1 Put plenty of money on your map. Place two supply docks close to each base, and 3-4 derricks per base, then a big pile of money near your map's center, where ever that may be (it can fall on one side if you place obstacles to push the play to the side).
2. decide on a texture palette and put a 15 unit square of each texture in the borders so that you can quickly pick up the texture you want. Then put one of each in your borders to pick them up too -- 1 derrick, 1 oil refinery, 1 guard tower, 1 civilian bunker, and a few houses.
3. Create zones by using textures. Make two-thirds of your map nice and green, and the other blackened by a forest fire for example. Or try moving from a evergreen forest (pines) into a deciduous forest, then into pasture.
4. Use rocks as barriers by painting the ground beneath them 'impassable'. Don't limit yourself to just cliffs as barriers. You can also make thick forests and paint the ground beneath them impassable (tanks don't do well in real forests), then thin the trees out so that infantry can pass, but vehicles cannot.
5. Make the map play fast by making your choke points two tempchokepoints wide, not one. Don't make your units struggle to get across the map down narrow streets.
6. Always provide buildings near derricks for garrisoning rocket soldiers.
7. Reppeat step one. PLACE LOTS OF MONEY on your map to make it play fast and furious! This isn't a waiting game. This is war, so allow for LOTS of shrapnel -- TONS of it, and plenty of loud explosions. THAT'S a fun map! Also make plenty of hills and height differences that are navigable so you and your enemy get to climb and drop often. That is fun to watch too. FLAT is boring.
8, Be prepared to spend up to 40 hours on dressing it up to make it look good. Make it look realistic besides fast playing.
About map size: 360x360 is optimum for a small 2 player map. 400x400 is optimum for a large, 4 player map. 440x440 for 6 players is as large as this game allows.
Lastly, take your time. Making a map is just as fun as playing it. It is relaxing, so enjoy it. Get into making it look really pretty or really trashed. You'll get two rewards this way.... one while making it (so don't rush it), and two while playing it (this is where you want to rush)!
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