I've played a game vs Turbo on a 40x40 and it was quite boring. The game is usually decided by who gets more map control early on with transports and bombers killing random engies but then the game takes like another 20 min to finish even though 1 player has like 90% of winning at that point.
40K Map Tourney Proposal
In case you can't get enough players/interest for a tournament, you could make it a showmatch.
As I see it there is a lot of interest/anticipation in seeing a high-quality casted match on a 40x40 map, as many people hope it will be an epic clash between battleships and other big toys we rarely see.
But in my experience (as a 1600 global), it will be an eco sim-city snipefest. When any attack takes hours just to get to the enemy base, overinvesting into a mobile army is often just a bad idea. I would love to be shown that I'm wrong, but I have never seen an interesting or engaging match on a 40x40 map.
A lotst game being boring to watch is definitley something to try and avoid, but I think to stop it being decided early and finished late, more players can gaurantee a more even split of map control
@H-master
This is very valid
Shards, Sentons isle, Hanna Oasis, Tithonium Chasma look more intresting for this reason.
Even just some showmatches on these maps would be nice. I will see If I can get some sentons players together on Sentons isle
A lotst game being boring to watch is definitley something to try and avoid, but I think to stop it being decided early and finished late, more players can gaurantee a more even split of map control
From experience this usually has the opposite effect. More players means more ACUs to find (let alone kill) and on bigger maps that can drag the game on for a long time.
Game balance breaks at 40x40, regardless of players involved. You already see this with you talking about restricting game enders, which is just going to make the game take forever and go -6.
Probably the last reasonable map size is 30x30, after that it’s pure game ender rush optimization with all other players acting as shields to enable it.
@ftxcommando said in 40K Map Tourney Proposal:
Game balance breaks at 40x40, regardless of players involved. You already see this with you talking about restricting game enders, which is just going to make the game take forever and go -6.
Probably the last reasonable map size is 30x30, after that it’s pure game ender rush optimization with all other players acting as shields to enable it.
Would this also apply when the map gradually expands like in the campaign?
"OPERATION AREA EXPANDED"
map gradually expanding has scripts determining what makes the map expand which will be abused with bos to leverage it, happens on primus alfa
All I know is that everyone hates time-based maps and when I entertained putting them into ladder I got a universal no about it so I also doubt people will enjoy tournament games with them. And that was even with a notification that would inform people that a map would expand at whatever interval.