Anyway I like the idea and it can be improved further like by adding
custom debate topics on the start of the game and have the players vote
for the worthy ones.
This is a good idea, but the players have to choose many options already, and I'm trying to keep the game as simple as possible. If the players want a custom debate, they suggest here and I will add as the "thought of the week." The thought of the week is a debate that is not random (At least 3 players must ask for it inside the game). The game displays the Thought of the week and the name of who suggested it, so the players can decide if they want to debate this thought. It's a simple version of a "custom" debate since all the weekly thoughts I will get from here (or from youtube).
I don't really understand it, you can't access the name of players (because of no conversion from text to string) or any data unique to the player so how do you encrypt their name or do an encryption based on it?
I don't really understand it, you can't access the name of players (because of no conversion from text to string) or any data unique to the player so how do you encrypt their name or do an encryption based on it?
By replacing letters for unique strings. Texts can have substrings replaced by other substrings.
Eg.: In the name of the first player in the ranking, the letter A becomes "#$@*["#}}"C()\. Then, this new text is replaced again. For example, the symbol # becomes %%$.
This symbols must be unique to avoid replacing a symbol that is half of one letter and half of the other letter.
Then, to decrypt it, you just have to replace again using the inverse matrix.
I just realize right now that all the chars that are not part of the key must be replaced by a null string (""). Some players would be able to change the name using letters that aren't part of the keys. I fixed this glitch already. Now there's no way to change names.
The game has only 200 thoughts for debate. I want to have at least 300 when I release the map on tuesday. Please, just send me some and I will add (if there's arguments in both sides).
Here are some I thought today while doing my homework:
"Stars cause insomnia."
"Humans are superior to animals."
"Angels have wings."
"Doors are windows."
"Nuclear missile is never detected."
"Mermaids cannot swim."
"People play custom maps because they suck at melee."
"Alarm clocks are evil"
"There is a cow-level in starcraft 2"
Some of those are a bit stupid Rodrigo :( I mean sure joke arguments are fun. But there should be a conceivable argument for each side... Doors are windows? That doesn't even make sense, and where is the argument in Angels have wings, to name only two.
With these you aren't debating in the slightest, you are just making stuff up. And you are overloading the joke arguments, which just makes it pointless.
"Dota is the best Warcraft 3 map ever."
"If we will have time travellers in the future, where are they now?"
I ALWAYS think in arguments for both sides before adding a thought in this map.
Here is the arguments:
Doors are windows
Defending: 1. Windows are holes in the wall, exactly like doors. 2. You can enter in the house using a window, so it's like a door. 3. If you make a house in a tree like a hobbit house, the windows have the same size; and therefore, there's no difference from doors. 4. Doors are made with the same material of the windows. They have a lock like a window and they open like a window.
Arguing against: 1. You cannot cross a window as easy as a door. 2. People will notice if you enter in your home every day by the window, and if they notice, it means there is some difference. 3. They have different definitions in the dictionary, so they are different things.
Angels have wings
Defending: 1. The churches have pictures of angels and in all pictures they have wings. 2. If you type angels in google images, it will show lots of pictures of people with wings. 3. They are suppose to live in the clouds and to live there you have to be able to fly. 4. Many stories tell about angels and they all have wings.
Arguint against: 1. The wings can only symbolizes the freedom, it doesn't mean that they must have wings. 2. Some stories also tell they emanates light, and if they are like you cannot see any wing, and maybe the format of the light creates the illusion of a wing. 3. Wings are for birds, and angels, being superior creatures, cannot be compared to birds. 4. The idea of wings come from a limited view that you can only fly if you have wings. Rockets can fly without wings, so why an Angel cannot? 5. The idea of wings come from the dream men have to be able to fly, so they thing that perfect creatures have to have wings, which is not true.
But, of course I need people's opinion. Do you think I should add these 2 "thoughts" in this map or not?
I ALWAYS think in arguments for both sides before adding a thought in this map.
Here is the arguments: Doors are windows
Defending: 1. Windows are holes in the wall, exactly like doors. 2. You can enter in the house using a window, so it's like a door. 3. If you make a house in a tree like a hobbit house, the windows have the same size; and therefore, there's no difference from doors. 4. Doors are made with the same material of the windows. They have a lock like a window and they open like a window.
Arguing against: 1. You cannot cross a window as easy as a door. 2. People will notice if you enter in your home every day by the window, and if they notice, it means there is some difference. 3. They have different definitions in the dictionary, so they are different things. Angels have wings
Defending: 1. The churches have pictures of angels and in all pictures they have wings. 2. If you type angels in google images, it will show lots of pictures of people with wings. 3. They are suppose to live in the clouds and to live there you have to be able to fly. 4. Many stories tell about angels and they all have wings.
Arguint against: 1. The wings can only symbolizes the freedom, it doesn't mean that they must have wings. 2. Some stories also tell they emanates light, and if they are like you cannot see any wing, and maybe the format of the light creates the illusion of a wing. 3. Wings are for birds, and angels, being superior creatures, cannot be compared to birds. 4. The idea of wings come from a limited view that you can only fly if you have wings. Rockets can fly without wings, so why an Angel cannot? 5. The idea of wings come from the dream men have to be able to fly, so they thing that perfect creatures have to have wings, which is not true.
But, of course I need people's opinion. Do you think I should add these 2 "thoughts" in this map or not?
Can i just attack move my zealots now?
JK, love the map idea! Will have to try it out some time.
@Ardnived: Go
You are definitely right. I should not overload the joke ones. However, I only told here the joke ones. Right know, I would say 40% is serious.
Here is some of the serious one:
"Women have harder life than men"
"Obama is better than Bush"
"People should not live together before marriage"
"Aboriginals should be treated diferentially"
"Doctors should be allowed to prescribe contraception for girls under the age of 16"
"It's wrong to download music without permission from the internet"
"Violence on TV makes people violent"
"Universities should accept Wikipedia as a reference work"
"Kids should not talk to strangers"
"Discretion is more important than honesty"
That's enough. I don't want to tell too much because I want to keep the element of surprise in the game.
There is serious debates, polemic debates, fun debates, and joke debates that only playing to know about. :)
Female emancipation
We are not alone in the universe
LoL is a bad game
Games havent improved over the years
dont know if it's in the game but you NEED to have mech is imba as a debate.
Lol. Your ideas are crazy. Female emancipation?!?! What can we talk about??
LoL is a bad game: what game is lol?
Games havent improved over the years: this is hard to defend, specially inside a game like starcraft. Can you defend this?
mech is imba? what does it mean?
Lol. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions :)
I added a new thought right know: "Dinossaurs were pink"
I'm just tired of people saying that dinossaurs were green just because reptiles are green. There's no proof! And besides, they are primitives and their skins were in development. So, their skins might have lack of melanin, leaving them with a white color. Then, the blood would produce a color similar to pink. That's why they died, because they had no protection against global warming. Thus, dinossaurs were pink.
Terran mech - anything that comes out of a factory, LoL = League of Legends, Female emancipation sucks, and, games havent improved over the years is easily defended taking examples like Planescape Torment, Baldur's gate, etc. I could provide more detail if it's what you're after.
I was thinking, when starcraft releases people will want to see ACTION. This map has no booms and bangs. Therefore, it might not be a good idea to publish it right away. I will publish my map Platform Defense (with a Debates advertise) and wait until the end of day 27 to publish Debates. I know people don't want debates in the first day of starcraft. They want BOOMS and BANGS. :)
I just hope the game has a new popularity system. Otherwise, I would not be able to publish it later.
hahaahah. I really really thought adding this one last week. But then, I decided not because people might find very good arguments against the map and convince the other players hahah. I will add this one later on, after a month.
•Pirates vs. Ninjas : very good idea. I'm just writing differently so it's easier to understand: "Pirates are better than Ninjas"
•Diablo 3 will be bigger than SC2 : I added "Diablo 3 will be better than Starcraft 2"
•The Warcraft movie will be good: I added "Blizzard can make good movies"
•Good graphics are necessary for a successful videogame: Nice! Added! "Good graphics are essential for a good game"
•There is a God: I think the map already have this one. At least is similar.
•Aliens exist: There's this one already. "Aliens do exist" and "There's aliens living around us"
•Dr. Pepper is chemically the best drink ever invented: lol. I hate Dr. Pepper. It sucks. I'm adding this one. "Dr. Pepper is the best soda"
•Blizzard vs. Bioware; who tells the best stories? Hmmm... I'm trying to think in arguments. I think this one is hard to argue because you have to know Bioware very well. Hmmm....
I'm using different crypt keys for each name and score. So, swapping will not go anywhere. If the player swap his score, he will lose it forever.
This is a good idea, but the players have to choose many options already, and I'm trying to keep the game as simple as possible. If the players want a custom debate, they suggest here and I will add as the "thought of the week." The thought of the week is a debate that is not random (At least 3 players must ask for it inside the game). The game displays the Thought of the week and the name of who suggested it, so the players can decide if they want to debate this thought. It's a simple version of a "custom" debate since all the weekly thoughts I will get from here (or from youtube).
@RodrigoAlves: Go
I don't really understand it, you can't access the name of players (because of no conversion from text to string) or any data unique to the player so how do you encrypt their name or do an encryption based on it?
By replacing letters for unique strings. Texts can have substrings replaced by other substrings.
Eg.: In the name of the first player in the ranking, the letter A becomes "#$@*["#}}"C()\. Then, this new text is replaced again. For example, the symbol # becomes %%$. This symbols must be unique to avoid replacing a symbol that is half of one letter and half of the other letter. Then, to decrypt it, you just have to replace again using the inverse matrix.
I just realize right now that all the chars that are not part of the key must be replaced by a null string (""). Some players would be able to change the name using letters that aren't part of the keys. I fixed this glitch already. Now there's no way to change names.
The game has only 200 thoughts for debate. I want to have at least 300 when I release the map on tuesday. Please, just send me some and I will add (if there's arguments in both sides).
Here are some I thought today while doing my homework: "Stars cause insomnia." "Humans are superior to animals." "Angels have wings." "Doors are windows." "Nuclear missile is never detected." "Mermaids cannot swim." "People play custom maps because they suck at melee." "Alarm clocks are evil" "There is a cow-level in starcraft 2"
PLEASE, SEND YOUR SUGGESTIONS! WE NEED DEBATES :D
Some of those are a bit stupid Rodrigo :( I mean sure joke arguments are fun. But there should be a conceivable argument for each side... Doors are windows? That doesn't even make sense, and where is the argument in Angels have wings, to name only two.
With these you aren't debating in the slightest, you are just making stuff up. And you are overloading the joke arguments, which just makes it pointless.
"Dota is the best Warcraft 3 map ever."
"If we will have time travellers in the future, where are they now?"
I ALWAYS think in arguments for both sides before adding a thought in this map.
Here is the arguments:
Doors are windows
Defending: 1. Windows are holes in the wall, exactly like doors. 2. You can enter in the house using a window, so it's like a door. 3. If you make a house in a tree like a hobbit house, the windows have the same size; and therefore, there's no difference from doors. 4. Doors are made with the same material of the windows. They have a lock like a window and they open like a window.
Arguing against: 1. You cannot cross a window as easy as a door. 2. People will notice if you enter in your home every day by the window, and if they notice, it means there is some difference. 3. They have different definitions in the dictionary, so they are different things.
Angels have wings
Defending: 1. The churches have pictures of angels and in all pictures they have wings. 2. If you type angels in google images, it will show lots of pictures of people with wings. 3. They are suppose to live in the clouds and to live there you have to be able to fly. 4. Many stories tell about angels and they all have wings.
Arguint against: 1. The wings can only symbolizes the freedom, it doesn't mean that they must have wings. 2. Some stories also tell they emanates light, and if they are like you cannot see any wing, and maybe the format of the light creates the illusion of a wing. 3. Wings are for birds, and angels, being superior creatures, cannot be compared to birds. 4. The idea of wings come from a limited view that you can only fly if you have wings. Rockets can fly without wings, so why an Angel cannot? 5. The idea of wings come from the dream men have to be able to fly, so they thing that perfect creatures have to have wings, which is not true.
But, of course I need people's opinion. Do you think I should add these 2 "thoughts" in this map or not?
Can i just attack move my zealots now?
JK, love the map idea! Will have to try it out some time.
@RodrigoAlves: Go
I suppose you have a point there,
but nevertheless, I think you are overloading the "joke" arguments.
@Ardnived: Go You are definitely right. I should not overload the joke ones. However, I only told here the joke ones. Right know, I would say 40% is serious. Here is some of the serious one: "Women have harder life than men" "Obama is better than Bush" "People should not live together before marriage" "Aboriginals should be treated diferentially" "Doctors should be allowed to prescribe contraception for girls under the age of 16" "It's wrong to download music without permission from the internet" "Violence on TV makes people violent" "Universities should accept Wikipedia as a reference work" "Kids should not talk to strangers" "Discretion is more important than honesty"
That's enough. I don't want to tell too much because I want to keep the element of surprise in the game. There is serious debates, polemic debates, fun debates, and joke debates that only playing to know about. :)
@Ardnived: Go I added your suggestion about Dota being the best map in WarIII. :)
People, I need more suggestions for debate!!!
What would you like to debate about?
Female emancipation
We are not alone in the universe
LoL is a bad game
Games havent improved over the years
dont know if it's in the game but you NEED to have mech is imba as a debate.
^ Ideas :>
@jarltheafro: Go
Lol. Your ideas are crazy. Female emancipation?!?! What can we talk about?? LoL is a bad game: what game is lol? Games havent improved over the years: this is hard to defend, specially inside a game like starcraft. Can you defend this? mech is imba? what does it mean? Lol. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions :)
I added a new thought right know: "Dinossaurs were pink" I'm just tired of people saying that dinossaurs were green just because reptiles are green. There's no proof! And besides, they are primitives and their skins were in development. So, their skins might have lack of melanin, leaving them with a white color. Then, the blood would produce a color similar to pink. That's why they died, because they had no protection against global warming. Thus, dinossaurs were pink.
Terran mech - anything that comes out of a factory, LoL = League of Legends, Female emancipation sucks, and, games havent improved over the years is easily defended taking examples like Planescape Torment, Baldur's gate, etc. I could provide more detail if it's what you're after.
@jarltheafro: Go
I've never heard about female emancipation, but the "games havent improved" I will add. I added today "People should use clothes."
I was thinking, when starcraft releases people will want to see ACTION. This map has no booms and bangs. Therefore, it might not be a good idea to publish it right away. I will publish my map Platform Defense (with a Debates advertise) and wait until the end of day 27 to publish Debates. I know people don't want debates in the first day of starcraft. They want BOOMS and BANGS. :)
I just hope the game has a new popularity system. Otherwise, I would not be able to publish it later.
"This map sucks"
Anyone suggested this debate yet ? :P
@progammer: Go
hahaahah. I really really thought adding this one last week. But then, I decided not because people might find very good arguments against the map and convince the other players hahah. I will add this one later on, after a month.
@RodrigoAlves: Go
I'm really tired that's all I can come up with right now.
@Poonchow: Go
•Pirates vs. Ninjas : very good idea. I'm just writing differently so it's easier to understand: "Pirates are better than Ninjas"
•Diablo 3 will be bigger than SC2 : I added "Diablo 3 will be better than Starcraft 2"
•The Warcraft movie will be good: I added "Blizzard can make good movies"
•Good graphics are necessary for a successful videogame: Nice! Added! "Good graphics are essential for a good game"
•There is a God: I think the map already have this one. At least is similar.
•Aliens exist: There's this one already. "Aliens do exist" and "There's aliens living around us"
•Dr. Pepper is chemically the best drink ever invented: lol. I hate Dr. Pepper. It sucks. I'm adding this one. "Dr. Pepper is the best soda"
•Blizzard vs. Bioware; who tells the best stories? Hmmm... I'm trying to think in arguments. I think this one is hard to argue because you have to know Bioware very well. Hmmm....