You're half correct. They should give up on crap like that because it's ridiculous, and you shouldn't try to make SC conform to your map ideas. However, that is the better way. EUD cursor detection? That's for the most part pointless. Better to use, say, a unit as a marker for a point.

3mb, mainly because it just takes a long time to dl.
The reason for my maps to have such a big memory is probably because of WAV files, but then again I always compress them and then the map goes back to 400 kb

Create a 1GB map. Users that don't have 1GB RAM will crash when joining or creating the game.

When the editor says "ITS TOO GOD DAMN BIG STOP TRYING TO SAVE ME".

Anything that DL will take more then 1 minut.

This topic reminds me of the shadow operation and lord of the rings rpg.

Remember the good days when big maps were hosted sometimes and you felt really lucky to get in and be able to play?


And when LotR Rpg took skill to play and wasnt made by someone who obviously just read the starcraft mapping tutorial and tried to make a map?

Also, i think it overrides the old good file, but idk.

This is an easy question. My limit is however big labryinthos is (I think it's like 5mb) That's like the icing on the cake, How would you like to play a shitty ass boring map AND wait 3 hours for it to download.

First off, there isn't any other way. Secondly, tell that to people like Ahli or Kaias&Lethal who actually do need 10k triggers. My map only has 4k so far. Maybe if I was perfectly efficient it would only have 3900, or maybe even 2900, but some things there are just no other ways to do, due to lack of boolean operators in trigger conditions, or because they're necessary to do things stylistically.



K, now you're just being a -------*. Yes, it can be compressed further, but unfortunately for me it has to remain a .wav file and I've already put it into mono, lowered the bitrate and such.

*Damn my better judgement.

I voted 10mb but I think size doesnt matter.

That's what SHE said, but she didn't truly mean it...xD j/k

I would dl a, say, 3-5mb file on bnet if I wanted it really badly and it wasn't avaliable on the web.

Damn your better judgement, and the lack of boolean operators. Oh the trigger systems that could be made with 5 triggers instead of 500...

For my concept map there is no way to reduce the trigger count or size, unless you can compress triggers. It is 2.53 mb. Probably 2.50 mb are triggers considering there are over 24,000 triggers per player and 49,240 triggers in the entire map.

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There is, and I do tell others the same thing.


I'm talking about the map as a whole, not some WAV files.


I don't know why people are voting 10MB. If you're willing to wait 20 minutes for a public Battle.Net game, then sure go ahead.

@Morphling: You're using EUDs for something that has no practical use. That map can also save at least 200 KB.

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To expand on this, I'd like to say that I make trigger systems such that they work in the most intuitive way (for me). Even if that requires making 100 triggers instead of 10. The only situation when I'll reject the bigger solution is when it gets waaaaay too big. Also having more triggers sometimes results in using less DCs and such. If programming is an endless battle between CPU usage and memory usage, triggering is probably a battle between resource usage and trigger usage. Except those extremely rare cases such as Elementa, when you just can't. do. it. any. other. way.