I always read the EleTD emails, and this oen went through to my emails, ofcourse gaining my attention
its good to hear from you guys and i hope everything is going great. Momentarily I cannot claim my minds into eletd even though this topic caught my attention, but the good thing is that my thoughts are already out there on this topic if someone is now interested in coding this mode. I referred to it as a mode whilst it was on discussion, not to cause too many upsets lol

and the more epic thing i noticed, its threadnumber

forums.eletd.com/index.php?showtopic=1337

All the best
jolin012

Fog of war should be an option in advanced options and the reveal spells should be removed when fog of war is turned off.

It makes most sence if you can select all modes urself, tw on/off sw on/off urself. but there can be default "packs" if u dont enter advanced mode options. like if u select tower wars in normal options the default could be fog of war on - to be toggled off in advanced mode options.

it seems my temporary leave is no longer temporary... for several months i have not played or wanted to play eletd. no longer interested in being in development any longer either i think... NZ owns btw, having a great time here and the ppl are really nice.

m45t3r.. you know we can't have a dmg-tower that moves the creeps^^

note that flame is supposed to be bad on fast waves too. when flame kills the flamed targets first it is a bit problematic. and this happens quite a lot. maybe flame tower should only damage targets around the flamed unit. and not the flamed unit itself. increased damage with this change ofc. (this tower already sucked vs bosses so don't complain on that )

Darkness towers:

DF - Magic Tower
DN - Disease Tower

DLF - Radius Tower
DLN - Oblivion Tower
DFN - Voodoo Tower

Yes, you will need either Fire or Nature (or both) to get a darkness damage tower other than Darkness tower itself (and dark arrows/cannons).

You are right, there are fewer ways to get darkness. This is because there are only 5 combination-towers that deal darkness damage, while all other elements have 6 towers. this is simply because the number of combination towers is not dividable by 6. ie dome element would have to have only 5 combo towers, if not darkness then some other tower would have to suffer it... unless ofcourse the periodic tower of the elements would have darkness damage instead ^^.

About Muck you should know that when it was changed from darkness to earth damage, at the same time if I remember right, Voodoo changed from fire to darkness damage.

nice rep for being nearly only based on water until pures. only one disease useful due to waterfall.

holepercent is right ofcourse
place on longpass (aka area 5 aka the center of the very center of the maze) and douse once per wave when as many creeps as possible are around it. This tower is not as easy to solo with, so I recommend you begin with some other towers. maybe elemental arrow towers at area 3 (numpad aka lower right cornet) or some light towers in the middle of the maze, and then tidal. unless you learn the tidal and feel safe with it and have the perfect douse timing.

maybe. or don't ban the good towers and pick the bad elements

That is true what you say. it works only to play slow for cash in single player, which was what i was referring to, since the replay in the first post of this thread is in single player. However, the point about life towers on ronald is valid in multiplayer since you cannot be rushed on ronald wave.

Oblivion can't interest farm at all, and is bad at switching. but it has one good thing. if an incoming wave is very hard, you can have oblivions that are charged up (have 3 dragons already) and when the super hard wave comes, you sell the oblivions, and upgrade something different, but still have the 3 dragons from each oblivion to fight the new wave. else it's true that oblivion is a bad idea in random.

it's not that life tower damage is high. it's that it's pretty easy to play slow with life towers since you are allowed to leak. and more time=more interest=more gold. Life tower damage can be counted as double on ronalds since each unit may walk 190% of the map instead of 90% of the map before killed since you get one life from each. it should be somewhat equal to for example magic towers that have about double damage i guess. 1100 instead of 900 range does not help at all.

hey mimu and welcome to the forums
Any strategy you have found that seems to work very well? post in in strategy section if you like! also if you have questions, that's the palce to go. Anything missing in eletd? then the suggestions section is something for you
Enjoy your stay

if you have well at level 3 then you cannot have electricity at level 3. I suggest you use damage duals that share elements with the well tower. either keep fire at level 2 and max WNL: well WN + life LN + ice WL. or keep light at level 2 and max WNF: well WN + vapor WF + Flame FN.

other than that I'd just wish you good luck

Ronald is not too weak, you are playing on a too low difficulty

cool

should imo replace the element query button, since that one is not very useful, you have the trophies up right already. the element query icon should work fine with damage type check too.

oh no, m45t3r that's not how he means. what he means is that quark(LE) is banned, trickery is banned (LD) and gunpowder is banned (ED), making it impossible to constuct a laser tower without breaking the rules, without laser tower itself being banned. same goes for oblivion tower, it is not banned, but you cannot build it since disease trickery and life are all banned.

so - quaker tower is allowed. but you may not upgrade it through flame. the banned towers are not only banned from using for attacking. they are also banned from building, even if it's a bypass to another upgrade.

what's not ok about timers is waiting 30 sec for bosses on all diffs. it should be regular timer+sec, maybe +5, or maybe +10. but currently it's +0 on ve and +27 on vh.

14th pick: Fire

ah well, then it's fair i guess - but a tough one

are all methods except cheating allowed? (and except when 2 creeps get stuck in each otehr and such.)

then it's really easy with life towers and leaking

fine challenge then. m45t3r, you are probably right, but it's probably worth investigating, we have too little variety in 4.1 replays to tell if we're balanced.

or, if tere are enough challenges atm, just aanother contest. how about a draf-like contest without the drafting. have to play 6ele build, with tier 3s banned, and compete with other contestants on getting the best replays before a specific date in the draft categories: time leaks cash ronnies.

or is a challenge better?

7th pick: Water

ok, editing the old post. to change from 1.1+1.2+1.3+1.4 to 1.0+1.1+1.2+1.3