Spring RTS Engine

In supcom theres a user made map called zone control.

Its a grid of squares, and the corners are raised.

You start with a turret in one square next to a raised square, and in the raised square you have 3 buildings and an upgrader. The turret spawns a unit every 2-3 seconds.

You can upgrade the turret and what it spawns using the units in the raised square, or by killing other units.

Every other square contains a neutral turret that fires at anybody but doesnt spawn units.

You are supposed to attack these turrets and take control of that zone before the enemy, so that a new turret spawns and starts spawning more units for you.

Theres no commander or building factories, no resources of any kind save taking control of turrets.

The same is available for warcraft 3. I think they steal it from it.
For spring it would be...not bad. It would be another thing as normal maps.

It was stolen from a starcraft 3rd party map.

tic tac toe style zone control would be cool. (3 in a row = you win)
I think the problem is, the lobby has no way to select those special scripts.

I think it would be mod Lua anyway but any form of territory control that doesn't require ordering builders to put a building there is cool with me.

Map lua modules would do this fine.

By your description it is just the kind of gameplay Z was famous for. And Z was released before StarCraft...
Don't they have any other Z features by chance? Like, say, the crews on vehicles that can be killed?

AF wrote:Map lua modules would do this fine.

But you'd have to introduce custom units and stuff or force a specific mod to the point where you can just as well make your own mod.

But then how do you make that mod work on all maps?

Id think itd be forced into a handful of maps

There's a dependency either way, all you can do to reduce it is to produce some kind of fallback algorithm that improvises.

AF wrote:But then how do you make that mod work on all maps?

Same as Kernel Panic: you don't.