Custom Map #5435: Brain. By: BilboGCL

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Author: BilboGCL
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This brain may cause headaches, watch carefully what happens at the cerebellum...

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Looks nice!  :)

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Impressive map with a couple shortcomings:

1) Large size but relays unavailable making packet speed a serious problem.  :(

2) Uneven terrain means terps are all but necessary, yet there are only two provided. Player must sit and wait while terps slowly do their work.  :-\

Because of these two things the game became something of a slog as you spend more time just waiting rather than actually doing stuff. Still a nicely made beautiful map and 8/10 from me.

[BilboGCL]

Hi
Thanks for you comments!
The lack of the relay and the reduced number of terps are resulting from my original design ideas...
At first I didn't want to have any terp on this map, but found it too hard in the end so I decided to give two terps away, obviously one my better ideas even when the map probably can be done w/o any terping once you've got enough forge power (have an eye on the brain stem, you can land a CN next to a totem)... and the lack of relays came from my initial idea of only giving the brain short synapsis... however, with one or two guppies (despite the AE-Towers they can be helpful, at least when going clockwise, didn't test other way round) packet speed is no more problem.

Greetings from The Shire!

[willbir]

Thanks for the map, it was fun once I got the berthas going. Why watch carefully what happens at the cerebellum, did I miss something ?

[BilboGCL]

Nothing special, just the 13 spores... When i haven't got the pz beam ready, I was in trouble...