A poll

[fairline]

Re: LMAO!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Exile
--Fairline's perfectionism is not to be rushed.

for 'perfectionism' read anal obsession with unimportant details.

Heresson: I don't see a box for 'I would finish a scenario I've started if I wasn't a lazy b'stard, and anyway this scenario designing thing is too much like hard work. It's much better use of my time to change 1 pixel in a unit graphic repeatedly until boredom sets in.'

[Heresson]

it's vice-last

[conmcb25]

Bump

Interesting poll BTW

[N35t0r]

I've started to try to make a scen but only got as far as the map. (which is darn good). I'm also making a fantasy map which i ike alo (posted an ealy version a while ago, now it's more worked upon.

I try to help as much as i can, but my total lack of art skills (drawing a wall 4 pixels high imitating an existing pattern is not art ), good ideas, experience, time online and time with the computer limit it.

I like making maps, though... but i'm too much of a perfectionist to finish them at anything but a crawling rate... I've finished the layout for most of a map of Patagonia (missing the falklands only), and started a bit on the terrain, but it is a large map and i've still got a lot to fill in (and terrain is hard, especially vegetation...).

anyway, the scenario i wanted to do will probably only become a mod, in the sense that i'll make some of the modifications to the basic game to see how they work...

anyway, i'm also a lazy bum, so

[Case]

I guess I'd class myself as a sucessful scenario maker, modestly sucessful unit designer and near-total failure as a website designer/hoster

I'm also an awful playtester - my comments are slow to arrive, and when they do so they tend to focus on the negative too much

[DarkCloud]

I've made scenarios, but my Fantastic Worlds copy has a bug that seems to mess with the tables in the game... every second time that I save, the names of the wonders get offset and whatever I've renamed the Colosseum becomes the new name for the Colossus... it's amazingly annoying- I wasted hours renaming things after each 'crash'... because I couldn't concentrate on testing the game when I didn't know what the units were- and when the terrain is called "Rifleman" terrain, I generally had no idea what the heck I was founding my city on- so I regretfully gave up

[Arthedain]

DarkCloud: that's why you shouldn't use the in game editor so much. Change most things manually, and it won't be like that.

[Harry Tuttle]

Yeah, just edit the txt files. Less of a headache.

[DarkCloud]

I would do that, but I don't think I'm good enough to do it... I really can't replace images in any other place than the game itself... I haven't been able to (even using tutorials) figure out how to paste new unit graphics onto the pallets... and fixing that is usually when the files get corrupted.

the other times they get corrupted is when I'm laying out the map.

anyone interested in seeing some of my work, please visit my homepage: http://home.att.net/~civgames/index.html

I'm particularly proud of my Lord of the Flies scenario it may not be a 'great campaign' but it works, and I modified all the graphics in there as best I could

[Arthedain]

You can just use paint to copy and paste, it never fails