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Now this may not be the most advanced launcher or gunner system in the world. But it's sure as heck accurate and acts naturally as to gravity. If it were a real cannon ball if would do the same thing. The projectile plotter map by In_a_bisket was nice, but it had a perfect loop and didn't seem natural. Plus it was much more advance though i did like the little mini area you used to fire. I needed a really good nice Simple way to make firing in Rantent, ScoTTer, and I's Defilers [Worms] map. And here it is. We might use it we might not. But it's simple yet brilliant and perfect and advanced all at the same time. I'm sure others have thought of this. But i have yet to see it . This can easily be effected by wind which is exactly what we needed for our map. The only down i can think of would be the scourge if there was maybe a better way instead of moving a scourge all the way out somewhere. Perhaps we can make a barracks and minerals can be power and gas can be angle and that will determine where the scourge is placed using a grid.

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Bonelesskid AKA: TRiGGaMaSTa

The concept is really good, yet simple like you said. I had some fun blowing up the creep colonies

Its beautifuly simple, its an absolutly awesome concept, and looks like it could actually be used in many different ways. I really like the elegant way in which it works, none of the weird grid stuff most other systems like it use.

Much improved from what I saw, actually this would be quite an idea if you placed COP's. (beacons for all you other people)

One problem with it though. You have to have like half the map below it empty. And you can still pretty much aim above where you want to hit. You can't have fast missles either.

Although I still dont completely understand it (I'm still trying to comprehend ) I can already tell how simple and ingenious it is. It only took 5 tiggers (4 for P1 and if you only wanted one path then +1 for the path). I must say, you are a smarty pants Lol. HATS OFF TO YOU

Rantent, You don't need all the extra space below i dunno why i put that... i brought it up cause it took too long for the cannon ball to get to the bottom of the map and die. But yea COP beacons would make this Much Much better, unless there's an even better way.

ADDITION:
Version 1.1 Complete! Have fun with this one guys, knock yourselves out killing buildings and crashing into things. The real challenge is to hit the Blimp! I did .



Stay Tuned for Version 1.2!!!

- 4 PLAYER ACTION!
- Damage Meter!!!
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- AIRPLANES, BIRDS!!!
- TIME LIMITS!!!
- ACTION PACKED GOODNESS!!!!
- BAFFALO TESTICLES!!! W00T!

Well, I said you needed the bottom because without it the unit that moves down would stop where the hitting point would be, it would be too easy to hit anything, you'd just point the aim at it or above it and shoot. Unless you had the unit move toward the center when it hit, but then you could have bullets curve back on themselves.

And I hit the blimp.

Is the COP beacon supposed to stop being able to copy after a while, don't they lose that ability after a certain amount of time?

not only is it a good concept map, its a fun one too!

Are you showing a concept and making a fun map at the same time?

I really like this, just make a good map out of it and it will be great, reminds me of gunbound

One thing I saw though was, with the buildings, if you hit the ground around it, the bottoms of some of the buildings would be killed, but then the ones at the top wouldn't be affect, and even if the devourer hit it it would just keep going past, so basically those top buildings are useless once the bottoms are knocked out.

COPs stop working after 10 minutes or so.

Who needs an 11 minute game? You shoot each other, kaboom, ba-da-boom ba-da-bing you remake the game.

Yes, i've noticed that but i was lazy and did it with very poor triggering. I have yet to fix it but i updated the map and gave it a wind factor which effects the shot alitte. Shoot the cannon straight up to see most effect.

I like the concept, but just make sure you turn it into a GOOD map That's the most important thing. A map can have the greatest concept ever but if it's poorly executed then the map will suck, remember that, don't be like CheeZe

Personally, I don't very much like the cop-firing system, because you can't hotkey it, and it's always in an inconvenient place to look for, considering that you're most likely to want to watch the path of the missile, not the place where your cop is going to be.
I prefer the old system.

Anyway, this is quite a cool concept. It's nice and simple. The curves you get are quite nice ones, even though they're asymmetrical - they kind of look like the curves you might get with very high air resistance.

Has anyone here ever played pocket tanks?

I think that would be a great dirrection for you to head in bonelesskid.

Finally got to try it out. Very nicely done! I would suggest however either a number input system, nyduses, or some other point select system besides COP though, unless you can put up with the COP time limit thing.

A few nitpicks though:
- SEN doesn't like spaces or periods in the file name, and does weird shit with them (the name was too long for SC, in other words).
- The projectile trail units should be burrowed, so they can properly overlap.
- Flag beacons can be glitched if the COP is placed on the spot of the beacon itself. Put some burrowed P12 units there or something to prevent placing.
- Buildings being destroyed when the projectile hits terrain doesn't work properly.
- The 'Always' action in conditions is redundant when other conditions exist. Think of conditions as simply 'true' or 'false' checks, and treat Always as a condition that is just always going to be true, and Never as one that's always false. If any other conditions are false, Always won't have any effect anyway.
- Quit using my old trigger commenting conventions lol. They're not really practical for real maps, I've decided, so I like to discourage it. Ignore the irony.

well i know about the burrowing units = unbuildable terrain but i didn't know you couldn't place COP on it so i'll look into that. I would've changed the firing system to darkswarm but then i'd have to put a turn system which would get boring fast. Since it's multiple players now. if you've seen restaurant's triggers or some of my other maps it overly uses the.

[ | 4 ] 1.) This happens.
[ | 4 ] 2.) This happens.
[ | 4 ] 3.) This happens.
[ | 4 ] 4.) This happens.

I really like it for random triggers rather than changing the comment for each thing it does.

Nice, you can even control the rate of decay.

Make it so a unit is placed on the beacon before it goes away. It would be cool if you could see where you went last

EDIT: I hit the Blimp. What do I get
That wa cool, it goes down and it hit a building

Well about the dark swarm firing system, if you are going for a Gunbound type map, which would work well with this system, then having it turnbased would be fine. It won't really get boring. In Gunbound it's turnbased, and there's like a 30 second time limit before it goes to the next person, during those 30 seconds you have time to move your unit, aim, set the angle, and shoot.

I just had an idea, how about using Recall with an arbiter and some unit you recall to where you want to shoot? Oh, nevermind, you have to have the arbiter at the spot you want to aim

Instead of using an aimer thing, why don't you try to create some kind of system where you set the angle and power? It would also add a bit of strategy to it. Not sure if it would work with the method you are using now though.

You could set the direction with this system fairly easily, and then you could specify a "powder" amount to go with it (which would be the count of how many moves outward from the cannon it goes).

Then you'd have a decent angle and powder system.

I was more planning like projectile plotter relative to a defiler and where he dark swarms to get the powder amount and angle. So the further you cast from the defiler the more powder you get.

Cool Launcher very nice, Fun trying to kill the blimp