and a 3dsmax importer..

Just give us the tools the devs use.

I want to be able to add new demigods and spells(NOT just change some values of current spells, but create entirely new ones that behave differently from ones in the game.) at the very least, and make new maps.

While I agree that a map editor enhances the games replayability greatly, I also think that it wouldn't be as important for this game. This arena style team play is more of a minigame, which lacks the wide reaching gameplay required for a multitude of user-created maps.

In other words, the players that create new maps would be recreating the same game with different environments. While this is not a bad thing, it lessens the need of the map editor for a few reasons:

1) When I look at the immense detail and vertical aspects that go into the maps we've already seen, it makes me apprehensive that ANY map editor could recreate such a thing. It just looks like alot of programing and art is involved in every single map. (Haven't they talked about difficulties in pathing aspects of the maps already?)

2) With such a limited range of gameplay options, the makers of this game are obligated (in my opinion at least) to release map packs with highly detailed and programed levels. When this job is left into the hands of the players you just won't receive the awesome user maps like DoTA or all of the other custom maps and mods from sins or SC.


Weren't most of the maps that are in RTS's or 4X games that have badass map editors like (sins and war3 and SC) created with the very same map editor?

^If that is true then how could demigod come with a map editor? Unless they already are using a pretty simple map editor, then they'd have to create a whole new system...