My First Map

[egbert]

Hi.

I've been looking a long time for somehow I might be able to contribute to Wesnoth (I've been playing on and off for about two or three years), but music or sounds I'm afraid I don't have the equipment for, I stink at art, don't have the time for campaigns, and don't know any languages besides English. So today I tried and made a multiplayer map.

It's 2v2, (my favorite type of map), but not too big. It has 28 villages.

I'm afraid I do not know how to improve a map, so please tell me what you think I can do.

How is it?

[JW]

It's customary to display the map (if it is of reasonable size) in the browser using the [ map ] tag like this:

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[map]abcdefgh
ijklmnop[/map]

which yields this:
[map]abcdefgh
ijklmnop[/map]

So that people can just give you feedback immediately instead of having to go through the hassle eof downloading, unzipping, moving, and then running the map in Wesnoth.

Please do this for us lazy folk who are otherwise willing to help. (It's also good practice for you!)

[egbert]

Thank you very much for the tip!
That's really cool how you can do that!

Those question marks are impassable mountains (you know that).

[Sapient]

Well, I haven't tried it yet, but for your first map that looks really nice aesthetically.

It has a few problems, though.

Overall, the map seems to favor factions with water units, because it has some very significant chokepoints involving water. Personally, I'd widen up some alternative passages. A one hex entryway isn't much for wiggle room.

A minor point, you've created some inaccessible chasm regions. This means if we were playing unlimited turns and my leader was a drake flare, I could hide indefinitely.

Also, there's the old 'don't put villages next to mountains' rule for Knalgan balancing. You could swap a few hills and mountains around to change that.

[egbert]

Thank you very much, will do. Didn't think about the Chasms, they're mostly for looks anyway.

Alright then.

[egbert]

Ok, I fixed what you said, I'm pretty sure. I added some more ways to get through via land, the side trapezoids have a land passageway. I also fixed the chasms.

Here's the new one.

Anything else that blatantly needs fixing?

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edit: I'm not sure what's happening with the top. . . but it should be just like the bottom.

[JW]

Yes, it is very aesthetically pleasing. The map tag should help you with future maps you create as well.

[Rhuvaen]

Maybe you should delete your first map tag (the one with the old map) whenever you post updates. These [map]'s slow down my browser to a crawl, and it will make this page unaccessible for a lot of people.

Other than that, on a first glance the map looks exceedingly stalemating (few villages and lots of choke points in the center).