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(4)Hot Espresso v1.3

Hot Espresso
Player Suggest: FFA
Map Creator: Zucth

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Map Description:
In the dawn's tender light, hot espresso sings,
Deep sweetness dances on the tip of tongues' wings.
Nature's beauty unfolds in the aroma it brings.

Neutral Building:
16 Expansion Goldmines (Main, ramp and mid - 18500, corner - 10500, left/right - 12500)
2 Goblin Merchant
2 Market
4 Goblin Lab
2 Merc - Summer, mid
2 Tavern
1 Fountain of Health
1 Dragon Roost - Red

Creep Camp:
20 Green
31 Orange
15 Red (+4 main)

Information:
-playable size 144x144
-made especially for FFA mappool.
-all the feedback thanks to Rulaz, FFA community admin

"an idea of every player has their own unique neutral in front of their base,
make it equal but also not symmetrical with some to contest it, and we also
need a contest expo just like how Frozen Marshland work out, would be nice."


v1.0
-balance out middle neutral building
-mana fountain -> health fountain
-switch market out_ring
-gold balance & out_ring expo/ fighting space on those expo.
-rename from Hot Espress'io to Hot Espresso... due to lot of convincing, tsk!

v1.1
-remove pw1 lv4 green camp near outer mid expo on each side (due to too many creep)
-change creep on fountain, flying creep there is too unbalance.

v1.11 (CP)
-adjust creep amount on the map
-add special item that FFA admin has found interested(rebalance item of tiny great hall).

v1.2 (CP)
-adjust creep amount on the map, reposition
-doodad reposition, open up path

v1.3
-switch CP and normal version. Now CP stand for completely "melee: true"
-as for the old CP which is no longer called CP:
adjust tree line for better sight at lv6 green camp near base
remove big dragon as player agree on about it. (Big dragon talk was a real problem for a very long time in even in 12 players game. There was a way to rebalance this before, but as there isn't map that were use on real ladder other than showmatch. This issue was halted.)
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Hot Espressio CP v1.1 (Map)

Hot Espresso v1.3 (Map)

Reviews
deepstrasz
Easy to buy items during the day since the guards are more in the back. Same with the market. Innovative touch with the temporary workers (in my case, mur'gul slaves). However, it might be a bit too much to get a free town hall. The town hall is also...

deepstrasz

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Easy to buy items during the day since the guards are more in the back. Same with the market.
Innovative touch with the temporary workers (in my case, mur'gul slaves). However, it might be a bit too much to get a free town hall. The town hall is also temporary but it has no summoned/expiration bar).
Might also be too much to have two expansions near you.
Some players might have a higher advantage whether it's a fountain of life near their base (which can be used by night elves with shadowmeld or heroes with cloak of shadows) or a dragon roost. I feel the fountain might be more beneficial long term.

Approved.


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