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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: whels on December 03, 2008, 11:50:46 AM
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wtg on Trinity map.
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!!!!!!!!!!MISSIUN UP TO CAPTURE TANK TOWN! JOIN MISSUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Woohoo! I might have to actually play tonight!
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which one is that, i forgot or was it before i started(Nov '06)?
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The one with huge mostly smooth mountains.
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Hmmmm think I remember it, there were a few that I really liked when I started that I only saw a couple times.
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Will it be in all arenas?
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WOOT
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Am I dreaming, one of my favorite maps! :aok
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Large pizza please!!!!!! With extra desert cheese!!!!!!! :pray
:salute 11
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which one is that, i forgot or was it before i started(Nov '06)?
It's the one with 20K+ mountains surrounding tank town in the middle of the map and 20K+ mountain ranges seperating the countries (with VB's on top of the mountains and in the canyons that allow passage through the mountains).
It's the map that the RV-8 evil con mission happened on.
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Thank god they actually listened to me :)
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It's the one with 20K+ mountains surrounding tank town in the middle of the map and 20K+ mountain ranges seperating the countries (with VB's on top of the mountains and in the canyons that allow passage through the mountains).
It's the map that the RV-8 evil con mission happened on.
Actually, there are no Vbases on top of mountains. The mountains around tank town top out at over 25k...BUT, there are passes into the area that are less than 18k. I believe the passes between countries top out at 7k....I think some are less.
When the map first came out...there was a Vbase at about 18k. Folks would drop troops from a C47 and the wind would blow 'em away. I kinda had to change that one. :D
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Actually, there are no Vbases on top of mountains. The mountains around tank town top out at over 25k...BUT, there are passes into the area that are less than 18k. I believe the passes between countries top out at 7k....I think some are less.
When the map first came out...there was a Vbase at about 18k. Folks would drop troops from a C47 and the wind would blow 'em away. I kinda had to change that one. :D
I know you built it but there were still a couple of VB's at 13 and 14K IIRC. Specifically on the south range.
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!!!!!!!!!!MISSIUN UP TO CAPTURE TANK TOWN! JOIN MISSUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:rofl
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Actually I'm reluctant log in. I fear my lousy joke has aleady come true and someone captured all TT bases :uhoh
The other thing I wonder is: Will players actually use TT for the thing it's intended? We had such marvelous huge tank battles in the past, but it's almost two years that we lost "real" tank towns (terrain update effectiveley killed Ndisles old TT), so many players are too new to the game to actually remember such things.
When "Montis" was introduced a year ago, it also had (and still has) a TT area...which never is being used by the community in that way.
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Wax, come on bro. We've GOT to do another mission in celebration of Trinity being back. :devil
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I know you built it but there were still a couple of VB's at 13 and 14K IIRC. Specifically on the south range.
BE....incorrect. Highest GV field on the map is at 8k. The average is probably under 4k. The majority of the GV fields range from 0.0 to 3.5k. BTW, the highest one is a few miles west of A1. SRI...but, I do have a lot of "down and durty" time with that map... :D
Heck, I might even go into LW to listen to the noobs whine about an uncapturable map!! :devil
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My favorite map :aok Hadn't planned on logging on today, but did for a bit after I saw this thread. :aok
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WOOT Trinity it only took us 2-3 years of complaining to get it back THANKS HTC.
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As expected.. crickets chirping in Tank Town :(
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Hmmm, sounds interesting, would anyone be willing to provide a dl link for the map? My subscription is going to be restarted around christmas, and I do not want to miss out on a fun map! :salute
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Actually I'm reluctant log in. I fear my lousy joke has aleady come true and someone captured all TT bases :uhoh
Murphy's Law. :rolleyes:
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Thank you HTC :aok
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I'm guessing you need to thank NB - nobaddy - believe it was his original map - and most likely he did the majority of updating
hard to believe for the guy who went to school on the short yellow bus
wtg
;)
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I'm guessing you need to thank NB - nobaddy - believe it was his original map - and most likely he did the majority of updating
hard to believe for the guy who went to school on the short yellow bus
wtg
;)
OK, credit where credits due. This is one of the better terrains. I always liked playing on "infinity" :D. Well done to the creator NB but also well done to HTC for bringing it back and for fixing it. If you recall it had a buggy strat system in the NW.
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thanks NB. i would love to make new maps but dont know how to use the software or program they have.
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Trinity is the best 'anti-porking' map, no matter how much they pork there is still 2-3 airfields less than 25 miles away.
Huge thumbs up to Fester, it is just as viable now as it was when he first released it. :aok
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Did Fester make this map, also? i remember the one made by Fester with that 10K base in the middle, was always a fun,crazy fight to capture it.
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Trinity is the best 'anti-porking' map, no matter how much they pork there is still 2-3 airfields less than 25 miles away.
Huge thumbs up to Fester, it is just as viable now as it was when he first released it. :aok
Did Fester make this map, also? i remember the one made by Fester with that 10K base in the middle, was always a fun,crazy fight to capture it.
NoBaddy (NB) is the original author of this map ... glad to see it back in rotation NB !!!
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NoBaddy made this terrain. We just ported it over to the new format wen it changed.
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Large pizza please!!!!!! With extra desert cheese!!!!!!! :pray
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ill second that. Bring back the original large pizza!!! :aok
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ill second that. Bring back the original large pizza!!! :aok
they never can, the source files were lost... mentioned a few years back, the AK's would have to re-make it from scratch.
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they never can, the source files were lost... mentioned a few years back, the AK's would have to re-make it from scratch.
And the AK's are waiting for what?
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yeah yippie another good map morphed into a TitanicT map i can hardly control my glee :furious
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yeah yippie another good map morphed into a TitanicT map i can hardly control my glee :furious
don't speak when you don't know what you are talking about.
Trinity first came out in 2003, much to the adoration of almost every AH player. it is one of the first player made maps (besides AKDesert) in MA rotation back then.
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IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!
Oh....people are being nice.......nevermind. :)
HTC did the work in porting the map.
Trinity was the 2nd player made map (after AKDesert).
Just wish I could motivate myself to learn to make terrain tiles.....I hate the look of the default. Oh well. :aok
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Isn't Nuttz supposed to have more tiles than he knows what to do with?
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This is one map I can say I'm glad is back in rotation.
<S> NB and Skuzzy!
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Isn't Nuttz supposed to have more tiles than he knows what to do with?
The tiles he made are mostly for the old version of AH. He started playing with the new version, but then disappeared.
I have tried getting him to work in conjuction with me on a terrain but he never answered his PM about it. I may go and knock on his door this Christmas as I pass by his house. :)
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I may go and knock on his door this Christmas as I pass by his house. :)
Are you Santa Claus?
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Hopefully we can get TT the way it used to be...or something close to it.
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Best Trinity TT story evah. Many many moons ago Kermit, Betty, and a couple others pissed away god knows how long to get B17s over the mountains. Well apparently from that altitude it can be difficult to decipher whats going on down on the ground..... Long story short they bombed friendly bases and gvs instead of the enemy.
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Are you Santa Claus?
Close, it's my obligatory once a year visit to the inlaws. ;)
Nuttz lives 5 minutes from my mother-in-law.
I just sent him an invite to lunch and a beer. How could he resist free beer?
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Hopefully we can get TT the way it used to be...or something close to it.
That will take some major effort...
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That will take some major effort...
I thought it was kind of sad when I logged on, got onto Tank Town... saw only 1 tank, and it was friendly.
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I thought it was kind of sad when I logged on, got onto Tank Town... saw only 1 tank, and it was friendly.
I think it's like I reasoned earlier.. too many players don't even know what a Tank Town was about.
And the few that do, go there, see nobody's there and immediately go elsewhere.
What we need is some kind of priming (hope thats the correct word), some kind of event to get players into TT in bigger numbers
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Tank Klub.
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Tank Klub.
that still happens?
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Stopped happening because of people raining on their parade.. Tho I dont know about others, Id be glad to intercept jabos over trinity TT.. Used to do it a lot.
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I am terribly sorry, NB. I was certain Fester had made that map but I was mistaken.
Either way, it is nice to see it back. :)
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Stopped happening because of people raining on their parade.. Tho I dont know about others, Id be glad to intercept jabos over trinity TT.. Used to do it a lot.
As much as I love tanking and would want to participate in tank klub I would love chilling with moot at 30k in 152s swatting griefers just as much.
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(http://img130.echo.cx/img130/5329/bestthreadever5cw.gif)
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What was the map called where the FT was over the lake? (I called it Scrape Metal Lake)
And I don't really remember Trinity but glad its back regardless :aok
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Yah...taking a Jug with droppsies and hunting weenies flying in to grief the gv fun was always a great pleasure. Needless to say...I got a few "friendly" pm's from doing this. :devil
What was the map called where the FT was over the lake? (I called it Scrape Metal Lake)
And I don't really remember Trinity but glad its back regardless :aok
That was called the donut...not sure if it had an "official" name. I wouldn't look for it anytime soon.
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This is a great map! I was not around years ago when the TT were different than now. I went to the OBVIOUS TT today and sure enough, it was empty. Isn't it obvious what it is there for? Rhetorical Question...
Maybe we will get a few other maps back in rotation like Donut and FesterMA
:aok
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Close, it's my obligatory once a year visit to the inlaws. ;)
Oh man, I would pay BIG BIG money to limit my in law exposure to once a year. Count your blessings brother! :salute
Edit to add
((LOL After hitting the Post button I caught myself looking over my shoulder to be sure that my wife wasn't reading what I typed... Either I'm going to Hell or I'm already there... Help... please... ))
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I think it's like I reasoned earlier.. too many players don't even know what a Tank Town was about.
And the few that do, go there, see nobody's there and immediately go elsewhere.
What we need is some kind of priming (hope thats the correct word), some kind of event to get players into TT in bigger numbers
Have HTC put this map up next Titanic tuesday and have one of the staff go there personally and kinda advertise maybe? Say that there's a Staff mision going on there or something?
:salute
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I think it's like I reasoned earlier.. too many players don't even know what a Tank Town was about.
And the few that do, go there, see nobody's there and immediately go elsewhere.
What we need is some kind of priming (hope thats the correct word), some kind of event to get players into TT in bigger numbers
You're probably right.
I know that in my squad (Rolling Thunder), we have a few guys who are all about the GV fights. They have heard the buzz about this map, but have been disappointed by the activity in TT.
I think it may take somebody notable, planning a major TT event (think MoM event for tanks).
Announce it... Plan it... Launch it...
Build it and they will come...
(More important to get a massive tank fight going then it is to successfully over run TT, so don't try to plan to win. Just plan to engage. Train the habit of big tank fights, worry about winning them much much later.)
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Best Trinity TT story evah. Many many moons ago Kermit, Betty, and a couple others pissed away god knows how long to get B17s over the mountains. Well apparently from that altitude it can be difficult to decipher whats going on down on the ground..... Long story short they bombed friendly bases and gvs instead of the enemy.
:lol
That was the first memory I had when I saw the map!
5 B17 formations climbed over Tank town at 20,000ft. We were to drop our bombs on the enemy GV spawn point. We missed and dropped on our friendly spawn point. The responses on range of our idiotic drop was great! So many enemy gvs were just 1 mile away from our drop. Epic Fail.
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One of the really great things about the old large Pizza map except for the beautiful sandy desert was the fact that on the rims it was _mostly_ tank battles.
Was that map called AKdesert?
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Oh man, I would pay BIG BIG money to limit my in law exposure to once a year. Count your blessings brother! :salute
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((LOL After hitting the Post button I caught myself looking over my shoulder to be sure that my wife wasn't reading what I typed... Either I'm going to Hell or I'm already there... Help... please... ))
You just need to move 350 miles away and your problem is solved. :)
Actually, I'm one of he few people who can say he gets along with and likes his mother-in-law.
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One of the really great things about the old large Pizza map except for the beautiful sandy desert was the fact that on the rims it was _mostly_ tank battles.
Was that map called AKdesert?
Yep it was AKdesert.
Watch for a new map that is similar in the gv battle respect. :cool:
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Trinity is a great map!! I went to TT last night around midnight EST and got killed by Monti, DR7, D112... :salute
I actually made some kills myself. There was instant action right at the spawn points. I lost all of my GV perks
(I think I had around 30 :lol) so I went from a Firefly to a t34/85 to the panzer. The panzer is slow but the gun is quite effective. I hope the map stays up for a while
Cheers,
gusman44
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ill second that. Bring back the original large pizza!!! :aok
Hated that map!
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It's the trinity map that has the Shore batteries that overlook the fields. If you time it right you pick off vulchers. :rofl :rofl
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I hope the map stays up for a while
Cheers,
gusman44
well, come titanic tuesday, its gone......... wednesday always sees a new map in LWB.
i doubt any country is going to "win" it by then though.. after all it IS a large map... and it may be the best large map I've ever seen.. I think I especially like how it seems so far (maybe it just seems) that hordes cant get a real "roll" going, because of the terrain and 1 way vehicle spawns..
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I wish I read this thread before I got pissed off in TT. Decided that 5 hits on T34/85 would be enough in a sherman but it wasn't. So I was thinking cheater right? Well I'll grab an A-20 and bomb the crap out of him. Do you know how long it takes to get an A20 over 20K with 8-500lbs and 50% fuel. way to long. Well just as I crested the mountain he landed. :P :P :P I was so :furious cause I couldn't get to him in time. Go ahead and laugh I deserve it..
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The tank battles at A1 are epic !
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I'm pretty sure i can claim credit for dubbing it "Infinity." At least in-game. :aok Here's the first BBS usage:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,78948.msg758325.html#msg758325
When it first came out, it hung around forever because resets were so hard and maps *weren't* reset every week. They stuck around til.... reset by one side, actually one side getting reset by the pigpiling of the other two. I think the victim side had to be down to their very last base... it was a while ago.
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Can anyone upload a pic of the map?
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As much as I love tanking and would want to participate in tank klub I would love chilling with moot at 30k in 152s swatting griefers just as much.
I've done it before. Took up a N-Jug with full fuel and 2x 150gal DTs + 1x 75gal DT...was hell getting over the mountains but worth it on the other side.
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Hmmm, sounds interesting, would anyone be willing to provide a dl link for the map? My subscription is going to be restarted around christmas, and I do not want to miss out on a fun map! :salute
You can always find all of the HTC supported terrains on the downloads page.
EDIT: Well, it appears they made me a liar. :p Hopefully they'll put up a link on it soon.
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147 wirbel kills for 19 deaths in about 2 hours of Bish self suiciding onto our armoured line of AA.
Now I hate sitting on the ground in a GV but this was EPIC!!! and i'm very thankful for the fully automatic guns of the wirbel and supplies :aok.
Me and kazaa also would like to know what went through the heads of the Bish that kept upping buffs 1k high and getting raped over and again.
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I like some of the terrain setups.
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Was that map called AKdesert?
affectionately known as "Gak"... I'd say Gak was the map you either loved or hated. I did most of my GVing on that map.
here are some other nicknames....
Infinity/Hemerhoid (Trinity) - hard to reset and the 2nd for the obvious reason it just irritatingly hung on forever (plus the visual)
Uterus/MickeyMouse (SFMA) - for obvious reasons
Mindlessendo (mindanao) - because there was a lot of mindless furballing w/close bases.
Pizza (smpizza) - for obvious reasons
Soggy Pizza (Tagma) - for even more obvious reasons
Glory Hole (OzKansas/festerma) - due to middle furball/tt area
Gak - AKDesert, AK map, loved or hated, mostly hated.
I could be off on one or two... i'm trying to recall if akdesert evolved into pizza/soggy pizza.
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I always thought of AKdesert as "Pizza" The map on the clipboard was round, and "sand" colored like cheeze, and all the icons colored red and green looked like bits of red and green peppers dotting the whole thing. Not enough pepperoni for me, but it was always a blast having a guy chase you on the deck and when you split "S" over the rim of one of those canyons and then fought it out between the walls.
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What about donut ! :aok
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Beer nuts are ok for a dollar fifty but deer nuts are under a buck....
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NoBaddy made this terrain. We just ported it over to the new format wen it changed.
Wow, that's awesome!
Thanks HTC.
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:lol
That was the first memory I had when I saw the map!
5 B17 formations climbed over Tank town at 20,000ft. We were to drop our bombs on the enemy GV spawn point. We missed and dropped on our friendly spawn point. The responses on range of our idiotic drop was great! So many enemy gvs were just 1 mile away from our drop. Epic Fail.
it was kermits fault! he was the one that gave us the order to drop!
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What about donut ! :aok
I've been wishing for trinity back for ages, hopefully donut is next!
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I've been wishing for trinity back for ages, hopefully donut is next!
BRING BACK FT!! DONUT MAP ROCKS!
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and if so make the 3 middle fields uncapturable to avoid another toolshedder vs furballer armageddon. ;)
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I'm glad some people like this map. I don't. That's fine, I'll go to the other arena... WAIT! It came up there, and before that another insane map of insane terrain features! Wonder if there is a way to get maps that are different in each arena, so that if the island map is up then the other one isn't full of water too.
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they never can, the source files were lost... mentioned a few years back, the AK's would have to re-make it from scratch.
Isn't pizza better that way? :rock
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