[Anonymous Player]

My friend and I made a mistake of building our town center where we started, causing us to quickly run out of resources and food. However, we were able to gain an advantage with our villagers and quickly took control of the water due to the abundance of fish. Unfortunately, I expanded to the other team’s island while my teammate went solo to another. Our battle lasted a while, but eventually, they pushed me off while my teammate arrived too late. We were forced to use cannons and transport ships for raiding. Overall, it was a good game, but the map layout was a bit questionable, especially with the domination needed on water. We had around 30 fishing boats each, but it still didn’t feel enough. What are your thoughts on this map and others like Steppe?

[Futuralis]

> It’s okay interesting the pure domination on water felt so good

It’s either a feature or a weakness in the map design, depending on how you look at it. The map almost looks like a hybrid map but in reality, water control is as important as it is on Team Islands.

Then the conversation turns to “should (a map like) Team Islands be in the map pool?”

[Allurian]

It looks great and wildly variable but I think in practice it falls apart a bit. If you go the same side as opponents, it’s a super close spawn Nomad. If you go other side, it’s (high resource) team islands but you start with a transport. Any imbalance team situations I think is just a death sentence.

And unfortunately like all Nomad starts getting your TC down ASAP is critical, so it’s not as though you can really choose which type of start it is… so it’s mostly one of those other maps but with a slower start.

Maybe it would be more dynamic if it was a spread Nomad start? That would force the imbalance sometimes, but would also spread you out more so it might be more survivable

[Kahlenar]

This is one of my favorite maps. I’ve never built on the small island. I’m excited to have it.

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