Ionian Revolt -- A scenario for Release 28

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

This post is an initial gauge of interest.

 

I've been working on this scenario/skirmish, called "Ionian Revolt," which is based on the Miletus Peninsula map, and what it does is that it greatly enlarges the map, mirrors Miletus Peninsula so that there are 2 peninsulas facing each other, allowing for 4 human players.

 

 

The major difference though, is that off to the West is another land mass, occupied by a 5th player, which can be either a human player, a sort of "Dungeon Master", a custom AI, or unassigned for easiness (but uses triggers to enact certain policies). The main objective of the scenario being that the first player to capture the "Wonder of the World" from player 5 on this landmass becomes the winner. 

 

I call the 5th human player the "Dungeon Master" in reference to D&D, because this player's main focus is to just harass the other 4 players and build up their own island for the eventual assault, basically to keep the narrative going. This 5th player's whole purpose is to defend that Wonder and keep pressure on the other 4 players who are duking it out for supremacy on their respective peninsulas. 

5th player gets 2 smaller islands on the other side of the map, too, from which to launch raids. My initial thought was that this player's gathering capabilities should be nerfed considerably, and then they receive a tribute of resources from Gaia every 10 minutes, with which to use to building ships and troops and go harass the other players. 

(Above: The Dungeon Master player can hire Pirate ships from these docks and harass the other 4 players. the other 4 players can turn the tables and capture these little islands for an advantage [they too can then hire pirate ships])

 

 

 

Side quests:

It would be cool to include a couple side quests or easter eggs. For instance, travel up this mountain pass, kill these two Snake Cultists and you gain the allegiance of their captives, plus a benefit for either capturing or destroying their Snake Cult Statue. 

 

A rather big Easter egg on the map already is the recreation of the tourist destination of "Pirates Cove" (Navagio Beach) on the Greek island of Zakynthos. 

 

 

I AM ASKING FOR HELP. I am pants at making triggers, etc. and would like help making triggers and other scripted events occur to make this map something big and worthy of a saved game or two. And then, once it's at a good state with your help, make a Pull Request to include it into the base game for Release 28 as part of a batch of scenarios and skirmish maps that we hope creates a whole other style of single and multi-player. Narrative multiplayer.

 

This post is an initial gauge of interest.

[Outis]

Amazing

May i suggest, im sure the community will also appreciate single player versions of such maps much like PvE or coop versions where all players team up against the AI player(s).

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

13 hours ago, Outis said:

Amazing

May i suggest, im sure the community will also appreciate single player versions of such maps much like PvE or coop versions where all players team up against the AI player(s).

Right, I was thinking of making a multiplayer skirmish and a single-player scenario version. The main thing for the single-player version is to either make a custom AI for the 5th player and/or to script the triggers to make the 5th player act as it should. 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Another little easter egg is the inclusion of a "Phocian Wall" on a portion of the map. It's of course famously a part of mainland Greece, not Ionia, but it was fun to include it.

 

 

(Which also puts my mind to another possible scenario)