Changes:
- Made top right/btm left mains slightly bigger
- Shifted mineral-only placement for better main space management

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Northern Cross 1.3

Changes:
- Fixed top right/btm left gas bug (cannot build)
- Slightly changed 4 o'clock starting mineral/gas layout

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Northern Cross 1.2

Changes:
- Made mid smaller
- Made mineral-nat bigger
- Removed temples at mid
- Changed unbuildable terrain color at mid

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Northern Cross 1.1

Changes:
- Added more space at mineral-only nat for buildings

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Northern Cross 1.0

Details:
Map Size: 128 x 128
Terrain: Jungle
Players: 4

Concept:
- A small-main 4 player map that will feature lots of outer battles, possibly similar to Outsider but more frequent
- Similar to Return of the King, but mineral-only nat is on high ground, making contains less deadly and easy to defend

Features:
- Small main
- All gas nats are around the outside of the map
- Destroyable Psi Disruptors that can open up another route to high ground in middle of map
- 15 stacked Psi Disruptors that can be destroyed that mine from another geyser at the corner expansions
- 1000 gas at your side of the mineral wall, 3000 on the other side
- Almost the entire center of map (high ground) is unbuildable
- 8 stacked minerals (shown as 4 on picture) at mineral-only expansion
- Main can be wallable from outside with just 1 rax (but unable to mine from mineral-only expo)

Resources:
Main - 8M1G (1500 minerals, 5000 gas)
Mineral-only nat - 8M (749 minerals)(4 patches stacked twice)
Mineral-wall expos - 8M2G (749 minerals, 1 patch worth 499)(geyser closer to main worth 1000 gas, geyser on opposite side worth 3000 gas)
Corner expos - 9M2G (1500 minerals, 3000 gas)(15 stacked Psi Disruptors must be destroyed to mine from one of the geysers)

Maker's woes:
- Finding it a problem for rallying lots of units to center of map from the outside. Widening main-to-outside ramp may screw up balance.
- Main is a bit too small

Download links:
Version 1.0
Version 1.1
Version 1.2
Version 1.3
Version 1.4

StorrZerg

United States13919 Posts

September 08 2009 19:42 GMT

This map is very interesting, little bit of an outsider effect. Looks a bit awkward idk (with the low gorund)

bottom rights base, gas is close to the inside, any ranged unit could kill that imo.

alexpnd

Canada1857 Posts

September 08 2009 19:43 GMT

Nice concept but I wouldn't know where to put my stuff lol.

Pseudo_Utopia

Canada827 Posts

September 08 2009 19:45 GMT

Yeah my first thought was "wow the mains are so small". This may make it slightly zerg-favored (?) since they need less space for buildings.

konadora

Singapore66161 Posts

September 08 2009 19:46 GMT

On September 09 2009 04:43 alexpnd wrote:
Nice concept but I wouldn't know where to put my stuff lol.

yeah that's the problem i'm kinda facing atm, thinking of widening the mineral-only nat area so that there'll be more space to build

404.Delirium

United States1190 Posts

September 08 2009 19:54 GMT

Building placement would be similar to Plasma, right? You'd have to build down ramps. Either on those inside low-ground pockets or on the outside low-ground ring.

konadora

Singapore66161 Posts

September 08 2009 19:56 GMT

Okay slightly widened the nat area

StorrZerg

United States13919 Posts

September 08 2009 20:04 GMT

What about 4ish/5ish gas?

i think that could be a problem.

konadora

Singapore66161 Posts

September 08 2009 20:06 GMT

On September 09 2009 05:04 StorrZerg wrote:
What about 4ish/5ish gas?

i think that could be a problem.

what 4-ish/5-ish?

1st gas - main
2nd gas - near mineral wall (or corner expo)
3rd gas - corner expo (or near mineral wall)
4th gas - other mineral wal gas
5th gas - destroy 15 buildings or expand elsewhere

or you mean, as in, it may cause imbalance or smth?

KinosJourney2

Sweden1811 Posts

September 08 2009 20:07 GMT

#10

Very sexy concept but the mains needs to be bigger, i refuse to build outside

konadora

Singapore66161 Posts

September 08 2009 20:10 GMT

#11

Maybe mid is a tad too large :p

Neivler

Norway911 Posts

September 08 2009 20:13 GMT

#12

It could be cool if u rewerted it. So the main base is on low ground and nat is on high, simmilar to Byzantium.

neobowman

Canada3324 Posts

September 08 2009 20:20 GMT

#13

Great concept. Might have a bit more trouble PvT than in outsider since the Terran can grab 3 easy bases, then a fourth if they defend it properly. The distances between the Protoss and Terran is short too since a 200/200 Terran could probably shoot down the psi disrupters pretty quickly.
Middle is fine imo. Maybe a bit too tight.
This is great, improve deco a bit though. I'll try to think of more comments to help improve this.

404.Delirium

United States1190 Posts

September 08 2009 20:40 GMT

#14

On September 09 2009 05:20 neobowman wrote:
Great concept. Might have a bit more trouble PvT than in outsider since the Terran can grab 3 easy bases, then a fourth if they defend it properly. The distances between the Protoss and Terran is short too since a 200/200 Terran could probably shoot down the psi disrupters pretty quickly.
Middle is fine imo. Maybe a bit too tight.
This is great, improve deco a bit though. I'll try to think of more comments to help improve this.

I thought that too, but then looking over it, fast carriers look incredibly powerful.

crate

United States2474 Posts

September 08 2009 20:57 GMT

#15

On September 09 2009 05:06 konadora wrote:

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what 4-ish/5-ish?

I think StorrZerg is talking about the gas at the bottom-right main; it's much closer to the inside of the map than the other mains' gases (might be siege-able from the cliffs to the north of it).

Adeny

Norway1233 Posts

September 08 2009 20:57 GMT

#16

What are you, a zerg player? I'd never ever play this map as terran. Every single "feature" is balanced against terran in one or more matchups.

konadora

Singapore66161 Posts

September 08 2009 20:59 GMT

#17

On September 09 2009 05:57 crate wrote:

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I think StorrZerg is talking about the gas at the bottom-right main; it's much closer to the inside of the map than the other mains' gases (might be siege-able from the cliffs to the north of it).

oh.. hmm but then, I'll have to place at some other position which will cause mining inefficiency as compared to other 3 positions

updated to 1.2 btw