My next map: need a few suggestions

[starstriker1 offline]

I've tried it with my "mine" map, but it didn't work as well as I wanted.

My goal is a map where a good shrike pilot can out manuver his enemy rather than be forced to fight. I also want to encourage people to attack en-mass via havoc, and generally fight around one central area (big huge battles )

I have a few ideas for this (i'll list them below), but I'd like a bit of help from other people...

*Low flight ceiling coupled with many obstacles-so that people can't fly overhead of their prey (and thus, evade every obstacle while having a huge advantage) and will instead have to take a risk in a high speed chase

*Important central objective (only team holding it can cap)-I'd expect that more than half of each team would be fighting for it at all times

*Defensible base for the one holding it (walls, defensible ramps, turrets)

What do you think?

[The Man offline]

Sounds good. Make a lot of low bridges and tight spaces between rocks and stuff for out-manuvering the opponent.

[nutcracker offline]

For the manouvering of the shrike it would be good if you had casasms. Ones that had rocks sticking out so you need to move around, not much room for error though. A shrike chasing may well not manouver and crash .

Or you could make it less crowded with rocks and stuff and have some fog, with low visible distance .
You could have the casasms come out to the central objective
And you could even lower the flight ceiling so that they can't go above the casams.

EDIT
you could also have lava on the whole ground , that way you can only use vehicles

[TheNavigator offline]

[Vexorg offline]

Sounds like an awsome map .... im a shriker... it sounds good

Keep us posted!

[Vexorg offline]

Suggestions

-In some places add fog to add more oppurtunity for evading your oponent ( and crashing )
- another thing i was thinking about is having like a cliff that you can fly off of and fly straight down and there will be lots of obstacles in the way so you would have to manuver your way down.

[Paint it Black offline]

Should be a good map. I think ya should set the mission at night time. I can't remember having any shrike battles in a night time mission. Sounds like it'll be a good map.

[starstriker1 offline]

Sorry I haven't gotten around to working on it... its got the basic framework, but it needs LOTS of work...