Played a 1v1, won rather quickly. Here's my review.

The map is simple (like every other melee map), however, there are some minor issues with it (in my opinion).

1. Starting gold mine creeps are...way too hard, being that early in the game however. (You can ignore this if you you actually want early expansions to not be so early)
2. Starting locations are not all the same (I think), top middle person will surely get attacked by one of those gold creep camps.
3. There are slight tree gaps, which can benefit Night Elven players.
4. In terms of terrain (optional), try not being so bland and add a little more variety. Also, white marble and black marble does not fit the sunken ruins theme of the map.

Those are all of the minor mistakes I had found with the map. 4/5.

Hi I welcome any new mapper and in particular your courage to start with a large map. I think you definitely succeeded in making a macro oriented map. The central area looks very nice.
That being said, it is kinda unavoidable you make some rookie mistakes:
-As long as Game Data is not "melee latest patch", the map will use the vanilla TFT patch as it is not classified as "melee" by the editor due to custom units. So for example, Tinker, Firelord, alchemist are not available in tavern.
-The creeps are not set to camp stance, so they will attack player untis from very far away. Any creeps except near goldmines should be set to camp stance.
-There are numerous paths through the forest where small units like footmen can pass through but bigger units and heroes cant. This will screw up pathing and can unintentionally split armies in earlygame. Checl with "P" for pathing view while hiding doodads with "CRTL+D".
-All itemdrops are of "any" class which unusual for melee maps. Normally you specify if they are supposed to be permanent, charged or powerups.
-Creeps at shops dont drop anything?
-There strength of creeps and items dropped appear to be only loosely related. Like, a spot with 8886 creeps and another with 633 creeps both drop a lvl 3 item?

Unfortunately, due to the customized units your map should probably have the "altered melee" tag instad of "melee" by the (current) hive standards.

Please fix the space between trees so small units won't get through.
Try not having the terrain flat and one tile.
Symmetry isn't really there. Some players are closer to some mines/neutral buildings than others.
In terms of an altered melee, this map is too simple. This is what good altered melee looks like:
How to: Create a Full-working Custom Race
Custom Race Creation: Advanced Mechanics
UB - Ultimate Battle v1.99c AI+
Deforestation of Felwood v2.1.1
Nightborne v1.04
Planetary Domination v2.04
Sands of Time [v1.9]
The Grand Citadel (Racial Issue 1.6)
To keep this melee, remove everything that you've modified (custom units, object data aside from doodads) and campaign units. Certainly no neutral hostile towers (e.g. Tidal Guardians).
Legion Doom Horn falling from two level 3 naga unit of a two units camp. Item dropping needs rethinking.
Expansions should give enough space for players to build more than the main building.
Creeps guarding gold mines should have the highest camp range. OK, so not all of them have this issue but some mine guards do (those with few building space and creatures facing east or west and not only; better check them all).
Some neutral camps are too near each other and might help one another. Crabs and a Siren in the mid-north/south. These, don't have the lowest camp range and may aggress scouting units.
Fountain guards are placed behind so they are vulnerable to attack since player units will have the fountain effect on.

Awaiting Update.


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Hello thanks for all this critics, i updated the map, also im looking for future updates and meybe more maps, i cant remove Critters named Iguana bc it is a point of map name.

There is too much asymmetry and the northern players are nearer to most things than those in the south. If you can do something about it, OK, if not, I'm sure your next maps will be better.

Awaiting Update.

Ok i thing i will leave tihs map behind and make new one insted, i will must remove half or more of this map in order to fix asymemetry problems, i miss tool from Starcraft 2 map editor what helps you to make map symetry by mirroring thing you doing on one part...

Cenbes said:

Ok i thing i will leave tihs map behind and make new one insted, i will must remove half or more of this map in order to fix asymemetry problems, i miss tool from Starcraft 2 map editor what helps you to make map symetry by mirroring thing you doing on one part...

Click to expand...

Here, you can copy terrain by selecting it and using CTRL+C -> CTRL+V.

Alright, set to Substandard.