emp_midbridge (or something)

They have quite some expertise when it comes to Empires servers so it will probable beat any other server (with the same specs)

 

In most games ive played no one really used the towers.
Maybee because a lvl3 turret has not enough reach to attack
the center of the map and/or the bridge.

Some real levels in the towers would be awesome.

The Tunnels are a nice way to flank the enemy @ lobster
and i agree that some infantry only places in the
tunnels would be awesome. maybee a underground way
into the centre of the map?

Most time the team that doesnt bother about centre wins.
Because they grab every res nod sourounding it.

As nice as the rev nodes are its a pain in the ass to place stuff there.

The hills could have some roughness.

but overall its a very good map

 

Can you please BSP Zip all the files into the BSP?

This makes it a lot easier for portability, we will definately check out this map if you can BSP Zip it, thanks.

 

Sadly bspzipping doesn't seem to work with the map resource file, otherwise I would have done it right away.

 

Really? That's no good, Krenzo should fix this heh.

You can at least BSPzip the materials though yeah so it's just two files?

 

I don't think it's something that Krenzo can fix, it's not even good to bspzip the files needed for the minimap and stuff, people need examples.

 

You can decompile maps, or look on the internet at people who write up examples? Or look at the Empires standard maps that are included?

 

its not like the client downloads and uses the bzip. its downloaded and then extracted, so the files are there and accessible on the clients end.

 

You are thinking of something else. This discussion is about embedding files into a BSP file. You are talking about a server compressing files for faster downloads.

 

I downloaded this map today and realized it was about 20Mb compressed, that is too big for downloads over here in AU. It would take about 15-20 minutes maybe more on a standard connection over here.

Does it have to be so big

Why is it that maps like emp_stu_city which are like 70MB uncompressed, compress down to like 5MB?

 

That depends on which files are the large ones, text files and image files compress much better than bsp files.

 

Gargh, has anyone had a fight with one side of the bridge facing the other? No? No two teams have built bases on either side of the bridge? Wow. Thats really lame. Maybe the map needs to be fixed or something. I mean, whats the point of a bridge no-one uses?

 

I don;t know what's the compressed size of escort but be thankfull you don't need to download that one as it is 120MB in size..

 

Which escort are you talking about the emp_escort I have is only like 40MB

 

oh soz I meant district.. or at least one of those 2 is 120MB in size..

 

District is 70 MB, and i'm going to try and shrink its size.

 

aahh it shrunk :D
I'm positive it used to be 120MB in size, largest map I ever saw

 

in empires! there is a css-map with a size of 150Mb

 

That's some serious fail at mapping then

 

back to the map:

The towers, as nice as they are, arent really usefull... they ad nothing to
the game.