This map was created in response to the following request: Could you do a Southwest Mesas map? Desert map with sparse wood, lots of elevated self-enclosed cliffs and cliff plateaus with gold/stone at their foothills.
Could make the lack of wood an interest gameplay feature also.
I wasn't able to follow the request exactly, because controlling cliffs in a random map script is tricky business and is somewhat limited in what you can actually do. The wood isn't too limited, but it will be further away from you than you are used to. All the other resources are pretty standard. No deer, but a few more sheep instead.
To play choose the following when setting up a match:
There is a very small chance that you will be completely separated from the other players by cliffs. This should only happen very, very rarely, and you will need to remake the match if this happens.
v2.2
-fixed elevation scaling
v2.1
-added the new cliff avoidance for DE
-added the DE koth resource trickle
v2
-updated for DE and African Kingdoms
-added 50% chance to be ECL style
-added the ECL version to the download too