Servitude: The Throne

[Knocksious]

Finally
I got my computer back... no bugs... finals are over... Christmas is over... time to get back to work

What it is

This would probably be most easily described as a RPG/AOS hybrid
What Happens is you pick out your heroand start out neutral.
You do quests and kill stuff to modify your "Allignment"
to either good or evil. The objective being to kill the enemy base. This gets
easier as you gain levels and alignment, because certain items can only be
used by heroes of a certain alignment.

Picking out your Hero
In this map you start out by picking your race (humans, elves, dwarves,
undead, orcs) and then your "genre" of hero (melee, ranged, magic) then from there you pick out the class that you can be depending on that race and
genre. Each race, and each Genre gets a specific skill. So there is a bit of customization.

Unique (as far as I have seen) Features

• you can change your alignment
• non-cooperative, but not "open" RPG
• New-ish Magic System (spellbook style, but with "schools")
• Race/Genre specification

Other Non-Original Features

• save/load system (thanks to AceHeart)
• all of the cool abilities are triggered
• dungeons
• class-restricted items (spellcasters can't use swords)
• only one item of a given type (melee, bow, etc.)

Now a few Screenshots

a Duelist at the Evil Capitol City, by the Shops

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A Fighter at the Good Capitol City

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a sorcerer using Frost Shock, a triggered ability (this was a hard screenshot to capture, since I am just using the Shift-Apple-4 screen cap on a mac, believe me it looks really awesome in-game)

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basically a perfect Screenshot of the Necromancer's Ultimate Darkness Spell, Black Hole (all of the little "ghost" smudges used to be enemy units)

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an In-Editor pic of "The Oldest Oak" which is an entry point into the 1st Dungeon (Below the Oak)

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The Starting Location

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Some Sweet Sorcerer Spell Pics

Static Orb, Launches an orb at the opponent that....

Explodes on Contact

Tundra Strike, Freezes all opponents in the blast radius for 60 secs, and permanently changes the ground

I didn't take another one, but in about a second those enemies get encased in ice


Completion Statistics
Abilities---------60%
Terraining------30%
Units------------15%
Triggering-------70%
non quest related triggering is basically done (96%)
Items------------10%

As you can see, it is a ways away from completion
but just wanted to put the idea out here, so I can get new ideas/feedback

Log (on the off chance anyone is interested)
The Cleric is basically done, but needs some fleshing out
Elven Race is basically complete
Since the good comp was gone, I worked on a backup copy (ty external HD) and eliminated mad leaks


What I would like help with
Basically Ideas and Feedback
Mainly Feedback
What do you like? What do you not like?
What should I focus on?


also, Item ideas would be nice, but I haven't really racked my brain for that just yet.


Last, but not least, I am wondering if anyone would like to work with me more in-depth on this
basically Questing. Quest Ideas, Dungeon Ideas, Quest Scripts/Triggers
At any rate, if this project sounds like something you might be interested in, Lemmie know

*****I realized that I need to create creeps up to level 100 :O, requesting anyone to help crunch those numbers*****

 

[Demonwrath]

Like admins and mods have said to me...only bump after 24 hours, not 3

Anyway it looks sorta good.

The good bad idea I will bet you got from a game *cough Fable cough*

But all in all, i looks interesting.

There's your feedback now give me rep XD

 

[WhoIsJG]

Necromancer spell idea. Something like the info for Finger of Death in DOTA "turn a unit/player inside-out". Use the Death animation (blood and body parts explode out) that would play 3-4 times. On top of hurting the hero maybe the body parts that fly out turn into skellies that attack the hero as well.

As far as the Good/Bad concept, it wasnt original in Fable either (Black and White for example) so dont worry about it, its still a fun theme.

 

[Knocksious]

yea.... but I don't think fable did a good job with it, because you were always "sort-of" good, because you could never really ally with the bandits, or anything, and most of the quests were sorta "good"

as far as originality goes, I meant original as far as WC3 maps go

 

[morno]

looks good

 

[Knocksious]

*bump for update*

*added a new request, hope this double-bump is alright, the last one wasn't near the peak hours, so I think it got lost in the cracks*

 

[morno]

isent the last screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time? i really loved the game! but i can't play it becouse i dont have a N64! OMG!! i miss it!

 

[Knocksious]

haha, no, that is actually from my map, pretty good-looking then eh?

 

[Jazradel]

F13/Print Screen/Apple-Shift-3 are all ways to take better screenshots.

More info about the enemy base please.

 

[Knocksious]

Would you Like A Screenshot?

Heres a Screenie. Photobucket is down, so I had to use ImageShack

this is a SS of the minimap in WE, the yellow box is around the portion of the evil city that can be seen in the previous
Or Story-Type Info?
This City (currently unnamed) was founded by a jealous demon (also currently unnamed) and is the stronghold for his operations in the land where this all takes place (also currently unnamed )
Or More Info in General?
It has the negative version of everything in the good city
A capitol, 3 shops (basic,upgrade,and demonic/ultimate) and that flaming stone thingy is the evil equivalent of a Fountain of Life/Mana
It also has houses for the denizens (called minions) and eventually will have guards patroling the streets and minions just hanging out, maybe chopping trees

 

[Knocksious]

Major Update
Servitude: The Throne is now a fully-functioning (but crappy) AoS

What I mean to say, is that the raw skeletal structure of the AoS part of this map is 100% Finito!

This is progress


Also, Necromancer is Done, if you want screenshots of more abilities, just lemmie know

 

[GreatDivide]

hey nice map, i hope it turns out to be succesful nice skills especially the black hole thing
and is there gonna be a nature or water mage hero or somethin hope there is anyway i hope i can try it out soon and oh uh more screenies pls:shades:

 

[Knocksious]

Glad you like it!

I'll post more screens for sure when I get back to my regular computer

As far as mages go, because of the vast ammounts of spells associated with any given magical unit, I won't have a plain "Water" mage in the first release

the 3 magic classes (in the first release) are going to be
Sorceror (fire, ice, lightning)
Necromancer (decay, darkness, death(raise dead))
Cleric (holy, inspiration, light(healing))

figure that for each school there are at least 5 spells
and possibly more

and I dont like doing "simple damage" type spells
so the spells take A LOT of work

I might add, later on, either a water mage or a book of water spells as an item or something, but for the near forseeable future, I will stick with these classes

a VERY VERY prototype mage class is the Geomancer, which would be a Magic str sublclass

That might have what you would be looking for

 

[Knocksious]

any mod go ahead and remove this post, I just wanted to ask, since I want to put up summore screenshots (as per requests), and I don't wanna overtax the system more than my fair share, should I be taking down screens as I put them up? Or can the server handle the Photobucket way of photo sharing pretty well?

 

[Knocksious]

just gunna do it

 

[GreatDivide]

Yey BETA yahoo!!!!!! me gonna try wahahahaha:shades: :shades: :shades: :shades: :shades: :shades: :shades:

 

[Knocksious]

keep in mind, this isn't really a BETA beta, it's more of a sampling of what this game is kind-of going to be like

there is basically 1 of everything you are going to find when the game is complete

1 or 2 awesome items

2 spellcasters

3 melee units

1 ranged unit

1 quest

1 dungeon

I just want to see if the methods that I am using so far create a somewhat balanced, enjoyable game.

I also want to see, if at this point, one unit is massively overpowered, because that could be the difference when I test against creeps for balancing issues

Bear in mind that my computer that runs it is in the repair shop and they said UP TO a week, from today, was the date I get it back. I still have the map on every single available hard drive in my posession, but they are all slow processors, and it wouldn't be cool to lag out on my own beta test

 

[GreatDivide]

what you mean to say is you'll release it 1 week after the above post??? if so the yahoo!!!!

 

[Knocksious]

er.... no

what I mean to say, is that I need to run a basic BETA test to see if there is one hero that is super-overpowered, so I know not to test creeps against them (balancing can be done later)

I also want to see if everything I have is working, since any additional features will basically be variations of the same code

I'm basically seeing if the game CORE is working as expected, without too much lag for the average player, and as MUI as I can make it

This is not a real BETA test, but that's what I call it since that is so widely recognized as a multiplayer test

 

[PurgeandFire]

The terrain needs to be better. Add doodads and raise the height + be a little more creative.