Adding new PVE quests via a monthly contest of the offline maps

I would be willing to learn the code and code this sort of thing in each month if someone on the team is willing to adopt this idea.

But here is the suggestion: Why not allow for community made maps to be added as PVE content?

Implementation: Take an existing NPC and use them as a quest mule. Each month that we add a quest, they would be added to this specific NPC. Making the process simple to implement and fairly streamlined for players -- so they know that these specific quests are community made and as such, their quality may vary. I cannot forsee a lot of code required to add a new quest each month past the implementation.

Example: In the "Tarsos" area there is just one NPC (Tarsos Trader) who gives out only the Persian Demo and the 4 repeatable Project Celeste quests. So we can either reuse him or add a different NPC from another area to the area specifically to give out these quests.

Then each month (or however often), we take the best offline map and add it to the game as regular content. The rewards for this map do not have to be anything special, as the point is to add more fun maps to play more than it is to add content that is challenging.

To avoid abuse, we can even add the 12 hour cool down on these quests like many others -- or the 6 day cool down if necessary.

 

I have free time on my hands that I'd like to spend learning how to program anything game related (Completed 2 classes of programming C++ in college). So ... if you're willing to do a bit of hand holding I'm willing to do a lot of work.

Does this mean making 6 different files? or is there a line of code that lets you dictate what spawns in what location based on the loaded civ?

 

Good suggestion on tapping the rest of the community for translation assistance. It'll be one hell of a lot better than google translate at least

I have next to zero preference on the maps that are added, as I just want to help give players more content to play. That being said, I'd hope the community can "imitate" some of the map concepts from games like Starcraft 2 coop, as those maps are replayed to death and there's only like... 10 of them. So at least one of them has to have a really good idea for coop gameplay.

Obviously, things would have to be changed around to work for AOEO's style of gameplay, but the important part is I think the maps should be both coop allowed, be repeatable, and be something you'd want to play again and again with a friend.

 

A few of us are working together via discord. So if you have that please add me Kenji_03#8484 If you are a person who can beat legendary quests, we have a few that require play testers soon.

Also, I am slowly working on making guides for offline mode