#Players 4
#Provinces 90
Balance MP Even
Era Any
Preset Races No
Story
Caves and Corners is a map for 4 players. It can be played free for all or teams. Pretty generic, I whipped it up quickly. Four players start in corners, the middle two provinces have many sites, and there are some tunnels underground that add connectivity. Should be pretty balanced, doesn't allow water races.
Balance Notes
Races that are good in caves or water might have a slight advantage on this map, but it should be fairly well balanced for either a 4way ffa or a 2v2 teams. I have played an IRC blitz on this map, and we found no errors or imbalances.
Author and Credit
Made by Zylithan, used AoW:SM editor (with community UPatch1.4) and GIMP
Version history
Currently 1.01. One previous version had prov 51 with two bad neighbors. This has been fixed.
Download Link
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=566913&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
This is an excellent map and a real favourite of mine. It's pretty good even in SP. The map is glitch free, has sensible population levels and an interesting layout. It's also very easy on the eye.
The flaws with this map come only from the fact that there are perhaps a few too many provinces per player for my tastes and the fact that cave provinces don't autocast darkness which makes the cave section of the map a whole lot less interesting. The latter problem is down to Illwinter to fix though.
I give it 4/5.