OpenRA

"tomorrow I am becoming a married man and leave for honeymoon" Congratulations, noobmapmaker! If we can get a shortlist, I wonder if one of the server hosts could be persuaded to set a few of them up to run exclusively map contest maps on random rotation. This would create another route for people t...

I suspect there's a strong interaction between spawn-to-expansion, spawn-to-spawn and the eco/early tech question. The further the expansions and the more stable the spawn, the more viable it is to sit and tech a bit first; small spawn-to-spawn means you have a chance to reassert yourself, e.g. thre...

Congratulations to the winners, and Materianer in particular for making a really enjoyable, interesting, and thoroughly redesigned Z-style experience in the OpenRA engine. That brought back memories ... almost as if I could hear the snide or impatient remarks from the computer in the original. Thank...

Are the replays themselves in a format parseable by anything other than OpenRA?

"Does the winter tileset hurt anyone else's eyes?"
Yes! Snow is OP; please nerf.

By way of preamble... The most important bit of work, I feel is to build up an understanding of what impact the different map features have on the game. So I'm really glad, OMnom, that you've got both the analytical ability and willingness to explain these from your experience. In terms of finding e...

This post is for information, because we have a poll open about the map pool across two seasons and it's rather useful to be reminded what these were. Blackened helpfully compiled stats on how frequenrtly each map was played in RAGL S2 in a feedback thread at http://www.sleipnirstuff.com/forum/viewt...

I'm going to continue my train of thought one step at a time, this time looking at the approach SoScared expressed in the Rulebook thread, beginning: "the notion that RAGL builds around and support the current competitive meta [...] is wrong" Whether or not that's historically true I can't say - let...

My opinions are as a spectator, I'm not a participant in the league or on that level, so take them with a pinch of salt. I hope we can have a fruitful discussion about what we all want to get out of the map pool. We started to do this a couple of times in the past month but the discussion petered ou...

From time to time I when I'm not paying attention I build supply trucks and ore trucks in a 2/5 ratio. Then I notice I am not producing infantry and I feel a little silly. I would like there to be some point in them, albeit marginal, to these things, as they're not great scouts as the finder gets a ...

Personally I would say what we have observed is that several good maps have three lanes, because that is a minimum for several measures of 'interestingness', but few maps have more than three, because it is hard to fit more than three lanes in the approx. 72 cells which map makers have so far tended...

Good topic; great idea taking Smitty's list and using that as an initial validation. I have some observations: First, what are your alternate hypotheses? i.e. the other indicators of map quality that are (you think) inferior to the test 'does it have three lanes'. I can think of a number of plausibl...

The observation that what works right now has a lot to do with the maps has a lot of truth to it, I think. A number of popular maps have one or two crucial paths which make dynamic games unlikely and and comebacks extremely difficult. My one fear is that moving towards big maps with few significant ...