Re: Taking Advantage of Symmetry Options
This, put together with effective spawn placement is EXTREMELY difficult and takes time to plan out. Fbu... you are correct on the multi-use maps. Cottage and myself have put them together. There are 3 maps and 6 gametypes... all of which are compatible with each other. And the future ACMPs will feature more maps and gametypes that are compatible with these maps and gametypes.
Anyways back to symmetry... think about it this way. You want to incorporate a multi-team (up to 4 teams), defense teams, and offense teams. but you only have 20 starting points. You need to use 16 spawn points to cover 8 vs 8, 4 vs 4 vs 4 vs 4, etc. However the ones you placed are all equal distance from your focus point (say a tower). When you play defense vs offense you want defense to spawn closer. But you don't have the 8 spawn points to set for assymetrical defense.. you only have 4. Not to mention that you also have to priority spawn any points closest to the tower.. so they don't just appear at the defense points that were made for multi-team that are very far away and the takes the same amount of time as it takes for attackers to get there.
For the AZN Cottages that enable 4 teams I ended up with these combinations:
- 4 starting points Assymetrical Defense near the tower with a respawn area for priority
- 4 starting points Both(symmetrical and assymetrical) Defenders equal from the tower (with custom powerups only on assymetrical so any defense over 4 can speed toward the tower)
- 4 starting points Symmetrical Neutral equal from the tower
- 4 more starting points Symmetrical Neutral equal from the tower
- 4 starting points Both Attackers equal from the tower
Now as you can see what I do is very advanced and not your average forging stuff. I work hard to give people good maps. However I don't get much credit for it, cuz people don't actually see the spawn points and all of the work and thought it takes to make multiple gametypes work.
How many Forgers do you know that can make a map work for Multi-Flag, Single Flag, Territories, One-side Territories, KOTH, Infection, and soon to come, VIP, Juggernaut, Oddball, assault, etc? For most of you... just me. For the rest, a handful at most.
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