Orange Maps

I've seen alot of these "Orange" maps kicking around server. Basically was wondering your opinions on them. To me they seem a bit cheap as you don't realy need much skill to make one however I do have alot of fun playing on them. Whats the general opinion on them? Is making a "Orange" map the kind of thing to get you exiled from the mapping comunity =P?

Orange maps are the cesspool of the custom map community.

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You mean they actually release those as finished maps? I thought those were betas...

That's just lazy. Texturing isn't that hard. Sure it can be tough to get textures lined up right but jeez! I know I have only made one map but I would never consider actually releasing one like that.

Why are they orange and grey anyway?

I have actually seem Orange X3 (or whatever the one with the Tower is called) textured before

Yes, hop onto these addresses to see the worst textured maps in history (except vipersden and goldrush)

69.12.94.83:27015
72.37.231.73:27015

On the plus side, my demo and sniper averages have been going a lot higher since i started playing 1/2 an hour a day on these servers

there are some of these maps that i really like but  most are pieces of crap. Most are just too plain for me, however there was one orange map that had props and everything and the whole orange and black thing worked for it, without looking too plain

and @ATP- theyre orange and black as those textures are what is used when first making a map because they have height markers on them.
personally i dont make maps this way because it doesnt show me what the final product will look like. i like to texture most things as i go but i do leave the less detailed parts orange and black

Orange mapping is useful, so long as YOU TEXTURE THE DAMN THINGS.


Like Crocodile on ZM. Horrible map, no textures, and only noobs like it.

Yeah thats the general thoughts I was having =P. I'll probably release the first version of the map I've got cooking up as orange just for testing purposes so that I can see if it plays well before i spend time making it pretty =P. As for "only noobs like it" there are huge comunitys that revolve around these maps...Also, WarningSDE, yeah, form my limited experience there seem to be loads and loads of Orange_x maps that are all exactly the same but for texture changes. Some are orange some are textured. I even saw one that soemone had tried with limited success to turn into a forrest....here meaning all of the textures were green and there were randomly placed shurbs....

Nah, only noobs really like Crocodile. Horribly balanced, too. Roughly... 20 people have ever reached the end. And NOBODY has ever won.

Ah fair enough, I didnt mean Crocodile spesifically i meant orange maps in general =P