Remaking Mandalia Plains

[SentinalBlade]

Okie hers the deal guys...

We all know i know how to edit battle maps... and well i really dont know what to do to Mandalia Plains..

Its flat, lots of obstacles and even more lameness....

So, i coem to you all, please suggest what you would like done to Mandalia Plains, so that i can make it better...after a few suggestions have been made, i will post a screenshot, and upon completion, the map file itself for everyone to use

[Archael]

Snow

[Kokojo]

You will Remake it ?

Make a canyon out of it. \_/

[BloodyBlade]

HELL!

[SentinalBlade]

Snow

Easily done, let me find the snow pallete where the rocks dont look like wooden floors... i may have to make a new one so they look like rocks, and not peices of a fort...rofl

[tithin]

Snow's a decent idea.  Perhaps rain?

I mean, really, are you looking for more obstacles, or just wanting to change the overall aesthetic of the map?

[SentinalBlade]

Anything to make it better, right now the obstacles represent no real advantage, the map is to flat, and where it is higher, no one really goes there to fight...

[Algus]

Include volcano in there.

[Zozma]

but the plain maps make you appreciate the rougher ones, what about making the DD maps LAVA

[BloodyBlade]

Make it Hellish! Like Lava, rocks, etc etc

[Algus]

I agree with you!

[BloodyBlade]

TY Algus! Need more HELLISH MAPS! Volcano map only lava place IMO?

[tithin]

Include volcano in there.

Perhaps half snow, half volcano? IE, snow at the bottom, no snow on the volcano?

The only issue is the name of the map; Mandalia PLAINS kind of prohibits large scale items.

Snow + a bunch of trees are all you could really add, short of changing the name of the map which may be more effort than its worth.

[SentinalBlade]

Lava is getting some exceptional Love in DD, One of the last battles in orbornne, the one with kletian and the tiamats, A few others are getting some nice updates...

Tithin is right, you  can only do so much to "Plains"

So lava is going into more fitting maps.

Snow is going into more...well less situational maps

[SentinalBlade]

Asmo suggested Roads. Keep in mind this is still going ot be snow...

we need suggestions on what road tile ot use...The point is ot have it from IGROS(hence the stone roads) to thieves fort and gariland

http://www.ffhacktics.com/psx/maps.php?id=12

Or

http://www.ffhacktics.com/psx/maps.php?id=100

Or

http://www.ffhacktics.com/psx/maps.php?id=37

[tithin]

Like I said on irc, I love map 37 ruined stone road tiles.

[dwib]

cemetary tiles!

[Cheetah]

Good luck with this Sentinal Blade

[goldblade0]

I would think probably the cemetery one for a path between the towns but the dirt one going off the main road towards the Thieves Fort

[Vanya]

I'm all for more snow and lava stages, but why in Mandalia?
I'd put them in places that are more remote instead of in the middle of the game's first route.

I think it would be interesting to turn Mandalia Plains into more of a maze by adding more obstacles.
Maybe make small hills where the player and enemy begin the battle at to give them a clear view of each other.
I think that would make for a better challenge without making it seem out of place. ^_^