M [2] New Amsterdam Medical, or Antiga Shipyard II

I've come to believe that an interseting way to make a map is to create a fairly large map with a decent rush distance coupled with bases that are fairly spread out and feature a lot of entrances into them, while making the entrances fairly choked. I believe this makes frontal aggression easy to defend but multi-pronged and positional aggresion more rewarding. I also feel that making a lot of ramps and chokes as well as many counter attack paths adds to the character of the map as well as positionally placing line of sight blockers. I also do not believe in a natural flow of expansions and believe that a map should offer a choice for which third and certainly fourth to take, I also like the fact if certain bases do not obviously belong to a certain player to create a certain amount of tension over them. I also have an irrational hatred for expansions which only have one entrance. To this end I've made the following modifications of the topology of Antiga Shipyard:

- It is a true two player map, the map is no longer fully rotationally symmetrical, specifically there is a path to an easier to take fourth base.
- The rocks guarding the third no longer fully block the entrance path, only partially to create a choke, however there are LOS blockers and a tower on top meaning that runbies and counter attacks are easier to pull off, but full frontal attacks are harder because the defending player can use the tower to look over the LOS blockers.
- The reaper-pod has been changed to a full backdoor with rocks as well as two ramps leading up to it. The rocks can be broken both offensively and defensively (it is easier to defend your main versus drops if the rocks are down but the outer ramp is walled off for instance)
- The thirds have been given a crevasse to make them a bit more chocked, I'm not completely sure of this change and might remove it.
- The gold bases are back in full glory, they are very easy to deny mining from but rather hard to actually kill, they are meant to be a viable third in some case. Contrasting the original Antiga, it is very easy to run around the gold bases in this version, you can't really put a PF there and use it positionally all that well.
- Entire map has been scaled up. You're basically looking at some-thing Whirlwind-esque in size with cross only.
- The entire centre has been heavily chocked up with a lot of LOS blockers added.

It's definitely an experimental map with a lot of untested ideas that may go horribly wrong:

- The backdoor rocks particularly are tricky, but I do believe that by positioning your army correctly and keeping an eye on them you can timely respond to them being taken out. They can be walled of from inside with 3 gates or 2 gates and a pylon.
- The third is very open and the hard to wall off due to the LOS blockers as well as being pretty far away. Might be some obvious PvZ problems stirring into this.
- A PF at the gold is going to be pretty darn hard for Z to kill given how chocked it is around the gold. Together with a lot of Zergs not liking to get ranged units versus T, hard to deny mining. It doesn't affect me personally because I like roaches vs T but I can see why many people don't.

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Q: Why did you make it a semi-four player map? Why not make it a full blown 2 player map without keeping any semblance of symmetry if no one is going to spawn there anyway?
A: Admittedly there's no real reason beyond aesthetics why I did this, I don't think it will take too much away from gameplay though, I've made changes to the symmetry where I thought it was required such as the three width ramp.

Q: Why remake Antiga Shipyard? Why stick to an old template if you can just make a new map from scratch and not limit yourself?
A: Admittedly there's again no real reason, I just like Antiga Shipyard and hoped to resolve some of the problems I think it has.

Q: Can't you blink into the mains using towers?
A: No, I changed the watchtower vision radius, you just barely can't, you can however intentionally see up to the high ground pods if you have tower control.

Q: Speaking of pods, those aren't unpathable it seems, you can drop tanks on there?
A: Pretty much, I don't see it being used offensively but defensively it might be a good move to drop a tank on there or walk a colossus onto it against Zerglings.

Q: No free overlord spots which are standard these days?
A: Nope, I feel it's okay currently to give Zerg a slight nerf in that regards, wouldn't you say? I feel that tradition was started when Zerg was underpowered, they aren't any more.

Q: The analyzer says that map isn't symmetrical and you can blink into the main with watchtowers.
A: The analyzer is bugged regarding this, it doesn't record changes to the watchtower vision and the terran isn't symmetrical no, but I've used pathing blocking to ensure that the pathable terran is (at least I hope)

Q: There aren't any aesthetic features and doodats on the back walls
A: If you look at the map from the back side it's pretty ugly yeah, admittely this is just me rushing things, if I'd done it completely properly I would've added them but you see those parts so little that I didn't feel it was worth it.

Q: Eew, circle syndrome?
A: I've made it my position before that I believe that circle syndrome is a good thing, not a bad thing, and that that is the reason most Korean maps have it. I've also made it my position that these things are subjective, not objective, so feel free to disagree and point it out in the comments. Some might have noticed that I like a little discussion about the differing views of good map design.