Spring RTS Engine

All be it slowly... I'm half way through a 36x12 map, desigded to have plenty of sea action as well as land... As well as nice varid terrain and cliffs and hills and such

Anyway, I always have a few problems with my maps, IE Im terrible at meatl placement... so I thought I ask a few questions and post some screens..

Links (cause there 1200 wide, dont wanna screw the page)
http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/1.jpg
http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/2.jpg
http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/3.jpg

http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/mini.jpg

And this one has my cuyrrent metal placement...
http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/dires/minim.jpg

The spots in pairs make 1 M and the rest make 2M for a normal XTA mine...
Thing is, do I need more?? I dont know... bare in mind though that at this size its realy for atleast 2 v 2 but could easily hold 5 v 5. (starting at the pair of spots...)

Also its suffering from a lack of trees... But Im not sure were I should put them either... so any suggestions will be welcome!

Finaly... I'm going on my hols next week... and getting a few features done for this map it so happens, so if i dont reply you know why!

aGorm

looking forward for playing it - metal is ok IMO

Looks great aGorm!

This map looks awesome.

edit: the metal map is fubar though. Here's how I suggest it look:
http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/uplo ... l_prop.jpg

Looks sweet! Will make for some interesting land-water conflicts. I think cheesecan's metal map is on point, except it needs a few more patches on the water/land in the middle area. (only like 3 or 4 more in the water and 2 or 3 more on either side of the land in the middle)

agorm, you're gimping the metal. With a layout like yours they should put out about 4 apiece in AA, othersie the gameplay will tend to drag.

Here's one with about 8 patches per player on a 5v5:
http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload5/more_m.jpg

Try clumping them together more.

aGorm, thats Hawt beyond all repair.

So sexeh! Me likes!!!

Now I'm back from my holidays Im gooa start work on converting this to the new format... Hopefully I can still make it hots sexeh... But obviosly I need to be able to do long thin maps first!! Dam it!!

Ill check out the map with different metal over the week to see what its like.

Thanks for teh coments!

aGorm

Hummm... I was thinking of releasing this on a sort of AS IS basis, so people can see how it plays and such.

This is because 1) Currently its unmakable in new format
2) the features are taking time to make (suppose lack of new format support is a bonous there....)
3) I want good critic on whats wrong befor I make a final version in teh new format later....

Is this a good idea? If so I'll see if I cant releas it over the weekend...

aGorm