Unecessary Necro is Unecessary <.<
But since u guys have input...
The problem with Temple Siege is not the small amount of spells, although admittedly, the ones you DO have are not very creative, it is the ridiculously slow gameplay, the map is too large, mana recovers too slow, you have too much health, and there is not enough spawn(to cover the ridiculous map size). TS is for a slower crowd, if you know what I mean
Really?? I felt the same for
Korean maps... Well not that the action is too slow, mana too slow, or map too big... but the gameplay is pretty slow... but Slow as in Repetitive.
Anyway, I can go into the theory I had behind TS.. but it all boils down to the fact that I made TS to best serve the Western B.net Pubbies... I went simple (including certain spells) to maintain a level of complexity that pubbies can understand. Granted, korean maps may have faster gameplay, but is often too complicated .. Then, add-on the language barrier, and you got yourself maps that people just don't understand....
Btw, why'd u want spawns everywhere? :\ ... that gets rid of the strategy/ability to hide/stalk/lure/choose to fight with spawns or without due to ranged/melee advantages and etc. (Norm's Hero Sanctuary's terrain is even bigger... HEY NORM, word of advice, change the terrain so different areas are different. Right now, it's all mumbo-jumbo...
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And yeah, tha spells aren't REALLY creative
.. They're creative enough to fit the niche of the hero, which I had yet to see done well. I tried with Psion n ED .. failed (but not really due to spells sucking, but due to Dragoon's explosive attack, and lurker's splash attack offsetting the balance of the map)...
To compare with the korean maps that I've played, they're all about using spells all the time. I find that very repetitive and counter-intuitive. Due to the limitations of SC, casting a spell requires hotkeying a building, pressing that hotkey, and building a respective unit.. which is WAY WAY too much work for something that we need to do repetitively. Additionally, this creates a lag time, which is obviously neglegible to seasoned players, but debilitating to pubbies. The normal unit attacks of SC units are varied enough to be useful in creating unique heroes.
For instance, I wanted to make a Glass Cannon niched hero... It instantly made sense that That unit is Tassadar HT. His attack range is small, and he is slow. But I could make his spell attacks awesome, and HT always have a mystical aura around them... I must add that, unfortunately, this simple connection between hero niche and SC unit does not always appear in Korean maps.
Finally, @infinite lives.... Lemme tell ya, there is no deep-theoretical reasons why I limited the lives on TS. The only reason was I did not want games to go over an hour. I find that maps which play on for over an hour are less successful, usually because it takes so freaking long to finish that the players will not wish to remake, as they've already spent enough of their time... I found that 40mins - 1hr games best fit into people's time.. Call it silly or call it too superficial, but I felt it was important in making the game popular.
@Teamwork: .... With v1.5 .. I can safely say that forced teamwork doesn't really bode well with pubbies... Ppl don't like Psion (some do, but most don't). Not that i'd give up on it, but I can see that its spell set is too focused on support.
EDIT: Oh and ya, NO SHIT DOTA IS BETTER!!
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Falkoner
