The future:

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HMW wrote:
The future:

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oh the horror!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Gentlemen, science is in jeopardy.

...and I have actually played and favourited one of those, judging by the icons.

(Originally, that entry was DaMaGepy's outdoor map, which was #1 for a few short, sweet days.)

Ahahahaha

I wonder if adding a picture of a middle finger with a companion cube (possibly blocking the middle finger) over it would make this map more popular. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... d=87676016

Edit: I added the pictures to the file.

That...is really crapp--oh what?--No, creepy!

I think Cave Johnson will be dead again just to see this -.-

FourthReaper wrote:
For the love of god, though, don't do that. Map well and map for yourself.

If people mapped for themselves, the Workshop wouldn't need to be there. People map because there are people who want to play maps, and mappers want their maps to be played.

I tend to be happy that I had the persistence to finish a map, regardless if anyone plays it, because those who do get a treat.

Mr Waterhandle wrote:
Ahahahaha

I wonder if adding a picture of a middle finger with a companion cube (possibly blocking the middle finger) over it would make this map more popular. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... d=87676016

Edit: I added the pictures to the file.

HAHAHAHAHAHA..... Man, I think this thread is becoming really interesting! I think it could be named "The Workshop Laboratories: a psychological experiment on recent abnormally high levels of dumbness and stupidity residing in Portal2 players".

I liked much the article written by HMW, "The future"...

We could REALLY prepare a contest on this: Would you be able to get the highest ranking in the workshop by making the worst map ever? C'mon future mapper! rack your brain and manage to find the most efficient techniques and meneuvers to manipulate ppl's attention to be dragged to your map!

Wait, are you saying it's the worst map ever? While it's obviously not a serious effort on my part, I don't think it's deserving of that lofty title.

Man, I'm sorry! I didn't really mean that... Due to the previous posts, I was only joking about how a map becomes popular when it's not a good map and it only shows an "atractive" picture. I mentioned HMW's joke about it. When I saw your picture, I didn't even considered there was a serious map behind

I apologize for this . Indeed, I'll play your map later today and let you know what I think

Haha, no don't get me wrong, it's definately not a serious map.

You could try it, and you'll probably realize it's a joke of sorts, it requires a bit of a trick that's probably never ever anywhere else useful, but it's not a 'walk to the end of the corridor' map, as it appears to be.

I can help you with Hammer if nobody else is. I'm not great but I know the basics (and a little more), I searched sui king on steam but you didn't come up.

Alexander Bell wrote:
I can help you with Hammer if nobody else is. I'm not great but I know the basics (and a little more), I searched sui king on steam but you didn't come up.

Here

Alexander, you said yourself that you use a horribly klugey version of the PTI to make your maps.

I really don't see why its a bad thing that I choose to do things once instead of every time I make a map.

Alexander Bell wrote:
I really don't see why its a bad thing that I choose to do things once instead of every time I make a map.

Because when someone sees a hammer made map with a warm light, they thing "Wow. What a cool idea. This person must have worked hard to make all this work.". When someone sees a lazy mapper do it in a PeTI map, they think "this guy just wants people to play his map, even though it took 2 minutes in the in game editor, and 5 in hammer."

Get the difference?

Take my bomb dropper for example, P2. I spent about 2 hours making that (I'd never used an env_entity_maker before and didn't know it spawned with offset based on where the template item is in respect to the point_template), but because I replaced a useless thing in the PTI (dropperless sphere) with it, I can put it in any map I make with just 3 simple clicks. Think about it, its easier to do it my way than it is to do it every time I want one in Hammer. You said yourself that warm light strips would take 5 minutes to place in Hammer, but instead I only needed to spend 30 secs editing my light strip instance, and blam. Now I can put warm light strips in every map in just 5 secs.

@chicken
wut

@felix

are they still doing that? I signed out and they looked normal still...

I saw an interesting perspective on the rollercoaster infestation a while ago: people who like rollercoasters deliberately subscribe them and then upvote, whereas we just avoid them altogether. A possible solution would be to downvote obvious crap whenever we see it
Also, it is true that building a map in Hammer uses less entities? Because I just had to scrap a large part of my current project for it to fit the limit, so that would be really good if I could export and it would suddenly all fit. ^.^