On useast we now have the channel Op Bwmn.
We have an op bot and soon to be trivia.
If you have any questions or requests direct them to me as I will be managing the channel.
I am interested in getting showcase tournaments together. The idea is every active mapper gets to add one of their recent maps to the tournys map pool and it would be like bo3 loser chooses map. First map would be picked by random.
I use the op teamliquid channel on ICCup. My username is the same. Feel free to message me if you see me online. Me and 3FFA have played a few UMS games together in the last week and a few 3v3 games aswell.
Just letting you know that I'm not dead, but I'm retiring from map making. Starcraft was a fun part of my life, but I'm moving on now.
Goodbye everyone and thanks for the fun times.
I love your maps K_A. Although I never played with you personally Ive been lurking and using the maps here for quite a while.
Can I ask you and everyone else a favour. Could you please upload your custom palletes. I and other new map makers could greatly benefit from all of the utility maps that all the experienced map makers have created. Ofcourse you may want to keep your pallettes secret and I can understand that if you do.
I take no stock in "custom palettes". There's little use in most of those. And people always get tempted to make a map just "to use that neat blend/bridge/ramp", which is not a motivation that leads to a good map... If you want to utilize something that you spotted in another mapper's map the best way to do so is to download that map, understand what he has done there, make sure it's actually working and not bugged in some way and recreate or advance it.
The second best way is to just copy and paste it from the map of course :P
One can do that with every map (and an unprotector in the worst case), no need for special "palette" maps.
I would not trust in most of the ramp and custom blend maps in the database anyway, a lot of them are severely bugged in one way or another (typically unbuildable or cover providing tiles or terrain level issues).
To avoid such problems there's no way around understanding the issues and learning how to avoid them.
What I can do is write guides on technical aspects, if there is a demand. Just let me know if there is something that you are missing in the database.
Freakling can you write an article on how to make custom ramps? Someone mentioned that you were really good with them and I wanted to try making some...
Ok, finally decided to check back on this. Good bye K_A. I came back just to hear some of your and other's jokes... guess I won't hear yours. :( Just wondering, what have you replaced the time spent on SC with? Girls? School? Sports? You were a pretty good map maker, although you weren't here nearly as long as I expected you to be here for. Also, this is sort of off topic, but is USWEST totally dead? :o
I devour your guides Freakling. I can quite safely verify that Terrain level issues and Tileset bugs are areas Im NOT an expert in haha.
Any wisdom you guys share is greatly appreciated.