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You could always make a sort of switch the players can activate to view the leaderboard of their choice. Not that there's really much to view besides money and properties.

For some reason, I don't find the triggerwork too frightening. But that's because I'm not making the map.

The only frightening thing about the triggers is that I'm doing over 500 of the exact same thing. Its not a hard map to make, its just extremely tedious. Basically I'm having to force myself to sit down and click "copy" and then change a few tiny variables and then repeat the process all over again.

I've done that for an hour before. But that's me. Yea, it does feel like janitorial work for some reason. That's what we need. A trigger copier program that changes minor variables whereas the number increments can be alter by a arithmetic or geometric series. Unless your meant that you alter the units/location rather than the amounts.

Actually its all three. For the many property triggers, its about changing the location. For the utility triggers, its about changing a number. And for the various auction/trade triggers, its about changing units.

For me, its not so easy, because I end up thinking about what other map I could be working on instead.

No, work on this! Monopoly should be pwnage...

yeh, it looks fun but how many people will sit thru the whole thing?

Yeah, that was always a problem that we had to consider. Right now the map can have 6 people, with at most 1 minute and 30 seconds for each turn. The problem is, if you play with a full house, you can theorhetically wait for 9 minutes until you get to go again. Hmm...maybe I should change it to a four player game instead? Then the wait would still be like 6 minutes. Damn...

Hm...Maybe you get to skip a player's turn if he takes too long? It'd be awful if someone was afk without telling anyone in this game...

Monopoly is a long boring game so 9 minutes is sortof like how it is

or u could set it so that for player one it starts with a certain death counter, which sets the timer to zero, then another counter to add 60 seconds. and you could do that for each player, so it would be a minute for each players turn, or however long you want it.

Problem is that isn't very fair to skip a turn. That would make it easy for someone to just it and rake in the cash. I was instead thinking about making a player just lose flat-out if they skip a turn.


That's how it is already. Except, as I said before, its 1 minute and 30 seconds rather than 1 minute (seeing as how it takes about 20-30 seconds at most to move the piece).

so how do you have the losing and winning set up?
No money = Lose
Last there = Win
?
and with the time thing, you could include an end turn switch.

haha, word.

Good luck with figuring out how to do the turns smoothly

well i reakon ur going about this the wrong way, instead of worrying about how long till there turn of over, make something they can do! put a spawner in the centre for each team and just let em have a small game of something else?

What the hell vold?... Lame?...

Something like that. And I already have an end turn switch for each person. The issue is that it takes a while for them to do anything, so I'm worried they don't have enough time.


Each team? What teams? And that idea is pretty lame, I admit. It would create many more issues in the long run, like people worrying more about the minigame than the actual game. If its a madness type map and some player is getting owned, then obviously they'll try to stay alive rather than care about their turn.

You could have a death count go up in intervals when it's someone's turn, and when it reaches a certain point (5+ mins?), you can vote to end the person's turn, and if the person is still there, they can have it so it doesn't end it.

Like, the amount of time is up. Player is not there. Rest of players vote to end the turn.

Time up, player is there. Player moves a unit to a location that resets every minute or so (with a minute or so of leeway so it's not "bam turn over when the minute is up") so that the turn can't be ended.

And then when the turn ends, reset the count.


See where I'm going with this?

yeh it was lame, i just though of it then!

Hmm well after much debate, I'm thinking I may give multiple timers to a player. For example, you get 30 seconds to choose to roll the die (or if you're in jail, you can pay to get out). Once those 30 seconds are up, it rolls automatically. Then after your piece stops moving, you have another 30 seconds to choose what you want to do next (buy the property if its available, check that property's info, or end your turn). Once those 30 seconds are up regardless of the player's actions, it goes to the next player.

hmm, 30 seconds for the propity seems to be abit harsh....

Why do you say that? You have 30 seconds to choose to buy it or end your turn. Seems like too much time to me.

i hope the waiting ends right after the player chooses...

If the player buys the property, then the timer will go to 0 and the next player can go. If the player ends his turn, obviously the timer will go to zero and so on. I figured this system would make it flow a lot better.

@MiniGame Idea:

How about a small gambling game?

A "which hat is it under" game?

Or a game where its, say, 30 Minerals to buy a "Lottery Ticket", and you can win 0, 5, 15, 30, 45, or 50 minerals back?

That wouldn't require many triggers, and a person wouldn't have to pay much attention to it either. (I'm not sure how much minerals are worth, but I'm figuring 100 Minerals is about 10 Dollars, so overall it wouldn't effect how much money they had TOO much, but it opens an opportunity for struggling players to catch up some)

Idk, just a thought. I, as well as a lot of people, hate turn based games that drag on foreverrrrrrrr *COUGHyugiohCOUGH*. But that games not really any fun anyway lol.

Oh wait! I'm also wondering...

How much is actually going to be player interaction? Like, you won't move your piece yourself I assume, and are you going to be able to at least roll the die yourself? So far all I know that you can interact is 'purchase land' and 'don't purchase land', and hotels/houses.

Yeah, your piece will be moved by the computer. You can choose the roll the die. As I said, after your 30 seconds are up, the die roll by themselves just to keep the game going.

Anything you can do in the actual game can be done on this map (like auctioning land and trading it, as well).