Best maps for each game type ?

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Hi all,

I just came back from a 2v2 on a random 6 player map where my ally was stuck behind a pirate base (no other exit !)

So that made me think: what do you think are the best maps for each of those category and why do you think that ?

1v1:

2v2: random 4 player map or random 6 player map ? or a specific non-random map ?

3v3

4v4

5v5

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Generally the random maps are chosen for each match in MP (so for 1v1 random small, 2v2 random medium, 3v3 random medium large, 4v4 random large and 5v5 random huge (or sometimes random huge ring). Always its in a single star system. These maps are considered best for team games since no one will end up with a certain advantage over other players, like what happens in maps with fixed starting positions.

Besides that, you always have to adapt to where you start in random map games, which makes them more fun to play.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yea, it looks like those ones are popular, however sometimes random will screw you pretty bad: one time I did a 2v2 on a 6 player map and my ally ended up having only 1 exit to his empire: the pirate base ! That's pretty bad, but I guess it's very rare.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting DarthLeader, reply 2
Yea, it looks like those ones are popular, however sometimes random will screw you pretty bad: one time I did a 2v2 on a 6 player map and my ally ended up having only 1 exit to his empire: the pirate base ! That's pretty bad, but I guess it's very rare.
End of DarthLeader's quote
Yea this kind of shit sometimes happens, but it is indeed very rare. The dev's are working on making the random maps more competitive by having every planet contain a fixed number of resource asteroids. Hopefully this will make random maps more balanced income-wise.