I suck at forging, and usually get bored and give up before I get anywhere, but I had this awesome idea for a map! I do have the skill to draw it, however. what would happen is people would spawn at the edges of the map. Then there is this bigt slope down to the middle of the map, where there is a little hold out with a tower on top. I think the extra protection under the tower would balance with the high ground advantage of everywhere else on the map. there would be walkways to and from the tower, and around the tower, so you can get there. along the slope would be little bunkers and platforms and stuff, so you can get some cover away from the middle and the edges of the map. Anyways, I don't have the time or skill to make this right, so if anyone else wants to try, I think it would be pretty simple for an experienced forger.
I assume there won't be any Power weapons here? Also.. I could only understand your FFA plan. The other sketchup prob. won't work, no offense.
It's a nice idea, but the biggest problem I can see is that if players see other players about to drop in from the grav lift, they can just toss a nade and one shot, because they always land in the same place. Also, It seems like for the most part the map design would just promote 1 to 1 kill trade offs because it would probably be tough to recharge your shields if the center design was simple.
Actually, I went back to try it again, and instead of building the ground first, I built the bottom of the tower first,and ended up finishing most of the map. The sketch-up sucks; It was better when it was bigger, but photo bucket shrunk it. I took out the Gravlifts and the top floor of the tower. My main problem is that if anyone spawned at a neutral spawn in the team games, they have easy-shots at the other team, or are easy shots for the other team.