[Crono]

Originally Posted by konidias

You're right, it doesn't... and no.

Then don't talk.

Eye candy? That's not eye candy to me. It's a mess. The difference between an "eye candy" level and a practical level is that eye candy levels are a waste of time and show nothing. You might as well draw them with pencil and paper.

Eye candy levels show off your tiling skills, but don't concentrate on playiblity. If you can't grasp this I don't know how your levels on G2k1 will look like.

I don't know who DOES. I know who DOESN'T.

Who doesn't?

No it doesn't. It shows that he can make squiggly water tiles. That doesn't mean you can make decent levels for actual servers. I had a LAT just like him tryout for my server recently while going by my specifications for the level and it turned out like crap, so being able to make crazy pathways and water tiles does not mean you can make good levels. It's like a guy who can do all sorts of tricks with a basketball but can't play the game for beans.

I would agree here if it wasn't for the fact that Wan, a person who has a lot of eye candy levels, also has a worldmap thats pretty practical.

Your sarcasm is very discreet! But yes, people rest their eyes looking at just about everything. (that has a focal point) A level with a bunch of random squiggled pathways has no focal point, so the person looks at their own character while playing and pays no real attention to the level. If you put things in a level that catch a player's eye, then your level is good and it has a focal point. Too much detail is overwhelming. Nobody will be familiar with that level because of it's tiling... Yet I can practically close my eyes and remember Classic levels and I haven't played on those in years.

Levels with squiqqly roads are typically not in MAIN TOWNS. They are in the outskirts where you walk from point a.5 to b. Too much detail I agree on, but Wan doesn't typically overdetail neither do some very good lats I know.

You go ahead and continue making love to completly straight cliffing and roads which a 5 year old could do. I'll stick to things that require skill and ease off on eye candy leveling when required.

That space could have been filled with something better. Not only that, but because most people don't plan levels out in advance they end up with a lot of that filler space. Which causes them to fill it in with any random tiles they can find. Which in turn, makes ugly levels.

Agreed.

Again, eye candy levels serve no purpose at all. You summed it up when you called the opposite "practical" because practical actually has a reason to be there. Why even bother making this kind of level if it's not going to be used and it shows no skill in practical level making at all? Like I said, you might as well draw the level on a piece of paper and say "here is my level". It might as well be moved to the graphics forum.

Why bother making graphics if they're not going to be used? It does show LATING skills just not the kind of LATING you find on a normal server. You check out Wan's forest on classic and tell me it's horrible. I know you're not like this but you are beginning to sound like someone who tried to LAT, failed, and begins to hate modern LATing because it's too hard.

Contiga is right, I can only post once (or actually twice) per day... so that's why I don't post often.

i luv u no lngr ;-;

I was probally under influence of a LOT alcohol, else I'd never ask you..

My ass, you've asked me multiple times on Babylon RC back in early 2005. Don't lie, you're just mad because I keep dissing Nicox and you along with everything the two of you ever do. Grow up Contiga, I thought you were slightly better than that.

That guy was Inferno. Inferno owns, he's not as crazy as Wan or Crono yet

I don't know what you mean by crazy but I rank Wan #1 and Inferno above me. We're not crazy, we just don't like to make practical levels all the time, eye candy levels help you with tiling. Sure not practical but it gives you an understanding of the tileset WHEN YOU DO MAKE PRACTICAL LEVELS.

How are you gonna make a nice worldmap if your cliffs look like **** and go straight the entire way around? Seriously.