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#1 Ridder Geel

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Posted 23 April 2014 - 09:41 PM

Hello Fans and Followers!

I come bearing some very interesting insight into the functionality of one of the newest and most unique feature of the Ridder Clan Mod!
Without further ado I am proud to present The Voting System!


What is the use of this voting system you might wonder?
Well the system allows you to choose exactly how you want to play the game...
Every player in the game gets to vote for how they want to play, and the majority wins.
Usually you would discuss with each other what options you are going to choose before playing, but you can also just let everyone choose what they want to do, and then the Voting System will take care of the rest.

(The Descriptions are only visible in-game when the mouse moves over the option)
To start of players playing a faction that has sub-factions get to choose one of the sub-factions:
VSMotW.png 

After this the player is able to choose out of one of the following options:
VSGeneral.png
The picture is quite self explanatory, you get to either browse further through the menu, to vote for specific things,

Or simply press the "I Am Done Voting" button to get a standard game (either BFME 1 or BFME 2, chosen randomly).

This is the menu from which the player can browse through to the other voting options.

In the BFME Mode Voting sub-menu:
VSBFMEMode.png

Again this is quite self explanatory, here you get to vote for either the Battle for Middle Earth 2 or Battle for Middle Earth 1 mode,

One is with porters and fortresses, while the other has Castles and Camps and other things which are from the first game of the franchise.

You can also simply not vote for any of the above and just let the game (or fellow players) choose a mode for you!

In the Ring Hero Mode Voting sub-menu:
VSRHM.png

Here you simply get to vote if you want to play with or without the Ring Heroes which were introduced in the second game of the franchise.

You can also choose to not vote for this and leave it up to the game or your fellow players to choose for you!

In the Extra Gameplay Modes sub-menu:
VSExtraGM.png
The most interesting of all the sub-menus is the Extra Gameplay Modes sub-menus.
None of these are automatically enabled (might be subject to change though) by the game unless one of the players decide to vote for enabling them.

You can also vote to disable the specific modes if you are certain you do not want to play with extra resources in Deathmatch mode, or at a faster pace in Lightning mode.

This was the Voting System!
I hope you guys liked what you have seen from this system so far, I put a lot of time into perfecting it.
We will most likely add some extra gameplay modes later on, to allow for even more variation in gameplay.

Stay tuned, as we are trying to get smaller, but slightly more frequent updates to the public!
-Ridder Geel

(No promises though, as usual, me and the team do have other time consuming activities besides modding! :) )


Edited by Ridder Geel, 27 April 2014 - 10:58 PM.

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#2 Irenë Hawnetyne

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Posted 24 April 2014 - 05:57 AM

Wow... that must have been a bitch to code... exceptional.


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#3 Ridder Geel

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Posted 24 April 2014 - 06:46 AM

Ghehe, yea I suppose it was :p Thanks! :)


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#4 ICT

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Posted 24 April 2014 - 07:24 AM

This looks extraordinary! Great stuff :)

"To know what question we may reasonably propose is in itself a strong evidence of sagacity or intelligence. For if a question be in itself incongruous and begs for uncalled-for answers, it holds, sometimes, besides embarrassing the proposer, the disadvantage to seduce the unguarded listener into giving absurd answers, and we are presented with the ridiculous spectacle of one (as the ancients said) milking the he-goat, and the other holding a sieve beneath."


#5 Ridder Geel

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Posted 24 April 2014 - 03:56 PM

Ghehe.. thanks :)

No ideas or suggestions from anyone? :p


Edited by Ridder Geel, 24 April 2014 - 03:57 PM.

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#6 MattTheLegoman

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Posted 24 April 2014 - 11:34 PM

It'll work on T3A:Online?

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#7 Arador123

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Posted 26 April 2014 - 10:25 AM

Looks great!

Listen, Ridder Geel and Valaquenta - whatever you do, PLEASE DO NOT discontinue this mod. Most mods are not that great but this one is just awesome......it's exactly how I would have liked BFME ROTWK to be........hats off to your hard work. It's going to be a masterpiece once completed, even better than the original game.....

How's the progress going?



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Posted 26 April 2014 - 10:30 AM

Will you be adding a lot of new units?

I have thought of a lot of suggestions........one is that you should add new powers(for the power points), which are totally unique and are not just modified versions of other powers. These should be actually useful and cool.

Another big idea I have is that you should have completely new Ring-heroes for each faction. I mean, why would the Dwarves want to summon Galadriel, or Isengard summon Sauron?



#9 Ridder Geel

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Posted 26 April 2014 - 03:21 PM

True, the ring heroes might be changed later :p

Yes the voting system works in multiplayer, i even checked it (a whole butload of times) for desyncs :D


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#10 Rob38

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Posted 26 April 2014 - 06:33 PM

Very creative and neat work here.    Are those images from the game?  If so, how did you make that layout? 


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Posted 26 April 2014 - 08:32 PM

Only the buttons from the middle are in-game. The explanations are only when you hover each one of them. :D



#12 Ridder Geel

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Posted 27 April 2014 - 12:20 PM

If I was able to make that layout, I would've done that :xd:

Unless I'm somehow able to "hack" it all you see is those buttons, black background, and an explanation for each of em when you hover over them :p

Just decided showing all the information tags would be useful for explanation :D


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#13 Irenë Hawnetyne

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Posted 27 April 2014 - 07:24 PM

Oh. That's a little misleading, you may want to mention that first.


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#14 Ridder Geel

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Posted 27 April 2014 - 10:58 PM

ah.. yea I see i didn't do that :p Oh well.. I'll write a small note :p


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