Violet Square

[Moderator]

23:56, 28th Mar 2009 by bounty hunter2:
See posts #3 and #6 for referal. I noticed the utterly bad terrain, anyway I won't go into it since they mentioned it all. I suggest making a thread in the Map Development Forum since you are on a long way with this map, Rejected.

 

[Gamecrafter_DK]

I hope i didn't overdo the text colouring... and font... i'm colourblind, so i don't know if you "normallies" can read it without problems.

 

[APproject]

I rate this melee map by 1/5 and I suggest it for Rejection because of it's poor quality. My rating will remain like this until Author fix at least few points below.

1. Terrain and enviroment art is cheaply done. Big lack of doodads. Entire map is out of doodads, I couldn't find any doodad in your map. You obviously need to work much harder than that. Basically, you need to remake entire enviroment, if it exist at all at the moment.
2. Additional Gold Mines are exactly on the edge of map. You should add trees there.
3. Player owned Gold Mines are not protected by creeps. You must add creeps that guards it.
4. I ought you to remove the gates as a boundary that do not lets you to reach enemies' bases. Playing it multiplayer, it isn't a major problem, but if I would play it Single Player, it would be a global problem. Default Melee AI is not that smart to destroy the gates that do not let's them to reach you. They would just wander nearby the gate expecting to cross it and nothnig else.
5. In my opinion, player owned Gold Mines has too big amount of gold. You should reduce it.

Anyway, you need to work more than that to make it worth attention, trust me. Killer of my rating was 1st and 3rd point.

I hope i didn't overdo the text colouring...

No, not at all. It was refreshing, lol. When I opened this thread, all attention got into the description and it was like telling me - READ ME! x)

 

[Gamecrafter_DK]

good, i'll get right on it, i totally forgot to look at the doodad toolpalette... and i didn't know that the AI wouldn't kille the castles... what about bridges over small ponds? is that a good option?

i have placed some doodads... i mean the bridge thingy instead of the secondary gates, not the first gates, they are replaced with dead gates.

 

[APproject]

I didn't see any pond or bridge.

 

[Septimus]

1) Description - Look ok to me, but seems to be a little girlish.
2) Item - Seems to be a little inbalance. Level 5 creep drop level 6 charge item? Those level 6 charge item are capable to summon a rather powerful monster.
3) Creep - I would said a balance issue occur as well. 12 unit just to guard 1 fountain? That's quite a lot for just 1 fountain.
4) Bug/Error - Gate effect AI and neutral hostile, just like Approject mention.
5) Resources distribution - I do believe lumber was far too little.
6) Terrain - I would have to said you did a rather bad job over it. Seems like you only use 2 type of destructible.

Based on the current quality control at hiveworkshop. I would said 1/5.

 

[Gamecrafter_DK]

i am fixing it atm. some of these points are already fixed that Item thingy, yeah, it might be a bit much, and i'll lower it, but as you see, it's pretty hard to get to.

Edit; i haven't made any pond, but i could make one.

 

[ninjaen]

done testing heres is what i think
Pros:
Good idea for a melee map
Neutral:
small bases didnt know which to place under since it has its pros and cons
Cons:
Creeps in start...
Some of the terrain needs serious improvements

 

[APproject]

Oh come on! You improved terrain and enviroment? All I saw that was added was a spam of bushes nearly the gold mines, spam of that blue-like glowing thing also nearly the gold mines and few sticks with heads nearly to each gold mine. When I was saying, You need to work much more than that, I meant working at least 5-8 hours only on the enviroment. How much of attention did you pay adding that stuff there? 3 minutes?

Here, this is my work so far on your map. It's only the middle of map. However, it's not symetrical at all, because I was doing it on rush. Work of 15 minutes - screenshot below:

Screenshot Cut

 

[Gamecrafter_DK]

well, you seem good at it... it might be that i'm not that good a terrainer. things like what you've done, it would be pretty, but don't fit in, i think... and i have used a lot of time on the terrain, i just spend most of my time on the tiles. i'm just not that good on making those doodads fit. Sorry :'(

Edit; well, 'nuff of that, if you wanna reterrain the entire map, i'll post a great credit to you, but it's only an offer. my speciality lies in making ideas, and triggering in GUI.