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Map preview: (670x670)
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High quality image (1340x1340)
Players: 4 (designed for 1x1)
Size: 134x134
Money
Main: 8 mineral, 2 gas
Natural: 5 mineral, 3 rich mineral, 2 gas
3rd: 8 mineral, 2 gas
Concept
Basic macro map. Main bases in the corners, ramp which leads down to the natural.
Natural has 3 rich minerals which can only be mined from after destroying the destructible rocks. Outside the natural is a ramp that leads up to the 3rd base, where you also have to destroy rocks. The third base has a wide ramp out leading to another base.
There are 8 ramps into the middle.
Line of sight blocker (los):
los blockers on side of the cliff on 3rd base
los blockers on the side of the main ramp cliffs
Watch Tower: none
Destructible debris/rocks:
destructible rocks (2k hp) locking in the rich mineral fields on the natural (you must destroy them to get access to the rich minerals)
Corner into the map picture:
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Middle:
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Closer look at natural area-to 3rd area
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version 1.2
- pushed out the 3rd base wide ramp a little
- pushed the small ramp and the way which leads to 3rd base away from the natural
- added alot of forest between the natural and the 3rd base unallowing siege tanks to shoot down the natural (they still range the golden minerals)
version 1.1
- widened the 3rd base large ramp
- moved out the 3rd base a little giving it more space behind the minerals and also moved it closer to the ramp
- added 2 mineral patches to 3rd base
- removed watch towers in middle
- added line of sight blockers at the side of cliff on 3rd bases
- more decoration
- removed some doodads from the middle for extra space
Download Map: Published to Europe server.
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Look very nice !
gratz !
Interesting system for "b3" at b2.
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Interesting idea with the blocked rich minerals there! The map looks nice as well.
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This looks like a map with a lot of potential, it'll obviously need balancing tweaks when people start playing with it against other people online, but it looks great so far.
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Hi very good and beautiful!!!
can you upload it please?
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Like the look of the map especially the doodads. Will be interesting to see how games turn out on this one with the decrease in mineral patches at some bases.
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The idea for B2 and the minerals is very nice IMO. First time i see it, maybe a new trend ^^
The whole maps looks good.
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Genius idea with the rich minerals, I wouldn't be surprised if this became a trend at some point in the future. Overall the map design looks pretty balanced and fun, I would love to try this map out.
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The map is very visually appealing and I like what you did with the gold minerals, but the 3rd seems just a little too easy to defend. Other than that though, I have no complaints. Great job
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On June 24 2010 22:31 Sunny Afternoon wrote:
The map is very visually appealing and I like what you did with the gold minerals, but the 3rd seems just a little too easy to defend. Other than that though, I have no complaints. Great job
thanks alot and yes im also afraid the 3rd is little too easy to defend, i will look into it in the next version 
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I'm not sure about the natural being a mineral+gold expansion. It seems to me that it will just encourage 2-base turtling, as it will allow for essentially free turrets and cannons. Since offensive units typically require gas it has no offensive analogue. I'd have substantially less of a problem with this if the gold add-on was located at the 3rd.
Great overall design, though. Far better than most we see here.
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dezi
Germany1536 Posts
This one is pretty nice. Good Natural and nearly perfect placed 3rd.
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On June 24 2010 23:51 dezi wrote:
This one is pretty nice. Good Natural and nearly perfect placed 3rd.
tnx for that pm
update 1.1
- widened the 3rd base large ramp
- moved out the 3rd base a little giving it more space behind the minerals and also moved it closer to the ramp
- added 2 mineral patches to 3rd base
- removed watch towers in middle
- added line of sight blockers at the side of cliff on 3rd bases
- more decoration
- removed some doodads from the middle for extra space
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the 3 bases are pretty easy to defend, which seems to favor terran pretty hard. i would make another ramp to the third base, or perhaps just widen the entrances to each quartile of the map.
also theres some strong positional imbalance; because a terran whos clockwise from his opponent can shell the natural expansion
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gorgeous map morrow! Will try this one and your other ones out vs the AI tomorrow. Will report here with my feedbackz
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I really love this map, the blocked minerals are intriguing, as well as it has some narrow areas and some wide areas, overall seems very balanced, we will just have to wait until game play occurs.
Kudos!
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anyone else see a swastika in mid?. Nice map though. Great idea with the 2nd. Can terran seige the gold from 12 3 6 and 9? Also no towers?
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I like this, you've at least tried some interesting stuff, particularly the blocked gold minerals. It'd be intriguing to see those in other exp. positions, eg. the third.
What I would particularly like to see is the addition of minerals/gas being blocked by 0-value mins (Hell, I'd just like to see 0-value mins in general, though I understand that this is not currently possible in the editor?)
That way, the decision would have to be made whether to use early probes for mining 0-value mins for earlier access to high-yield patches, or whether to wait until later when the loss of short-term mining time is less consequential.
Oh, also I misread the name as Airguitaris, which I liked 
Kev
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On June 25 2010 08:09 ffz wrote:
anyone else see a swastika in mid?
No, because I know what a swastika looks like. Are we going to have this every time someone posts a map with a decal pattern in the middle?
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United States838 Posts
For the record, the swastika itself doesn't actually mean anything negative, in fact, it once had a positive connotation, but the Nazi's perverted it.
It's nothing to be offended about in the slightest imo.
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I like this map a lot. Great idea with the High yield mineral.
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