The OFFICIAL dansil92 Maps Thread

[dansil92]

Water flags are of course the trouble here. I like it for shipping fishing ships and stuff but it would turn into a pond gimmick map. Its a difficult issue but it's easy to solve. As for ponds i mean honestly there's no way to make them perfectly symmetrical (thanks rms!) but both ponds can be controlled by either player so if one pond has more access to tps then i guess thats the one to contest. I think removing the flag might be the way forward then, sadly

[dansil92]

Mantioba should be ready for public testing tonight, with flags removed. The only trouble I've had since solidifying the layout was the centre tp sockets occasionally not being placed. I am 90% sure its fixed but let me know, with screenshot of minimap if you get a bad spawn, so i can see what is interfering with placement. Will post with files soon

[TheNameDaniel]

Hi Dansil, would it be possible for you to add a little overview of your maps to the esoc maps page / in game. It would really help when clicking through maps to check them out without going in.

[deleted_user]

Hi Dansil, would it be possible for you to add a little overview of your maps to the esoc maps page / in game. It would really help when clicking through maps to check them out without going in.

yea that would be great, so many new maps exist nowadays..

[dansil92]

Hi Dansil, would it be possible for you to add a little overview of your maps to the esoc maps page / in game. It would really help when clicking through maps to check them out without going in.

@EAGLEMUT

(I've submitted the food/coin and minimaps and such, just needs to be put up as far as i know)

[dansil92]

On an unrelated note I was messing around with some new code functions I've been working on, heres a basic idea of a possible layout- the code in question is these dense, although passable forests, with decently wide paths between them. Obviously some new constraints and resource placement would be in order but this is the layout I was thinking would be ideal

Feedback welcome of course. Still undecided if it would stay redwoods or if it would be tropical like an asian jungle map, etc. but either is doable quite easily with the code I've written

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U have a nice brain.. crazy but decent

[dansil92]

Manitoba is ready for testing!!! The only trouble I've had since solidifying the layout was the centre tp sockets occasionally not being placed. I am 90% sure its fixed but let me know, with screenshot of minimap if you get a bad spawn, so i can see what is interfering with placement

[Cometk]

@dansil92 RE the forest path map, definitely recommend keeping it Redwoods and not going jungle. There are enough jungle palette maps, and I think the forest trail theme is better suited to conifers.

I would also recommend adding a bit more wood around the TC - I understand part of the gimmick of the map is that you have a big open space around your base, and eventually you have to go quite far out for resources. However, for the sake of ensuring playstyle diversity, I'd give a fair amount of wood for players to start with. Low starting wood can be a restrictive element, one example of that being Thar Desert, one of the primary complaints on that map being the poor starting wood. I'd say 9-13 starting redwoods (could vary their proximity) ensures that offense/defense using early wood units (read: xbow rush/holding with xbow) remains viable.

Also re: the forest map and Manitoba, I'd recommend adding another terrain texture for beautifying purposes.

[dansil92]

Thats some really helpful feedback, i appreciate it. For trees (since i haven't touched them yet, its currently 7 on this beta code) i was thinking two stands of trees on opposite sides of the tcs. I agree, the redwoods are so beautiful so I'll definitely stick with that. Im really excited to sit down and code this one when life settles down a bit

Edit re: your edit- theres a brown and green speckling on manitoba though it is quite subtle it is there

[EAGLEMUT]

Hi Dansil, would it be possible for you to add a little overview of your maps to the esoc maps page / in game. It would really help when clicking through maps to check them out without going in.

@EAGLEMUT

(I've submitted the food/coin and minimaps and such, just needs to be put up as far as i know)

Added Cerrado, Chupat, Guatemala, Nahanni, Yalu River, Zavkhan.

[look]

i'm working in some new maps..

[look]

New Map

Tomjul

@dansil92 can u do that?

[lemmings121]

Falklands

This map is a starvation map with a twist, namely that it is an expansive water map. There are extremely limited resources, with only 3 whales (1 safe per player, one central) and all fish exclusively in the shallows by the islands. On the islands themselves there's a decent amount of food, but limited wood and coin. Theres a small trade route on the far sides of the islands too. Controlling and contesting the centre whale, and the opponent's trade route may prove fruitful; due to the low wood access, lategame skirmishes are not optimal.

dont you mean MALVINAS?

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[dansil92]

I actually originally had the map named malvinas but was told falklands was more appropriate

[dansil92]

Spicy preview

[dutchdude117]

Looks awesome! Can't wait to try it

[dansil92]

@look I'd need more elaboration on exactly what you'd want in the map but its quite simple to make a map like you've laid out

[look]

@look I'd need more elaboration on exactly what you'd want in the map but its quite simple to make a map like you've laid out

do what u want bro.. take outline and use your magic hand bro ^^

[Black_Duck]

New Map

Tomjul

@dansil92 can u do that?

This is the funniest post on the whole website.

[dansil92]

Small update to Manitoba regarding feedback from testing. Tp-despawn bug is 100% fixed based on 25 spawns of varying sizes. Slight change to textures. Ponds are now more symmetrical and consistent in 1v1, still has dynamic variability in team spawns and ffa

[dansil92]

Oregon, my forest map, is ready for testing!
Any feedback is welcome, and if you need help with getting it ingame, feel free to ask
1v1



3v2 (to show team spacing)



FFA

in game appearance

[rsy]

I hereby make a request for a snowier version of the Alaska map ty

[dansil92]

Just a little preview of a map I'm workin on. Sort of a tibet/great lakes vibe but with that open barren centre like thar desert
Its super consistent for resource placement but needs some gameplay. SamuraiRevolution tested the ffa spawn yesterday but I'd like feedback on 1v1 and 2v2 spawns. Possible changes would be additional ramps between high and low areas, slight shifting to tp route placement and possibly splitting the route to top and bottom routes.

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[Ghost_Imperator]

Looks good. The only thing that makes me confused is the placement of trees. It's a screen of FFA version of the map I guess, so that's probably normal thing for FFA maps, isn't it? Or it's just an unusual high view on map for me idk.
In general gj dude