Recomended (MP) Maps

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on February 9th, 2010, 10:42 pm

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on May 8th, 2010, 10:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The FleetOps forum is a big place, and the Map Exchange Subforum is no exception. For those of you who play online (perhaps competitively), but just can't seem to find 3.1.0 and above converted maps that are given the *fun rating* by most of these folks, I thought it'd be nice to make a list of the most played (or perhaps "soon to be played") Fleet Operations maps. This of course does not include those lovely fan and developer generated maps which are already bundled with the game .

If I'm missing any maps that you just absolutely believe should be on this list, just post!

Star Traffic-Boggz

Endless Pain - Sheva

Ice - Gamer

Beta Aquilae - Phoenix

Tau Ceti - Phoenix

The Lost Sector: Total War - Sutee

Yes, right now it's a very short list, but I hope that will change soon  . Note that if your map isn't up here, please don't take it as an offense - I'm sure all maps have their strengths and weaknesses, but that doesn't change that some are preferred over others in online gameplay 

posted on February 10th, 2010, 12:01 am

I know it is just a pre-final version, but how about mine?

Endless Pain

posted on February 10th, 2010, 12:12 am

Advertising, advertising, advertising! Lets see how people like it online 

posted on February 10th, 2010, 1:47 am

Thanks for putting mine up there, Dom!

  For future reference: how does one include a link with a custom text?  For example the map names that link directly to their topic?  Mal does it all the time and I'd love to do so myself when I put up a new map.

posted on February 10th, 2010, 3:10 am

No problem

Hehe, funny how this works - I taught Mal 

Use the third button on the bottom left hand row called "insert hyperlink" and you'll get something like this url] [/url] . Stick an "=" and the url [url *here* ] and insert the text you want here [/

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on February 10th, 2010, 3:21 am

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on February 10th, 2010, 3:23 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Like this?

posted on February 10th, 2010, 3:24 am

Aye young Padowan. You have already exceeded me ... (I clicked the link  )

Btw, you didn't actually edit your post, I by accident clicked on the modify button on your post (instead of reply) 

posted on February 10th, 2010, 2:11 pm

Okay.... here are my maps that I like most (due to awesome balance shown play after play).

Polluted Ice and Unholy Water
So far I didn't see anything about not recommending your own maps...

Open Feild

Strength in Darkness (v2.0)

Phoenix Maps

Lets do da twist

Favorite stocked one is Rain (by Boggy). He does a real good job for maps like that.

[mimesot]

posted on February 10th, 2010, 2:14 pm

Last edited by mimesot on February 10th, 2010, 10:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.

There's a map called "rain", which is really cool. I will look that up.

EDIT: Oh, its a stock one? I never host games, so i don't know. Boggz, it is really really great!

posted on February 10th, 2010, 2:45 pm

So far I didn't see anything about not recommending your own maps...

Nothing wrong with shameless advertising.

posted on February 10th, 2010, 10:01 pm

There#s a map called "rain", which is really cool. I will look that up.

Aye, that's one that's now been included in the official download

Absolutely fine that you recommend your own (and other's) maps Gamer 
That being said, I'm going to vote down a few - if others have objections, feel free to voice them 

Open Field was enormous and just simply had waaaay too many resources for all but AI games in my opinion - by the time you get to an enemy base, they can tech quite far up  . Lets do the Twist suffers from similar problems, but I think with a bit of editing it could be much more fun. Both of these maps seem to me more *anti-AI* maps - which is of course fine, but just not great for PvP action 

Strength in Darkness has narrow, easily blockaded entrances to the base and quite a few moonsets - which is actually a similar complaint I have to Endless Pain - but that is more remedied because the blockade can go both ways, which makes it more strategic.

Personally I quite like the design of Phoenix's maps - but the Accretion and Asteroid Belt maps are quite a bit uneven if you have a Borg player 

If there were more mid-sized maps with small nebulae in interesting arrangements that would be quite welcome (or even large maps with the first expansion very far away). Right now there are a great deal of maps that have either very defensible bases due to asteroid rings, or heavy additions of nebulae which tend to cause some nasty issues 

posted on February 10th, 2010, 10:05 pm

If there were more mid-sized maps with small nebulae in interesting arrangements that would be quite welcome (or even large maps with the first expansion very far away).

Oh I am SO working on a new map right now that is exactly that!  A 2 v 2 that I could probably even alter to be used for different team arrangements.

  I couldn't agree more on the idea of having less easily defensible moons that are more spread out as to encourage division of fleets and better tactics for harassment, patrolling, and all-out harassment.

Shameless plug:  "Outpost"  Is a topic where I go into depth about how map design affects gameplay overall.  Maybe some of that will give people new ideas as to what's possible now with speed alterations.




Right now there are a great deal of maps that have either very defensible bases due to asteroid rings, or heavy additions of nebulae which tend to cause some nasty issues 
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posted on February 12th, 2010, 7:26 am

Thanks for the votes of confidence folks . Tis much appreciated.

Personally I quite like the design of Phoenix's maps - but the Accretion and Asteroid Belt maps are quite a bit uneven if you have a Borg player 

Due to limited space? I'm considering upping their sizes as they are both quite small maps.

If there were more mid-sized maps with small nebulae in interesting arrangements that would be quite welcome (or even large maps with the first expansion very far away).

New Map; Beta Aquilae. Did this map fill the role adequately?

posted on February 12th, 2010, 8:01 am

New Map; Beta Aquilae. Did this map fill the role adequately?

  Actually Beta Aquilae is my favorite of your maps so far.  The scarce resources, relatively large size and completely asymmetric design is right up my alley .

  One suggestion:  NEVER put moons in nebulae.  Though it may seem like a cool idea at first ... it's just ... not that way in practice.  Damaging nebulae just kill your miners and require too much attention to use at all.  I always wanted to but there is just no good way of doing it yet.

  The bottom right starting point has two things: it's both the hardest to reach and the farthest from extra resources.  Haven't tried it online yet.  Feel like that starting place is the most likely to try a rapid tech-up.

  Overall though I have to say that I really like Beta Aquilae!

posted on February 12th, 2010, 10:32 pm

To add onto what Boggz said, big shield-cutting nebulae basically make it Borg territory as well - very hard to play in situations like that