I'll start: Out of all, I feel Nexus Destroyer by striker x22 is the best. Link to the map: http://www.scdiplo.com/Maps-Other/Nexus_Destroyer Chaos v6.12.scx or http://www.scdiplo.com/Maps-Other/Nexus_Destroyer%20Chaos%20v6.12.scx Description of the map: player vs player. Selector based, which means you spend selector(s) to get different units and fight each other based on the units you get. There're hero also hero beacon and special effect beacon such as full-heal and eliminate beacon, which you could spend if you obtain hero selector(s). Reason: The 3-race units of selections. Your selectors can be used to get units of all 3 races. This creates way too many creative combos. Marines + arbiter, defiler + reaver...etc etc are very powerful. Of course, when you mix normal units with hero units (ex: guardian + jim raynor), this allow even more creative strategies and finisher combos. The key in winning is to counter and to attack with one combo against another. You have to know what to counter what, decisively and quickly. The micro-management of "mages" (dark archon/defiler/high temp...etc) is also key to victory.
USWest: twn.death I play this map over the years. I talked to Striker x22 last year, when he released the newest version, which included normal muta. We agreed that he would cut couple marine/firebat in each batch of marine/firebat. Also on USWest: infested_kerrigan is the one you need to watch out for, on the top of the watch-out list. Other worth-to-mention players I don't remember off top of my head.
I liked the MTG maps, and also the art of Offence (nice twist to the myrid of defence-theme maps out there)
First of all, I would like to advertise the best source of use map setting maps: www.staredit.net So.. in my opinion, the best ums map ever made is Uberena.. this is starcraft's dota but it's much more underground.. basicly, this is an underground version of tma.. it's pretty much played by people at staredit.net and most of them are map makers.. or ex-map makers.. imagine a tma where you can make ur own selection of ANY units mixed together.. and the more points you get, the more mineral you get every respawn so you can buy more units.. for those who doesnt know what tma is: 2 teams fight to destroy the enemy's building.. I think it's just like Nexus Destroyer.. but much older.. you defend ur base and attack the enemy base with some units you select at the start.. everytime you lose all your units.. you gotta wait a few seconds and then you "respawn" and you select new units.. you select the best depending on what your enemies have at the moment.... and the more you kill, the more units you can get.. anyway.. Uberena is superior to nexus destroyer and tma in everyway.. the only downfall is that its not popular enough.. but if you go to the right channels there are a lot of good players.. visit staredit.net (lol i really look like someone spamming this website.. but I don't even have an account there anymore.. There are other very good maps.. Kenoli(U)'s puzzle maps are all very nice.. they can be found at staredit.net too.. The Puzzling is a great 3 players puzzle map... Lucifer D is a great "New sunken" style defense map.. it's a bit easy but I like it because there are many ways of playing it.. it's possible to do it with 2 players.. you get more kills so you can get more upgrades and.. u end up being stronger than if 6 players were there.. anyway i feel like its far from being perfect.. I've made many Defense map that were going to be much better than this one.. but I never really finished or distributed them.. (thats the problem with map making.. you waste hours to make ur map.. but you get nothing in return) Offensive Strike is a very very good map too.. it's melee style.. but it's timed and you have to destroy the enemies units and buildings through many levels.. it gets hard at the end.. there are many other very good map that i'm forgetting.. anyway.. starcraft 1 ums is dying..
I've always played Big Game Hunters, it's my favourtie money map I've modified that map slightly so all the bases would lead directly to the center. Instead of the 3 top bases that actually collide with each other.
This to me depends on what u define as "best", for example a game like Uberena which is a great UMS map is in my opinion better than others of that area but if I was thinking in relation to trigger based skills then something like "reflector" would win that (the most amazing thing ive seen is a randomized maze map that follows a marine who moves squares through an outside selector but cant remember its name). Or i could say that BGH or LT are the best melee maps out there (modded versions). But I think if I were to pick one.. that would be... well.. I actually cant pick one... hard choice...
my favorite map is lost temple and i like usm maps more better its more fun for me when you play with a lot of ppl
I thought customized meant ums.. but you are talking about money map... someone should go back in time to kill the mofo who made the first money map, cmon I wonder who these map are for if it's not for the stupid noob morons.
JBL why do you hate the world of fpm? i understand if it was just the map you hate =/ my favourite = trigger happy defence, by the almighty of the universe -tuxedo templar- WOOO
fpm? whats that? Trigger happy, now we are talking.. that was the very first map to introduce the defiler shooting system.. which was used by many others (including me) after.
fpm/fmp = fastest xD i wish tuxedo finished his A&O movie....the trailer was soooo awesome and i just tried his club 1.0 map. 4 t3h lulz
BGH and LT are overplayed. LT is pretty much the prime map for either teams or FFA. BGH is a good fast paced money map. Most money maps sock-0
I totally vouch this.. LT is indeed overplayed.. but it's a classic. LT is in my opinion, the best 4 players map.. because everyone knows it and it's effective.. of course, it lacks of originality and it's far from being fresh.
ive been seeing more luna games both ums,melee, and tvb in da past year or so. LT games have increases again but they're usually full of non-pros (from what ive witnessed anyways 0_o)
Allot of old veterans are comming back to play Starcraft and BW. For example: ME. I will admit SC was the only RTS i ever played, and I will never call myself an elite player; but I was a veteran and I could hang with most people. My problem is macro of the buildings and end strategies. After 5 years of not playing, I bet more and more old vets (like myself) are starting to play SC and BW again to prepare themselves for SC2. I am. 6 months ago my SC and BW CDs probably had an inch full of dust now, they run from time to time.
ohh yes you are probably right.. I haven't played in a while and I remember that Luna was getting very popular...
