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Here's my take:
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Here's my take:
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Good map tier:
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Good map tier:
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- Starting position has 3 mexes
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- Starting position has 3 mexes
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- A fairly defensible natural expansion with 2-3 mexes
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- A fairly defensible natural expansion with 2-3 mexes
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- At least 2 other expansions to choose from
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- At least 2 other expansions to choose from
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- No or very few mexes on the shortest path between start position
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- No or very few mexes on the shortest path between start position
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- No or very few mexes on the line that is equidistant to both start positions
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- No or very few mexes on the line that is equidistant to both start positions
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- All mexes accessible by rovers
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- All mexes accessible by rovers
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- Some regions should be completely free of mexes
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- Some regions should be completely free of mexes
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- Distinct visuals for vehicle, bot, and spider-only passability areas
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- Distinct visuals for vehicle, bot, and spider-only passability areas
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- Tasteful but not dominant amounts of reclaim (less than thornford, more than adansonia)
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- Tasteful but not dominant amounts of reclaim (less than thornford, more than adansonia)
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- Strategic use of obstacles, natural spider pillars, etc
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- Strategic use of obstacles, natural spider pillars, etc
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- All of the land factories are playable, with at least 3 viable in competitive play
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- All of the land factories are playable, with at least 3 viable in competitive play
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- Try to avoid supermexes if at all possible
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- Try to avoid supermexes if at all possible
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God map tier:
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God map tier:
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- All of the land, air, _and sea_ factories are playable, with at least 5 viable in competitive play:
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- All of the land, air, _and sea_ factories are playable, with at least 5 viable in competitive play:
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- Wide use of depth-6 zones to make areas of the map accessible both to ships and to land units.
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- Wide use of depth-6 zones to make areas of the map accessible both to ships and to land units.
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- All mexes buildable and killable by ships.
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- All mexes buildable and killable by ships.
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- A depth-20 channel near starting position to allow ships to be plopped with minimal walk time.
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- A depth-20 channel near starting position to allow ships to be plopped with minimal walk time.
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- Some depth-60 zones for Grizzlies to submerge completely.
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- Only a few full depth-20 zones for ships to retreat to where land units can't reach them; all outside Envoy range of nearest mex.
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- Only a few full depth-20 zones for ships to retreat to where land units can't reach them; all outside Envoy range of nearest mex.
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Overgod map tier:
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Overgod map tier:
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- A railroad network.
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- A railroad network.
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Machine god tier:
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Machine god tier:
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- Any of the above, but done procedurally, built upon Random Crags.
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- Any of the above, but done procedurally, built upon Random Crags.
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Describe your ideal map