New Map : Trivial Pursuit [Abandoned]

[yeti_c]

Hello all,

I've had an idea for a new map... and Widowmakers is helping me make it...

Here's an initial image - which is already looking fantastic.


Essentially it's a Trivial Pursuit map...

Bonuses are such...

If you own the "Cheese" square (the big one at the end of a spoke) then you unlock the bonuses for that colour...

So Cheese = 1.
Cheese +1 other territory = 2
Cheese +2 other territory = 3
Cheese +3 other territory = 4
Cheese +4 other territory = 5

And so on...

Also an additional bonus of all the Roll again squares gives a bonus of say 8.

Now we have a dilemma...

First initial thoughts were to call the "continents" the original Trivial Pursuit categories...

However we came up with a plan to call them names to do with CC...

For instance...

Cat 1 Maps
Pie = Maps
Other 10 territories 1)Classic 2)World 2.1 3)N America 4 )KOTM 5)Africa 6)Brazil 7)China Australia9)CCU 10)Space

These can be changed I just picked 10 off the top of my head.

Cat 2 Game play
Pie = Gameplay
Other 10 territories 1)No cards 2)Double 3)Triples 4 )Assassin 5)Terminator 6)Unlimited 7)Chained Adjacent 9)Freestyle 10)Escalating

Cat 3 Ranks
Pie = Ranks
Other 10 territories I think the site is in the process of adding several other ranks. Once those are done we can pick the top 10

Cat4 Forums
Pie = Forums
Other 10 territories 1)Announcements 2)callouts 3)flame wars 4 )map foundry 5)social 6)suggestions 7)general discussion tourney 9)cheating 10)international

And here's your chance to help the map...

Any suggestions for the other 2 categories?

Cat5 ?
Pie =

Cat6 ?
Pie =

Initial ideas for the last 2 are...

FAQ, Staff members, Special Members, Generals, Risk Board games.

Anyways, Some feedback would be good... ideas, suggestions etc - and remember the image is the first few (rather sexy) layers of the finished image.

C.

[Coleman]

Serious brightness issue, I bout died.

Also might be too symmetrical, but the community is about half and half on that issue.

[KEYOGI]

I look forward to seeing how this one turns out with yeti's coding genius and Widowmakers ability to make the simplest things look pretty.

[yeti_c]

Serious brightness issue, I bout died.

I did say that it was a first draft...

Also might be too symmetrical, but the community is about half and half on that issue.

Perhaps... but the way the colours are laid out make it less symetrical and more patternlike - and the forces will have to be strategically played to maintain bonuses across the board instead of in areas with borders.

C.

[anamainiacks]

Looks rather interesting (: Bonuses could be rather hard to explain though...

For the maps, I think it would be better if it didn't have those named after countries/states, otherwise it would be like having countries/states on a Trivial Pursuit map XD

And a suggestion and possibility for one of the categories:
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[mibi]

Coleman can correct me if Im wrong, but wont the "Cheese +4 other territory = 5" result in thousands of lines of XML, with all the different combinations of 2,3 and 4 territories?

[yeti_c]

Coleman can correct me if Im wrong, but wont the "Cheese +4 other territory = 5" result in thousands of lines of XML, with all the different combinations of 2,3 and 4 territories?

Nope...

Each Colour will simply be

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    <continent>
        <name>Purple</name>
        <bonus>1</bonus>
        <components>
            <component>Cheese</component>
        </components>
    </continent>

    <continent>
        <name>Purple</name>
        <bonus>1</bonus>
        <components>
            <component>Cheese</component>
            <component>territory 1</component>
        </components>
    </continent>

    <continent>
        <name>Purple</name>
        <bonus>1</bonus>
        <components>
            <component>Cheese</component>
            <component>territory 2</component>
        </components>
    </continent>

Because it's the cheese that unlocks all of the bonuses then it's so much easier to do - you don't need to have all the masses and masses of combinations for a more complex system!

C.

[dolemite]

You are going to have to wait until the changes to xml come out, so that you can designate the cheese pieces as neutral. Otherwise someone could luck into a big bonus.

[yeti_c]

You are going to have to wait until the changes to xml come out, so that you can designate the cheese pieces as neutral. Otherwise someone could luck into a big bonus.

Yeah I agree... it would work otherwise though - as that's the luck of the draw...

But to make them neutral would be good...

My initial idea would be to make a win scenario for holding all cheeses and centre hexagon - but that will need new XML parsing system too.

C.

[yeti_c]

There was a fiar bit of interest in this map - but was there enough?

Keyogi? Can I get a new Poll in here?

C.

[yeti_c]

Any interest in this?

If not then we'll let the idea die...

Vote away...

C.

[AndyDufresne]

It's too early for me to say if I really like the idea, as I usually dislike most ideas in the beginning stages.


--Andy

[yeti_c]

It's too early for me to say if I really like the idea, as I usually dislike most ideas in the beginning stages.


--Andy

This map is hanging in the balance anyway...

Not a lot of people are very enthused about it...

We shall see...

C.

[plysprtz]

the big one in the middle should be

LACK


and for the role again maybe attack again