[M] (2) AVEX - Gojira Greenhouse

Avexyli

United States711 Posts

May 11 2016 02:47 GMT

[M] (2) AVEX - Gojira Greenhouse

Category: (1) Macro. (Was given (4) Gold by Blizzard)
Submitted to TLMC7

TLMC7 Finalist
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Size: 144x146
Tileset: Black Ops Lab, Endion, Bel'Shir Ex2
Spawn Positions: 2, 8
Base Count: 16 - 18 with gold walls
Servers: NA, EU, SEA, KR

Features/Explanation/Whatever:
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I wanted to make a straight up macro map, since I haven't done one since Containment. The mineral wall at the natural was just something I've had baked in the back of my head for a while and wanted to try. This map was made also for TLMC7.

I've also wanted to make a greenhouse map for a while, or one that combined the new grasses and manmade textures with lighting on the plants. The topiary and foliage doodads from Aiur and Tarsonis really helped with this.

Link to Reddit Discussion

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Taranok

United States33 Posts

May 11 2016 03:00 GMT

This is a cool map. I do like the mineral walls.

At first sight it seems very tight.

Antares777

United States1971 Posts

May 11 2016 06:44 GMT

The map seems constricted. Aesthetics are nice though, and the mineral walls are pretty dope. Not sure if Blizzard would agree though.

Fatam

1986 Posts

May 11 2016 08:03 GMT

I think "Gojira Gardens" rolls off the tongue so much better, but ah who cares :-P
Another band map name, I'm interested to see what you come up with next.

Map is crazy btw, idk how to initially evaluate. But it's pretty and interesting.

RoomOfMush

1296 Posts

May 11 2016 09:34 GMT

Too tight in my opinion. I dont like.

Namrufus

United States396 Posts

May 17 2016 21:56 GMT

Hey I took a look at this map in game.

It seems like the rock towers don't fully block the path when they are destroyed:
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Which is weird.

The main seemed cramped - not unusable but annoying to fit production into, I think. My suggestion would be to combine the main and the inbase nat onto one level: something like this maybe?
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Hexe

United States332 Posts

May 18 2016 00:09 GMT

The main nat combo with the gold mineral blocking would be pretty orgasmic.

Avexyli

United States711 Posts

May 18 2016 01:47 GMT

This isn't uplodaded as this map was submitted to TLMC but this is what your suggestion would look like:

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Namrufus

United States396 Posts

May 18 2016 02:38 GMT

Pretty cool! Looks like way less of a hassle to fit production in imo.

Edit: though I think that the mineral-blocked ramp would be better served if it visually matched the other ramps on the map (with the green decals on the "arms" of the ramp), so that from a glance at the overview it is instantly apparent what exactly is happening there.

After fiddling aroudn in the editor for a bit, it looks like the issue with the rocks is that if the Diagonal variant towers (and I think the "ramp left" and "left right" variants too, though I haven't checked) are placed in the cardinal directions (which for some reason is possible), then a (one square?) gap is left when the rock falls. This is true for any cardinal direction (north, south east west) and for both cooling towers and rock towers.
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Avexyli

United States711 Posts

May 18 2016 03:04 GMT

#10

I ended up fixing that by just painting in pathing in that tiny crack. Probably won't change much.

Hexe

United States332 Posts

May 18 2016 03:40 GMT

#11

It should be possible to align the rocks up properly without painting in pathing. I think this map is really creative, but taking 3 bases looks very forgiving. Removing the golds at the edges would be my preference.

Avexyli

United States711 Posts

June 06 2016 02:09 GMT

#12

Updated with final iteration for TLMC7.

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