Spring RTS Engine

The map is not yet ready (and not being released now), so dont yell at me because it doesnt have textures or features

Some things that cannot be seen in a screenshot:
*Its made for 4 players but it probaly can support more if everone occup a little less space
*wind speed is 5-20
*Tidal strengh is 10
*Metal is equally distribuited around the entire map, with a extractor radios of 200. A metal extractor in full work gets around 2.5 metal points.
*hardness is 500
*for some reason then ai.ddl is placed in one of the lower beaches it makes just 2 solars and then stops. No idea of why this happens but I already say it happening on other maps.

It probaly will take around 2 months to be finished because im going to do a looooooong trip .

What you guys think?

It's a start.

... ops, double post

I think you should play around with making maps a lot more before you release your next map. The two I've seen look like something you should have created while learning how mapconv works; not something you want the public to see.

But the public like first-time maps! Look at speedmetal!

ZINGGGGG!

Well, personally, I think that it is A Good Thing (tm) that mano's releasing his maps to the public at this point. This way, the General Population (tm) can comment on them already, and he can get a feel for what works and what doesn't. Plus it keeps kindling the desire in me to take up mapping myself :)

Unhappyfull in the next two months I will be in a place internetless and with a slow computer (too much for spring) what means that I will not be able to make maps. You guys wont see the final version of this map before new year. (unleash I sundently decide to waste the entire day of tomorrow finishing it but I dont think so)

Why not spend a little more than 5 minutes making the next map? Like a few hours?
Please have some self-critique before asking critique from others.

It's not the worst thing in the world now, but it could be better that way. Cheers, I hope you become a nice mapmaker.

Btw the AI stalling is because of Krogothe's metal AI (which the AI:s use) not working very well except with traditional metal spot metalmaps (like comet catcher).

bamb wrote:Why not spend a little more than 5 minutes making the next map? Like a few hours?
Please have some self-critique before asking critique from others.

It's not the worst thing in the world now, but it could be better that way. Cheers, I hope you become a nice mapmaker.

Btw the AI stalling is because of Krogothe's metal AI (which the AI:s use) not working very well except with traditional metal spot metalmaps (like comet catcher).

I wasted a few yours. This is not the first version of it and neither the last one. I recompiled it at least 5 times just to get pleased with the metal gathering speed and much more to get pleased with the shape of the map.

And if I puted it there, this means I like it. How could self-critique possibly save me from showing it to the world?

And thanks for the info.

You should either make the map symetric or make the asymetry have a reason. Having the map slightly asymetric like that just makes it obvious that you didn't want to bother mirroring it.

Perfect symetry doesnt make a map look natural.

no-one who actually plays spring cares about how natural a map looks. its all about the gameplay.

What I mean is, it doesn't look natural like that. It looks draw, with a brush, in a graphics editor. You should either A make a map totally symetric and thus balanced, or B, actually map the map asymetric enough to look natural. Right now, it looks like neither.

Edit: I don't mean to sound so harsh, I think it's excellent that you want to start mapping, we always need more content creators. The above really is meant to be constructive criticism and not a putdown.