Bront, I advise getting one of the awesome melee-map-makers to design an even, 8-player, interesting map. Some elevated terrain, more expos but with a bit less mineral nodes, etc. BGH is getting rather stale. And, remove 'Easy' mode from it. Instead, make a 'Melee' mode and a 'MOAR' option. The Melee mode would have limited resources, for more of an early-game style of play. The MOAR option would have a bit more then BGH Phantom has for 'Challenge'. 2500 per node.
I discussed this with BeDazed. Actually, he might be interested in doing the terrain. The current Phantom game is too stale. Playing Phantom on a 256x256 map where you can't immediately get to anywhere you want would, I think, really make Phantom a lot more interesting and 'professional' to play.
Oh, and implement the anti-hack. No reason not to.
Are you serious? I asked you what you thought of a 256x256 Phantom game and you said "nay."
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Making your own copy of something and putting versionYou on the end? I did that in 2001.. I hope it doesn't take you as long as it took me to progress past that.
Anti-hack is of course a good thing, but just be sure that you don't compromise stability for it. I'd rather play with hackers than play for an hour and crash. EUD's are a good idea, though, as long as you have the patience to update with every patch.
Finally, even though phantom games really don't constitute much of anything as far as triggering, do be sure to actually do this little part yourself from scratch. This way, you actually gain a little experience to help you in making real games later and it actually is 100% your game.
And ya, I agree with what was said above; do something that will make this game original and different in its essence than what is already out there, and I think new terrain would be a great way of how to do that.
Yes. Make Phantom vBront. Include anti-hacking, two resource modes, better terrain.. /salivate
I just put the vBront there because of what Centreri said in a comment on Map Night #34.
I would put some number there or something.
I uploaded Phantom Iced Out, which is classic Phantom on Nightmarjoo's 256x256 8 player map, Plutionian Shores. I reccomend that terrain. But the version i uploaded was modified a bit, ill actually need to do some work on it. So if you will use it, ill update it.
I think I will make my own terrain instead of copying from another map. I was thinking something like a huge " X " and ~3/4ths of the way up or down one of the crosses will be two bases, divided by higher terrain.
Yeah, no need to make it vBront. Just Phantom {insertsomethinghere} v{insertvnumber}. BGH is getting old.
Yes. Make Phantom vBront. Include anti-hacking, two resource modes, better terrain.. /salivate
I was doing it for the LULZ.
None.