SC2Mapster

if you create a map on eu battle net searching for poker defence results in a map called poker defence 1.7 and as author it states "wizzor". Can't find anything for "Original Poker Defence". I'm sad.

I can't find the map ,Its not yet in the first pages and searching for it returns no results.Anything else i can try ?

please publish it on EU ....after the latest patch it's gone ..i really enjoyed the map..it is a true succes..i even tried to publish it myself under your rights but i get an error at 13%...

Yes,please publish it in the european server because of the patch and database reset it's gone.C;mon,we need a good map to play ;)

Could you publish it on EU please

Can you pls explain what are the hands? because i played and dont know when i geht the indestor and how to get a straight and so on :/

Yeah I think the collossus actually has that problem too, but I don't think it matters much because you are really supposed to be microing your units anyway. My problem is that the thor is too big to ever want to use. It takes up too much space in my opinion but it's not game breaking or anything. I just never go for the full house.

I'm not sure which version I was playing, it was whatever was on Battle.net yesterday and 2 days ago.

A minigame sounds interesting, though there's already a minigame to get your hand in the first place. Might overcomplicate things. Then again it'd be difficult to come up with a bonus unit for each card that gets progressively weaker, plus you'd have to do that for each hand.

One more thing I noticed, the Full House Thors seem to have trouble tracking faster units, so a lot of the time they just end up sitting there halfway through their firing animation. Is there a way to fix that? I'm pretty sure they aren't firing because there's muzzle flare when they do.

Yeah only 3 colors might help. Straight flush seems really rare. Either that or a wild card.

Just want to say that I really enjoy this map. It is a lot of fun, and I feel there is an adequate amount of depth and good balancing.

There are a few issues. Occasionally a hand won't work. I remember getting a straight of some sort, but it gave me a high card. I also remember getting another hand and receiving weaker units instead, but I forgot the exact hand/cards. Just something to look out for.

Another suggestion, instead of only giving out an ace bonus, how about a bonus for each type of hand? Like if your best is King, you get a king bonus unit instead of the Ace bonus. It gives more incentive to get higher hands, and not just aces. Otherwise a pair of 7s is worth the same as a pair of Kings, which doesn't feel right. I think this would be a lot more fun.

Also consider reducing the suits to 2, to make flushes easier to get. It's annoying with 4 different colors, and the SC2 units make it more difficult to notice unit colors I think.  

Minerals per kill would be nice, though theoretically the player should be killing every single unit.

Something more to buy than just 2 different types of upgrades would be nice too, though I can't think of what.

I do admit the game does feel easy, as long as I get a few full houses and good hands. I've only lost when I had horrible luck and only managed pairs and twopairs. But of course don't make it too hard, it's mostly OK right now.

But yeah, just some notes and suggestions. Keep up the great work, I love this map!

Well the difficulty is alright but I think since there isn't much skill involved you should either make it harder so you really need some lucky breaks to win, or add a way to be skillful other than properly moving your guys around the square. If the units attacked you instead of running by the game would be more fun for me. It would be a little micro mini game in between rounds and you would have more units for the next wave if you micro'd well. Although balancing this to a point that it was fun and challenging would take awhile I think.

It's worth it in my opinion though because I think the current combo of microing against static enemies isn't the most fun alternative. If the enemies are static then I feel the defense should be as well. If you are gonna force the player to micro to be efficient, might as well go all out and have the different units that attack you actually force you to react differently. You could have more fun with the waves than all of a specific type as well. Anyway just an idea!

Also I support battling against teammates for extra stuff because that sounds fun. Is there any way to make it so you aren't kicked from the game when you lose so that you can watch your teammates?

oooo that explains why it happens when I get the good hands. Awesome speedy debugging! Do you have plans to add anything more to the game? Or are you working on bigger and better things? I can't think of anything glaring that needs to be added, but more anything would probably be cool.