Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-3547390-20190404125604

I am not much of a planner as you know, I find it a lot easier to just do as the situation needs. A lot has to do with usually relying on people around me and how unpredictable they can be. Easily adjustable is pretty much an important part to my life. Scheduling things is almost impossible, since surprises happen so often.

I live in a basement with blocked out light, so you would have a lot of issues in my situation. I am pretty good at getting up and being ready, I just know I need to get things done no matter how lazy I feel.

Pretty much, 3d maps are too convoluted to ever be useful. Even 2d maps I am not much a fan of, I rather just roam the world.

Precisely. The more distinct a level, the better. Of course, if I had to offer advice, I would say to focus a lot on proper text. When I go into a mod or custom map, I go with the impression that I should be able to fool someone who didn't know the vanilla levels but was familiar with the game, so that it feels like just another part of said game.

The biggest problem I am seeing with custom content is that they usually focus so much on the graphical that they ignore the small details, specifically text. Look at the number of Quake levels out there that just fall flat on their face because of the horrible level names, literally just a string of text. Thief custom levels suffer that a lot, documentation that just doesn't look right and doesn't blend into the game, or other such "effects" that butcher said illusion. Other games tend to be just as bad. I remember the Sims and Zoo Tycoon, two sandbox style games, could have plenty of additions but would usually be lazy on the documentation side. 95% of people probably don't care, but those issues with text not being right bother me to no end.

It would be quite wonderful indeed for sure, especially since we failed to really do anything during Winter vacation. It would be good to get you on Hamachi since now it seems like we are back to a stable setup, Rottweiler has tested it and we had a guy named Minion who played quite a bit for a week or two.

Well, you have a good night, even if it is 17 hours later and you are probably awake.