Thanks for playing. Do you have an opinion on the new river paths I added recently? It's a drastic change, but so far I've found it makes for a higher intensity game and encourages closer teamwork.

Yes. It is. I play it because I like bottlenecks. Making it with 5 paths to defend doesn't make it into a bottleneck anymore. / Actually, so far we've found that if we are going to have holes everywhere, we might as well play on an open map. There is *NO* POINT to there being a main road at all, if 4 other paths do just as well. / It's like going to Europe for your honeymoon. Only to find your parents invited themselves over to your nice penthouse and completely redorated it to be newyorkesque. With NewYork pizza, New York everything.

I think you would succeed better if you just took away the dam and have an open map.
You'd have a higher intensity game that would encourage closer teamwork. Because right
now, it is entirely possible to COMPLETELY ignore the dam. It's not a focus for the map.

Actually, you did not make it focused and intense.
You made it dilute. Because the action is now all over the place.
Why not just play on an open map instead?

Look at the minimap at right. Now remove all paths (and the river, too). Just bring
together the two sides. Now doesn't that 'create a higher intensity game and encourages
team work' ? Mind you, you could achieve that with one big blank square of a map.

After all, topography just gets in the way of 'teamwork' :)

have no clue how to download the map or which folder to paste it to

Click subscribe. Wait. Close game, reopen game. It's there. In custom, in the map collection. You might also not need to close the game, but this is only if you are absolutely certain.