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hey i havent been here in awhile cause ive been workin gon paper drawing maps like tolkien i'm not an expert yet but i'll keep trying
the worst part about doing tolkiens drawing is the darn forests a space this big:












takes about an hr to fill in with trees heh and after i get it on paper i'll get it on the computer and uo
also working on future plans of a game
making a whole new world in fact its gonna be awesome once done hehe

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what no reply darnit.............i never get a reply i havnet gotten a reply for like 3 months lol

o well hmm Dian ur map is looking really good how u get ur mountains like they look like stone? Tough technique to master i bet you gotta teach me that!

btw i am going to sphereserver because i'm sick of runuo's bs they gotta make more tutorials for me to understand sphereserver is doing many things and Tragena was sucessful maybe i can too.

btw did u guys know Saddam is F****ed up?

is this forum losing members or something? there isnt as many posts anymore..............

exscuse my language i'm sick of that guy Saddam Sadamn Eraq Iraq which is which? and the stupid Republic Guards dressing up as townspeople I surrender *bang* thats peer cowardance.

umm anyway i'm going way off topic lol but u can blame me i'm mad.....

Tragena was by sphere right?

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Hello Coldfire..

I can?t really comment on the other things you said, but yes Tragena is running on Sphere. Version 99x5 I think at the moment. We could be running on the latest version but we are still building so it really isn?t important.

As for the amount of posts on these forums, I think that really it?s the place you come for help or to help others.
Not many shards use custom maps. Many people may start a map with visions of something grand! But the fact is custom maps are very difficult to make. Anyone can drop a few flat islands on and ocean. Getting the map to look interesting and play well (not to mention look real) is the hard part!
So not all that many people come here. That being said, I also believe its a nice little community where you can always get friendly help & advice.. what more could you ask for?? lol

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well i went to runuo for awhile but been on hold for a long time i'm going back to the easy to do sphereserver and i got tons of plans new magic system, new class system, new towns, new multi's <--- is this needed yet or can we have customziable housing on sphereserver? *runny nose* *blow* come's back, i have a bit of a cold heh

I heard of many changes in the scripting part of sphere i hope they arent to bad.... i'm so excited to get to work again tho btw ur map is awesome how did u get ur mtns to look so runic and ancient... there like stoned mtns heh

i woudl really like to talk to u on icq for advice

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I too agree that there aren't many shards with custom maps. The work that needs to be done for them is massive and most people don't feel like taking the time. Or, most people don't like to build the towns.

I prefer custom maps as well as custom work. I feel it's more creativity as well as more rewarding in the end. Although I will admit, it's MUCH more work then most people would assume. I should know. I ran Brisbane for a while, created the map with Leon, and built half the world by myself. heh. But When players came on, all we got was praise.

Anywho. Those are my 2 cents.

Well... Its very, very common to see people come and go here, at Ryandors boards, new people come ask the same old most comon questions, as if they were the first person to ever post here... But you get that on any forum for that matter.
At any rate, I can definetly relate to anyone out there that has put time into thier map, I have almost one full year into mine now. My wife as well, has been building for our map for a year. She was building stuff out in Green acres of OSI map while I was struggeling with map making.
Yes, mountains are very hard to make.. (and thanks for the complement) Yet, once you get your own tecnique, you can whip out mountains in no time. If I had to remake every mountain on my map right now, I would estimate the time to take about 8-12 hours, to finished. (cave/dungeon entrances included, with WF).

So in short, all you need is the desire, and the rest.. well, is patience.
My shard is running full time now, on UO Gateway, and growing very fast. Im sure you can make a good map as well, maybe better than mine if you really are serious in completing it.
One tip though.. you cant really make a supirior map, if you are useing the default Dragon scripts throughout the entire process

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