300 mins is a lot of time if you have the right idea about how the map shall turn out

Does it mean that you prepared all the map design "on a paper" before starting anything ?? If it's the case, don't you think this part of the job should be included into the design time ?? To my opinion, you are cheating a little here, no ?? 

I don't draw anything beforehand.

What I mean is that sometimes you sit down to map and get a strong idea of what you want to do in this session.

With this map I sat down to make something I didn't know what! The idbase idea came to my mind and then a "vision" of the 6 sided room with pipes and the hallway with the bridge in the start the rest came along while mapping.

It is not always so. Not all speedmaps turns out any good. But sometimes you just get the right idea at the right time and then the process of mapping just is a matter of trying to hold that idea. 

Well, I'm really very impressed ... It's still very difficult for me to start a map from scratch (the more if it's a huge map) without having at least a "paper plan" to fix my ideas... I think my lack of mapping experience perhaps explains it..
But there is one thing I agree with you: some additional "stuff and features" come during mapping, and every time these are the best part of the design.... And you cannot define them while drawing on paper the global layout of the design... for sure...
Congrats again for this great job. 

...whatever happened to sm82? Still something going on there? 

NotoriousRay. 

I have sm82 pieced together layout-wise, leakfree. It just needs alot of lighting, and monsters/gameplay. Unfortunately, I've been ridiculously busy at work (why some of you haven't seen me in irc lately) working far too many hours so I simply don't have time to work on it. I still plan to though. Unless someone with some maps under their belts wants to take it over and can convince me they'll finish it before I do, it will remain that way.

so there. 

when its done. 

Say... since you're putting in so much time at work and making all that money, maybe you'd want to pay me to finish it? 

there are other things i'd pay you to do before i'd pay you to finish a map o_0 

Some of my standards are really, really low. Maybe you should suggest something. 

RPG is offering his help and then i can play sm82.

cmon thats a good thing. 

RPG isn't THAT bad of a mapper, is he? I mean look at the alternative: I could help finish it.

Hmm? What's that? RPG can help then? Ahh OK. Good choice. 

Ray rejected the mapping offer. I was wondering if he wanted to pay me to do something else instead; hence the pimp hat. 

I thought you were joking, if you seriously want to finish sm82 I'll gladly pass it off to your capable hands, RPG. 

Give it to RPG. 

Yes, I was joking. I'm a bit busy ATM, and will be for a while. Plus I have lots of other maps that I'm sure people want to see finished, too. 

Quit playing with my emotions, RPG. 

he's a tease, that RPG :/ 

no, no... slowly 

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anybody else getting the Midnight Cowboy theme song stuck in their head? 

...at me, I don't hear a word they say, only the echo of their SNG.... 

... 

skipping over the ocena like a stone . . .