Alright, Just so I can get the
PRIVILEGE to even TALK on this Post!!! I've DL'ed and played the map.
After actually Playing the map, I have to say the map is..
relatively .. not bad.
Well what can I say... Initially I wanted to bitch at you because of your misunderstanding, causing both Norm- and Fritfrat to turn against me for no apparent reason. But since you've made a decent map, and you had to deal with a full day of delicious irony (no one Dl'ed ur map, therefore no one's supposed to post anything here, and no one did), I think you did a fine job....
The good is that you can really control what's happening in the game, and you really have to use your ores carefully. Even for extra units, you require ore, which is given to you every 10-20 secs... So.. Yeah...
The gambling part, which is where the controversies started, is just an extra option of what to do with your ores. For 8 ores, you can try to gamble for more ores... you also have a 11% chance of dying... This actually works quite well.. In Theory..
Lemme tell you what happened.... I hit jackpot on my FIRST try with just 8 ores... got 1k ore.... upgraded like hell, and pwned the n00bs. That shouldn't happen... Neither should dying happen... It's just too Game ending. If you have a full house (6 players?), and in the middle of the game, everyone's tied, and the game's going fine, but then suddenly sm1 hit a jackpot, or sm1 died for gambling.. that's pretty bullshit in terms of gameplay. It has the ability to RUIN the game instantly.
Also, it is still a bit tacked on.. like really... It's not integrated properly with the game. As i've said, it's possible to just Not gamble and do w/e u want. So why would the option be there....
In the end, the things I've predicted came true (gambling being tacked on, and instant death = lame), but the map itself was actually quite well made.
Going back to the first few comments, you really screwed yourself over by not elaborating the map's game mechanics. Your post begged for more elaboration, and people complained and criticized because it didn't seem u gave a shit if we played ur map, and because of Sturgeon's Law, which clearly states that "90% of EVERYTHING IS CRAP!! ! !". So, by experience, we've already charged ur map to be guilty of suckage before proven innocent.
If you have elaborated more on the gameplay, I'm sure people would've given you a different response.
And don't you dare say that "OH FUCK U U'VE ONLY PLAYED THIS ONCE OMFG GTFO OF MY THREAD".. because that's just an excuse, that'll make YOu look bad, and that the First Impression is Everything.
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