[Contest] Map Design Contest! - Page 18

On January 28 2010 08:18 luizalberto wrote:
5) 3.6.9 is by far my favorite.

On January 28 2010 04:05 -fj. wrote:
Scmdraft says "235 out of 250 sprites on map".. Does that mean only 15 sprites are left for valkyries?


EDIT: I did a test - I created 24 valks and arbiters with 2000 HP and had the valks attack the arbiter with and without 250 tree sprites on the map.. and the arbiter died in the same amount of time. In both cases not all the valks fired, but they stalled about equally in both situations.. It also doesn't seem to matter if the sprites are all across the map or all in view at once.

It seems like sprites on map don't really make a difference, at least for valkyries... I've played some games on this map, although they weren't really high level with maxed pvz armies clashing or something, nothing ever bugged out..

On January 28 2010 14:29 Rut wrote:
(2)Absolute Truth (note: not all creep shows up in the picture).
Theme: Zerg Invasion


BWM page: http://www.panschk.de/mappage/comments.php?mapid=4016

This is a two-player map I made just for this competition. I am a big fan of maps with very precisely-placed expansions (Blue Storm being the best example, in my opinion), and I wanted to mimic that with this map. The third gas has three different entrances, but they each have an obstacle which must be overcome to launch an attack. The first bridge can be defended if the player has already established control over the mineral-only, the second bridge is blocked by four neutral zerg eggs, and the higher ground leading to it is blocked by a line of minerals. One line is made entirely of 0-value minerals (six stacked on top of eachother) and the other line is made of five 0-value minerals and one 16-value mineral stacked on top of eachother. My hope is that it would require a good amount of time for an opponent to drill through and open a means to attack the third gas, but at the same time would allow a player who has taken that third gas already to quickly mine through it and create a path to the fourth gas expansion.

The neutral buildings in the center provide some obstacles and prevent building unless they are destroyed. There is a neutral Infested Command Center at the fourth gas, preventing a player from sneaking the base too early (though I am very tempted to remove this for the sake of opening up more options--the order of expansion-taking shouldn’t be too linear...thoughts?). Though there are mineral blocks, neutral buildings, and neutral zerg eggs, I haven’t had any problems with pathing so far.

(In case you're wondering, the name means absolutely nothing--my friend and I came up with it during a brainstorming session as the most overly dramatic and yet completely meaningless name on earth...)

Enjoy!

On January 28 2010 22:20 ProTosS4EveR wrote:
don't tell me that you are impressed by a min only nat. It is such an obvious thing, and not made in pro maps since it makes some difficulties for zerg in ZvT