Hey, I was just wondering, what are strings for? are they erally important for map making?
Strings are text. You use them already, but just don't know it. Anything you input, be it a unit name, displayed message, leaderboard description, map title, force name, etc... they all use one string each. So yeah, they're vital.
Related question: Do the default settings for units and all the other things still count as strings?
The default strings on a new map include the title, description, Anywhere location, and force names. No other defaults takes up a string. You can use StarForge or SCMD2 or another program to look at all the strings used at any time.