Pretty cool, EvilDono. I have to admit that I haven't played Tron 2.0 in a long time, so it was nice to be able to walk around in the Tron world again. I didn't get to play with others -- just explored. After exiting, I see my Firewall was blocking Tron 2.0 from connecting to the internet -- a note was there, "Do you want to give Tron 2.0 permissions to access the internet?" ... ugh! Was totally unbeknownst to me it was trying to ask me this during the game. So I'll need to re-launch later and try again and see if anyone else is on.

I wish anti-virus/firewall companies and game develepers would team up to come up with a better solution to granting program permissions. Some games crash when the "Do you want to give this program permission to access the internet?" pops up in the background; some games you have to know to Alt+Tab back; some games freeze entirely where not even Alt+Tab works thereby forcing a PC re-boot; some games kick you back to Desktop; etc. It's just very poor functionality and I can't believe it's this way even after a decade or more of online gaming.

But I did try your map and I enjoyed seeing the prison cells, the I/O tower and the note on the back walls saying, "Tron" and giving the 1982 date. I saw ring game pads down in the game area... kinda like Crom vs. Flynn in the movie -- Very cool. I know first-hand how hard it is to create game levels in Tron 2.0.

Some here might not know how to see the map. I had to kinda guess -- good thing I had one of Zook_one's maps still loaded to see a prior example. You might link fellow programs to some instructions from this thread to help newcomers put the file in the right hard drive location, and then also how to access the map online?

Zook_one's map (Z_CLU_DISPATCH_V.1) was nice to see again, too. I enjoyed going in the cockpit of a tank to see the rotating insides, just like the movie. (Ha, there was a spilled energy drink on the floor of the tank -- the one that Clu was drinking in the movie; I'm not sure if I noticed that before.) I also liked seeing the MCP Cone bar in Zook's.

Y'all are awesome for making these maps. I hope some day someone makes a very nice single-player campaign mod... maybe a 3 or more levels campaign or something. Don't think this has been done before?

And now I just realize this thread is months old. Whoops! I was seeing "Who's Online" and someone was in this thread checking... maybe you? So I clicked over to it.

PS: Now I want to see the MCP map, but it's no longer there to download... http://www.ldso.net/maps/XMcp.zip.

Awesome, thanks Redrain, err... TronFAQ!

Yeah, I mainly said what I said as a suggestion to people who release new mods/maps. People are often lazy and won't take the time to research and figure stuff out if it isn't clearly provided to them. So a map maker can post here and say "new map! checkit out!" and link to the .RAR file. But in the hands of someone who has never loaded a custom map before, they'd have no clue where to begin and it can become labourious to try and figure it out; and they may never try.

So if the map maker wants people to see it, then I feel all the instructions should be layed out by them for how to make it work; even if it's just linking to the proper pages of your site. I glossed over the readme TXT file in the map's RAR, and didn't notice any instructions there.

Again, it's just a suggestion... otherwise, some people just won't take the time to figure it out. And maybe that's partially why there were no comments in this thread for a few months.

Thanks for the info on the MCP map and the single-player game. I think I had loaded up User Error once before; I'll have to try again to refresh my memory. I think more single player maps should be made. Undoubtedly, some will be better than others; some may rival the actual Monolith production. So I wish there were more made. Not many players do multi-player any more, so single-player campaigns may be where future mods should focus.

I still wish Buena Vista would release more of the source code/SDK. Maybe there are some modders here who could really tweak the code to make some amazing stuff.

Traahn Wrote:Yeah, I mainly said what I said as a suggestion to people who release new mods/maps. People are often lazy and won't take the time to research and figure stuff out if it isn't clearly provided to them. So a map maker can post here and say "new map! checkit out!" and link to the .RAR file. But in the hands of someone who has never loaded a custom map before, they'd have no clue where to begin and it can become labourious to try and figure it out; and they may never try. So if the map maker wants people to see it, then I feel all the instructions should be layed out by them for how to make it work; even if it's just linking to the proper pages of your site. I glossed over the readme TXT file in the map's RAR, and didn't notice any instructions there.

The funny thing is, myself and many other map makers included readmes with instructions on how to install the maps. Guess what? Nobody ever read them. They'd come on the message forums and ask how to install the maps anyway.

It's a no-win situation. But the Mini-FAQ seems to have helped. I see a lot fewer questions asked than I used to.

I think more single player maps should be made.

There's one on the way. It's going to be cool. There's also an awesome multiplayer mod on the way. Both care of yours truly and the rest of the LDSO team (zook_one, Evil.Dono, Load"*",8,1, win3k, xistence, 9VoltChicken, myself).