On another note, how much input will people have on the track design. Will it just be 1 person (you) throwing out the track or will you be taking suggestions?
Also if we're allowed to change the height/angle of the tracks i assume elevators will be acceptable?
I plan for Track Design to be a group effort if my first idea doesn't work out.
If you're able to change the height/angle of tracks, elevators would be a tricky thing. An elevator increases the length of the map, so the only way it'd be allowed is if you replaced, say, a 128-unit long piece of track with a 128-unit tall elevator. Which then changes the topdown view of the map. So I dunno.
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One thing for everyone that's helped me on this second set of questions. I posted the new questions in a new post on Page 3 and rewrote the OP. But they weren't the same when I reworded the questions a little. An example of this being the 4th question. 5 and 3 were not the numbers I was planning on using, just my first choice. I later changed it to X and a short period, the length being determined later.
Currently, 7 people want the two deadlines and 6 want the single deadline. I personally prefer the two deadlines for the sake of giving everyone an incentive to continue with their map or not. Those 7 asked for C, which lets you fix the layout of the map during the second phase; it's just that if you don't submit a map during the first deadline, you can't go on. There wouldn't really be any requirements for each deadline - suggestions of where you should be, sure, but no requirements. It'll give people an incentive to get going, in my mind.
As mentioned above, the first deadline doesn't require you only have worked on layout. You could finish your map in 72 hours if you wanted to. You'd just have to submit it to the deadlines.
If this changes your answer, please go edit your post. I'll go through them again when I get enough responses - I'm looking for four more.
