maybe you should suggest a deadline..lol, mine dont seem to work. I would really like everyone to get their maps in, but we cant delay the deadline forever..... 

I've started my map - tho the chances of it being finished for -anyone's- deadline is slim :P 

lets set it to july (this year :))
there might be Qexpo2 around that time 

It's pretty simple really - because there are an extremely low number of entrants.

If uwf was to just cut off all the people who haven't finished on time, you'd just have a pak with one or even no maps at all. So, pressure can't really be applied like that until at least a couple of people are finished - which is why I'm keen to hear from anybody who is close. I myself am pretty close, with just a bit of lighting and monster/trigger/etc. placement to go.

Maybe if I can finish this week it will help get others moving? 

Agreed.
I've made headway with my map; enough that I've established what I'm doing with it, texture theme, details, etc. But there's no real layout yet.
I'm still dealing with the Q3 -> Q1 conversion thing.
It will be built. 

i guess i was mistaken about deadlines, seems its best just to let things run naturally then.... 

Well, I think you've taken the right approach thus far - i.e. setting deadlines, but being flexible. The current problem is simply that you can't release the pak without enough complete entries. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about that...

I guess we'll have to wait and see how things progress from here... 

it's just that i don't really want to work on the map anymore... sort of lost the momentum on the sucker i guess...

i'll see what i can do, but with the map still floundering at less than 1000 brushes, and only really one room done, (albeit a big room) this map still has a long way to go.

aw fuck. i'll go work on it now. :) 

what would you like to do about a deadline?
Do you want to suggest one of your own?

You are all experienced, quality mappers, and i think your maps will be worth waiting for. :) 

truth is, i was trying to finish another map... i get sidetracked pretty easy...

give me a few weeks, anyway, 2 or 3... how's that for everyone else who's still working? does that bother you, Tyrann, to have to wait like this? 

Nah, doesn't bother me. When I'm done I'll just email it to uwf and forget about it. I might spend a bit more time tuning the deathmatch mode though. 

I'm working on it now with some Q2 textures. Gonna add some detail to this bitch. I need to just be patient with myself. I'm glad there's more time though.

But hell, I know we're all impatient to see eachother's work. 

but I've had to put it aside until next Tuesday due to gigs, conferences and my MA supervisor wanting a draft of chapter one ASAP.

Will finish it eventually and would appreciate being able to release via your site uwf at some stage, if not before then definitely during QExpo. 

I love deadlines; I love the 'whooshing' noise they make as they go by.
I just want to make my map and send it to uwf. QExpo would be the obvious place to release these. 

no more deadlines, Kell's suggestion of a release of the pack at QExpo2003, seems sensible and wonderful. 

as well as being really cool to have more than a couple of entries. besides, it just means qexpo will be that much more cooler. :) 

when's QEXPO 2003? And what is that? ((><)) 

when's QEXPO 2003? And what is that? ((><)) 

flog me with a barbed wire whip. I found it's site. I am informed. 

QExpo is being discussed at http://forums.inside3d.com

Most of the discussion is in the Events forum:
http://forums.inside3d.com/wwwthreads.pl?action=list&Board=QExpo

It'll be sometime in late June or early July. 

This sounds cool. Unless my memory fails me, Coagula3 was released during the last Qexpo. 

i`m having some trouble getting my map started -- do you think we could push the deadline back to the next qexpo? I think by 2005 my map should be ready. I bet some other people could use the extra time, too. 

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Metlslime is doing a coagula map. Cannot wait! 

But you`re going to have to wait, at least 2 or 3 years! Actually, can we move that deadline back to 2006? I just started over again, you see.