[M] Sector 8

McCheese

208 Posts

September 26 2010 22:26 GMT

Welcome to my map thread of Sector 8! I am a fan of how Incineration Zone looks, but not quite as much how it plays out, so I decided I wanted to take the basics of Incineration Zone and make a better version of it. I am excited for some feedback, and of course I want some feedback on the terrain. Not how it looks, but where I should put it. Are some paths too small or too big, ect.. So please, don't worry about doodads and textures yet. =] And I forgot to mention, the cliff near the natural will not be pathable.

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Sector 8

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Map Features & Explanation:

Dotted Yellow Line = Expansion Route
Black Line = Line of Sight Blocker
Red Circle = Watch Tower

Version: 0.1
Players: 2
Download: None.

*In case you didn't know or were wondering, the blue line is the end of the map, and yellow is the camera.

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Analyzer
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Summary
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Openness
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Shortest Path
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Resources
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Main
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Nat
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3rd
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Gold
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Island
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Tower
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And if you want to see any of my other maps, go check them out in My Map Thread!

TibblesEvilCat

United Kingdom766 Posts

September 26 2010 22:38 GMT

center tower poses to much of a focus of the map and the large ammounts of chokes means zerg will suffer.

Amadi

Finland139 Posts

September 26 2010 22:57 GMT

I dislike the cliff near natural, for obvious reasons.

If the reasons are not obvious enough, I am not a terran player.

Channel56k

United States413 Posts

September 26 2010 23:03 GMT

yea the cliff will need to go as players will imediately recognize it as quite the balance flaw. Other than that its great to see a lava map this quality.

I really like the gold and 3rd positions.

FlopTurnReaver

Switzerland1980 Posts

September 27 2010 00:57 GMT

Looks good, but the middle could still be a bit more open. Also it looks as if you could siege the HY expansions from the islands. Not sure though.

Antares777

United States1971 Posts

September 27 2010 02:25 GMT

Middle needs to made more open, the island expansions need to be placed further away from the mains for reasons regarding the Terran race, and the cliffs looming over the naturals need to NOT be pathable or removed. IMHO, if you make them smaller while simultaneously make the middle larger, you may kill too birds with one stone. Of course, the clifff would still have to be unpathable. It can be a cool Overlord chill spot. I <3 Overlord chill spots. Sometimes they just need to chill.

exleos

United States55 Posts

September 27 2010 04:32 GMT

i like the map overall, but the cliff over the natural can easily be abused by terran. only other problem i see isthe island might be able to seige the gold expo. otherwise its fantastic

McCheese

208 Posts

September 27 2010 12:52 GMT

Thanks guys for all the Feedback!!! It has really helped me out and I appreciate it! Thank you so much! =D

On September 27 2010 13:32 Gamerboy5440 wrote:
i like the map overall, but the cliff over the natural can easily be abused by terran. only other problem i see isthe island might be able to seige the gold expo. otherwise its fantastic

thank you! It will not be pathable. Haha And the Island could hit the gold, but I changed it up a little bit. And thanks! I wanted to make a good lava map. We needed one!

On September 27 2010 11:25 Antares777 wrote:
Middle needs to made more open, the island expansions need to be placed further away from the mains for reasons regarding the Terran race, and the cliffs looming over the naturals need to NOT be pathable or removed. IMHO, if you make them smaller while simultaneously make the middle larger, you may kill too birds with one stone. Of course, the clifff would still have to be unpathable. It can be a cool Overlord chill spot. I <3 Overlord chill spots. Sometimes they just need to chill.

Yes, it is an Overlord Chill Spot! Not going to be pathable. haha And I don't know if it needs to be bigger... But what do you mean by making what smaller? The main bases or the island? Or just moving the island completely?

On September 27 2010 09:57 FlopTurnReaver wrote:
Looks good, but the middle could still be a bit more open. Also it looks as if you could siege the HY expansions from the islands. Not sure though.

I don't know if the middle needs to be bigger or not. You can move through the middle with the watch tower. It just looks smaller because of those LoS blockers.

Yeah you could hit the gas, but I changed that now. There is a bit less room now on the Island. Thanks for pointing that out!

On September 27 2010 08:03 konicki wrote:
yea the cliff will need to go as players will imediately recognize it as quite the balance flaw. Other than that its great to see a lava map this quality.

I really like the gold and 3rd positions.

Yeah, it will not be pathable. =D Thank you! Its hard to texture.

On September 27 2010 07:57 Amadi wrote:
I dislike the cliff near natural, for obvious reasons.

If the reasons are not obvious enough, I am not a terran player.

It will not be pathable. Mainly just an overlord chill spot because I think those are important to balance.

On September 27 2010 07:38 TibblesEvilCat wrote:
center tower poses to much of a focus of the map and the large ammounts of chokes means zerg will suffer.

I don't think that chokes and small areas are a big deal on this map. Many of them are big and I think Zerg will do just fine on this map.

McCheese

208 Posts

October 01 2010 04:50 GMT

UPDATE!!! Major Update. Textured most of the map (besides the sides) and doodaded most of the map. Hope you like what you see so far and stay tuned for the final release! Ofcourse there could be updates if the final version is not perfect, which I doubt it will be. But I need YOUR feedback to perfect my maps!!! Thanks for all the support!

McCheese

208 Posts

October 02 2010 03:00 GMT

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Major Update! Many more photos from in-game and map analyzer! Finished and is published on US Server! Go on and play some games!

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