Alpha City (2-4)

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Alpha City: Thirty years ago, this cities population was almost three times as large as it is now. The outskirts of the city is all rocky terrain which has been known to cause health hazards to those who drive close by hence a very small amount of moving traffic around the outskirts. The city itself is kept healthy and the population try their best to prevent any Tiberium infestation from upsetting their normal way of life; Despite a very small amount of infestation in the city, the civilians efforts have payed off for now. The centerpiece of the city is an Artillery battery supplied to the area by Globotech, however due-to the very small amount of Nod and Tiberium Life activity, power has been cut off from the Artillery battery for 12 years.

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject:

It looks nice, but I don't like the symmetriccy (is that even a word? #Tongue

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

You mean symmetry. It's not symmetrical but the mini map does give you that Impression.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Aro, good work on the Globotech building. Its brightness is perfect now.
Also thanks for the train. Very Happy

Maybe you should remove the lightpost behind the globotech tower, as the alphalight shines through the building. Or you move the Tower one cell to the SW, closer to the parking lots, so it gets out of the alphalight.

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j4m3sb0nd · Commander **Joined**: 10 Nov 2004

Looks great Aro, impressive amount of detailing and scenery you've put in the map, the new graphics are also quite awesome, for instance, those light posts and traffic lights look great, and a familiar LAT pattern too.

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

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Maybe you should remove the lightpost behind the globotech tower, as the alphalight shines through the building. Or you move the Tower one cell to the SW, closer to the parking lots, so it gets out of the alphalight.

Yeah good idea, I'll get right to it. I Really hate the TS Engines problem with Alpha lighting shining through just about everything. Neutral

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Like I said on MSN, remove the roaming civilians. Otherwise it conflicts with your description of a healthy town when people start dying on the Tiberium patches #Tongue

Oh, and maybe you should come up with a better name. Here's some suggestions:

Surrounded [2-4]
Nowhere To Run [2-4] (did Firestorm already have a map with this name?)
Captives of Cliffs [2-4]
Wealth of Illusion [2-4]
Shell and Dagger [2-4]
Raid In The Night [2-4]

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!DarkRose · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:

Yarrr! tis be a great map! with a good story to it aswell Very Happy

Awesome work Aro!!! now MOAR!!! Razz

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Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

^-^ good to see this turning out quite lovely.

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

I wanna play this now. Really good and interesting looking map, looks very lonely and desolate outside the city and I like that effect.

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Team Black · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

AROWHEAD! your train turns are too sharp, it's going to cause some problems for your train

Other than that, I like this map a lot, excellent use of terrain

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

I've been having general problems with the train. It moves fine and all that yeah, but the problem is you have to make it go around a loop, right? Well I've made a loop starting from the Right border of the map and going around into the top border of the map, the train doesn't re-appear. around the other end when it should. Neutral

There is no problems with the train itself (the follow user I.D e.g) or the Teams, Taskforces or Scripts, something is either wrong with the track or the loop I've made (No overlay errors from what I'm aware of).

Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

Epic, really epic. Artillery Battery...shouldn't be an Artillery piece? #Tongue

Or I'll be imagining 4 Artilleries on 4 platforms...

Very nice urban area. Perhaps add in sandbags or something around the city's Tib fields.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

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Very nice urban area. Perhaps add in sandbags or something around the city's Tib fields.

I don't really fancy adding anything around the Tiberium unless I get some form of new neutral wall (No sandbags). I was going to put sandbags around the artillery based on someones comments in the staff forum, but I never actually got around to doing it.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

how about this around the whole city?

though it's unfortunately not finish.

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Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

XD those are awesome.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Would be nice. Smile

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

yep.

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Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

What about..."pits"? You don't seem tiberium growing on slopes in-game, do you...? If they do, my bad.

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Everyone ignored my name suggestions Sad

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Not at all. I like the majority of them and I'm going to use them for other map names, but I don't think any of them suit this map. Surrounded is pretty good however.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

I tried to combine them with the description you gave us. I wanted them to fit the story (Surrounded by cliffs, for example).

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Shakar · Cyborg Cannon **Joined**: 04 Jan 2008 **Location**: Places

Map is looking good, I can already say it will be my first favorite map in TI. :3

Ixith · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:22 am Post subject:

Looks pretty good especially in the detail department. Though to be a bit of a nit picky freak...I personally would think that the Artillery cannon thingie in the middle of the city should be up on a small city cliff or something to set it up higher and bring it out more. Also concerning that thing....typically cities would put their defense on the outside border of a city I would think. Unless of course it is something more of just for show and is dysfunctional.

Also those walls that LKO showed HAVE to be used for a border to the city and perhaps some neutral kind of gate can be made for those walls? They just remind me of a nice fortress city like wall.

concerning your train problem....how close to the maps borders are the tracks? I know I have had problems when the train tracks were too close to the border. (specifically the red line border that ends the actual map and not the blue visible map line)

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Team Black · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:01 am Post subject:

yeah I'd definitely put that artillery on some low pave cliffs or something, or at least a small hill

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Believe it or not, I was thinking the same thing.

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concerning your train problem....how close to the maps borders are the tracks? I know I have had problems when the train tracks were too close to the border. (specifically the red line border that ends the actual map and not the blue visible map line)

About 3 cells away, I took my track example from Casey's Canyon. But lets not talk about the problems here, I'll get around to fixing it some point today.

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Large preview added.

SMIFFGIG · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject:

I really think you overdid it with the alpha lamps on this one

Proportionally (not a word that has much meaning in TS) there is almost a lamp per car length... thats alot of lamps on one street!

Other than that I think it looks very good Smile

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Orac · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject:

The street lamps do get a bit monotonous Confused

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Really? I thought I never put in enough, I thought they were to far apart myself.
Anyway! Expect to see all my old maps for TI revamped and remade, a lot of my work here is rather dated. Dudeinabox has already starting going over some of his old TI maps.