StarCraft® II

sounds good!

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Bump, bringing back this dead thread for those map makers who like making melee maps.

Bump... felt this should be resurrected. It's an old guide but a lot of it is still basic.

Sorry but bump

Amazing tutorial!
I'm trying myself on a melee map, using this tutorial as reference.
And also some of the Blizzard WoL melee maps (because I cannot find a Heart of the Swarm melee map pack, anyone got a link?).

I got some questions / could need some tips:
1) Do you need to follow certain guidelines to make the map available at all or is this just make the map better and have more people play it?

2) 8 normal and 7 rich mineral fields is the minimum, but is there a maximum?
Now I don't want to put 20 mineral fields in one place but what about 9 rich ones for example?
Likewise, is there any problem with 3 Vespene geysers? And do gold expos normally come with rich Vespene geysers or normal ones?

3) Where to place Xal'naga Watchtowers? And how many? Normally there seem to be 2 around the middle, giving some view of the main paths a big army would take across the map, any other good locations?

4) On a 1v1 map, how many expos are necessary? I started a map and am not sure if I got enough of them, so far 3 (including natural) +1 gold on either side, for a total of 8.

5) Is absolute horizontal symmetry that important? How about minor differences?
How about horizontal AND vertical symmetry?