how do you use it

i'm not sure who did this but when i joined the server there was a giant blue guy roasting a pig on the fire pit, got a laugh out of it had to share:

http://i.imgur.com/38KcE.png

I bet he'd just increase the map size at that point. I follow you, though.

I'd like to see an island map that looks more generated then produced but each map i see gets me closer to trying my hand at one that is based around a generated map. The idea probably sucks and i don't see my self mastering voxed any time soon.

Traditional on gen maps was:
- green: build defenses behind river (not at map center)
- blue: rush green, build roads to rush green

But there was still room for a lot more activity than that, that was just the primary activity (e.g. green tunnelling, etc). And Ben's generated map has a much wider front where people fight, which made the game a lot more fluid in terms of running into enemy territory unopposed and such, at least with only 32 players.

The custom maps I'm talking about all concentrate the players into a much narrower area in the center so there's always somebody up there for you to shoot and to shoot you, removing most of the subtlety and turning it into a shooting gallery. Reducing the spawn area and making it a shooting gallery means that players are constantly respawning near the intel, undermining the intel capping gameplay.

(Probably Ben's gen map would play similarly if we had 100 or 200 player limits, because this is effectively about player density in the playable areas of the map--custom maps reduce the playable area to increase the density.)

isn't that what we ... always do? .. on every map?

Green: Rush blue
Blue: Build in middle, wait for green to stop.

At least that is the impression i get from GEN/Customs.

(Then again i can't ever find a server hosting Nothing's Gen addons)

Oh, is that what it's supposed to look like. It was just a flat dull wasteland the two times I've visited servers running it. I'll have to try again once we get map resetting.

Unfortunately for my tastes it still seems like even with resets it's just going to be yet-another shoot-each-other-in-the-center-of-the-map map that are all any server other than ServerBot ever runs anymore.

chop down the palm trees

but spawn area is small enough that you should be able to see it in plain sight when you spawn

Play as the blue.

how should i recognize my green tent on the map lol?

That looks pretty sick. Imagine the building opportunities.

Looks good.

Played it, pretty fun

Awesome stuff. I'll be playing this.

a long, narrow island surrounded by some boats and tiny islands

pics:

map view
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=76;image

blue spawn
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=78;image

green spawn
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=80;image

center of map
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=82;image

ship
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=84;image

crow's nest
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=86;image

shipwreck
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=88;image

random
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=90;image

welcome screen
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=101.0;attach=92;image

download:
http://aloha.pk/files/aos/maps/island.vxl

thanks, only saw one but he has been banned from all aloha servers

What everybody should do in these kinds of instances is to just leave the server. Cheaters won't have anybody to cheat against.

ok i just gotta say right now there is about 5 speed hackers on ALoha Uswest speed hackers.. taking intel, griefing... and annoying stuff.. been on about 10 mins no one vote kicking them..

izzy please go on, or someone with power to kick go on...

Is a great map, I love playing with some fellow blues and just going nuts for hours. You guys did well, up until people griefed the hell out of both sides. Was a shame. :/

I love maps that don't have to be complicated to be fun.

As I have said once before.

TF2: The Game

Endless action, excellent map.

this map is elegant in it's simplicity

I really did like this map but I do wish the land was a lot higher. It feels pointless elevated by one block. But otherwise- lots of fun battling at the chokepoint.

Epic map. I was playing it yesterday and we (Blue) got a huge fort. Unfortunately some green scums joined blue team and started griefing our stuff.

But it was fun while it lasted. I got like 5 kills in a row few times. Also, If you want a lot of action this map is the one.

small spawns that converge into a bottleneck at the center of the map. makes for constant action-packed gameplay.

pics:
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77.0;attach=72;image
http://aloha.pk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77.0;attach=74;image

download:
http://aloha.pk/files/aos/maps/pinpoint.vxl

Quit moving so fast then. :P

Taking it slow is best for both parties.

spawn-sniped several times.

I was moving too fast so the forum didn't let me.

anally raped.

Finished your sentence for you, FAT_IDIOT.

But in all seriousness, I'd have to play this map to see how bad the spawncamping is.

I got the intel in my first life but died near the tent. And then I was brutally and repeatadly

It's the all-spawn-camping-all-the-time map. I hated it.