Build Around The Track

grazr

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Are you the one to win 1 years subscription then? We'll find out later. I've merely put my money where my mouth is so people shouldn't be that bothered if i'm wrong because they get free stuff.

But it looks like you've fallen into predictions 1, 3 and 4. What happened to the track not limiting peoples creativity? You conformed to the tracks limits by 75%.
 
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Trotim

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ok get this

blu spawns on the cart, red on the end of the track
blu has to ride the cart to the end, but watch out! the entire floor is a deathpit so you only walk on the track models
 

Sergis

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Are you the one to win 1 years subscription then? Let's find out. I've put my money where my mouth is so people shouldn't be that bothered if i'm wrong because they get free stuff.

But it looks like you've fallen into predictions 1, 3 and 4.

i do fall into 1, but that's because i had no reason to make the building any different. the simpliest solution was good enough for the speedmapping i did. as you might notice from the pic i posted, it wouldn't be hard for me to change it should i decide to bother.
i dont fall into 3, as my optimization is further down the track and i also dont fall into 4, as i dont consider that a problem and therefore did nothing about it.

25% that can easily be reduced to 0. what you posted are not limitations. they are just the most obvious solutions and anyone who'll bother to do something more complex, will easily find a way to do it.

instead of making your own challenges, you should try to make your own map. if you try hard enough to be creative instead of declaring "this does not comply with my standarts and therefore is bad", you might actually discover that the track isn't half as bad as you portray it.
 
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Turbo Lover

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yay a playable alpha!

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now i can take a break for 58 days.

Ever heard of dev textures? Because they're so much easier on the eye than that... thing and are much better at letting you recognise if you're in your team's territory, and thus safer, or in the enemy's, and in a lot of trouble.
 
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ok get this

blu spawns on the cart, red on the end of the track
blu has to ride the cart to the end, but watch out! the entire floor is a deathpit so you only walk on the track models

I tried. Track models don't have collisions. :(
 

TheKieranator

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Okay so we have established we cannot modify the track - the cart has to follow the path Littleedge has defined. What I want to know now is: can we exchange track pieces for track pieces that branch off eg the piece which is straight with a corner coming out the side of it? This would be purely a detail thing - it would not affect the path of the Payload.
 

lana

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Yeah of course, Kieranator. As long as the path the cart takes isn't changed or shrunken, if you replace a straight with that one prop that's a straight and a curve, do it. The path the track takes must be the same.

Wait, that wasn't in the rules. The rules said the track has to remain the same, not the path.
 
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agreed @joshua.
 

tyler

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as though he changed any rule that had any impact except for people that were just fucking around anyway
 

lana

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as though he changed any rule that had any impact except for people that were just fucking around anyway

The contest went from "do whatever you want but keep the track" to "you can't change anything." That's pretty significant impact.
 

littleedge

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Can't just change the rules like that man. Maps are already being made. It's unfair of you to keep changing your mind on what's acceptable, and what's not.

Except the people who are serious have not been affected.

The contest went from "do whatever you want but keep the track" to "you can't change anything." That's pretty significant impact.

I only added the "Must be a TF2 map" rule and clarified the wording in another rule.
 

lana

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You changed the rule from literally saying "do whatever you want with the map" to be incredibly strict.
 

Wilson

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Just make the cat image map in tf2 then, jesus.

Why is there 2 pages of this anyway, besides the track start issue i think track is just fine in sense of challenge, stop fighting about it and stop trolling the contest.