The January Map

[Sass]

Ok folks, most of you have seen it but if you haven't been to Hyperspace to see it - go now, the new map is IN! I'd like to thank the following people for their contribution to the map:

 

1. Sharpflame - built many bases (we chose three), designed the new center safe and the junk around the center.

2. Aquarius - built the base tags.

3. Charmed3 - built base located in sector 1

4. Burglary - built base located in sector 4

5. Legas & Stray - they don't play here but they contributed a base located in sector 3 via Aquarius

6. Jowie - built the base located in sector 6. Actually Jowie updated it after my request but I did not put that version in. Thanks for your hard work Jowie.

7. Sinn, Creamy the Cow, enigma, and others who were involved in the testing. Thanks!

 

What do you think? Be objective please.

[Linear-Key]

A few small details things I noticed:

 

-There's a little glitch or something in the left wall of the left HT. Everybody probably already noticed this.

 

-With the new ID tunnel, it no longer warps you to the center of the tunnel. While flying through it, the wormholes' gravity now causes your ship to rock up and down slightly. This probably isn't that important though.

 

-You used to be able to shoot into the center safe by perfectly staying on the blue line in front of safezone, to force a flagger in safe to drop their flags. This is no longer possible, as the weapon-stopping tiles are now touching the safezone directly. Similar case with the 4 shops. This also, probably isn't important, since there are other ways to force the flagger to drop flags.

[Choose Profile]

center area needed a change

[»CypherJF]

s!@#$%^&*, you know what i think needs changed.

[11___________]

Overall, the bases are great should be a great success. The safe looks professionally done and is great for first-impressions. Center is decent, and we still have a shrine to worship the Gods.

 

Bases: Often too simplistic at times. I feel like its just tetris and not a deadly spacestation or lava tube or whatever. I apply this to a few parts on most bases (bl excluded). The themes\colors are redundant. OK, i know there is more than gray, blue, red and combining them to create colors. Maybe some greens, yellows, or browns. The colors can be mixed and a base could be red combining to blackish green. Safe zones are great for bases, but the bases with them are rarely used due to the enemy withdrawing a lanc only when the bl is broken. A safe at every base or no base could create a more fair experience. "Base" 8 is still pretty useless. I recommend putting .?duel in it with a bot. Move the buy zone, add stands for the players in a safe zone with everything thor\bomb\bulletproof.

Center: The new safe zone looks fantastic. There is plenty of new geometric shapes for 1v1 to 3v3 dueling, but in reality its flooded. The constant repeating shapes can't be everywhere. The center base was extremely popular with bountiers\flaggers\screwing around alike. I think it deserves an expansion to 1\4 base or 1\3.

 

my views are subject to change, hatred, biasness, and sexiness.

[Aceflyer]

"Base" 8 is still pretty useless. I recommend putting .?duel in it with a bot. Move the buy zone, add stands for the players in a safe zone with everything thor\bomb\bulletproof.

 

I always thought the main use of sector 8 ("Base" was just to have a nice, distant place away from center to put the TW Hub and Scrap & Salvage. You wouldn't want the TW Hub or especially Scrap & Salvage in a sector with an actual base, that would make those bases rather weaker.

[FireFox13]

Thoughts on the bases themselves will come later...I want to give them all a fair chance first...no first opinions for you.

 

However, there is a small thing that's bugging me about the center...

 

The lanc needs to be moved one tile to the right....and the levi and weasel should be swapped....and then the weasel will need to be moved one tile to the left....and the levi one tile to the right...and then it'll all be perfectly centered, and I'll be happy.

[tcsoccer and neptune]

sure... forget that i helped test too... or maybe i'm thinking of something else Edited January 8, 2008 by neptune171

[Pity.]

Just my opinion.

 

Cause bases are made my different players, you can tell right away which base is more overpowered than others, anyways generally, I just think the bases are too long and thor-proof flag rooms reduces the challenge

[6639_1757902791]

I love center, And i love the bases. If there was something bad about it I would have said it while i was testing. So every thing is grate IMO.

[No_Remorse]

@Linear-Key : To my knowledge, if you hover on top of the item barrier tiles surrounding the safe, you can still manage to get a few bullets or a bomb through. Tested, works.

[J.x.]

The other day the flags got stuck in a section in base three, if I remember maybe near P17 these vertical thin bars and someone dropped these batch of flags there that were impossible to retrieve. Maybe make the gaps big enough for a shark to get in, or block the flags from goin there. I like the bases especially 1, 7, & 5 at the mo.