Naming Of My New Map Co_?
Soul_Rider
Mod Bean Join Date: 2004-06-19 Member: 29388Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue
Mod Bean Join Date: 2004-06-19 Member: 29388Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue
I'm about 40% done on my CO map and would like some suggestions for a name as my brain has gone into neutral on the fiction side of it!!!
Here's the story -
In the outer regions of the galaxy a small planet was discovered, rich in metal ores now virtually extinct on earth. The planet is able to provide a large and varied amount of metals, and has a special supply deal to the Neptune Freight Organisation. There is one major problem on this mining heaven, it has a very unbalanced atmosphere and frequently erupts into huge electrical storms with a deadly change in the atmosphere. The mining station has been built so that i can protect itself from these storms, but it inhibit's the mining ability of the station. To counter these technologies were developed to predict the storms and it was decided to make the station protection activated by early storm warnings, so that between storms the mining could be carried out at it's greatly enhanced rate. To do the pre warning a small weather station has been set up on one of the many asteroids that orbit the planet. Recently the station was involved in a collision with another asteroid, the nanite systems were able to reseal the hull on the station, but all lives on board were lost. A new team of 5 scientists were sent up to the station to continue providing the information, but no contact has been received since their arrival, and there are no signs of human life detected onboard. The NFO wanted to know what had happened so they requested assistance from the TSA to provide a routine search of the station before sending further replacements in.
Thats the back story, now what can i call this weather station, and hence the map? All ideas greatly apreciated.
Also i will take the chance here to add my thanks to suppliers (although they don't know it yet) of the custom textures in use in my map. First of all:
<b>The Duke:</b> I would just like to say your textures are amazing, and as this is a civilian station rather than a military one, your textures felt so right to use, and such make up a huge part of the map, the only trouble is you didn't produce anywhere near enough!!! If you would like to add more textures to the wad, in a similar style, i would be most grateful.
<b>Chrome Angel:</b> For your shrunken NS2 wad, what a life saver, and your infested texture wad, absolutely marvellous.
<b>Kouji San:</b> I just had to use your join team wad. Doesnt fit in with the theme of my map at all, but they are just so sexy i had to use them.
Map itself is about 40% done. I'm doing layout and texturing as i go, but the lighting is just done so when i compile i can see my way round!!! The lighting will be fixed after the map is finished, or as i receive creative blocks on the map itself. As the lighting gets fixed in sections, then screenshots will be added to this post.
<b>One small point to note: This is my first map so please don't expect the greatest map in the world, but i do feel it will be a map worthy of showing off and playing, it feels right. Oh and most of the entity count that i'm using appears to be func_breakables, now that's gotta be interesting!!!!</b>
Here's the story -
In the outer regions of the galaxy a small planet was discovered, rich in metal ores now virtually extinct on earth. The planet is able to provide a large and varied amount of metals, and has a special supply deal to the Neptune Freight Organisation. There is one major problem on this mining heaven, it has a very unbalanced atmosphere and frequently erupts into huge electrical storms with a deadly change in the atmosphere. The mining station has been built so that i can protect itself from these storms, but it inhibit's the mining ability of the station. To counter these technologies were developed to predict the storms and it was decided to make the station protection activated by early storm warnings, so that between storms the mining could be carried out at it's greatly enhanced rate. To do the pre warning a small weather station has been set up on one of the many asteroids that orbit the planet. Recently the station was involved in a collision with another asteroid, the nanite systems were able to reseal the hull on the station, but all lives on board were lost. A new team of 5 scientists were sent up to the station to continue providing the information, but no contact has been received since their arrival, and there are no signs of human life detected onboard. The NFO wanted to know what had happened so they requested assistance from the TSA to provide a routine search of the station before sending further replacements in.
Thats the back story, now what can i call this weather station, and hence the map? All ideas greatly apreciated.
Also i will take the chance here to add my thanks to suppliers (although they don't know it yet) of the custom textures in use in my map. First of all:
<b>The Duke:</b> I would just like to say your textures are amazing, and as this is a civilian station rather than a military one, your textures felt so right to use, and such make up a huge part of the map, the only trouble is you didn't produce anywhere near enough!!! If you would like to add more textures to the wad, in a similar style, i would be most grateful.
<b>Chrome Angel:</b> For your shrunken NS2 wad, what a life saver, and your infested texture wad, absolutely marvellous.
<b>Kouji San:</b> I just had to use your join team wad. Doesnt fit in with the theme of my map at all, but they are just so sexy i had to use them.
Map itself is about 40% done. I'm doing layout and texturing as i go, but the lighting is just done so when i compile i can see my way round!!! The lighting will be fixed after the map is finished, or as i receive creative blocks on the map itself. As the lighting gets fixed in sections, then screenshots will be added to this post.
<b>One small point to note: This is my first map so please don't expect the greatest map in the world, but i do feel it will be a map worthy of showing off and playing, it feels right. Oh and most of the entity count that i'm using appears to be func_breakables, now that's gotta be interesting!!!!</b>
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Add some screenshots and it might be 75% easier to tell a name for it :F <!--emo&::siege::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='siege.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Yeah thanks for your really helpful contribution. The title of the topic states CO, so if co_sux, don't bother reading it, you were warned in the title.
co_earlywarning comes to mind. But that might be too much (length and also for the tards that will go "early warning? wt.f?")
co_unstable?
co_instability?
co_storm?
co_flatline? (as in dead scientists)
co_static? (as in static on a dead radio)
co_arrival? (just cause it sounds cool)
Purple Monkey Dishwashers.
err
co_outpost
co_skywatch
etc, etc. I'll edit this post with more ideas as I think of them.
co_shizzle
co_darksideofuranus
.. as u can see im fulla useful suggestions!
co_zunni
The map definitely looks better in the flesh!!
There are more rooms done, but the lighting is not right, and some work needs to be done on them, so i won't publish those shots yet.
Central Room (About 50% of the glass panels are func_breakables):
<img src='http://www.metempsycosis.co.uk/screens/co_andy0001.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
A corridor outside central room:
<img src='http://www.metempsycosis.co.uk/screens/co_andy0002.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
The corridor on the other side of the central room:
<img src='http://www.metempsycosis.co.uk/screens/co_andy0003.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Corridor on alien side of central room (one of the sets of computer screens is a func_breakable with a vent system behind, watch your back!!):
<img src='http://www.metempsycosis.co.uk/screens/co_andy0004.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
The asteroid impact hallway:
<img src='http://www.metempsycosis.co.uk/screens/co_andy0009.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Taken, i released a map called that a few months back.
<img src='http://www.metempsycosis.co.uk/screens/co_andy0015.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
I'm so mean. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Really, for 40% completion it looks pretty good <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
co_tempest
co_bolt
co_eos (Eye Of the Storm)
co_orage (French for storm)
co_cloudburst
co_thunder
co_mammatus (cloud type)
co_pileus (cloud type)
co_cumulus (cloud type)
<i>These are all loosely based on the whole early-warning system element</i>
co_premonition
co_ominous
co_counsel
co_omen
co_portent
co_prophet
co_pharos
co_seer
co_harbinger