I like it.
What are the middle zones?
Sumo or Death Zones?

Sumo sure, almost he told me, but i think are the better choice, we create a lot of undetermination with such a zones, like in little boxes....

yes sumo

I like that one too.

Have you used Armabell?

You can get it from here:

http://armagetron.de/league.html

It's what I used, along with a text editor to create my maps. Pretty simple to use, if a bit annoying at times - save reguarly!

you can then preveiw your maps here

http://generalconsumption.org/armagetron/map-preview/

and output to png format. Here's little circles:



I'm happy to make the maps, they'll be fun. But thought you might like to.

i cant use armabel, i use illustrator for mac os x
i can save my map in png.

I use a calculator, and trig to make maps (although for the most part i've stolen the base maps from ed )

Ohh and I output directly to ascii art. Really, the network plug in the side of my head can convert the xml file to ascii art. (Matrix had it all wrong, the spinal coord is the wrong place to plug into the brain. Great for funky 3D but it lacks the complexe neuro networking diversity required to transmit data at speeds higher then 500 TB)

Ok. You come up with idea's, I'll make the maps.
But they may change stightly due to the limitaions of armabell.

We'll test them out on Robed Head Tron Server. I wouldn't stay there to long, it's been said to drive a grown man insane.

I don't have ftp up. Can't get the ssl certs working for it :/ don't know why... (and I get port scanned enough that to many people would try anonymous loging and then "cwd ../" :/ fucking scriptkiddios, causeing massive logs ~.~ GRRRRR....

So you'll have to pm or e-mail me the map. Ed can you get to my e-mail on my profile, or is that blocked?

Loops, that last one's crazy.
What kind of special settings to you propose for these maps?

While you're bored, any chance of a new logo for this site?

the logo is not ready, but soon ...
For the setting i propose something like octagon, a bit slower

Problem: Can't set a per fortress decay rate, conquer rate and defend rate.

Decay rate is what always happends (in cvs this is 0.1)
Conquer rate is what happends per attacker in the zone (cvs: 0.3)
Defend rate is what happends for each defender in the zone (cvs: 0.2)

When the count reaches 1, the fortress is conquered (i believe this is 0.3 per second; so passing by the fortress ends up being like 0.7 or so total). The small zones on some of your maps will need something like 0.6 conquer rate, but the larger ones closer to 0.3. So basically there has to be a trade off between how fast the big zones get conquered and how slow the small ones get conquered.

Maybe DecayR: 0.1 ConqR: 0.6 DefR: 0.5 You don't want Decay rate to high or after entering a zone, leaving and reentering it's 'value' will drop to low to fast to take it.

What he said.

Also, You can't specify which zones belong to which team.

You have 2 start positions (in CT fortress). If the zone is closest to blue start, it becomes gold zone and vice versa.

If you want a sumo you need have the zones slightly off centre (0.01 is enough), or the server sometimes wont allocate the zones correctly (you listening robed). That is unless you specify MAX_ZONES_PER_TEAM (or something) but then that's not necesary if they're off centre.