Why does matchmaking have map rotations while StormSiege Fields_of_Isis LLTAComplex Mercurial Zed get to stay in the teams pool for years?



Very Cool, very Epic, no raiding, no expansion, no assaults, only artillery, porc, and support auras. What "variety" do these maps bring when they all play the same with their degenerative nonsense?

Your value lost exceeds your value killed before your first lance comes in at minute 4 (!) to skyrocket your value killed. It's hard to assess if those daggers ever made cost given you built ~8 lances before minute 10 (see: degenerative nonsense), with those lances being the majority of your impact.

From what I can tell the most value your daggers provided in this match was finishing off a desperation desolator and providing sight for your lances, which halberds would have been better suited for. Very likely you would have been better off building maces and halberds to support said lances.

I interpreted your post as claiming raiding (anecdotally dagger) is effective on this map in argument to my post. I am going to critque your unit choice if you claim your unit choice is effective in argument to my post.

But I will say there's no way for me to know that for sure, so I apologize for making the assumption.

Sure, I'll concede to that. Smaller forms of pressure can be important.

Regardless, I find the impact raiding (or perhaps micro specifically) has in maps like these to be miniscule in comparison with spacier maps, which I think is sad. Why remove those options from the player? Why train players subconsciously away from the micro element?

http://zero-k.info/Ladders/maps

StormSiege sits at #39, which means it's going to come up quite frequently. Unfortunately, by restricting the choices to 3, that's more likely going to remove a lower ranked map, and keep this one there.