I have a bit of experience making skirmish maps for various CnC games like CnC3 and Red Alert 2, but this is the first time I made a Zero Hour map. Okay, the problems is that, I made a very simple map, no complicated scripts or anything, just a script to assign some buildings to my player, and to set the supply dock to about a million $'s. Oh, and also a script to reveal the map on start (for testing purposes). When I tried to play the map, the AI players create a bunch of builders, then do nothing. They don't gather resources nor build anything. I followed the instructions to the letter in making a skirmish map so I really don't get what's wrong here. I also tried enlarging the inner and outer perimeters, moving the start locations further away from the border like what some posts here are saying, still nothing.

Oh, and I also tried to check other maps I downloaded, and I don't really see anything wrong here. If anyone can help me out here, it'll be very much appreciated. This is the first time I got stuck in making a CnC map, and honestly its making me all frustrated. :ashamed:

I attached the map here in case anyone wants to check it out. I may be missing something.   CentralDefense.zip (10kb) downloaded 4 time(s).

Quite a lot errors:

- There should be only 1 combat zone. One without a number attached to its name.
- Bottom right areas had the wrong player number
- Middle position had neither Inner nor Outer perimeters
- all AI position had no attack paths
- InnerPerimeter should include at least 1 supply dock


and the main error:
you transfered the entire civ player to your control. this includes the supply docks. comp does not use supply docks if they belong to an enemy player.

also the map lags very badly because there is only 1 small path to get to the middle base.

it will lag horribly if you play it with 4 computer players.

if you want to make a map with only 1 ramp as entrance then place the single base in one edge of the map and make a giant ramp heading to the middle of the map.


fixed all of it but the lag. have fun.   Central Defense.zip (13kb) downloaded 6 time(s).

Can't believe I still made a lot of mistakes after reading the tutorials over and over. Oh well, maybe I wasn't reading hard enough. Anyway, thanks a lot!! I'll try the one you edited and also try your suggestions. 🙂