New 16 player FFA map - Mosh Pit

[Beherith]

Hear ye hear ye!

All of you whining for a balanced 16 player FFA map look no further.

Come mosh with the monsters!

16 players, 24*24 size. No speed bonuses. Plenty of metal.

But dont let your neighbours build guardians!

Textured with WICed

V2: fixed start points

Maplink:

http://spring.jobjol.nl/show_file.php?id=1678

[SirArtturi]

Hey! Even though i have big doubts and hatred towards ffa's, especially huge as this, the concept seems really cool. I bet it will be fun ! :D

Great job Behe! Well... it looks artificial but in a good way!

[Pxtl]

Hey! Even though i have big doubts and hatred towards ffa's, especially huge as this, the concept seems really cool. I bet it will be fun ! :D

Great job Behe! Well... it looks artificial but in a good way!

Also, there's no reason you couldn't use it for teamgames too - look at StarCraft,where most maps are designed for FFA but play just fine for teams. FFA-maps-for-teams are nice because if one player is gutted, the natural barriers between his base and his teammates mean it is non-trivial to gut the next player, unlike, say, DSD where it's simple to run north/south once you've punched into somebody's home.

[smoth]

I am impressed that you could pull off that heightmap but I don't know if it would play out well.

[Beherith]

Well I was thinking that ppl were whining too much about imba FFA maps.
Thats the reason I kept it artificial looking. Any divergence from it could have led to cries of imba. Radial symmetry was the only way I was gonna get equal start points.
This is not serious map Put it together while speccing some Mearth games.

Not saying I wouldnt like to play it, I just have no clue how it would play :)

[Gota]

release another V...u didnt make all the starting points.

[Beherith]

Fixed.

[Noruas]

Could you make a 32x32 map called 16 islands?

[Pxtl]

Am I the only one who looks at this map and sees 16 little penises?

Also, you don't really need a perfectly-round map for 16-player balanced FFA - an octagon would do, since an octagon has 16 congruent locations.

[smoth]

I see nails... I have no idea what is wrong with you .

[BaNa]

Am I the only one who looks at this map and sees 16 little penises?

Drat. The penis conspiracy hath been foiled.

[andre]

Today we tried to start 3 games on [eXe]FFA with this map but all 3 games desynced in the first frame. After switching to another map all was fine again

[imbaczek]

compare your path checksums and/or delete cached path for this map.

[Beherith]

This bug happens when a previous version of the map has been pathed.

[andre]

so every player has to do this?

[SirArtturi]

so every player has to do this?

yes every who has the previous version pathed... So if you desync, then delete your pathings of that map. It wouldnt be too hard...

[andre]

Well, but all players desynced after some time, not only one or two :/

[Beherith]

Meaning the host had a diff version of the paths

[andre]

That's quite impossible as the host was a dedicated server (and yes, he has the correct mapfile, too)