Finally got around to joining

[somecallmeTim]

Long time gamer / mapper -- made Q2 and UT maps long ago and have worked on BF1942, TFC, BF2 maps as well, and have just started working on TF2 maps recently. Also own my own server which is handy and have it set up for a 24 slot TF2 server (Opty 175, 3GB ram, Win server 2003, pair of 160GB SATA) that sits on a fiber POP, bw is excellent. 66.45.163.42 is the IP.

Have gleened a good amount of information from the forums on running the server, and getting back into mapping.

My clan (more of a community, we don't compete) is looking to do some more with custom maps, the "stock" maps have gotten boring. I remember I had hundreds of UT CTF maps back in the day. I am pretty open to doing some testing for mappers -- more later on that.

Yes, I'm older than most of you ... heh (I'm a grandpa and I game)

Tim.

 

[eerieone]

welcome tim
glad to see somebody older than me

curious what maps your long time experience will bring us

 

[The Political Gamer]

Hi and welcome to TF2Maps.net somecallmeTim!

If you have any screen shots of your current or previous mapping endeavorers we would love to see them.

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Don't worry about making it pretty just yet. However, feel free to sign up for gameday for some good testing. Gamedays are on Fridays in the euro server and Saturday/Sunday in the U.S. server.

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[somecallmeTim]

Been lurking here for a while -- fantastic resource
I have my hands full with SpoCon 2009 right now, then moving -- after all that, then I should have some time to get back into mapping. Whew... no. Life does NOT slow down when you get older.

 

[DJive]

Welcome to the community Tim.

Any links of screenshot of past maps you've done?