Empire at War Map Creation Challenge!

[Munro Burton]

That wouldn't work so well for at least three reasons which come to my mind immediately. The first one is that players won't quite face the same enemy every time as they do in TIE/XvT/XWA/GB.

The second one is that not every EaW unit is equal; all three of the mentioned flightsims allocate a different score to each ship type to balance this. A Stormtrooper Company is worth a LOT less than an AT-AT in terms of both combat power and production cost.

Thirdly, if I recall correctly, the end-of-battle results screen only shows twelve type of units per side at any one time(not counting heroes), with a scroller to show the rest. I just counted the units available for the Rebels: seven mobile units, three turrets, one bomber type(Y-wings which are shot down counts), as well as up to nine buildings. That's a possible total of twenty. See this screenshot if you don't understand what I'm talking about. Clearly, it'd require two screenshots to get all the information across, which just doubles the work.

This is largely moot anyway, as the competition is asking for a singleplayer scenario - something similiar to one of the SP campaign missions - and not a generic map which is used as a skirmish or multiplayer map. That's how I read it, anyway.

[Munro Burton]

The EaW Chamber won't open until someone's created such a scenario, so what you're proposing is essentially a Catch-22 situation.

The objective is obvious to me; create a scenario which has a specific storyline, with specific objectives, such as "destroy that, while keeping this alive" or "capture and hold this while killing that."

See any of the missions currently in one of the other categories for ideas. Hell, recreate one of them if you're that incapable of coming up with a storyline - there were missions created with similiar storylines in TIE/XvT/XWA during Outer Sectors to provide cross-platform functionality.

[LCP Appo]

I´ve tried to make a good map but the triggers won´t work.
Any idea how to make them work?

[LC La Forge]

Beat them with a cattle prod then go write your own editor because the one out there is trash.

[LCP Appo]

That´s no way to get a medal.
Besides, there got to be a way to make it work.
Only problem is I´m soon gonna smash the dam game into pieces.
ARGH!!!!

[Munro Burton]

That´s no way to get a medal.

I'm fairly sure you'd get something better than a SS if you made an editor that's user-friendly.

[LCP Appo]

Yeah good luck with that!
(Unless you noted I was being sarcastic)