Ok you might think I am actually gone crazy by the time I spend thinking about this game but, what can I say? I love it and want it to become better and better.

I was thinking to a major improvement to the map editor (the one that allows to draw the terrain by hand).
This improved version would allow the player to draw the terrain like the default one do and, in addition would allow the player to decide where each object of a given theme would be placed by moving (and maybe rotating?) the object.png in a map where the terrain is already displayed like generated with all the land texture and background and this stuff.

If the hedgewars frontend wouldn't be compatible with this genre of changing I was thinking at another solution that would solve the problem: an unofficial application like the one that Kobewi did for the theme editor for this particular goal. I was thinking that the map, once completed could be saved like an image map, I dont know if this is a good idea tho.

But I already imagine you asking: "Why?"

Well the answer is not what you expect, in fact I dont want this feature for the classic "it would be cool" motif but for achieving the goal of Balance in relation to Map Design.
Keep in mind that when I talk about these things in the back of the head I have the dream of Hedgewars being played in a complete balanced and competitive enviroment (the gamemodes I keep in mind are the The Specialists modes).
So I started thinking what are the limits right now that prevents this dream to become true. The first thing that came to my mind was the map imbalance.

A randomly generated map (imagine a maze map) could bring imbalance for different causes:

1.one side (left/right) is more advantegeous than the other;
2.the top half of the map is always more powerful than the bottom half for more than 1 reason, for example the classic highground advantage and the sudden death mechanic advantage (regarding this point I actually think it would be better for the water not to rise from the bottom but to slowly drop from the top, but it would be weird so).
3.random objects placement generates random power positions (by power positions I mean spots that guarantee some sort of balance between safety from attacks and offensive opportunities).

All these problems could be solved with this improved map editor. In fact the advantage of the top half of the map could be counterbalanced by the addition of power positions in the lower half but this can happen only in a map where the objects are placed by a map designer and not randomly placed.

What do you think?