TeamLiquid Map Contest 6 - Page 12

Gfire

United States1699 Posts

May 05 2015 05:34 GMT

#221

Let's see, I had noted these:

Operon by -NegativeZero-
Skorpna by eTcetRa
Kylskada by eTcetRa
Moonlight Madness by SidianTheBard

Not a lot of thought into those balance-wise or anything, they just stood out to me as interesting.

Gwavajuice

France1810 Posts

May 05 2015 08:56 GMT

#222

this one looks like a guy flipping off everybody, I like it

edit hmm imag doesn't seem to load, here's the link : http://imgur.com/NnyaboR (eye of taram by welpax)

insitelol

845 Posts

May 05 2015 14:09 GMT

#223

So what about results?

-NegativeZero-

United States2141 Posts

May 05 2015 15:48 GMT

#224

On May 05 2015 23:09 insitelol wrote:
So what about results?

should be out in 3 days

Fatam

1986 Posts

May 05 2015 20:29 GMT

#225

On May 05 2015 14:34 Gfire wrote:
Let's see, I had noted these:

Operon by -NegativeZero-
Skorpna by eTcetRa
Kylskada by eTcetRa
Moonlight Madness by SidianTheBard

Not a lot of thought into those balance-wise or anything, they just stood out to me as interesting.

Yeah I thought Operon was interesting too. I had a few concerns, mainly that the nat choke just seems too wide, especially for a nat that has 2 backdoors.

-NegativeZero-

United States2141 Posts

May 05 2015 20:54 GMT

#226

On May 06 2015 05:29 Fatam wrote:

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Yeah I thought Operon was interesting too. I had a few concerns, mainly that the nat choke just seems too wide, especially for a nat that has 2 backdoors.

if you use the ramp as part of the choke you can do a full wall with 3 3x3 buildings:

http://i.imgur.com/SnBDFJV.png

SidianTheBard

United States2474 Posts

May 06 2015 02:01 GMT

#227

My money is on Terraform from Negative. Remove the gold base and make it a regular and possibly add a base at 12 and 6 o'clock and the map will be amazing.

Negative best mapper on 2015!

Fatam

1986 Posts

May 06 2015 07:48 GMT

#228

On May 06 2015 05:54 -NegativeZero- wrote:

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if you use the ramp as part of the choke you can do a full wall with 3 3x3 buildings:

http://i.imgur.com/SnBDFJV.png

I guess that's just a trick of the eye or something, it definitely looks bigger than 9 in the overview. Anyway interesting map

eTcetRa

Australia822 Posts

May 06 2015 10:52 GMT

#229

On May 06 2015 11:01 SidianTheBard wrote:
My money is on Terraform from Negative. Remove the gold base and make it a regular and possibly add a base at 12 and 6 o'clock and the map will be amazing.

Negative best mapper on 2015!

I was thinking the same thing about adding bases to 6/12. Would love to see a version of Terraform with them added.

Fatam

1986 Posts

May 06 2015 20:48 GMT

#230

I agree, and I also think more variety in the width of the corridors would be amazing for the map. That's a syndrome that so many maps seem to fall into for some reason. I guess it makes the overview more visually appealing, but gameplay-wise I don't think it's good.

Even a change as simple as this + Show Spoiler +

would make the middle a little more open, but said area would lead into the small choke where the destructible rocks are, so that's an interesting dynamic. And if someone wants to move a huge army the outside lanes would become a little more appealing, but of course it will take a little longer to reach the opponent (simple concept plexa likes to mention a lot)

OtherWorld

France17333 Posts

May 07 2015 09:06 GMT

#231

I want Terraform on ladder so hard

Gwavajuice

France1810 Posts

May 07 2015 16:25 GMT

#232

On May 07 2015 18:06 OtherWorld wrote:
I want Terraform on ladder so hard

let me guess : you're a meching terran?

OtherWorld

France17333 Posts

May 07 2015 17:41 GMT

#233

On May 08 2015 01:25 Gwavajuice wrote:

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let me guess : you're a meching terran?

No, a Roach-loving Zerg who hates turtle mech with passion. But that map transcends simple imbalance ; we need one "experimental" map per season, and this is the best "experimental" map I've seen recently.

Quidios

Sweden74 Posts

May 07 2015 18:09 GMT

#234

On May 08 2015 02:41 OtherWorld wrote:

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There's nothing experimental about it tho, it's very standard really. And that's why it will get picked. If it was experimental it wouldn't get picked.

fluidrone

France1478 Posts

May 07 2015 18:31 GMT

#235

On May 08 2015 03:09 Quidios wrote:

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There's nothing experimental about it tho, it's very standard really. And that's why it will get picked. If it was experimental it wouldn't get picked.

Technically, some very unorthodox maps came out of tlmcs.

OtherWorld

France17333 Posts

May 07 2015 19:00 GMT

#236

On May 08 2015 03:09 Quidios wrote:

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There's nothing experimental about it tho, it's very standard really. And that's why it will get picked. If it was experimental it wouldn't get picked.

Yeah that's why I put "experimental" like that, because by that I mean "non-standard"

WELPAX

Switzerland21 Posts

May 07 2015 19:11 GMT

#237

On May 05 2015 17:56 Gwavajuice wrote:
this one looks like a guy flipping off everybody, I like it

edit hmm imag doesn't seem to load, here's the link : http://imgur.com/NnyaboR (eye of taram by welpax)

If you wanna know how it evolved...
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Once upon a time where leaves were falling down from trees, it was late late March after TLMC5, I got home from an invitation in a really propper and nostalic bar by my friend. The whole eve just one refreshing drink was allowed to get served. Thats's why my head fell down on my desk several times during the idea to make a new map. I did forget about till...

TLMC6 had been announced.

So, I stared to think, during my spare time, what I should do. Should I work out, should I search a job or should I transform into the next barney stinson and let TLMC6 pass me by? - NO, NO ,NO I cancel all that and dig my old maps out of the most overseen dossier, in the middle of my screen, - it was burrowed - to...

and so, I opened it and I had found lot of dust. Luckly not all files were magnetasized so I could save them and reconstruct them. The first one was Aparus and the second one was DACHS...

Badger. I did ask me why the herc there was a mapfile named dachs (in english -> BADGER). As soon as I opened the file, it jumped right into my eyes, this mfayuckerfay badass of a sun of a beach badger, just wanted to loom me down to my bones.

I reconstructed liked I had to find out a way from hell AND when I was satisfied I determined it as a color-reversed, piss-panic spreading bulldog. I hated him, how a mapmaker can hate something he made out of this wonderful * kickass map-editor.

SO, I reconstructed it once again and when I took hope on a really good map my eyes ichted terribly hard, 'cuz the thing, better the map, looked like a skull with meter-thick eye glasses on and it's skelleton downwards fixed on it's nose...

I almost turned mad on it.

After another night of golden sparkling wet throat dream... I decided... O.K. BA of a map now U R my Friend AND I go for YOU.

Took me another 18hours to fix it...

PACE
:-)

EDIT: If you wanna see it really ba take a look on the analyzer file on page 7...

This time it seems that judges take more time to filter... I do appreciate it a lot. :-)

-NegativeZero-

United States2141 Posts

May 07 2015 20:15 GMT

#238

thanks! my new updated version of terraform has both of those things. also the rocks at 12/6 are gone, and the other set of forward bases is now gold instead. i'm too lazy to export images right now.