The Fallen Land War

[Moderator]

22:02, 9th Mar 2014
Hell_Master: See through the comment I posted and also what eubz said.

Hello there, tested your map and I pretty much think that this needs much work. Terrain can still be improved by putting some environment doodads and destructibles at empty spaces except for the bases of players, do not put anything there. It is also flat, you could give some variations into it by using the Raise/Lower Tool. Make sure to cover the shadows with trees (I am referring to the map ends where you can see the shadow. Fill it with trees to make it like endless).

Your creep camp also needs more work seeing they are pretty much open.

Also, the item drops were completely fine though could still use some work because I find the drop rates quite weird. Strong units drops Random Level 4 item and you do know it will also include campaign items right which should not be included in melee maps? Change that to either Misc or Permanent type.

Also, I do not know if this is updated but you can try this: Warcraft II Map Optimizer 5.0 for protecting your map. Once used in your map, beware because you cannot open it anymore and will throw up a fatal error so be sure to save a backup file that is unprotected so there you can make changes. Also, melee maps are meant to be open source and should not be protected so why are you even protecting this though?

I think 25,000 gold is too much for a 2player melee map. At my side, it is better if a melee map is fast phased and that it should be. Even 20K gold (just me, IDK) is difficult to consume for 1 v 1.

 

[Binsu]

Hello there, tested your map and I pretty much think that this needs much work. Terrain can still be improved by putting some environment doodads and destructibles at empty spaces except for the bases of players, do not put anything there. It is also flat, you could give some variations into it by using the Raise/Lower Tool. Make sure to cover the shadows with trees (I am referring to the map ends where you can see the shadow. Fill it with trees to make it like endless).

Your creep camp also needs more work seeing they are pretty much open.

Also, the item drops were completely fine though could still use some work because I find the drop rates quite weird. Strong units drops Random Level 4 item and you do know it will also include campaign items right which should not be included in melee maps? Change that to either Misc or Permanent type.

Also, I do not know if this is updated but you can try this: Warcraft II Map Optimizer 5.0 for protecting your map. Once used in your map, beware because you cannot open it anymore and will throw up a fatal error so be sure to save a backup file that is unprotected so there you can make changes. Also, melee maps are meant to be open source and should not be protected so why are you even protecting this though?

 

[DemonFace]

Thanks for your report! Ill see what i can do.

 

[Binsu]

Thanks for your report! Ill see what i can do.

It seems you got the wrong way of adding screenshots to your description here in Hive also but here is the correct way of doing it

See Legal_Ease's great tutorial: How to add a Screenshot to your Map Descriptions

 

[Orcnet]

Didn't most of the Melee maps rely on open-source? that's what she said /o/

 

[Remixer]

Yes and even if you protect your map you can still open it with different tools.

Mostly protecting is useless (I can find it useful only if you upload some WIP but even then you can prove it is yours if you upload it on Hive.)

Personally I do not protect my maps because I started learning making maps by checking others' maps that were unprotected.

 

[eubz]

I think 25,000 gold is too much for a 2player melee map. At my side, it is better if a melee map is fast phased and that it should be. Even 20K gold (just me, IDK) is difficult to consume for 1 v 1.