EPTTL Map Contest 6 - Results! - Page 2
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Pontius Pirate
United States1557 Posts
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TelecoM
United States10682 Posts
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Fatam
1986 Posts
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
What'd the pros dislike about Noah's Ark? | ||
The_Templar
your Country52797 Posts
On May 19 2015 12:45 Fatam wrote: funny that terraform and winding pier fame were both inspired by the same somewhat obscure crux map Which seems to have been inspired by an even more obscure IeZaeL map. I guess we know who the real winner is.  | ||
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IeZaeL
Italy991 Posts
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SeinGalton
South Africa387 Posts
On May 19 2015 12:39 Pontius Pirate wrote: Damn, Dash and Terminal is probably the only one I'll still be playing a few months from now even if it's not added to ladder. That is, if the lighting is toned down a little bit. Unfortunately the TLMC tagged one is still outdated, but you can play v1.4 that I uploaded on all servers -- that one fixes the ultra-bright lighting to kinda bright. | ||
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NasusAndDraven
359 Posts
On May 19 2015 12:54 TheFish7 wrote: What'd the pros dislike about Noah's Ark? 99% sure that they feared the middle path ecourages too strong early game aggression, especially since the thirds are kinda far. | ||
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Darksoldierr
Hungary2012 Posts
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PostNationalism
35 Posts
On May 19 2015 11:38 SidianTheBard wrote: Congrats Negative, I've told you multiple times I think you are my favorite (aka the best) mapper. (Uvantak jelly) I did hope Terraform won, but it is probably the most standard of the finalists, so it's no doubt the public & pros preferred it. I gotta say I'm a bit surprised with Ecosphere being in the top 3 but a cross only, 18 base, easy expansion pattern, 4p map, of course pros will love the shit out of it. =P Again, congrats top 3! woot woot! i love big maps too! and lotv is so fast paced economically wise!! we should have big maps like BW days | ||
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Gwavajuice
France1810 Posts
I hope I'll be as much happilly surprised by Terraform as I've been disappointed by Echo  + Show Spoiler + My grumpy morning moment : /rant on Imho, by trying to a) be "not standard", b) influence balance or c) create a new meta, most mapmakers are forgetting what should be their first goal : make fun and strategically interesting maps. As a result, most of these maps are very rigid and all look the same ("wow uvantak won with slopes everywhere? lemme put slopes everywhere" / "wow algue got in SPL, GSL and SSL with a back door? lemme put backdoors everywhere" / "rocks? they want rocks? where is this random rocks generator button???") and ironically enough it's not even sure they are balanced in the end. Terraform is a good example, it once had a gold base that could have been taken as a third or as a gangnam terran style we could have had a whacky unusual map, but under pressure of other map makers this gold base was moved to the most boring spot possible and will probably never be a key feature of this map. Luckily enough, Terraform has some space for fun, esp is you like the sound of zerglings being toasted by colossi or tanks, but the other ones, omg! it's down the point you would wonder if some are actually playing the game at all. Noah's Ark? gimme a break, nobody in their right mind would enjoy playing on this The ultimate fail is that by trying to be "non standard", they make all their maps end up look the same, by trying to influence balance, they force players to play the same way over and over and kill all possibility of balance shifting, by trying to change the meta, they make unplayable maps. I hope that if there is ever a TLMC 7, fun will be the main goal again, there must be some mapmakers somewhere that still like to play this game... Until then I will just be there, dreaming of King Sejong's Station's come back in the ladder /rant off | ||
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Cricketer12
United States13990 Posts
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neteX
Sweden285 Posts
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Ej_
47656 Posts
Finally a win for NegativeZero though | ||
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j4vz
Canada976 Posts
On May 19 2015 19:27 Ej_ wrote: Echosphere got robbed by backdoor haters. Finally a win for NegativeZero though Backdoor never worked well in pratice, as soon as i saw the backdoor I stopped looking at the map. | ||
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fluidrone
France1478 Posts
On May 19 2015 09:08 Plexa wrote: <3We hope to see you all again next season! + Show Spoiler + Does that "date" 7? | ||
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Kosko_s
Malaysia24 Posts
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GreenMash
Norway1746 Posts
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NasusAndDraven
359 Posts
On May 19 2015 21:05 GreenMash wrote: remove the backrocks from echosphere and i think its the best map out of all of them I was about to write how that wouldnt work, but instead took an another look of the map and omg you are actually right. It would just make perfect sense. | ||
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Ingvar
Russian Federation421 Posts
- Inferno pools - Expedition lost - Coda/Echo + Ganymede + Terraform + Ecosphere And Noah's Ark got robbed. | ||
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