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Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:04 am
by johnnyenglish
Posted by SevenofNine on Urban Zone


In association with Custom Map Makers.

Back in the olden days Oswald hosted Urban Radio which has a “server of the week” where people could join in the public server and play against him. For me as a relative noob I was thrilled when I got mentioned, “chuffed for life” are the words I’d use.

Anyway enough sentimental drivel, this is something we want to replicate but then for custom maps. One evening a month we highlight a new custom map, we play the map in TS and CTF and if possible bomb. This will be streamed live on twitch.tv. It won’t be a match but a public server, we have a couple of guests (see below) and the rest of the slots are open to the public. After, lets say an hour, our guests and the presenter review the map giving them their insight as player, mapper and developer. Together we give it a score out of 5 (the same system the download area has). This way we get people more interested in custom maps.


We've decided to hold the first "map of the month" on or around the 28th September 2012, we'll be opening up one of the CMM servers to anyone who wants to participate, this event will be telivised on twitchTV, SevenofNine will be joined in the commentary by Delirium and HappyDay.

Our server will host and we'll aim to play CTF, TS and if possible Bomb - all CMM members are encouraged to drop by and participate if possible.

We're still trying to decide on the map we use but all comments and suggestions are welcome.

For the purpose I've created a special page here that will explain things a little more and, closer to the event show a form for voting and comments.

Cheers John

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:22 am
by gsigms
pretty neat idea :)

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:58 am
by xandaxs
I wanted to shoutcast :'(

Why not doing sugarmill by valkie? :P
Or derelict, or the new tohunga.. :D

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:25 pm
by johnnyenglish
First post updated with link to Map of the Month page.

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:51 am
by Rylius
Just don't choose Italy. Ever.
Don't waste your time, the map is canceled. Period.

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:34 am
by DagF
Idea to form.

Suggestions to make it simpler are apreachiated

Map Title
Map Maker
Reviewed By
Review Score

Gameplay
*Spawns
*Paths
*Balance
*Lines of sight
*Clipping
*Flag/Flaggs/bomb placement
*Adaption to deigned gamemodes
*Designed size

Appearance
*originality
*Skybox
*Textures
*Models
*Clipping
*Sounds
*Theme
*Locations

Mapping
*Textures
*Brushwork
*Package
*Shaders
*Compile
*Unused files
*Caulk
*Read Me

each * gets a grade 1-5.
that's a maximum of 40 per category.
That's a maximum of 120 points in total.

0-24 : *
25-48 : **
49-72 : ***
73-96 : ****
96-120 : *****

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:46 am
by xandaxs
We should also judge the factor "Jumps" considering wether or not a map is jumper friendly.

BTW: You used "Clipping" on Gameplay and on Appearence, what differs one from the other?


List of maps to play on this project:
  • Tohunga_b10
  • Derelict
  • Sugarmill
  • Exhibition

(I'll take a look at other good maps! :)

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:28 pm
by DagF
the differense i was thinking about was.
Gameplay. brushes that blocks you off that should have been clipped(corner on walls and things that is anoing if you slide and get stuck by). Apearence is areas that is blocked off in a way that make it feel like you walk on a invisible wall for no reason, also if a round ubject is 100% squear [].

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:44 am
by Rayne
Just one simple question, how many maps were released in August.

Re: Urban Zone and CMM map of the month

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:43 am
by johnnyenglish
I think the term "map of the month" is a bit misleading, it doesn't mean "maps released this month", it means a map will be chosen and featured for that month by promoting the map to server owners, featured on SevenofNines shoutcast and run 24/7 on our servers. We'll also try to give some organised feedback for the mapper.

Looking back over 2012 there have been a lot of worthy maps released but with very little interest, just to name a few at random.

ut4_loco_b1 (one of my fave maps and very underrated)
ut4_area3 (got a lot of interest but I've never played this on a server)
ut4_metro


I could probably list more maps which deserve attention and I guess other people could suggest more, we'll just work our way through them and as new maps are released, add them to the pool.

I have no idea if this is going to work out but it's an attempt to help mappers "sell" their maps to a wider audience and surely thats a good thing?

Also it might be fun.