[Abandoned] Map Submission: CTF-Treasure

[superstein]

This is an un-opblocked (in places) build-enabled beach map. Here are those screenshots:

Spoiler

The level dump:
http://www.mediafire.com/?54gyr8e6v2y6wm9
This map was only built by me, originally.
Although it looks bland, the flags are actually under the X's, creating a hopefully new and fresh type of gameplay with the water also adding into the type of play. I tried to make something a bit unlike all of the other maps on the server and hopefully, it worked! If you need any more things to be explained in detail, please come at me with them. Thanks!
-superstein

 

[Alkatraz]

I think the general idea is nice. But I think there are a few problems, some may not exist, as I am just looking at the pictures not in game:

• Once the sand etc is destroyed, the flags are going to be awfully closed.
• Spawning above water is just asking for spawnkilling as players move very slowly in water.
• As you said yourself, the map is pretty bland, with not much height variation, perhaps add some sandy hills or dunes, with greater variation in height.
• This is just a guess, but I'm assuming the solid underneath the map is flat. I would suggest the solid is made like Eyeball, with contours, (perhaps with the sand following those contours up on the top of the map
• The river in the middle of the map is very wide, and also not very deep, perhaps make it thinner and deeper.

I would suggest you make it contoured and perhaps make the way into the flag room by following the dotted line in a tunnel underneath solid but perhaps with nice cobble/mossy cobble walls. And maybe a hole in the top of the flag room. Which we could then Op air so people can't pillar back up
So you can jump down the hole to the flag, capture it, and then have to run out the tunnel, before running back over to your side of the map, back down the hole, or through the tunnel to cap it.

 

[superstein]

Ok, will do. However, a bit of clarification - do you want the contours for the river only, and potentially where else? If anybody has some good suggestions they'd like to give feel free. Thanks!

 

[GOODYSMOODY]

I personally wouldn't mind seeing more hills, or depressions in the ground. I find it to flat, which makes pistol kills and the like way to easy to get. That's pretty much all I want to see.

 

[superstein]

I'm working on it right now. Will do, thanks.

 

[Alkatraz]

Ok, will do. However, a bit of clarification - do you want the contours for the river only, and potentially where else? If anybody has some good suggestions they'd like to give feel free. Thanks!

The river and maybe some of the sand as well, ping me at some point when we're both on TNT (or I'm on the IRC) and I'll come take a look at the same time and try to explain a bit better! :D

(Sorry if I came across as a bit of an arse in the first post saying: "WRONG, Wrong, Wrong, wrong, wong, wrong, WRONG!")

 

[GOODYSMOODY]

Yeah, took me a while to figure out what you were saying there alkatraz. But that would make things better.
Otherwise, great job :D

 

[superstein]

Thanks to both, and no problem :) I already have solided the center river and fixed the height and depth, working on landscape now and have a good fix for the spawns.

 

[GOODYSMOODY]

Sounds good :)
I look forward to seeing the end result.

 

[superstein]

Ok, will finish for good soon. The solid underground will be very hard, here is an update so far before I finalize ground. Do you need anything else fixed?

Spoiler

 

[GOODYSMOODY]

I took a look and it looks very good so far.

 

[Marnixxie]

This will end up with rounds being 25 - 28

 

[superstein]

This will end up with rounds being 25 - 28

Woah, I actually didn't think of this. Thanks for bringing this up, I have a fix that I will implement later. Hopefully it will cut that down quite a bit.

 

[superstein]

I give up on doing this map, would be too much work to make it work. Deny and lock please, due to lack of interest/mixed name/other ideas?
Thanks for your time.