Requests for a New Map?

posted on February 26th, 2011, 10:45 am

Well, actually there is quite a lot of good 2v2 maps besides Star Traffic. Nebula Stream, Champagne Supernova, Little little universe, Asteroid Halma, Passages, Midway, Lines of war, Dead Star to name only a few. It's just that Star Traffic is quite popular, I can't really say why. But I agree there could be more 1v1 maps with the quality of Duel II. Right now Duel II is played very often, sometimes you also see Early bird but that's it. There are also other nice 1v1 maps like Boobytrap, Feud or Circuit chain, but those don't seem to be popular.

posted on February 26th, 2011, 6:36 pm

Yeah people have tended to want to play on maps that are deemed almost equally balanced.  Balancing maps for a mod that is constantly changing and has 5 unique races is HARD .  That's the reason I've made so many updates to it .

  I like several of the other 1v1 maps that are out there, but it's just SO hard to balance things correctly .

posted on February 26th, 2011, 8:39 pm

Balancing maps for a mod that is constantly changing and has 5 unique races is HARD .

Boggz is right on with this.  I'm working on a new 1v1, but it's going very slowly.  Like, should I leave space to put a conduction matrix between the starbase and the edge of the map?  If I do, that space becomes unsafe for putting down uplinks because enemy ships can stay out of starbase range!!!

Often I run into balance issues where the most obvious, easy way to balance it would make the map similar to Duel so I refuse to do it and try to look for another answer. 

In the end, continuous balance tweaks are the answer.  A map for Flops isn't a one-time creation, it's an ongoing project like the mod itself.  What we need is for the old mapmakers to come back and tweak their maps like Boggz has.

posted on February 26th, 2011, 9:13 pm

I agree some of the old map makers need to revise their maps  to FO 3.1.5.  specs. There are a lot of maps I loved to play but cant now  due to  imcopatability  .I esp miss the "Junkyard "style maps with lots of deralict stations and ships esp  rare  or  unique map object ,deralict stations and ships. I also miss the maps with targetable Ferengi ships  .  Dakora were so much fun to use on  miners and  wait with cloaked ships  to zap the  mining station defenders as you uncloak on top of them.