it seems this tournament is going waaaaaaaaay toooo slow due to the fact that the PMs are messing up..i was kinda curious to see people play on my map / other tournament winners...kinda disappointed =[

Pads

England3228 Posts

May 12 2008 08:23 GMT

#129

i'll probably be on tonight infinity / arcology dunno wut time, i been so so busy lately soz ^ ^

but yeah i should be on tonight

littlechava

United States7221 Posts

May 12 2008 17:51 GMT

#130

apparently both nevake and power decided they were too busy and forfeited :|

Lemonwalrus

United States5465 Posts

May 12 2008 18:57 GMT

#131

Alright, o3.power91 and SalvGG are the only two players that have officially dropped from the tournament, so if you had matches against them you will be given automatic 2-0 victories. This means that at the end of this stage, the lowest two competing records will be removed, and the round of 16 will start. Seeing as how I was a bit more ambitious than I should have been with setting the time, I am going to let games go until the end of May, so please try to play your games/contact your opponents.

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL THE END OF MAY.

Darkmole

United States900 Posts

May 13 2008 01:06 GMT

#132

On May 08 2008 13:01 Superiorwolf wrote:
I didn't receive any PMs from you guys and you didn't receive any from me it seems... (darkmole / cube)

what PM???? im not getting any pm.... are you sure your sending it to me????
well tell me when you wanna play or add me on SC the acc is Darkmole

phase

United States399 Posts

May 14 2008 06:56 GMT

#133

Phase 2-1 Chill

Chaos Darkness is so weird, it really screws up build order concepts. It feels like on all the maps that I"ve played on, there are a LOT of resources.

and here are the reps:
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Chill

Calgary25996 Posts

May 14 2008 12:21 GMT

#134

Chaos Darkness was actually my favourite of the three. They're all pretty wildly imbalanced. I think Endeavor is the worst of the three.

ZerG~LegenD

Sweden1179 Posts

May 14 2008 13:02 GMT

#135

I think Prophecy's the worst one, I liked Backtooru though. Haven't played any of the others yet.

phase

United States399 Posts

May 14 2008 19:30 GMT

#136

Well, its really early for me to choose favorites, but I agree with Zerg~Legend. I like Backdooru and don't really like Prophecy, because the second bases are so close to the middle and so far from the main that it would make any FE attempt sooooooo risky. Endeavour..... has too many minerals lol. Me and Chill thought we were playing BGH or something. It also seems horribly crappy for Zerg, because its impossible to hold a third gas.

And I wasn't saying that Chaos Darkness was bad, its just such a large change from the norm that it'd be hard to get people to consistently play games on it. And there are some bugs, like in the game I played Chill, one of my scvs had vision on a mineral across the map, and i just right clicked on the mineral with an scv at home, and the scv just cut a straight path and floated over all terrain to get to that mineral. One of my scvs got lost like 5 inches to the right of my CC somewhere in the game, and I was never able to recover him =[.

Oh, and whoever made Backdooru, what's the point of the small mins on the cliffs around the two middle expos? if it's to stop siege tanks from shelling the gas, it doesn't do it.

diggurd

Norway346 Posts

May 16 2008 03:53 GMT

#137

im glad some of you liked the map. no they are there because of artistic reason only. but i guess its pretty imbalanced, like some of you say. ive been working on a SE, if anybody cares : / changed the islands and moved mins only.

edit: im writing this from my mobile, i forgot my keys and now im sleeping in the shed.

Chef

10810 Posts

May 17 2008 15:37 GMT

#138

And I wasn't saying that Chaos Darkness was bad, its just such a large change from the norm that it'd be hard to get people to consistently play games on it.

I won't disagree with you, and the concept is largely untested so I don't know just how serious bugs get. It's designed for weird games that take away any sense of StarCraft you once knew. All the hotkeys and micro is the same, but the strategy is a whole new game. Obviously that's not going to be of interest to many players, but that's just following my philosophy of mapping. You don't have to agree with it

As far as the 'bugs' you mentioned go... it's a bit like calling unit pathing getting stuck in peaks, or getting silly at the mineral walls in blue storm, or getting your SCV stuck between buildings on any map. They're things that IMO, once you accept as part of the game, seem much less like bugs, and more just StarCraft truths :O That mineral hopping thing sounds like it could be exploited... I know that it can go some distance, but I never found out exactly how far. But there's definitely a limit, because experiments with a null terrain island map have been done, and show that eventually a drone will bug out over water if you try to go too far.

Anyway, for your complaints, I tried to cover them in the mission briefing, but I guess you played the melee version.

Mission brief:

READ IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW NULL TERRAIN WORKS:

-Units CAN walk off of null terrain
-Units CAN'T walk onto null terrain
-Units CAN be dropped onto null terrain
-Hatcheries are the ONLY building that can be built on null terrain
-You MUST spam click a peon to go right next to the gas geyser to build an extractor
-Transfer peons from null terrain to nearby expos first, or they might bug out
-If peons do bug out, select them with another type of unit and spam STOP

Other notes:

-8 patches of 500 minerals each at the main run out quick, but get you started fast
-Bridges have a wall of DTs
-One of the chokes has a creep colony (for fast pool Zerg builds)

Mission Objectives:

-You MUST spam click a peon to go right next to the gas geyser to build an extractor
-Units CAN walk off of null terrain
-Units CAN'T walk onto null terrain
-Units CAN be dropped onto null terrain

I'll watch your replay with Chill now though

Cheers,

phase

United States399 Posts

May 17 2008 17:02 GMT

#139

Lol, we played on melee, because we wanted to see the map before we played it XD. 2nd and 3rd games were my first time playing on those maps, and probably similar for chill.

Wizard

Poland5055 Posts

May 17 2008 17:29 GMT

#140

I apologize, but I'm going to have to withdraw.