DANCE OF DEATH
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A desert/wasteland themed 8 player map, designed for annoying gameplay. Locations are mirrored and balanced in pairs. I tried to replicate Rich Land's way of all the locations having a theme/idea. Per each team, there is a:
-bigger location with resources in every direction (1 and 8)
-most powerful location with lots of iron but a bit strange space management (2 and 7)
-location which seems so small and vulnerable that it's pointless to play it - not to mention how easy it is to screw up gold here! (3 and 6), and finally
-the idea that started the whole map: 2 island locations (4 and 5), very small and closed off, but big enough to maintain a minimalistic base.
We tested the map a couple of times on Teamspeak. The problem is, each time the bottom team won because in most of those games Romek preferred to play there
(and as you know, winning over Romek ain't usually easy) - the opportunity to attack the bottom side was never tested properly so I can't know if it's possible to attack location 6 as easily as location 3. However it shouldn't be that hard judging by the looks.
Speaking about the looks, I tried to create a map which on top would look colorful and happy, while the bottom would look like a wasteland. Well, for those that want to judge the result... there is no way to make a wasteland map in KaM, I am afraid
There might be some things that need fixing, but after staring for a long time I cannot spot any more myself. But since sado made this map, it's 100% sure that it looks very bad, so I am waiting eagerly for detailed responses from whoever cares enough to give me some feedback