I would like to bring this very important issue to your attention, especially considering the striking number of available home maps and SY Maps during this tourney.
As it has been reported already by a number of players, some of these maps despite being creative and perhaps very fun to watch in terms of the spectators, can also be quite debilitating to the players who find themselves from one game to the next in very unfair positions (ie. bugged maps). Some are so bad that skill + luck alone are insufficient to have a decent game.
I'd very much appreciate if others would share their opinions on this matter.
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I came across this on the CoT tourney page a while back:
viewtopic.php?f=780&t=94043
"Postby EU AoCZone » Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:53 am
The Map Pack has been updated to CoT_Map_Pack_v2.
Double Migration have been removed entirely because of unfortunate and bugged map generation. It has been replaced by Meatballs (LR) v2.
Desert_v4 and Plains_v4 have been removed and replaced by CoT_Desert and CoT_Plains.
CoT_Plains' forest generation and CoT_Desert's middle gold generation have been altered to be more fair for both sides. It has changed the versions slightly from what you've learned to know, so we encourage you to get familiar with the new versions. They can be downloaded in the original post."
I was wondering whether the admins would consider removing/ heavily modifying some of these maps like they did for the CoT Tourney.
As it has been reported already by a number of players, some of these maps despite being creative and perhaps very fun to watch in terms of the spectators, can also be quite debilitating to the players who find themselves from one game to the next in very unfair positions (ie. bugged maps). Some are so bad that skill + luck alone are insufficient to have a decent game.
I'd very much appreciate if others would share their opinions on this matter.
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I came across this on the CoT tourney page a while back:
viewtopic.php?f=780&t=94043
"Postby EU AoCZone » Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:53 am
The Map Pack has been updated to CoT_Map_Pack_v2.
Double Migration have been removed entirely because of unfortunate and bugged map generation. It has been replaced by Meatballs (LR) v2.
Desert_v4 and Plains_v4 have been removed and replaced by CoT_Desert and CoT_Plains.
CoT_Plains' forest generation and CoT_Desert's middle gold generation have been altered to be more fair for both sides. It has changed the versions slightly from what you've learned to know, so we encourage you to get familiar with the new versions. They can be downloaded in the original post."
I was wondering whether the admins would consider removing/ heavily modifying some of these maps like they did for the CoT Tourney.