you should mention that the map is svn-only.

looks pretty cool on the screenshot, ill check the map soon ^^!

looks awesome i'll look into it today :D
great to see you back in action :)

0.0 can i ask how the # i get this message on a svn version?

"map packages/base/mercury requires a newer version of cube 2: Sauerbraten"

Hmm... i smell another 9- or 10- pointer ;) Downloading and checking now.

EDIT:

@suicizer01: Just update your SVN sauer then from the repository. Should work afterwards. Guess you lost a lot of updates in the meanwhile, depending on when you updated it last time ;)

So...back to the topic: Just like i thought, the map is awesome. Was to expect though, as, you, mIscreant, are one of my favourite map makers and never disappointed me in terms of mapping so far ;)

Had a quick look at it in ffa and ctf, should work fine. Layout is a bit confusing at first, but that's always the case with big ctf maps without a natural surrounding imo...so it takes some time to learn it first.

Clip material seems alright, lighting is nice and atmospheric. Many playerstarts as far as i could see, some in a bit "strange" locations at first sight but it should work fine against spawncamping. It could happen though that some players will fall off the map (through the geometry) due to the fact that the playerstart ents are very close to the walls, but we'll see - we should test it with many players online.

A bit too much ammo laying around for my taste, but again with many players it could just be alright. That was also always the problem with my lostinspace map btw.

Texturing is a bit monotonous at the walls (the colours i mean), still very atmospheric and fitting to lighting etc but maybe some few more textures than just these greyish ones would be nice for the contrast, i could imagine. Though it's very nice already, i think i love it ;)

9/10 - just awesome...keep it up, man :)

Thanks rock for the nice review. :) You are always very honest and upfront in your critiques, so getting a good review from you means a lot. When are you going to release another map, by the way? Lostinspace 2 maybe? xD Would be awesome.

I tend to agree with you about ammo, but I added a little more this time thinking it would be nice for bigger games without affecting small matches too much.

Btw, a new version is uploaded now. I found a couple really obvious texture/geometry errors. Don't know how I missed them before.

Hehe, atm i'm working on level9 again, in fact i'm doing it for months already again, a bit here and a bit there...you know ;) Nothing new in terms of maps though, but who knows, maybe some day i get the motivation and also inspiration to make a new start and work from there again until i like it ;)

And LOL, this happens to me almost every time i load up one of my maps...i just fail to understand how i always miss those damn errors, hehe ;)

New version ? ---> downloading.

hmmm, i'm quite unsure what shall i vote. All in all it seems to be a very nice map, texturing and architecture are pretty cool!
I really dont know about the game play, we should test this map by the next svntest to find how this map works...
I want to point out that there are only two ways to reach the flag, both through big jumppads ( im not sure whether im right or not, pls correct me, if im not :)) maybe you should add one more way to the flag to make defending more diffcult and scoring easier. that involves that the gameplay would be faster , especially because the map seems quite big anyway.

so i vote 8 for now, just because im pretty unsure about the gameplay. After some tests i will probably vote 10!!

Why SVN is needed ?

I already have sauer SVN.

@ rocknrol: That sounds great. I remember playing level 9 a while back and it was pretty difficult. I'll definitely give the revised version a go too.

@ t-chen: Yes you're right, the only way to the flag is by the two jumppads. Actually I did this purposefully to create a need for teamwork to attack the bases. There are already maps like this in sauer (tejen and mach2) with very limited points of entry. And those maps usually have a strong emphasis on defense, which is what I was going for. However, if it proves to be too hard in a test I'll think of a way to add another entry point.

But I think this is offset by the fact that if a team decides to turtle in the base, they're gonna get screwed by quad.

EDIT: Ok, now I've updated it again. Should be better now.

Nothing I do will get this map to work for me, even if it is added to the map list through the SVN update. I have no idea what the problem is.

mIscreant: Actually, forget what i said about the textures. I think it's perfect like it is.