Was wondering what's the map you all hate to command on? For me slaughtered and crossroads are both pretty bad, not much to do but build redundant buildings and do donuts while you wait for something to happen. I did think money, but money has the benefit of letting you play around with base layouts considering all that money which is fun. Tons of empty flat space too. So it beats the others out on that single novelty.
cyclopean. The map really suffers when people aren't working together as it has so many large spaces that get unattended. It's great in a scrim or a pug though, but in pubs it's horrendous.
Doc's com map It really kills me to say it because I absolutely love doc's dark map motif and it's a really well done map that took a while to do. The problem is that there's a ton of flatish, openish space that can't support buildings. I feel like it would get better if I had to com it a million times and learn all of the building placement, but it's so confusing without any prior knowledge. However, to the map's credit, it used to be a fucking hellhole to com because you kept running into the ceiling or something. It was workable, but it made me feel like I was wearing concrete shoes. I tend to com at a fast pace, so it was brutal for me. That problem was pretty much fixed entirely as far I noticed when I commed it last. That improved the comming experience a ton, so I'm optimistic about this map.
SoF. Very restricting, very little space for innovation and comm view always gets stuck in buildings making it a very annoying map to command. I feel like it's an infantry map disguised as a commander map. You could argue about the lack of space for both Crossroads and Slaughtered but I feel on those maps you can influence the game a lot more with research compared to SoF.
Lots of annoying maps for certain sides (like nf slaugh), but classics it has to be SoF. Just No. Customs... one that comes to mind is moors.
Crossroads and Money. I never played those maps were it would end positively for me when I command. Maybe once in a blue moon.
Only map i fully commed : Canyon. Even while targeting a lot of people to them they wont get refineries.
The map with a lot of terribly textured grass and huge mountains and a little island in the middle is annoying as hell, especially to comm
I want to say you are talking about blackmountain, yeah camera gets stuck constantly on that map. It's still a fun map to comm for me though, any openish map that lets me roll around is aces in my book.
Crossroads made me stop commanding, entirely, for quite a while. Granted that was back in the day and the newer versions are slightly tweaked, but before you would literally just lose if you lost the middle, and that would usually happen quite quickly. I'm not sure why, but I always rather liked SoF. More if I'm on BE (and not stuck in the godforsaken hole), but although it was rubbish to navigate, there are always a few things to do as comm and in a bunch of places that are fairly close together. And people tend to be a bit more interesting there, too.
even though its not apparent crossroads is among the most complex empires maps. not by design, but because its so old and has been played a million times or more.
but to justify myself - the research monkey part is the same on every map. i meant the leadership aspect of commanding. you know, the neglected part, where most fail - including me. and if you mean because boomtanking is no real option - the only challenge with boomtanking is that you need to have a fuck you attitude and blown up ego. its not hard, the cv takes so fucking much damage. anyway, coordination really pays off, more then on many other maps. no argument about how its completely neglected, doesnt prove me wrong though.
moors for sure. followed by probably cyclo. its a large map but you are severely limited where you can place stuff.
yeah its odd, i really liked cyclo back when i played regularily, but nowerdays i find it rather dull. at least the worst exploit are fixed now :D
oh is sof suddenlty also supposed to be won by a single faction in majority of cases like it happend with escort?
Sof has always been slightly skewed towards BE. At least in some sections. If NF loses ground they will often lose much more than if BE loses ground.
