Map Battles - Suggestions

[Blink]

Yeah, like have several mini battle in one battle, best archetechture, best lighting, best displacement, best scripting

This sounds most beneficial

[ghost|con]

Like 3 Judges they give a score out of ten, (or 100)

Or i could make a vmf with like 40 squares, 40 cylinders, 20 props, 20 lights and i could send it to blink or sumthin and everyone can dload it and they have to make a map from that using nothing else apart from those, they will need to prove they havnt added extra blocks or props in.

[Meotwister]

ehh don't know about that, I was just thinking like do competitions that focus on one area of mapping, not discriminating against custom content.

Or you could just add subcategories to the competitions like Best Lighting or Just Kick Ass In General, etc.

yeah, I also like the way the map battles have been (least the ones I was a part of). Give a theme, make a map for fun quick practice.

[Jest@]

Like 3 Judges they give a score out of ten, (or 100)

Or i could make a vmf with like 40 squares, 40 cylinders, 20 props, 20 lights and i could send it to blink or sumthin and everyone can dload it and they have to make a map from that using nothing else apart from those, they will need to prove they havnt added extra blocks or props in.

I found something on a photo/design board that's kinda a little similar...link here: http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_thread ... =27&page=1 . The way their battles work is you choose an opponent, and you pass a file back and forth between each other, improving the piece bit by bit, you're not allowed to toally obscure the previous work. Maybe we could attempt something similar, it gets really personal and competitive in a joking kinda way. Dunno how we'd organise it though. Still, some kind of modification on this idea could be kinda cool?

[Rocket_Robinhood]

the only problem with doing that is mapping takes much more time than photos, yet it still could be interesting

[BaRRaKID]

what about a actual comptetion with brackets, and such. All battles would be in a 1 on 1 format, and we could get a group stage and all that crap like in a cs tournment

[Rocket_Robinhood]

could be interesting but youd wouldnt want it to be a 1 loss and your done, people still want to have fun, but i think that would be an awesome fun and likely best way to go

[ghost|con]

Sounds a Bit Complicated But it can be done maybe we could do a mass battle
i dunno, or we could just do the simple one everyone download the vmf with all the brushes, entitys lights all scattered around in the void, and they make a map from that

[KILLA-COW]

Let just do an old skool map off between whoever wants to enter!

OR maybe as a change make 2 teams of mappers and then both teams make sections to make 1 map and the best overall map wins kinda like testing teamwork and stuff and letting more people with less time to enter.

[Rocket_Robinhood]

ne pas de teams

[Jest@]

yeah, i think any 1-on-1's or tournaments or whatever should be done later, for now i think regular battles just to get ppl into it more. raise the profile of them first, then get crazy.

[Rocket_Robinhood]

true, that would be ideal, i cant wait till this new battle gets started

[ghost|con]

When do you think there will be a battle?

[Vallian88]

How about the most beautiful looking canyon every witnessed by human eyes? I think a landscape map battle would be very benifial for using more than just brushes for maps. A lot of people don't know how to make really good looking displacements, and this could encourage them to learn. I guess I'm just endorsing the displacement map battle idea, whoever came up with that...

[5eyes]

I think we should stick with the regular battles, i mean you don't wanna scare away noobs... (like me -_-)

making the best canyon, etc... might be made a tad unfair by this tuturial http://interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4597 (which btw has anyone tried it?)

and another idea could be have a start of a map, than have it passed around to everyone who wants to be involved to add their own addition like for instance u start out with a small hill, one mapper might add a bunker, another might add a secret nuke silo, another might go and add a house, another throw in a river/lake, and have it continue like that till either everyone has added something or a time limit is reached...