I find your lack of faith disturbing, lord Orpheus - while my and A_S' output, even in total, is somewhat less than prodigious, the map is almost finished as it is, and quite solid even in its current form.

By the way, my name is Tom.

*bumps*

well after a saucy session of goat, hows this map coming along dave? cass?

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It's not. It's on hiatus for the moment. I have exams up to the 21st. Work will resume then, don't you worry.

cool, my B-Day is the 22^nd.. you may begin then and celebrate both

Oh, so saucy.

Anyway, I should have my real computer back by then, so I can actually do more than move two brushes in the space of two days. /me slaps laptop

A_S, the map so far looks good.... But...

I'm a little worried. Must of the maps that come out of the snarkpit appear to graphic show maps (No offense to anyone! really!). I kinda feel that your average HL player isn't going to be TO concerened with graphics -- since most them are absolutely fine with playing the all time 1 texture map "kill box"

Dedicated server runners out there are paying about 52 $ a month to run their public server. So naturally, they don't want to waste any money -- they are going to try and cram as many players into one map. So, they aren't going to want a small map.

From my playing experience as an HL player (not mapper), I tend to want nice big fat maps --- they have more replay value, they are funner, and there is generally more in-genious ways to get lost and explore the map So, when I play a small map, even though it graphically is brilliant, I play for 30 seconds, in the time walking the entire map, then setting it calmly aside in my maps folder to never play it again.

I think everyone here needs to not be so picky about each graphical flaw, and "how it doesn't look like an UT map". Focus more on a map that is simply fun to play, and won't be used up in 30 seconds. Design the maps as if they were single player maps -- naturally, you want all the map you can get into your map.

Remember: Valve releases God awful looking maps every patch, and cs and HL players just eat them right up. Probably because they're fun.

Just my /2 dollars...

Yippie Ki Yay!

DOH. That "Edit" bit on one of my previous post I said completely backwards and wrong. I meant that you should be mapping the way you want it. Just pretend I never put that little "edit" bit up there, I said it competely wrong.

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