New Survival 4 player map: ArenaSurvival

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Re: New Survival 4 player map: ArenaSurvival

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Yea.....I'm not gonna mess with that any time soon >.<
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You could make 3 files arenaeasy, arenamedium, and arenahard. That way you could select the difficulty before the start and also it wouldn't corrupt the replays.
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I could do that. However, I would still enable the turn limit option, because not everyone wants to do that many waves. I don't think it is the cause of your problem. If it is, it is the first I've heard of it. Lots of scenarios use a similar mechanism at the start, and I've never heard of it causing a replay glitch. :(
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Re: New Survival 4 player map: ArenaSurvival

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Maybe it is something else, anyway if people want shorter games they can just turn map settings off and set turns manually.
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I think it might be the fact that player 2 is empty, the replay only has the commands for player 1 and the ai. I think all other survivals skip this problem by making the ai player 1
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That is possible. I don't know what the problem is!

However, I am able to watch replays of this scenario. :?
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grrr confirmed this finding for me.
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Very strange...I'll take it out then. :(
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Take what out? All you need to do is change the ai to side 1 and side 1 to side 5.
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No, because then the AI goes first. I removed the choices for length.
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Re: New Survival 4 player map: ArenaSurvival

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Isn't there a way to make units spawn with 0 mps.
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Yes, there is. However, I set it up like this :P . It works well now and is really meant for 4 players. If you do it solo, you are greatly reducing the final challenge. Anyone who gets to the end knows what I mean.
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OK Changed it up some more. After some feedback from its current state, I may reinstate the Hall of Champions. However, if it is too easy I won't....I will set up the details when ppl give me their opinions. Note: If you are not playing with 4 people, set the unoccupied spots to AI or it will be too easy.

I also like a time limit, but that is irrelevant. :lol2:
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BIG UPDATE!
-Reduced difficulty
-Lowered many high level units
-Altered waves

I will be doing testing runs to check for difficulty now. It should be much more fun and possible now! Check it out, version 1.8.0.
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Re: New Survival 4 player map: ArenaSurvival

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Not that I'm not a big fan of dwarves or anything... but shouldn't a balanced map be one that can be beaten with any faction, if played wisely? I remember the old Collosseum Survival map, and that could be beaten with almost any units... (mostly because of the Dread Eye... or what ever it was).
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