Months of wasted time

[Mind]

I spend about 68 days, including 37 days of my vacation working extremely hard at my level.

Yet, my level is completely unknown and ignored, as if fate itself tests and toys with the brittle remains of my faith.

My map, months of hard work, is rotting in the nearly abondoned sections of a few sites.

I need some way to advertise my map, but how?

 

[Nogusta]

I find a lot of people spam the little bulletin board with the name of their map at maps.worldofwar.net.

Also you could just submit a new version of your map to popular sites or even go to B.net and make a game called: '(your map name here) dl only' then proceed to leave your computer on for several hours.

I find the site that gives the most recognition to maps is at WarcraftIII.net in their mapsnmods section.

Of course, if people don't find your map fun there isn't much to do about it.

 

[Mind]

I can't host any maps on B.net.

Of course, if people don't find your map fun there isn't much to do about it.

Apparently, people don't like playing LoaP styled games anymore.

Sounds like I failed to achieve the only goal I ever had in my life. Yay.

How long will I yet endure this miserable existence?

 

[Nogusta]

That's cause making another loap is NEVER a good idea. Face it, the thing has been owned by a lack of map protection and therefore there are about 99999 plus versions. Just another sad story of an instance where map protection would of made the difference between and good map and a horribly ripped one.

 

[wthef_wc3]

make a simple free web page and get a bot on bnet to spam ur address. ur sure to get a few hits.

 

[Mind]

I'll never Send People Annoying Messages for such a futility.

I was hoping to enjoy playing my own map on-line, but, apparently, that was false hope…

I'll just stop making maps. Definitively.

 

[vito]

noo it cant be Mind dont be so desperete. it have to be a way to spread your map on b-net. "Playing on b-net my own map was my life dream" it have been my dream too.... but i never had enought discipline to coplite a single map


but u had it u designt beutiuul map

loap isnt dead now! I saw people playing LoaP many times in last week....

maybe if u hire enought people to sprea your map u will do it!
im not just encouraging you im thinking serius(i like your map)

me and my friend (protos is his name) have try to create map around 25 times and it lured several people (we alweys played fuul house) But that wasn enought i will try to create it agen and agen

i will never let a so good map to be forgoten!!! NEVER


If u want to play your map on b-net i can help u (i create your map i join) my b-net nick name is SpiderKing00.1

 

[Mind]

Thanks for trying to spread my map and encouraging me. I appreciate it.

If I could host maps myself on Battle.net, there wasn't a problem.

I'd also give the link of one of the sites where my map is avaible often when playing on Battle.net. That takes less time then hosting my map itself.

 

[Nogusta]

Instead of moping around on the subject you may want to find out why you can't host games.

Usually it's because of your router (hopefully you have one).
Fortunately for you I fixed this problem myself a couple months back, which is why I started wanting to make maps.

The problem is simple.

1. Make sure your War3 port settings are default.

2. Disable any firewalls on your computer.
(This may include anti-virus/spyware firewalls.)

3. If that doesn't solve the problem go to your router control and enter your name and password to get in.

4. Then find the section of your router control that deals with opening and closing ports (May be a little difficult to identify).

5. Manually open the port 6112 and 4000 (TCP and UDP, out and in)

That's basically the shortest way to deal with the problem. Many routers today actually recognize Blizzard's port settings and have a "Blizzard" port setting option which opens all the ports needed to host all Blizzard games on the Internet. The ports I suggested only allow you to host War3 games. Other ports will have to be opened for other Blizzard products.

However, if you want all the info with all the frills then allow me to suggest these links: http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=awr0655p and http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msi0445p

All the info you need is right in there. (Plus more)

 

[vito]

OK guys....
plz all in this forum host Mind map few time
do this for your "friend" Mind

HAVE U UNDERSTAND ME
i hope u have

 

[Mind]

OK guys....
plz all in this forum host Mind map few time
do this for your "friend" Mind

HAVE U UNDERSTAND ME
i hope u have

I appreciate that, until you were sarcastic.

However, since I discovered a lot of bugs recently, it's better not to distribute the map.

Ah, I can finally host maps on Battle.net myself. Thank you very much, Nogusta.

 

[Mind]

People don't seem to like my map very much; Most players leave soon.

No-one understands the objective of the game, mainly because there is no quest.

I really should do something to make the game more interesting. Something which points the player in the right direction… But what?

Please give me ideas.

 

[DarckRedd]

I can give you advice:

1) Give them an overlying objective. It gives people a sense of purpose.

2) "Kick them off" somehow with an initial quest. Give them inititive to take on the world.

3) Maybe you could do something interesting, like add an empire building element? Players could get a job as a warlord or politician, and build an incampment.

4) You could give them an objective of "explore." That'll them down the road.

 

[Mind]

Sigh. There lies the problem…

I replaced the quest menu by an information menu. There's no way I'll use it for both information and quests.

 

[sATARa]

You could make it a quest menu but make one quest labeled INFO.

 

[Mind]

What? I must delete the whole info menu and replace it by a quest menu?

 

[sATARa]

???????

I just mean that you could use it as as a quest menu, but have one quest called INFO, with all your info in there.

 

[Mind]

I know. It's a very helpful hint… But this points me in a completely different direction… This map is far from complete yet.

I now use the Optional Quests menu as Info menu, and the Main Quests menu as Quests menu.

 

[DarckRedd]

Maybe players play through the game, and once it gets to a certain time, an event occures that send the players down the main plotline. Or the host chooses when this happens.

 

[Darg]

People don't seem to like my map very much; Most players leave soon.

are we 100% ruling out players dropping due to desyncs ? probably not likely given the game type, but we still need to be sure.....