a plea to mappers -
10-02-2002, 02:43 PM
I'm not a map creator, but I have played through a number of user-made maps and have noticed a common flaw that many of them have: too much access to buildings (and the rooms inside).
In the official maps, the designers seem to have realized that if you give every building in town a door that opens to the inside, players will never find each other. Many of the user maps I've tried have medium sized towns, but when every building has rooms to run through that makes finding other players a chore.
Example: The Route d' nord map is AWESOME, but I wish more of the buildings were just inaccessible structures.
I'm sure it also affects the vis'ing of a level and makes framerates a lot lower, so there's another reason for an ecomony of rooms.
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Keep up the good work!
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