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I made Minas-Morgul for 22nd Siege. Feel free to take inspiration:



I also made Mines of Moria, Ithilien, Rivendell and Minas Tirith, if you're interested in those.

There is nothign to fix. PW already have a system and potential for an excellent economy system.

You only need 2 things:

1: A map that actually promotes economy and doesn't just hand out resources and equipment easily and freely. The mapmaker needs to have the balls to say no to giving the players everything they want. Just like you dont give your child candy before dinner, you also need to say no when the players complain about everything not coming easily.

2: A server owner and admin team who have the balls to say no to refunds and banking. No economic system have ever, and will ever, be designed that can withstand the admins just handing out hundreds of thousands of gold. The same goes for banks. The only money that should be available are the money earned from contributing to the current scene. The same applies to admins refilling armoroies because the players are too stupid to hire an engineer.

Economy will only work without banks and admin intervention. If you intervene, then you might aswell not even bother with an economy at all.

hirovard 说:

have you done a skyland theme map before? I cannot remember.

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I have and i learned from my mistakes. Sky City was not viable because of the difficulty of travelling thanks to the bridge system. On this map, the locations will be on the ground and the flying ships will mostly be there for fun.

The core concept of Sky City was the flying part. This would not be the case with this new one.

The Bowman 说:

I also cannot get past the fantasy-ish stuff. I'm sure you can do awesome maps, but I want this one to be realistic, just like Lowlands was.

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There is no shortage of realistic maps. I have no real desire to make just another Lowlands and a realistic sarranid theme seems dull, since deserts rarely make for interesting landscapes. Fantasy theme is something that, to me, opens up a lot of doors and is something that nobody have really fully developed yet.

As for flying ships, i have long had the philosophy that ships are not good for practical uses and should be regarded as toys, and i can think of few things more fun to use than a ship flying across the map, looking down on villages and travellers.

Please clarify that that Lowlands version is not my version, nor would i ever under any circumstance support the modification that he have done.

Operatic Ocelot 说:

LdlGEragon 说:

Out of curiosity. If i were to make another map, with the same economic concept, what kind of map would the community want? I may have a lot of free time this summer.

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I think more than anything, what I'd like to see is something different. What this is, I know not, but I feel like the recent maps have all been rather cookie-cutter. You could even go with some sort of concept map if you'd like so long as there aren't eight full sized castles of every culture with a river cutting through the middle.

Here's what I say: Make a map that you feel you'd be proud of. Be creative, be artistic. You're a good mapper, so I'm confident that if you simply make a map with the knowledge you have, it will be good.

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That is what i did with Sky City, which unfortunately was not well recieved. Maybe i took it a bit too far in the creativity, but it still proved that being too creative is harmful aswell.

Although i do feel an idea forming in my head. One that could be quite amazing.

Out of curiosity. If i were to make another map, with the same economic concept, what kind of map would the community want? I may have a lot of free time this summer.

If you have a deadline, then i can assure you that your map will be of poor quality.

These things take time. If you refuse to give them the time necessary, you are setting yourself up for failure.

If you are not willing to take the time to add proper values in the items you put on the map, and rather remove them, then your map is unlikely to have any depth.

If you want to create a map of high quality, you need to take the time for the small things aswell without trying to find shortcuts.

Are the barriers in Wraithgate water_river props? They are going to severely mess up your map if you don't know how to handle them.

You will still have to talk to the server owners about refunds and banks, and get them to keep it as small as possible. No economic system could ever be constructed that worked in combination with administrators or banks giving gold to the players.

Lowlands took months to create. A replica would probably take weeks. Weeks that i currently do not have. Maybe if i'm incredibly bored this summer, i could do it. Otherwise, don't expect it.

And even if i did replicate it, wouldn't it be better if you simply designed new maps after the same formula? Lowlands have been played through and through. Don't you want something new?