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Its not easy to balance them perfectly, but thats ok. But they could at least try...

The problem is, i think, is that certain maps have only one tight spot where u can put your troops. For example, on semoskiy top, u can only put your troops under your cutoff point at the bridge. Its supereasy to barrage/katyusha/napalm/etc your troops, because u have nowhere else to stay. If u consider the bottom side however, there you have a ton of space where you can spread out your forces.

In my opininon, if u make the bridge at the cutoff wider, or if put a bridge to the far right side so u can cross the river there (like in semo winter), and make the lake smaller or remove that house right next to the bridge and give more open space it would be much more balanced.

Same goes for Moscow Outskirts: if u spawn at top-left, where can u put your troops? Only to your cutoff, which is insanely open, and can be easily harassed (and, again, if u are at the bottom, you have a ton of space to spread out, and a lot of green cover to hold).

If they put come green cover in front of the top cutoff, between the ammo and the cutoff point, and some trees/shotblockers, the map would be a lot easier to play from top (and remove the house and walls behind the cutoff, which makes for a very small bottleneck from where u can attack your cutoff if its taken).

They dont have to be 100% symmetrical. Instead a tree, u can put down a bush etc. They should check out the maps of Starcraft 1-2, u can see a ton of very good examples. And who cares even if its completely symmetrical? We want balanced, full-competitive maps, not "good looking" ones.

Hello guys!

For me, it seems like that the game is close to being balanced. There are some issues that still needs to be fixed, but its a decent game atm. But some of the maps are horribly imbalanced.

For example, lets consider two equally skilled players. The winrate should be 50%-50%, but depending on the side of the map, it can be totally different. In my experience, it goes like this:

- Semoskiy Summer: 70-80% for bottom, 20-30% for top.
- Semoskiy Winter: 60-70% for bottom, 30-40% for top.
- Kholodny Ferma: 60-70% for right, 30-40% for left.
- Road to Kharkov: 60-70% for top, 30-40% fot bottom.

Crossing and Minsk seems to be balanced, but other than that...if i play on the maps above and get a wrong spawn, it can be very difficult even vs a weaker opponent, and from the better side i could even beat guys who are clearly better than me, just by abusing the map (like the cutoff on semoskiy).

I've read in the Romeo's balance issue tracker that people complained about the balance of the maps when the fixed spawn locations were applied. What was the reaction? They did not fixed the maps, they just removed the fixed spawning....Practically they admitted that the maps are unbalanced, but they refused to do anything about it. (I understand that it was easier to modify 1 line of code and re-introduce random spawns again, instead of thinking about a few changes on these maps.)

I think if we get enough statistics about exact winrates on these maps from different sides, when they face exact numbers, they will consider fixing this issue, with hurts the balance a ton more than for example Obers doing a bit too much damage (nerfing obers would alter the winrates with like 3%, but these map balance issues cause 20-40% winrate changes...).

What do you guys think? What's your experienced winrate in maps from different sides?

Any info on when the matches will be played? Also some info on the map voting/banning system would be nice (it affects heavily which maps should we practise the most etc.).

Also, the exact time of the matches are fixed, or we have to add each other on skype etc. and arrange the matches ourselves, then upload the replays?

I allways get 4 riflemens, maybe i will give this 3 riflemen build a shot.