[M] (2) Acid Rain

I actually took all these old ideas and made this map from scratch. because i felt that the map got a few things i really liked and that set it appart from other maps and i had some ideas for tweaks and additional features i wanted to implent. Often i have the feeling that some ideas do not get enough plays and need extra work over a big period of time until they work as intended.

So take this map as the possibly last point in a series of five or six variantions on a theme where three were published as maps on there own and the others were mere versions.As i said there or some things distinctivly different like the ramp into gold, other openeness of paths into the nat, bit further away long ground third than before, one base less, simpler and easiert to read layout while it still has the shape of an hourglass and bends around like an '8'.

I think if you look at how different the maps play in specific situations, it is not generic any longer. Also the term 'generic' is off really, all bases flow well into each other. there is no montage of well working features put together without any additional thought ( beside the gold + base above area). there is no bubble design (place size 16brush here and add ramp to form third). This is a well thought throufgh and slowly tweaked design, that fits different playing styles, offers variety in expansion layouts, chokes, open spaces...So i would rather sday this map fortunatly is a bit like shrike, but it works very differently (quite good actually )