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Is there an Age of Empires map already made?

If so is it player vs. player or player vs. computer?

Many AoE Maps have been made yes, but none were Melee if thats what you were asking.

Use map settings. I'm talking about whether you fight against other humans or other comps.

Thats what I said, many were made but none were Melee based, meaning they were UMS but not MUMS(Melee Used Map Setting)

K, I was thinking of a mums but against comps.

You couldn't make a melee based AoE anyways, then it would be called starcraft

It is possible to make one. But it will be fricken hell to get all the triggers to run the computer players actions. And you would need to use alot of locations for it.

I havent seen of AoE maps around. They exist?

I personally think that Civilization World Diplo is the best diplo (i havnt played aoe) but im pretty sure its probally similar too this in some way

ONe of the big things is that in Age of Empires you have Wood, Food, Stone and Gold. Whereas, in starcraft, Minerals and Gas. But you can still try to make one. Plus all the different civilisations

Thats actually what turned me on to making an AoE map. Just an open fighting, like 3v2 comp, but with the extra elements so theres 4 things to collect instead of 2. I had some interesting ideas for this,

You could obviously do minerals for gold, but why not put minerals through-out the trees and call it wood.

Then you need food, You have to kill animals to get food, and there would be a way to farm, but every animal you kill adds to your food count, which could be measured by a custom kill counter or something. The player would see it at the top left.

I think stone could be the vespene, call the things stone mines.

Then for gold. Gold is going to be more rare, and it would be patches of the Uraj Crystals. To make mining easy, theres going to be a gold mine you build. This activates triggers sending the collector back to the gold, he then goes to the gold, and a trigger sends him back to the mine.
He's not actually going to grab the gold, he'll change into a probe or something that says "gold miner" everytime he gets gold, so you know he's carrying it. Then the gold patch could be worth 200 or something all together.

As for the comp, Its all going to be simulated, so yes a lot of triggers, but hey I got some time on my hands. The comp is going to be randomly produced too. Random difficulty, random unit production. Should be pretty fun.

These are all just ideas though....

tons were made. non of them that great.

Why would you want to create an RTS inside of an RTS?

Ok, if you wanted to make an AoE map, you'd make it an RTS(Real Time Strategy) game like starcraft, age of mythology, empire earth etc. right? Well Than basically all you're doing is changing the stats of the starcraft units, names etc. and making them so that for example, you're making a vulture, but the second it's done building, it turns into a Zlot. (Seen in a ton of maps).

So, what I'm getting at is that there's really no point in making an AoE map because essentially you'd be playing AoE without the right sprite images etc. You'd be playing with "Archers" that for some reason look like guys in futuristic suits with guns. So pretty much, in the end, why would you play with something that only moderately resembles AoE but has the same kind of gameplay, when you could just PLAY AOE?

...lol when you read this, it probably won't make any sense to you.

All in all, what i mean is that I totally agree with Ultimo, his statement: "Why would you want to create an RTS inside of an RTS?" is exactly what I'm getting at.

no there isnt much of an Age of Empires map but it cant beat "Diplomacy" series, its the most popular they even diplomacy clans Soviet/Silent/WTF]/A[F]R/Evo./Mystic/UK/US/Axis