The best quote on difficulty I ever read was in Game Developer magazine. They did a special on Half-Life and it's development process. This is NOT the quote but I'm paraphrasing:

"You're good at your game. You just are.

HARD difficulty should be whatever you find to be manageable. It should be a challenge for you but not too bad.

NORMAL should be a little less than that - something you can handle easily.

EASY should be easy. Tune it until you can't believe there's anyone who couldn't finish the game on easy. Then make it easier." 

I don't think skill levels are ALL that relevant in Quake maps these days since the audience is so small and generally they are long time Quake players. But it's still somewhat important I guess. 

See Also: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=42640 

I once said on here pretty much what's been said above. I use my own play as a marker for hard, then just scale back monsters.

Adding extra ammo shouldn't be necessary since there's less to throw it at, but I've proved myself wrong so more ammo as well can't hurt.

Having weapons earlier or easier to get is a good idea - don't think I've seen this in a map before, but then I don't usually play on other skills.

One thing that could be good is having secret pointers on easy. So you make a func_wall that only show in easy and basically has a big arrow pointed on it showing where the secret is. I say this because there's not that many who actually use easy now, though that depends on the map.

You could go even further with this for labyrinthine maps and make a series of direction pointers - a bunch of arrows showing which route to take. 

He plays the banana with the mouth.

take that as you will. 

That Scampie and Lunaran's mules are punching each other all the time. 

 

and prosper

may the enchanted qcode entangle our carved editors to rejoyfull gathering
may the broken ruins of map failure rotten for good in their homfilled hallways
may the leaks groan the muddy slime from their infected off grid placement
may the andrenaline quotum from the best maps howl their echoes through the nightmare stage of subconsiousness

may the id of gilgameshes quest to the deeper dwellings of revealment have its detiny. 

pardon my lyrical ofcursion,
must have been mapping to much. 

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looks like the post-qexpo euphoria wore off and everybody crawled back into their caves. 

Im back from my "holday" as of yesterday.
My mapping will recommence v.soon.

Project is "on the go" - no-one has seen it yet except for me :P

Finger is a bit better than it has been, but guitar playing is still fucked. Which is probably good for mapping.

Willem - old chum of a few months - great to see you are back - hopefully epic havent crunched you too much.

Looking forwards to playing your map! It looks very tasty.

Also Necros. Looking forwards to playing you map too.

Fuck - I have a lot of catching up to do!

Also Madfox - if your map is boxed then send it to AguirRe! He is a genious with finding leaks! 

I wonder why there wasn't a best booth log chosen, just like in 2006. After all they all were winners but it would have been nice to see some kind of logs with most hits.

Rikcy - I did, but he is working with the Q2 engine. Ijed mentioned something like finding the leak, which I did. Think it will vis better now. 

And In My Cave . . .

That's where MadFox goes to groove with
the Picts. 

well, seems like Quake is dead again. 

... Scampie post here, Quake dies :P 

http://members.home.nl/gimli/scamp.gif 

 

Which species - a squirrel? A rabid badger? Or maybe one of a pair of stoned mice? Playing a piano? Drinking a bottle of scotch? 

In a nondescript Bay Area office park, a converted hard-drive factory with a shiny new fa �ade began churning out unconventional solar tubes that big investors are betting will soon blanket commercial buildings across the world.

Anyone else annoyed at this style of writing? 

sigh - have you seen Fean and Loathing in Las Vegas? If so try to imagine the sound of Jonny Depp saying it whilst in the character of Doctor Gonzo/Hunter S. 

Homo Sapien ProtoScotus 

;)

Ever see South Park's Woodland Critter Christmas? I kind of imagine them being the guest in that cave. 

They are furry right? 

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%223d+video+camera%22#
A tech called Ladar.
This was prolly mentioned on func or tf some time ago.