The Black Knight's Tutorial on castle making

[Adreno]

Samwarrior could u have a look at my map and see what im doing wrong, it crashes after a minute trying to play it

i probably have the zones all wrong or something

[♔The Black Knight♔]

All fixed. You had copied an extra deployment zone, didn't change the map to siege, and didn't create a large enough deplyment zone to fit all you towers in so you couldn't use them.

Once it was fixed, I played it and it was freaking impossible to attack. The cannons kept blowing my troops to the point where they were use less in combat. Might want to give some boosts to the attacker if you want anyone to play that map as the attacker.

I would still enlarge the deplyment zones to get those last towers but other then that, its fixed.

CA still has some bugs to work on though before sieges are perfect.

[Adreno]

Thanks a bunch mate, i really appreciate your help!

I already thought i might have used the starcorner a bit too much but i guess i can allways change those back to normal corners or something, im gonna have a play and start work on refining the map.

Edit- Hmmm it seems i cant load the map ingame, it crashes at the loading screen for some reason :/ ill try and see whats going on, everything looks to be fine in the editor, allthough it has trouble loading the map aswell

[♔The Black Knight♔]

Did you extract the folder out of the compressed folder? It won't load of its still compressed.

If that's not it, check the deployment zones. I may have accidentally placed two deployment zones on top of each other.

[Adreno]

Yeah there was one deployment zone too many, now it works.. somewhat

there's still a few things to figure out though.. like deploying men, i can only place those at the walls, not just in the middle of the walls and there's some strange breakdancing bug by dead guys other than that it was a pretty funny battle, more suited for 1 vs 3 armies with 40 units a piece though

[♔The Black Knight♔]

Yea like I said before, ca got to workout the bugs. Have fun with Your castle!

[Adreno]

ive just been looking at the dev maps they just released and the siege map in the editor shows that you have to have use zones for every wall, not just draw around them.. and basically all other zones need to be in there

[Adreno]

pics

[♔The Black Knight♔]

K I'll start fixing my tutorial tomarrow to make it better. Thanks to ca I can start placing things better.

[Thranton]

Do I need to place EF Lines along the wall to let my units garrison in them or is that automatic?? And is it Window by any chance??

[♔The Black Knight♔]

Yea you are going to need to place that EF line and the zone.

By window, I don't know what you mean, could you clear that up a bit?

[Thranton]

Alright I figured out what I need to do for them for form up (using the zones >.> lol)

Another one is do you use High Wall EF line for the gates? Or do you use Entrance Defence? Sorry I don't exactly know what all the EF Lines do and there is no place for me to really read up on them.

Also my map crashes as soon as I hit play.. What do I need to do?

[Thranton]

Also the EF lines I created didn't save..

[♔The Black Knight♔]

Use entrance defence for the gates and make sure your deployment zones havn't copied each other. Also change the map info to siege as well.

[Thranton]

SamWarrior.. My map isn't really a siege map.. See how I have it set up, is that troops have taken over this area (Attackers), and have raided a village with walls surrounding it, and main goal is try to get to the main castle (going to be a 2 part map).. So the attackers have a walls to garrison their troops, though it's more for show.. So that being said should it still be a siege map?? or just a land battle?

[♔The Black Knight♔]

If the battle doesn't have you capture a point then keep it land. If you have you units fighting for a capture point, make it siege.

If you want me to look at your map and fix things, i can.

[Thranton]

Alright thankyou SamWarrior.. I will let you need if I need any real help. So far my only issue is getting EF lines to save properly. Since that's probably why it's crashing upon hitting start

[Funktasticmo]

just noticed this but it would appear there is quite a few images missing in your posts sam

[♔The Black Knight♔]

Yea, for some reason they don't work for other people. They work for me but i don't know of it works for other people. I'll go ahead and re load them and see if it works.

[Funktasticmo]

try using an offsite uploader and post the missing ones that way perhaps?