[Solved] Capture the Relic: Questions and Suggestions

[sphyrth]

Questions (Since I haven't yet watched the replays):
1. Any reason why you favored "Capture All" rather than "Capture More than your Opponent"?
2. On Normal Maps, are the Relics placed Randomly, or on Preset Locations?
3. On the instance that a player has all the Relics, does the enemy have to capture at least one or to capture all to stop the Victory Timer?

 

Suggestions as a Replay Viewer (Not as a Game Observer because it encourages potential cheating).
1. How about an Overlay on how many Relics the players/teams currently have?
2. I think the Relics should be more obvious on the Mini-map. Something like this:

[elexis]

Re questions:

1. Simplicity. You can set the number of relics in the matchsettings. Unless you're playing a "relic hunt" game to accumulate bonuses, the best number is probably 1 or 2.

2. Relics are placed by a script, so that it works with random map scripts, so that the locations are different each gamestart and so that we wouldn't have to edit all non-random maps. However skirmish and scenario maps don't break if they come with relics at the gamestart (last time I checked).

3. The timer is reset once a team doesn't hold all relics anymore.

Re suggestions:

1. Yes please

2. Indeed that has been proposed often. But there are some points which make it less important:

 a. The relics are not visible in the fog of war. Finding them and paying attention is the biggest part of the objective before they are all captured. Once they are captured, you'll have to scout the enemy bases directly, in which case you're more looking at your invadors rather than the minimap to begin with. The minimap icon would still be a nice-to-have feature for both players and observers. It's just not too trivial to implement it. The relics are currently marked as purple, so that they stick out somewhat.

Pinging @Sandarac in case he as the author of the feature has something to add.

[sphyrth]

Since my questions are pretty much answered, here's a quick question about Bribing:
Does it also work on Merchant Ships?

[elexis]

Yes