Definitely not the largest project, but pretty big nonetheless.
One thing I will comment on is that:
"At first only the marine is available to the player. However, getting experience through killing enemies and healing allies gives you the ability to unlock more units and abilities. As stated above, there are 2 different versions of each unit, a standard and an elite class, elite being better with more abilities."
If you're talking about unlocking during the course of the game, please consider having at least three core roles available to use, not just one. People will be fed up by the lack of variety.
If you're talking about unlocking roles during the metagame (multiple playthroughs), you will have serious problems unless a lot of them are available to start with. And don't even think about letting players unlock elite versions, that's just broken.
Formula used is (daily hours (on bnet) / (daily hits (monthly hits divided by 30) * average players per game)) * 60 (minutes per hour).
This formula is more accurate for games with fewer max. players and more overall players. The SotIS one is weird, 1v1 Obs seems fine at 16-20mins per game, the Mafia one is fairly accurate, and Desert Strike is rather high. I don't know what's causing the discrepancy.
Well, at least in Mafia people tend to type a lot. It's more active than you would think, judging by game length.
And the 1v1 Obs score is probably really inaccurate. You'll see why.
Based on the US statistics only, of all those top maps up there, the average game lengths are (per player; this includes the drop/leave rate):
Mafia: 23 minutes
1v1 Obs: 8.5 minutesâ™
SotIS: 2 hours 21 minutes
Desert Strike: 1 hour 18 minutes
Squadron TD: 59 minutes
Nexus Wars: 42 minutes
Hero Attack: 1 hour 9 minutes
â™ WHAT! Yeah, the game starts half-full a lot of the time, people drop, and there are a ton of leavers. If I assume that each lobby starts with 8 average, then it's 420,768 hits per month overall and 16 minutes per game.
The author gave me a private license to it, so it's up to him to give it out when he decides to release. Quite a few programs have been developed specifically for Mafia, interestingly enough.
The blizzard version is internal and not accessible by Galaxy script.
Also, if you really need to check a 200-step traceline (Holy hell that's got to have a range many screens long, and that's if it's precise! The entire map's width is covered if it's a rough check...) on every single game loop the entire time, you're probably doing something wrong.
However, it does not appear to be a much of an issue. My whole physics system is done in GUI (squished and optimized with a third-party program afterwards, granted). My physics engine does not use any instant tracelines, but rather just performs the physics on objects 32 times per second. Even with many hundred objects, it runs perfectly on my computer and lags moderately on battle.net (that's including all the EXTENSIVE UI coding). At a couple hundred objects, it runs perfectly on just about any computer and doesn't lag at all except in large (many players) games.
Lots and lots of content, and as as FullaChain said, stuff to do with that content.
Don't over-complicate it though, or players won't be able to begin without dying horribly.
And as greythepirate implied, if you can't make a decent level of immersion for the easiest type of map to make a theme for (who's the killer), then you shouldn't be making games.
Updated with more recent data from every server that I could find a particular map on.
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Hope you've got an XB360 or PS3 because the PC port is balls, ass, and dicks.
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/17179-from-dust-pc-erupts-with-disastrous-port/
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1680 x 1050
I build my map around the base SC2 resolution, 1600 x 1200. No exceptions.
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Definitely not the largest project, but pretty big nonetheless.
One thing I will comment on is that:
"At first only the marine is available to the player. However, getting experience through killing enemies and healing allies gives you the ability to unlock more units and abilities. As stated above, there are 2 different versions of each unit, a standard and an elite class, elite being better with more abilities."
If you're talking about unlocking during the course of the game, please consider having at least three core roles available to use, not just one. People will be fed up by the lack of variety.
If you're talking about unlocking roles during the metagame (multiple playthroughs), you will have serious problems unless a lot of them are available to start with. And don't even think about letting players unlock elite versions, that's just broken.
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1 EUR = 1.44 USD
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Formula used is (daily hours (on bnet) / (daily hits (monthly hits divided by 30) * average players per game)) * 60 (minutes per hour).
This formula is more accurate for games with fewer max. players and more overall players. The SotIS one is weird, 1v1 Obs seems fine at 16-20mins per game, the Mafia one is fairly accurate, and Desert Strike is rather high. I don't know what's causing the discrepancy.
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Well, at least in Mafia people tend to type a lot. It's more active than you would think, judging by game length.
And the 1v1 Obs score is probably really inaccurate. You'll see why.
Based on the US statistics only, of all those top maps up there, the average game lengths are (per player; this includes the drop/leave rate):
Mafia: 23 minutes
1v1 Obs: 8.5 minutesâ™
SotIS: 2 hours 21 minutes
Desert Strike: 1 hour 18 minutes
Squadron TD: 59 minutes
Nexus Wars: 42 minutes
Hero Attack: 1 hour 9 minutes
â™ WHAT! Yeah, the game starts half-full a lot of the time, people drop, and there are a ton of leavers. If I assume that each lobby starts with 8 average, then it's 420,768 hits per month overall and 16 minutes per game.
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Bump: updated graph today
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No, I didn't put it in Mafia. I made this engine in December, and recently tested it again with the optimizer and without sounds.
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The author gave me a private license to it, so it's up to him to give it out when he decides to release. Quite a few programs have been developed specifically for Mafia, interestingly enough.
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The blizzard version is internal and not accessible by Galaxy script.
Also, if you really need to check a 200-step traceline (Holy hell that's got to have a range many screens long, and that's if it's precise! The entire map's width is covered if it's a rough check...) on every single game loop the entire time, you're probably doing something wrong.
However, it does not appear to be a much of an issue. My whole physics system is done in GUI (squished and optimized with a third-party program afterwards, granted). My physics engine does not use any instant tracelines, but rather just performs the physics on objects 32 times per second. Even with many hundred objects, it runs perfectly on my computer and lags moderately on battle.net (that's including all the EXTENSIVE UI coding). At a couple hundred objects, it runs perfectly on just about any computer and doesn't lag at all except in large (many players) games.
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@greythepirate: Go
A trace algorithm is very easy to make. There's no reason to use such a workaround.
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Another bump; added a graph to look at.
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Lots and lots of content, and as as FullaChain said, stuff to do with that content.
Don't over-complicate it though, or players won't be able to begin without dying horribly.
And as greythepirate implied, if you can't make a decent level of immersion for the easiest type of map to make a theme for (who's the killer), then you shouldn't be making games.
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Bump for new thread title.
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Updated with more recent data from every server that I could find a particular map on.
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