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Well, I was just wondering if this is a possibility. Since GCs (Galactic Conquests) are maps (according to Zerted)...would it be possible to set up a GC map...like a normal map. As in a map where you can run around as a unit....and have the 'entrances' into other maps as objects/regions/whatever that you walk into/use a move on etc.....
The overall effect is the equivalent of say something like a 'hub world' on platform games - a level with a bunch of 'gateways' into other maps.

I'm afraid I don't have the answer detail you'll want to hear (or I'd like to give), but I think there may be some misunderstanding about the nature of the "map" GC uses. Yes, it's a map in the most literal sense of the word (in that it has a .wld file), but the way GC is set up to interact with it is not like normal maps. In theory (although I believe it to be fairly impossible in practice, since we don't know how the GC .wld was set up, organizationally), it would be possible to create a new GC "map," but your interactions with it would still be the same as with the current GC map - a point-and-click interface. I think the only reason that GC uses a .wld for its interface was because it was a convenient way to make a dynamic interface that used a format the game already knew.

Oh well, thanks anyway Mav. So..just to clarify, what your saying is (1) only way for a custom GC top work is with the same method as the existing GCs and (2) its virtually impossible to make a custom GC anyway?

Skyhammer_216 wrote:Oh well, thanks anyway Mav. So..just to clarify, what your saying is (1) only way for a custom GC top work is with the same method as the existing GCs and (2) its virtually impossible to make a custom GC anyway?

What I'm saying is - to be perfectly clear - I don't know for sure. Don't let me mislead you that I have some intimate knowledge of this. What I'm also saying, though, is that my best guess would be that yes, points 1 and 2 are correct.

I'm pretty sure that the only thing you can do with custom GCs is replace instances of 'planets' (which basically says load this world and fight in it). I don't think you can add more planets to the existing GC. Could be wrong though.

http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... t&start=20
I'm assuming you guys have read p2 of this?