o_0 Holy crap, you're right. >_> Uhm, it was... deliberate, yeah. Because this is an alpha, so I used the letter A. And stuff. >_>

Sheetin: yes, the tower jumppads do not take you all the way up, I actually spent a good amount of time figuring out exactly how much I wanted them to be. The idea is that an experienced player will know that they have to jump onto those 'pads, if they want to et up there quickly. A newcomer will have to waste a couple of seconds bouncing. Just my way of trying to reward experience, I'm looking for other little ways. (fake rocks?)

I'm gonna ask Aard if he minds me making a 256 sketch texture to use for the background stuff, but I have no plans of switching out the small textures, because if I do I'll loose the variability in the small texture, where it matters a bit more, you know? I don't want the edges to be too consistent, just generally consistent.

About the lighting: it definitely needs work. I was playing around with blue lighting in the tunnels before I uploaded this, trying to make the water seem to be affecting the light, but I think that in retrospect that was a really bad idea. Really and truly, I probably need to go through the whole map with a bunch of large, weak lights to try and get a consistent flow. Note of interest, it's really easy to use the lights in this map to create color gradients, rather than trying to do it with shaders. Another note of interest, I was really considering doing the lighting manually, with darkened textures, but I decided that it would take too long. :)

Dude, there's rockets and armour aplenty, and a quad right in the middle of the map. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to get on the hills. If I had really not wanted people up there I would have clipped it off. Being indifferent, I neither clipped it nor took the extra time to make a path up there.

The reason this is on the front page (at least as far as I know) is the texture config. The map is just a demo, as I so tongue-tiedly stated before. The point is that Sauer can, with three textures and just a little typing, produce a full gamut of color that is easy to use and adjust to your needs, and runs at a blistering speed.

Anyone else have some map design requests before I reupload this map, now with spellchecking?

Yeah, the underground river. It's ugly. Fix it. :P

Rough brown cubes would make a rather nice cave... I mean "rough" almost on the level of the trees (which are also ugly, come to think of it).

: The reason this is on the front page (at least as far as I know) is the texture config.

Correct, I promoted this node to the front page based on the value the texture set provides to the community. There is already another map using it too :)