I find Sie_Sayokas layout to be MUCH MUCH better.
Heres one of his maps if your interested:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xwytzwgnwdzAnyways, with that said...
TERRAINBasically, the Terrain is the most important thing in an rp *apart from the spawning*.
You need to add extended terrain every here and there. But if your no good with extended terrain, either dont do the extended terrain or go learn how to do extended terrain.
You may not be good with extended terrain. You may THINK you are good with ET (Extended Terrain), but you may not. So i suggest hosting a map and letting people see your ET, and let them draw their conclusion.
Anyways, do the terrain first, then add doodads. Since you are making a Resident Evil RP, make some terrain buildings via the Rectangular Terrain Tool.
SPAWNINGNow, there isint much to say on the spawning, since your already using Vrael's (or Sie_Sayoka's) layout. However, it would be wise to add some things as your own. Such as mass zombie spawn, group spawn etc.
Other then that, your spawning is pretty much done.
THE FUNWe dont want to play on a non interesting RP. What made Lathirion so famous is that there was a mountain. Or I could be thinking of Feyvern...Or both.
Anyways, you want good terrain and you want people to say "Hey, this _____ is pretty cool".
And you want a balanced map. Dont forget that. You dont want Leon Kennedy do 250 damage when Jill only does 50. Sure, you can make 1 or 2 units a little overpowered, such as Nemesis and the Tyrant. But dont over do it. With that being said, you want to make sure that the roleplayers dont haft to be like:
"pretend that this unit is named ____".
So what i am trying to say there is that you want good names.
CONCLUSIONIf you basically follow the above, you will have yourself a pretty good map. Make sure you add big open terrain spaces so people can build towns and give your players lots of freedom. Maybe add some caves like you would see in Feyvern.
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Man, that took a load of time to type. Hope you enjoy it.
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