I need to install mine, but I suck at multiplayer so I seldom play it.. Have both SC games and can't remember if I have SC installed but I may install them tonight (give me something to do).

cphoton 306 here.

Being unable to play world-wide is somewhat disappointing but then again I'm still in bronze and just lost three games in a row and got called a "fucking noob" several times. This is fun.

It is Baumvieh 221 but I already tried adding you which did not work because I'm in Europe.

Maybe it works if we add by e-mail? Mine is: Dennis[minus]Busch[at]gmx[dot]net

After some on-line research I've come to realize that the only way to play different regions and to have multiple accounts is to buy a valid license-key(bound to the region) and to download/install a separate game client for each region.

US-Client still costs 60.00 $ Maybe I will eventually invest into that when I've become a little bit better and meanwhile I'll wait and hope that there will be a patch at some point which would allow having one profile per region without buying another copy of the game.

IIRC, in BW, Diablo, Diablo II, Warcraft III and FT, it was possible to change the region/realm in-game with any version prior to log-in or do I recall that wrong?

I didn't get any message or email either. I wrote a support question to blizzard asking if there was any possibility at all short of buying multiple licenses.

append: Received a reply now which clearly states that buying additional licenses for each region is the only possibility to connect to them.

Dustin 406 here.

Sweet. Run it through the Map Analyzer (I've never used it but it's relied upon) and see what you get.

I need to finish playing the single player mode. I only got to beating the mission where you save the colonists to get the scientist doctor then quit two nights ago.

Dennis: Nice map.

Thanks, if you ever play it, I'd like to read your thoughts about it.

That worked. Though it did not seem to respect impassable doodads(trees, rocks, etc) when calculating those paths. I may need to adjust the map to specifically disallow paths under doodads even though units are already incapable of moving through them by default.

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I watched two matches on that map (let two insane AI players battle it out between each other), one TvZ and one TvP. The Terran AI won both matches with mass bio all-in. Both the Z and the P could have easily defended that though but their own armies were out in the field on their way to the T base both times and they could not come back in time to prevent disaster.

Some good points in there Dustin.

The choke in the main is nice for mid to late game in the case your losing the battle at the (initially blocked big ramp) you can retreat to and defend there to try and save a big chunk of your main. At least that's my experience from the test games I played on that map.

I've made some adjustments and published 0.4 earlier today.

Placed a few more ramps and widened some to allow more flexible use of armies around the center.

Armies can now travel much more quickly taking many different paths to switch between attacking and defending. This way the gold in the center becomes more feasible to take/defend/attack while still keeping it a high risk investment.

Added mountains and chokes near the naturals so they become more easy to defend while still keeping the curved land bridges which work in favor of both the attacker and the defender:
For the attacker to switch flanks in early game to try a different base entrance. For the defender in mid to late game to quickly move his forces around the main to defend far expansions.

annotated map image:
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The AI vs AI battles I watched on the map seemed quit balanced though in AI vs AI they make many stupid mistakes like not scouting enough, attacking protected points instead of taking out expansions, not defending despite having plenty of units near the attack point.

Me too. We are talking about the same choke.

Something else:
I read that maps are region specific too only published to the region used by the battle.net user publishing it via the official map editor. That information however was not from an official source.

Can anyone with a US account please check? (if you can't find the map by searching for 'oceanic' in the custom games then it would seem that maps are indeed region specific as well)

I played SC2 for the first time last night.

The screen is quite zoomed in, can you zoom out further to see more stuff?