Race to the East Gamemode on Amazon River map

[last gazelle]

Everyone spawns on the left side of the Amazon River. The objective is simple: be the first player to reach the eastern border.
That's it, no complicated rules, just arrive there first.
But what makes it interesting is what happens on the way...

The river splits the map into land and water, and that choice defines your entire run. Go by land and you're slower but stable, except everything you face ahead is a constant battle and everyone behind you becomes a threat. Go by boat and you're faster, until the nations build warships and suddenly your boat that's been traveling through the entire river gets shot down.

So you ally the nations with warships. Smart. Except now you can't kill them, which means if you need their land to push east, you're just stuck. You've traded progression for a naval pathway forward that has gotten you trapped behind.

And if somehow you've outpaced everyone, raced ahead while others fought, congratulations, you're now the target. Every player behind you is now united by one shared goal: to stop you. Nukes start flying at your boats. Your cities start falling, but let's say you still manage to arrive at the eastern border as small remnants of what you were at your peak... but the bot sitting on the border has more troops than you do. You can't get through anymore. You don't just win with speed, you must arrive strong.

[tepid sluice]

can you make this more general? Race game mode or smth :)

[last gazelle]

wdym

race to the east sounds cool

but this game mode can be a thing on many maps

best on amazon tho

[hidden patrol]

the only issue i see with this is allying all the nations and going straight for the finish line with a boat.

even on impossible it's not too hard to game the alliance system. And if you do race on impossible then 💀 for players.

[tepid sluice]

tes

[last gazelle]

you're underestimating how long the amazon river map is, by the time my boat was half way, a bunch of players could already afford to atom bomb my boats multiple times until they hit it

another thing, boating isn't actually faster than capturing land once you have enough troops

so you're just missing out on structures that someone else will use to kill you with

but ofcourse

[hidden patrol]

Mhm maybe. Are players allowed to fight eachother?

[last gazelle]

ive only played on game

[tepid sluice]

yeah

they are

[last gazelle]

yup yup

heres a replay

you can watch it in 5x speed

[last gazelle]

https://nightly.openfront.dev/w0/game/JhoFPo2b?live

[swift pumice]

I think boats should be disabled

and nations too

[last gazelle]

...

[swift pumice]

allowing boats is just who gets to click earlier

[last gazelle]

you cant say that without playtesting it

because thats not the case at all

in fact, the person who was at the very back

won the game

you should watch the replay

[tepid sluice]

tru

[grand helm]

Cool idea
Especially because its on my map 😄
But having a gamemode which only works on 1 map (or 2 if you also count the "Passage" map) and only with max 10 players (or something like that) might not really work great with the public rotation

[swift pumice]

i think passage is a better option for this

[tepid sluice]

Yeah we are testing passage out

[tepid sluice]

It also works on alps

[tepid sluice]

And Tristar can just draw some more maps 🥰

[swift pumice]

I have a land map of the Himalayas

its like amazon but all land

i have frowned against uploading it tho lol

[coarse kite]

thank you for your service

[swift pumice]

for reference

i also have the Andes (also a bad map, not uploading it, atleast not for v32)

i also have this too, Mississippi

i have so many maps made because i will just sometimes test random ideas and places for fun, but im not satisfied with the final result so they get sent to archived hell

[tepid sluice]

oooo

[last gazelle]

thanks! I do think having max 10 players is a problem, especially when we played with 5 people and 2 people got cut off from water access. But the less people that play, the more likely it is that one person snowballs their way to the end. We played one game that was very balanced and fairly equal the whole time, but thats when nobody got cut off

I think a reason why people get cut off is because the map is a bit too thin, if it was wider, the max could be brought up to like 20

[last gazelle]

Passage works good too, my idea is that if its on passage map, players can spawn anywhere on the far left island,

[last gazelle]

these maps would be good

[last gazelle]

also good map, i think the race would be better if you go up than sideways

but would need to be wider also

to fit more people

[last gazelle]

have you tried making a map that has multiple rivers going up?

thats decently wide too

[last gazelle]

bump

[amber sedge]

conakry ?

[primal gyro]

This can be done for top to bottom also

[swift pumice]

Uhhhh not really, no

you mean something like yenisei?

[last gazelle]

i think a map designed for the purpose of this game mode would work really well

[last gazelle]

i thought abt that

[swift pumice]

One of many map ideas i have. Lena Delta

could work your gamemode? Maybe?

[primal gyro]

ooooh

[primal gyro]

maybe if the rivers were less curved

[last gazelle]

yup def

[last gazelle]

byu,mp

[hidden patrol]

Valentino, here's an idea. Brave new world. Pick a map that has multiple islands, all human players spawn on one island. Lots of hard nations. Could even do baikal too.

[swift pumice]

so Traders Dream

[last gazelle]

what would be the objective

[last gazelle]

bu,p

[last gazelle]

bump

[hidden patrol]

Perhaps rename the mode race to the west.

[tepid sluice]

yeah that's what I asked too
But it's inaccurate cuz we are racing to the east

[last gazelle]

it is to the east😔

it could be just race mode cus any map could work