Sunking Streets

[Nudl9]

Night elves will hate this map.
NExHU necessitates early harass and HU has even stronger defence with high ground.
High ground is generally a no-no, with marketplace being the exception and that map has a very broad platform ramp too.
There is a big lack of trees for AOW's use towards early expansion.

UD will dislike there being so many camps around the base, since they won't be able to contest them very easily.

The lack of trees also cause extra large sightlines, which makes surprise encounters less common and easier to gain map control.
The hard expansion should be more exposed, because as of right now you can tower island the hard expansion.

 

[mafe]

For a first melee map, this is a very good start. Basically, you seem to do the basics right. Generally, the terrain and environment in the central area of the map could need some improvement, as it currently looks rather bland. The big house look kinda lost with nothing around them. The other parts of the map look well made however, just take some time to upgrade the center, and I think you'll do alright.

Regarding gameplay, as I said it is good, but there are a number of the details to discuss:
1. As @Nudl9 said, the maps isnt very friendly to nightelf. Primarily the complete lack of AoW-creeping possibilities near the main bases, but also the fact that man parts of the map dont have trees, which is a big nerf to the kotg and huntress owls.
2. I like a lot that there are no gaps between trees. However, since you placed the trees with the "square" and not with the size 2 circular tool, there are many trees where wisps can sit cannot be attacked by melee units, similar to this picture:

3. I dont like dead ends, as you can only leave the same way from which you came, which generally feels like you are losing a lot of time.
4. The itemdrops are okay-ish, but the lvl 2 charged item from the 2-2-1 murlocs and the lvl 5 items at the shops are too strong (in relation to the strength of the respective creepcamps.
5. The shops can be accessed without aggroing the creeps. Is this intentional, and if so, why?
6. Bases/Expansiions on highground are indeed debatable, as the defenders advantage might be too strong. Imho it would be enough to have either main bases or expansions on high ground at most.

There might some other minor issues which I'm not noticing atm. All the other comments by Nudl are also valid, but require a lot of thought to implement correctly. While it is of course ideal to think of all of this, better start by doing some quick fixes with respect to the issues I mentioned (well, fixing the trees would take some time, but at least adress the other issues or tell me why you want them to stay the way they are). Until then, map set to Awaiting update.

 

[mafe]

No update in more than 3 months. Therefore set to substandard, even though tha map has potential. Contact me in case you update it in the future.