Looks GREAT!
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Limesimme
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- Dec 23, 2008
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A friend of mine said that there'll be the official winner and the community winner.
That is, there will be one map that Valve chooses and will be the official map, and then there will be one map that the community likes better and plays more.
There will be only one winner, that is chosen by Valve.
One official winner. What would stop the community from liking one of the other three dozen maps more?
HeaH
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- Oct 2, 2008
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Wouldn't change the fact that there can only be one
That sounds a little counter intuitive. Picking one that the community doesn't like, to go official. Since that will be the one lumped into the communities lap. Yet they wont play it, because there's a better "custom" one.
Oh, its really easy to understand.
Fact: the map plays poorly
Fact: changing how the map plays gets you disqualified
Speculation: one contest entry changes gameplay to be good/balanced/fun
Inferred: Said map would be disqualified from the official contest
Speculation: winning entry still ends up not playing well
Conclusion: map that has good gameplay is not official and is played more than the official map.
I'm not so certain the map does play that badly. My main concern is that the layout doesn't do much for optimisation. At least if you don't intend to surround your map in cliffs like this.
Which is one thing that does kinda bug me about this entry. The complete lack of any sunlight. Tall cliffs and buildings everywhere.
Which is one thing that does kinda bug me about this entry. The complete lack of any sunlight. Tall cliffs and buildings everywhere.
Fact: this post extrapolates conditions in ways it shouldn't.
- Feb 26, 2008
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Optimization is the #1 reason for changes I've made to the map for sure
There was an entire string of posts in the FAQ thread about how people thought it was poorly balanced (including a location where a single sentry could spawncamp Blue).
I even recently added a func_nobuild brush outside the right-side exit of Red spawn, as I could trivially hold down the final point with a sentry there on the corner (at least, hold it down from bots when Blue-bots were single handedly rotfstomping the Red-bots).
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No need to finish. Would increase my chance of winning immensely 
