In my opinion one of the most important things in a map, is a good Idea, I think you should think for one yourself. -ATG22
There are many ideas out and about these days but there are still many things that can be done. Grifball is a great example. I would bet you that nobody even had that idea before. The exact way that he set it up. What I do first when I try and think of one is decide what type of map I want. casual, competative etc. Once I pick that I start brainstorming. Maybe you want to make someone elses idea better, maybe you want to remake a map, whatever it is you are going to need to bring it to life. Although the hardest part of building the map is the idea don't rush it take your time. Are you a beginer forger because the best way to start is a good minigame. I started off with "Ruin Crater" and I have been constantly coming up with ideas since. There isnt really a shortcut here, what really makes a map is the essential idea. I could give you some "concepts" however lol. Alright, I was thinking of TUG O WAR, to do this you would make it CTF with no flag respawn than make the gravity 200% (heavy) so that you can not jump over obstacle. Then you make a winding track that players try (inch by inch) to move their flag into the opponents base. You could also probobly try and adjust the movement speed so that players dont win just from one little kiling spree. Another cool one would be Marco Polo (lol) I know it sound bad but if you made a swimming pool type structure in last resort you could make all of the players invisible. That way the zombie would have to listen for the splashes in the water (cool I know). A nice race map would be "jet ski" race or ghosts in water. I love the way that those vehicles react with the waves. It would be a cool experience indeed! Good luck forging! ~Max
sorry this is kinda really offtopic, but... dude...please. dont repeat what i just said, its not helpful at all...i just saw the same basic thing on like 10 of my posts requesting locks. the point of the lock is that nobody should post any more worthless posts...not trying to be mean, but...
how about you make a tower in the center of foundry and stick some plasmas in it and suround it with sheild doors, if you misstime your sticky you will stick yourselve.