hide the board.

remind me to get some terraining advice from you one day :-)
 
hmmm

maybe i can just listen to you guys talk about this stuff(not even knowin a dern thing yer sayin) all night and read it over and over and maybe i just might start to get it : )

edit: do yu consider Skibi a legend?
 
Leaderboard is static and stays shown until you hide it. It can really only display player names and values.

Multiboard can be minimized by the player. Its like an excel sheet. You can have multiple colums per row. You can also show icons in a multiboard. It does take more code to get it up and running. Its more complicated & sophisticated than a leaderboard.

I used a multiboard to break the 8 players down into four teams. Like such.
 
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