Quake3World

Stumbled across this terminology on PQ, and realized that I'd seen it before but I have NO idea what it means:

WTF is a "turtle map" ?

I assume it's a map in which the defense is heavily over-powered, thus implying that a turtle strategy (stay in the base and protect the flag) would be used most often. Maps that provoke over-intensified defense strategies often lead to bad gameplay due to the inability to succeed with offense.

I am unsure as to if I am right or wrong, but that's what I would say it is. Hopefully someone else can verify and/or clarify.

http://www.lvlworld.com/#c=m1&d=23%20De ... h&q=turtle

Turtle mapping and Speed mapping are variations of a mini-mapping competition.

Both have some kind of time restraint, Speed Mapping is usually an hour or so while Turtle Mapping can be a week, month or even longer.

Usually these competitions require that all of the maps follow a set of rules or guidelines - a common theme, map size limit of 1024*1024*1024, brush count limit, common texture set, etc.

Map-Center & Levelmakers had some weekly speed mapping events going, Splashdamage currently has the fifth "Scene on a Theme" contest going for Enemy Territory. Other sites have competitions going as well.

Most of these are for fun and the only prize is the accolades from your mapping peers.

I was way off.

Turtle and speed mapping was fun, kinda miss it.

The last one was the Map-Center Turtle Mapping session. There was alot of good maps in that one...though I don't even think that site is open anymore.

.. curiosity sated. Thx!