Topic: map tags
king_of_nowhere Topic Opener |
Posted at: 2017-02-27, 22:11
I was choosing maps for the next tournament and I am baffled by some of the tags. "Islands at war" is tagged as unbalanced, while it seems well balanced to me; on the other hand, "last bastion" is supposedly balanced, but it's far less symmetrical - though probably fairly balanced too. "The pass through the mountains" is labelled as unbalanced, while it is one of the best balanced maps; "volcanic winter", a very unbalanced map, is not tagged as such. Most important, though, if there is an "imbalanced" tag, there should also be a "balanced" tag; people looking for a balanced game should be able to click on it and see which maps are available, rather than clicking on "unbalanced" and then trying to remember which maps they should not take. Top Quote |
WorldSavior |
Posted at: 2017-02-28, 17:42
One of the players cannot get coal early, so it's not that balanced
Really? The blue player is closer to coal and iron, but he cannot expand only with guardhouses... In my opinion, the map is not balanced enough
+1 Wanted to save the world, then I got widetracked Top Quote |
GunChleoc |
Posted at: 2017-02-28, 20:22
Agreed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/1668729 Busy indexing nil values Top Quote |
king_of_nowhere Topic Opener |
Posted at: 2017-03-01, 14:20
oh, i see what you mean, ws. I agree on islands at war, one player has bad access to coal. Pass through the mountains, though, I still think it is balanced. the differences are very minor, and in every map we can find such small differences if we look closely enough Top Quote |
WorldSavior |
Posted at: 2017-03-02, 17:18
One more difference on that map: The read player can expand immediately into "his own part of the middle" with a castle, while the blue player has to use stonecutters first Wanted to save the world, then I got widetracked Top Quote |