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This is a serious attempt at making a playable map for matches that doesn't depend on those boring static defender positions. It's main mechanic is that of high vs low ground advantage. Using elevation difference I have about 10s route for defenders to get to attackerspawn but without actually breaking the map since the attacker will in almost all cases not be in spawn when you get there.

Anyways it is a map where defenders must use teamplay to deny access to the map for attacker with spam and try to flank him so rockets gets hard to avoid and so on.

Unfortunately most maps for Elite don't really play anything like this so most players seems to have a hard time wrapping his/her head around it. It is more or less a personal preference, either you like the more braindead static type of defence or you want to live on the edge.

So far most players that I respect the opinion off has said they liked it and they see the potential in it. There might still be needs of balance tweaks depending on how it goes once people get the hang of the map.

http://sm.mania-exchange.com/maps/4703/elite-thebowl

Also just for personal interest I did document most of the mapbuilding and uploaded timelapse to youtube. Its a first go for timelapse for me so it took a couple of tries to get it decent quality so its basically only the last session that's watchable. Also the last tweaks and so on for balance as I play more on the map is not in the timelapse.
Session 4 - Final version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m8DTTSC8jk

Now to try to setup a bit more serious matches to really test the map.

Oh and if you want to test it yourself you can always jump into one of the bazinga servers (under sweden) and call a vote for it.
"/vm bowl" is enough but then you will have to be alone or get the others to vote yes.

ill check it out & ill post my feedback here later ( if i dont forget :p )

dreammyw0w wrote:ill check it out & ill post my feedback here later ( if i dont forget :p )

Same !

Not bad at all but lacks diversity on blocks positioning

Personally, I don't like symetric maps. It's good to place the blocks in order to have a coherence (not placed randomly) but i think that more can be given

A better feedback can be given on a 3v3

Considering I run into being denied blockplacement all the time I have to make due with what's possible.
The side next to the speedpath is completely done dictated by what's possible, not really what I wanted.

Very nice! Good job.