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[Narcissistic Martyr]

Ok, just thought of an easier solution to the map.

Raise the temperature in and around the volcano and lava flows. Make it so hot that even walking through it raises your temperature. Make it a death trap for slow mechs. Then it's a terrible place to fight and ridge hump, but can make a good way to sneak some quick mechs around to flank enemy forces.

[Rakshasa]

Sjorpha, on 11 July 2015 - 10:51 AM, said:

Make the volcano have random eruptions that covers everyone near it in lava, that might make people stop going center. Might.

With the damage Flamers do at the moment? It'll be fine. When did a little lava ever hurt anyone?



...oh.

[InspectorG]

Narcissistic Martyr, on 10 July 2015 - 10:18 PM, said:

How about we just remove the volcano. Everywhere else on the map makes for an interesting fight.

Take Terra, ditch the center. Sprinkle in some small-ish mountains, some crevasses with lava/magma.

DESTRUCTIBLE BRIDGES across the lava rifts...

Bridges can ease access to cap points in Conquest...if you think you can make it.

[CtrlAltWheee]

I'm in. Let's do it.

InspectorG, on 11 July 2015 - 05:37 PM, said:

Take Terra, ditch the center. Sprinkle in some small-ish mountains, some crevasses with lava/magma.

DESTRUCTIBLE BRIDGES across the lava rifts...

Bridges can ease access to cap points in Conquest...if you think you can make it.

Destructible bridges would be awesome. If mwo becomes an esport I wish it would be large open maps with terrain features like this that allowed good commanders to be creative. Let's find some mechwarrior Pattons out there and THAT I would watch.

[Wildstreak]

LordKnightFandragon, on 10 July 2015 - 09:33 PM, said:

Who builds anything right over the mouth of a volcano anyway? Thats basically sentencing all the workers to death.....

SaltBeef, on 11 July 2015 - 02:21 AM, said:

Why would you need Geothermal Power Plants in the Age of Fusion Technology? You could have a Large XXXXXXXXXL Fusion Power Plant. Just Divert all sewage to this Plant and it will convert waste to energy, Oh and send Grandma and Grandpa there too when they get to old and bothersome .LOL!

Some places live within the danger area of a volcanic eruption.

At least one village within the volcano caldera, it is classed an active volcano and provides many benefits.

Edited by Wildstreak, 11 July 2015 - 06:34 PM.

[LordNothing]

mark v92, on 11 July 2015 - 09:59 AM, said:

having actually played on that map before i most say that it should be copied if not outright stolen.

[CtrlAltWheee]

mark v92, on 11 July 2015 - 09:59 AM, said:

I'd play that.

[Wildstreak]

That MWLL sky would be better, might get rid of some stealth snipers.
Terra Therma, based on New River City look, should get a pass anyway.

[Hit the Deck]

Wildstreak, on 11 July 2015 - 06:34 PM, said:

Some places live within the danger area of a volcanic eruption.

The city in the article is about 400 km or 250 miles from here. And I myself live about 25 km or 16 miles from an active volcano, lol:

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Wildstreak, on 11 July 2015 - 06:34 PM, said:

At least one village within the volcano caldera, it is classed an active volcano and provides many benefits.

Definitely very interesting. Thanks!

[Fleeb the Mad]

Terra Therma actually offers good games when you do not focus on piling into the middle.

To be honest I think it's more a victim of players doing things the designers didn't expect - piling up at the ramps and creating huge bottlenecks in order to trade fire across the open space inside - as opposed to the crater being a dangerous shortcut across the map.

The solution to fixing it is actually much simpler than remodeling the volcano.

All they need to do is add more cover or obstructions inside the caldera so the ramps don't have clear firing lines to the other side of the crater. If people have to get up inside to fight then the traffic jam stops, people can spread out more and even, possibly, start maneuvering around inside for better firing positions.

[Revis Volek]

Sjorpha, on 11 July 2015 - 10:51 AM, said:

Make the volcano have random eruptions that covers everyone near it in lava, that might make people stop going center. Might.

I thought this also, would force change on the map from a "best area" and would be dynamic changes on the map like we have now with weather.

You could have it start a match with it open and then halfway through erupt....start matches with it already erupted and lava flows and such forcing tactics to change. And then of course one where it never does....but you wont know and it would be a gamble to hold the center or BEST one.

[ShadowWolf Kell]

LordNothing, on 12 July 2015 - 01:20 AM, said:

having actually played on that map before i most say that it should be copied if not outright stolen.

Looks like it already was stolen. Right out of SWG.

[Nightmare1]

I actually like Terra Therma as it is. Frankly, I would like to see the OP's suggestion implemented as a second Therma-style map rather than as just a rework.