> put a ton of minerals and 4 gas in the center
> surround it with unbuildable terrain so you can't even expand there
oh yeah, it's map design time 
Anyways, unironically bring back this era of RTS design, before we actually knew how anything worked. Balance? What's that, I just laid it out like this because it looked cool on the minimap :gigachad:
Reminds me when I had the map editor for Red Alert 2 and I filled an island map full of dinosaurs but forgot to put in any resources. I also made a big, narrow winter map with a large wall in the middle like Berlin. I didn't know anything about it at the time, I was a wee lad, but I preferred playing the soviets because they were the cool ones.