Ice Crow

[Lurker245]

The game doesn't really seem to handle the negative upkeep tier you made at 0-25 food; gold gets taken from the gold mine but you don't get any when the workers return to your town hall.
Things return to normal when you go above 26 food and return to the regular no upkeep tier, though.

 

[deepstrasz]

Name is rather shallow, not even the complete Ice Crown. Maybe Ice Crown+[insert mod name here]?

Map thread description needs some work. See links below.

1. What's the difference between no upkeep and hyper efficiency? It says the percentages are still 100%.
2. Changes or add-ons are minimal and frankly not too much balance thoughtful, just some upgrades for more speed and life for all units; weird and almost random neutral hostiles.
3. The two heroes in the Tavern have their tooltip missing or broken. One of them also has no DISBTN and the icon looks green. Learn about icons:
   Button Manager v1.8.2
   BLP Lab v0.5.0
   Complete Icon Tutorial - All About Icons
   How to Make an Icon
4. Tower Weapons and Black Gunpowder have the same icon. Try not using icons used for something else, generally.
5. New upgrades do not follow the need of tier level as the original ones.
6. Searing Blade's position should be down with the orb.
7. Upgrade icon positioning is bad in some buildings, chaotic.
8. Mine faster doesn't necessarily mean gather more resources. Learn about tooltips and descriptions:
   Tooltip Tutorial
   Creating Good Descriptions
9. The Marine is way too strong for how much food and resources it takes.

Please learn from actual altered melee maps:
How to: Create a Full-working Custom Race
Custom Race Creation: Advanced Mechanics
UB - Ultimate Battle v2.20b 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)

Substandard.

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[Advon]

1. If you tried reading, you'd notice there was a feature removed; probably since I made it on a mac old enough to run worldedit without partitioning or whatever.
2a."Ice Crow-Imbalance is its own form of Balance"-You:not too much balance
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2b. At this point I'm realizing you're not just a no-fun guy, but legit blind.
3.I'll admit fault with Boat Hero missing his name in the tooltip, but if you actually tried picking Yubyub(good on you for listening to directions) you could probably tell that the missing tooltip is 100% intentional.
4.Yeah, okay.
5.Yeah, because they aren't the same upgrade? Why would they?
6. Should it reaaallly?
7.Yeah.
8.Have you gotten the mine faster upgrade? You get gold faster...which is mining faster by any definition I can think of.
9.So is the Space Orc, the Hydralisk for night elves, and sucks to be undead, but the Infernal juggernaut is pretty primo.

Reviews like this is why I spit on the opinions of people here. This isn't a competitive map, it's a ridiculous map to have fun with your friends, or explore whatever weird things got put in. The gameplay functions, the visuals are just Ice Crown, the game doesn't break whenever one of the weird abilities are used, and tooltips work for everyone but BoatHero. It certainly isn't a clone of another popular map, so the problem is it doesn't appeal to you.

 

[andc]

10/10 map. It very much embodies the spirit of "Imbalance is its own form of Balance", and it was heaps of fun to play.

 

[Advon]

10/10 map. It very much embodies the spirit of "Imbalance is its own form of Balance", and it was heaps of fun to play.

I was looking for some models for my next project and wondered why someone left a comment on such an old map. Then I realized I never uploaded my reforged remake. Might as well link it, although even I think posting this one would just piss off the reviewers if I posted it as a regular map, lol. But if you liked it maybe give it a go.
Ice Crow Reforged

The universal upgrades are a little cleaner, there's a repeatable dungeon that scales with your hero level, hero skills almost all go to 15, instead of blight spawning the undead if something dies in the water it can spawn naga, and when units get kills they improve.
That's most of the big changes, and since it was a ground up remake the custom spells on casters are slightly different(or just lacking).

Next map I'll be back to the Cherryville Chaos style of choosing a level of chaos instead of everything being always on.

 

[andc]

I was looking for some models for my next project and wondered why someone left a comment on such an old map. Then I realized I never uploaded my reforged remake. Might as well link it, although even I think posting this one would just piss off the reviewers if I posted it as a regular map, lol. But if you liked it maybe give it a go.
Ice Crow Reforged

The universal upgrades are a little cleaner, there's a repeatable dungeon that scales with your hero level, hero skills almost all go to 15, instead of blight spawning the undead if something dies in the water it can spawn naga, and when units get kills they improve.
That's most of the big changes, and since it was a ground up remake the custom spells on casters are slightly different(or just lacking).

Next map I'll be back to the Cherryville Chaos style of choosing a level of chaos instead of everything being always on.

That sounds great, I love that style of map. If I can get Reforged working I'll give it a go (I play the original TFT because it runs in Linux with no problems, Reforged sometimes works for me but not consistently)