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This is a great map for a debut.

But it has both advantages and disadvantages.

Disadvantages:
1. The natural objects and terrain are monotonous. Instead of the colorful nature of Ashan, we see uniform mountains surrounded by uniform forests in a uniform area. Also, the transitions between locations should be smoothed out.
2. The steepest slopes of the hills are covered in grass?? It would be better to paint them as rocks.
3. Riverbanks are usually all sand!
4. There is an error in the script. There is no REGION_ENTER_STOP_TRIGGER, only *REGION_ENTER_AND_STOP_TRIGGER.
5. There is an error when loading the PWL image, resulting in a black screen.
6. 999 angels at the start. This is definitely too much.
7. Paired one-way portals?? It's easier to use two-way portals.
8. All the prophet's huts are empty.
9. It is better to remove the piles of artifacts and resources near the demon castle. Give the first ones directly to the hero, and the latter ones after one line of script.
10. It is easier to use masks than to try to fill all the surroundings with objects.
11. Water creeping up steep hills and violating the law of communicating vessels looks strange.
12. A swamp together with water is a normal idea, but together it looks like green patches on a blue background.
13. Objects with hole tiles create holes in the surface when placed on steep surfaces. The human castle did the same.
14. Some objects do not match the surrounding areas. For example, rotting trees on grassy rocks.

Advantages:
1. There are pictures.
2. There are many quests.
3. The map is not a "Custom Map - Kill'em all".
4. The neutrals are placed in a non-random way.
5. There are scripts (!).
6. The plot is good, as always.
7. There are height differences - the map is not flat like the Earth.

CONCLUSION: a good map, especially for a first work! The author put effort into it, and the map is worth playing. But it still needs to be refined. By the way, for the author's convenience, I am attaching a presentation "what you have/how I see it".
Answers to the points of shortcomings:
1) I tried to show what people have done to nature.
2) I will fix it.
3) I will fix it.
4) Thank you, I didn't understand why the script wasn't working.
5) I will fix it.
6) I made a mistake with the map versions - this one is for testing.
7) I had a bug with two-way portals, now I understand why they weren't working. I will fix it.
8) This is the point of the quest "find the prophet", there are several huts, but only one prophet.
9) Point 6.
10) I don't understand. Please explain what masks are.
11, 12, 13) I will fix it.
14) If you mean the ones near the human castle, then that's how it should be. If not, please tell me where?
Thank you for playing my map.
I will probably release an update tomorrow.

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