1 guy makes a start map, the rest makes sp levels with runes at the end of 'em. Kinda make mini episodes that are a level long!

It at least would make browsing them easier :). 

But how would you know how many teleport gates you'd need? 

4 mappers is alot for speedmaps and less than that is too few for the idea to be worthwhile. and really isn't a theme that encourages mappers to do neat things 

what about Statue theme?

That means the map should contain a statue of anyone or anything.
Or it must be a huge statue that player walks on. 

No speedmapping announcement yet? Only two days till saturday. Just curious is all. Don't mean to push you or anything. 

Also, what about this thread? Is there any way for it to be split up into pages? That huge long list of posts takes a least 5 minutes for me to load, but that could just be me. If it is, then don't worry about it. 

properly each time, you'll have New # or in any case Last 25 to get the latest posts. This applies for all threads here. 

speedmap will be annouced later, if I can gather enough willing troops to break me out of my prison here in remote Brazil where I am a jailed freedom fighter. 

Consider me a part of the team, Scampie. Bare with me here. If we get enough of these troops to dress as women, we may just have a chance. The prison guards will be so confused by a whirlwind of breasts and phallic objects that they will pretty much lose all will to live. I volunteer myself the leader.

And aguiRe, now that I know it has something to do with a selection I make, I'll poke around a bit. Thanks for clearing that up for me. 

er, i mean... SM84!

Saturday, July 10th I guess that is. 4pm eastern time, which is like 9 pm uk time I think but don't quote me on that.

Theme? OLD SKOOL, hardcore motherfuckas!!! I seriously have no clue what this theme means, as NotoriousRay suggested it and it sounds kinda neat. I think you just make maps like they'd have been released in 1997 or something. Just use lots on unaligned idbase and 16 unit think walls and you should be good I guess.

irc.gamesurge.net in #speedq1 is still the meeting point, or you can email me maps before the event at scampie@spawnpoint.org 

does the hardcore motherfuckas part mean the map must be difficult to finish? 

But I believe he was referring to us. 

Electro and I played a couple of the maps from sm83 (scamphoe's and ray's?) and they were pretty good for speedmaps.. keep it up*!


* and just do dm please 'cos SP speedmaps are fairly pointless, but you can do a good dm in an hour. 

SP speedmaps aren't pointless if the person who made them enjoyed themselves. There are plenty of people who make DM speedmaps anyway, and personally, I think that the people involved in the event like to do a bit of both.

Also, as far as playing the pack goes, single player maps are good for people like me, who never have and most likely will never get to DM.

Anyway, that's just what I think. 

if we do dm maps, is there someway to get them up on a server to play? 

if i can get this coolwebsearch trojan off my system by saturday. if not then my weekend will be spent formatting and reinstalling my system. :( we'll see 

Here is a nice uncomplicated, free anti-virus tool.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

Be sure to fallow the instruction on disabling system restore.

Imagine, you have to go through a lot of crap to get these sons'o'bitches off of your system but it only takes them a fraction of a moment to hook into your system.

There is a free firewall called ZoneAlarm that can be useful as well. 

if it's CoolWebSearch on your system, get CWS Shedder, which removes all but very recent versions of CoolWebSearch.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

That site is also a wealth of info and such on various 'scumware' check his news and forums for more recent and up to date info on his battle with CWS.

Also, I recommend getting both AdAware and Spybot:Search and Destroy and running them both regularly, they'll get rid of 99% of misc junk you get from regular web surfing. The free version of AdAware is all you need, Spybot is free as well.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

As for general virus protection, there are various free things around the net, but I personally use F-Secure Anti-Virus 2004. Cheap, as effective and regularly updated as the big boys McAfee/Norton, and much lighter on the system resources.
http://www.f-secure.com/

Headthump pointed out a good free Firewall, I never really liked ZoneAlarm when I used it, nor do I like Mcafee or Norton's... I use Kerio Personal Firewall 5. Again, Cheap, Effective, Updated, and easy on the system.
http://www.kerio.com/kerio.html

Also, Internet Explorer is full of exploits and whatnot, it's recommended to use an alternitive browser for general surfing. I use Opera 7, but many people use Mozilla. Both are good, so make your own choice, I only use IE now for the few pages that just don't work right without it.
http://www.opera.com/
http://www.mozilla.org/

All this should help you clean up some of that crap. Here's another good page with alot of the same info I just gave you and a ton of other stuff. It's a good read and written by a guy on the SomethingAwful forums.
http://www.io.com/~cwagner/spyware.html 

Yes, I enjoy doing DM maps alot, but the majority of speedmappers have all been into SP maps becuase the majority of people looking at the maps are into SP.

RPG now runs a small custom map server off his cable connection which is decent enough for some 4-5 player matchs, and I'm sure whenever he's around for speedmapping he'd be willing to host maps for a few rounds. If not, I can always host small, but laggy, games off my connection. 

I was recently recommend AVG antivirus (they offer a free edition) and it seems pretty damn good for the money. 

Of course you're perfectly right, and if you enjoy creating SP speedmaps then that's all the motivation you need...

All I meant to say was that for me personally, SP speedmaps are fairly pointless because I have not found even one SP speedmap to be remotely enjoyable to play. I just don't think 60-100 minutes is enough time to craft a significant SP experience. On the other hand, it seems perfectly possible to make a fun DM map within that timelimit.

Sure, you may enjoy making SP speedmaps, and they are certainly interesting to look at at times, but in terms of producing a fun playable map, all the speedmaps that I've seen have fallen pretty far short.

The above is of course just my opinion, but it is based at least in part on the results I've seen from previous speedmap sessions. 

I have tried all of those things, including CWShredder, which did absolutely jack shit. It said my system was completely clean of CWSearch, even though Ad-Aware 6.0 and Norton Anti-Virus say otherwise. And seeing as vital Windows files have been infected and cannot be cleaned, deleted, quarantined or removed without Windows complaining on startup, I feel I have no choice but to reformat and reinstall.
I used to use Opera7 but it didn't handle Java applets and things like that very well for me, so that's why I switched to IE, but since then I've switched to Firefox which seems a whole lot sexier anyway. IE is a piece of garbage anyway. 

I always enjoy an SP speedmap as a fun playing experience, if even for a few seconds. I dunno, they've all been fun to play for me, even though they've not been fine-tuned as much as a regular map. They're not the best SP experiences I've ever had, mind you, but since they come out at least 2 or 3 a week, that's plenty enough fun :)

I still haven't loaded up the DM pack from last session though, don't have anyone to DM with. I might try to get it spread around at the LAN today though, get some good fraggin on :) 

I do have to agree with you there. However, I guess I was generally referring to the silly-themed speedmaps. SP can't be beat for those. However, I do agree that the more creative can create some really impressive stuff in the timeframe.

Some of the older SP speedmaps had some cool stuff, even in a short map, but lately the serious SP stuff has just become boring.

But my point still remains. If the person making it enjoys the speedmapping process of making an SP map, then it doesn't really matter. 

What do you find lacking about SP speedmaps? Sure most of them suck, but that's true for DM as well. The only thing i can see "wrong" about the good SP speedmaps is that they are relatively short. Is that the problem?