I know this is a boring request, and probably ridiculously easy to make if you've learned how to use Mapconverter, but I thought I'd go ahead and ask- the worst y'all can do is tell me it sounds lame and then I'll have to do it myself. If somebody would be willing to just give the idea a go, though, I'd appreciate it- and if you make it pretty, and keep to the specs, I will happily use it in promo shots for NanoBlobs, and tout your map.
From a tactical perspective, artillery dropping from the corners- and taking/holding those corners- should be a central part of play. Taking the center can either be accomplished by main assault and grinding attrition, or by taking the free corners (in a one vs. one) and slowly closing the vice. I don't want blocking objects in the middle- negative height (i.e., shallow areas that suggest ditches, or trenches, or craters, or whatever) would be fine, just so long as the angles aren't steep enough to pose a serious problem for unit movement, and they aren't deep enough to prevent plunging fire from ever having a chance to clear them.
Here's a picture- just a quickie 3D sketch I did, laying out a possible layout of the terrain. Hopefully it will inspire something nicer than "yuck"
Of course, like with everything I do, I tend to imagine this with color to give it life and variety- imagine that the circles look like, say, the half-full-of-rain, ancient scarred concrete blast-pads for giant rocketships, or the worn-out holding-pools of a reactor which used to sit in the central crater, with fuzzy gunk on the edges, and reeds sticking through the green, grimy water, or something. The ditches/trenches could suggest anything from drainage ditches to fortifications to places where pipes used to be- or, perhaps, a Feature could be made to suggest some chunks of half-destroyed pipe for a couple of places (getting the angle/position would be a pain, but it might be worth it, and I could very easily whip up a section of "damaged pipe" in S3O for you guys to play with- nothing that would destroy the map's stable balance, though- just some extra scenery.At any rate, I hope this inspires somebody- I know, I know, symmetrical maps are so boring... but, as I've said- the skin is everything. With a hot skin, this could have a sense of place and purpose... and still be a perfect, competition-grade map for NanoBlobs (and probably pretty decent for those "other mods" I hear people play sometimes
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