This is gunna sound like a stupid idea, but here goes...
is there anyway to edit the map files so that 1 map has all our favourite areans... like map 1 tunderstruck (arena 2) and theater of pain (arena 4), map 4 castle (map 4), and map 7 House of blood (arena 3) - a duel/2v2 favorite...

like a mix and match map... and then put that on the server and everyone is happy!! of course, everyone would have to download the modified map..

If anyway thinks this is a stupid idea, i can rest assured that i will be called a f***** in the proceeding posts (cs players will prolly use caps lock).

If anyone thinks it could work, although it would have to be a fair bit of work, please give me some constructive feedback ;)

Thanks

this is how bored i am


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sounds good wog, though I think you would need the .map files from whoever made the bsp's to make it work

ill put the suggestion to the guy from www.rocketarena.com to make it legit? maybe he'll take the suggestion on board

'sounds like a hell of a download...

but wtf. i'd get it :P

yeah f***in' ey. sounds like a good idea

This is a draft of what im gunna send to David Wright.. creator of RA3 and webmaster of www.rocketarena.com
Please tell me what u think:


I know this is way out of left feild, but quite a few people and I think this is an awesome idea...

As of late, there has been ALOT of hassels about which maps to put on rotation on the australian servers. Some servers have gone to full-time map 1.. some are switching between map 1 and map 4... and voting has pretty much been banned on all servers....

know here is my suggestion :)

some maps give some people low fps, some dont offer much in the way of 1v1 or 2v2, and some are just not well recieved by the general ra3 community..

so i put forward the idea of a classic ra3 map... a collection of the favourite arenas all in 1 map that servers can put on constantly....

these would include:

Charona Map - Arena 1

Map 4 - Arena 4 (Castle - the clan arena)

Map 1 - Arena 2 (thunderstruck, everyones favourite dueling arena)

Map 1 - Arena 4 (theatre of pain - everyones favourite clan arena)

Map 7 - Arena 3 - House of blood (another favourite 1v1 or 2v2 arena)

This would all be 1 map.. THE BEST OF RA3 MAP.... with 5 arenas :)

This isnt just my selection of favourite arenas i might add :) i have gathered this from reading forums and posting one with these suggestions ... www.qgl.org

Please feel free to post a thread if u would like feedback from the australian ra3 community

I appreciate that this is alot of work, but putting this 1 map on full time would be awesome, everyone would be happy. It provides heaps of variety, will ensure the happiest of everyone concerned..

Please take this suggestion onboard, and any feedback would be great...

If u need any help or any further info or ANYTHING AT ALL, please ask

i cant see 2 CA arenas in the 1 map, you'd need uber ram for that

really?

s*** i didnt know that.. should i take that map out of the suggestion?

Wog, looks good, but I'd recommend a few changes:

Dear crt,

Ra3 is cool, but needs some work. For example, there are no flags! How can you expect people to like it with no flags. Additionally, there are no power ups - its not Team Arena compatible. Please put in the cool Team Arena powerups and some of the cooler effects, models, and all the other things that Team Arena has. For example, flags.

After you've put some flags in, you might want to start thinking about the colour scheme in some of your maps. Additionally, while you're doing that, think about making some of them a little more symmetrical - try and think of the words "opposing fortresses" and "teamplay" and "flags" when doing this. Then, paint one end red, and one end blue, and we're starting to look good!

You might want to consider also taking out the thing about everyone all starting with the same weapon - that's a bit wack! Noone learns any respect for picking up weapons and how to manage ammunition and stuff. And there's no health, so you die far too often.

Boy, and while we're talking about dying, there's nothing worse than dying at the start of the round and then have to sit there watching all those CS-like players camp their way around these giant, non-symettrical, non-blue-and-red painted maps until the end of the round. (It would be cool if when you it got down to 1v1, the arena shrunk or something so we didn't have to watch people pussyfoot around for hours).

Additionally, rocketjumping really should hurt you. Allowing people to turn off self just encourages lame rocketjumping all over the map behaviour. Then, when you rail someone that is rocketjumping (whilst they describe a perfect parabolic arc through the air), they insist you're a cheater because you shot them whilst they were in the air.

Ranking it by damage would probably be cool too - that way people that actually do all the work hurting people don't feel stupid when they see they've done 50 damage but have 10 frags, because they've been unlucky at the time of the kill.

Also, I think if you could think of some way to make Clan Arena different to normal FFA quake 3 - ie, encouraging teamplay aspects somehow. Most players can survive and get frags in a normal RA3 clan game by sitting there and firing rockets anywhere and not have to worry about where they go. People should be working together in online clan arena games, not just wandering around spamming all over the shop. Obviously this would require some innovative thinking into the online teamplay based genre. Might I suggest, for example, flags?

Thanks for reading, I look forward to seeing future version of RA3, especially if they have flags.

Regards,

(insert your name here)

Hehehe your a smartass man

i didnt read all of trogs so i dont see why crt would

:P

Holy f*** trog was bored =)

Nice point though =P

wog: What, no Evolution? :(

cerb, evolution isnt the point, wog's trying to get the map designer to modify his maps, it'll take some persuasion, not trogs "this is the way it SHOULD be"

i just got that map and its verry j0r

Dear trog,

I got your email, you're a faget.

Signed CRT

PS. Did you know I ripped off the RA concept from other players?

man thats a filth idea wogboy (y'all know how i bitched at the fulltime map1 suggestion)

btw where is the ausgamers ra3 server...seems to have "mysteriously" disappeared.

plz oh plz dont force me to abandon ausgamers.


k its still not there...looks like my qgl days could be over


wogboy looks like you'd be asking optus to put that map on if it ever gets made since

SOME FOOL TOOK DOWN THE QGL RA3 SERVER

p.s. sorry if its really just temporarily down. but if its a permanent thing, like i said qgl have lost me n my support. yeah you might not care if you've lost my support but i thought i'd let you know.

/me starts refreshing OPTUS FFS

optus gets 160 pings to ausgamers

sif optus

at least optus have an ra3 server

not like this faggy aus(counter-strike)gamers place

THANK YOU 8)

had me worried for a bit there

Ummm.. apparently i cant have 2 clan arenas... there are heaps of awesome 1v1s around, got any suggestions?

So far its charona arena 1, map 1 thunderstuck and the clan arena, Map 7 Arena 3, and theres one thats like a little tower with a jumpy pad hehind it and a launch pad infront of it.. forgot what its called/where it is?? u guys liek that one?

The RA3 server blew up weirdly this morning, and because none of you cluepon worthy desparate people emailed qgl@qgl.org to let us know, it was down for longer than it probably needed to be.

SOME FOOL TOOK DOWN THE QGL RA3 SERVER

p.s. sorry if its really just temporarily down. but if its a permanent thing, like i said qgl have lost me n my support. yeah you might not care if you've lost my support but i thought i'd let you know.

We've lost your support because we don't have an RA3 server? How does that work?

omg.. I think what Free means is this, WITHOUT the qgl/ausgamer ra3 server, most of us will have to resort to playing on the Optus server.. something that isnt a "BAD" thing.. but for all of us BPA users... well... it can be damn laggy..

So in response.. EVERYONE must help out qgl as much as possible,.., and that means that if u notice a server not up.. EMAIL EM!

dun worry about me trog sif what i say counts for anything

um

in future i will let you know if its down trog.

atm i am prone to over-reaction i am on some heavy mind bending drugs (yes they are prescribed to me)

just ignore any whingy s*** i post for a little while


sorry mate...i did the same thing to wogboy last week
i feel very bad and i sincerely apologise

I didn't take it personally, I was just trying to extrapolate what you were saying to try and find out if it was just the game server that kept you coming to this website.. no biggy.

You should get off that prescribed stuff and onto some crack, I find that helps me :)

But we all know what type of crack trogs on...

sheesh back to the topic!!

at least butt crack isnt addictive, or is it?