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In the past months I've changed the terrain of my project several times without being able to settle for something. Currently I'm using a wip map with a simple, balanced layout, but it seems pretty boring to me. Also, despite of using capturable points in the water (fishing regions, which provide free food and save you quite a bit of lumber that would be spent on farms) the naval warfare part is still lacking.
So I'm here to ask experienced melee map makers (and anyone else ofc) for advice. I've thought of some possible layouts, improvements on those and completely new suggestions are welcome.
Keep in mind that:
-The map is a cross between melee WC3 and Age Of Empires in gameplay. Not everything good for melee will be good here.
-This will be the core map (other might follow) so there needs to be some replayability. Perfectly balanced shapes might not be the best. I'll probably use an 8 player size.
-Naval warfare needs to have some decent value, but since it's the core map it's better to be a bonus, not mandatory.
-Tiny islands I've included in the layouts, besides small but safe-ish expansions serve as start locations for an alternative migration mode. I'd like to keep those in some form.
-Besides the gold mines and fishing regions, there are also randomized buildings, placed at some locations across the map. Those might be various mercenary camps (more important to gameplay than in WC3), extra gold mines and possibly more in the future. Gold can be traded and earned in other ways, making it slightly less of the most useful resource, but not by too much.
-You can check the map here. Mind that it's still an alpha.
So, here are two posible layouts (without trees, fishing regions and random buildings just some early thoughts), and a bonus for a possible mythology mode.
This would serve for some variety deppending on start location, without being too unbalanced.
This would add a fierce battleground with all players close to each other, and distant expansions, so it should work in various ways. Since the civs that are ready are mediterannean, a non-snow theme could work better, with an inner shallow lake instead of a frozen one.
This would have all the wood in the small, green corners, but players will have to expand for building space and gold. Not considered for the core map, just an extra idea.
So I'm here to ask experienced melee map makers (and anyone else ofc) for advice. I've thought of some possible layouts, improvements on those and completely new suggestions are welcome.
Keep in mind that:
-The map is a cross between melee WC3 and Age Of Empires in gameplay. Not everything good for melee will be good here.
-This will be the core map (other might follow) so there needs to be some replayability. Perfectly balanced shapes might not be the best. I'll probably use an 8 player size.
-Naval warfare needs to have some decent value, but since it's the core map it's better to be a bonus, not mandatory.
-Tiny islands I've included in the layouts, besides small but safe-ish expansions serve as start locations for an alternative migration mode. I'd like to keep those in some form.
-Besides the gold mines and fishing regions, there are also randomized buildings, placed at some locations across the map. Those might be various mercenary camps (more important to gameplay than in WC3), extra gold mines and possibly more in the future. Gold can be traded and earned in other ways, making it slightly less of the most useful resource, but not by too much.
-You can check the map here. Mind that it's still an alpha.
So, here are two posible layouts (without trees, fishing regions and random buildings just some early thoughts), and a bonus for a possible mythology mode.
This would serve for some variety deppending on start location, without being too unbalanced.
This would add a fierce battleground with all players close to each other, and distant expansions, so it should work in various ways. Since the civs that are ready are mediterannean, a non-snow theme could work better, with an inner shallow lake instead of a frozen one.
This would have all the wood in the small, green corners, but players will have to expand for building space and gold. Not considered for the core map, just an extra idea.
