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November 1, 1998
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Title                   	: Lost Freighter
Filename			: freightr.zip
Author			: Barry Walker "Jethro" 
Email Address		: barry@icom.net
WWW Homepage	: http://idt.net/~diba/
Date 			: July 19, 1998
Description		: Q2/CTF "mirror" map.  
			I'd appreciate your feedback, but keep in mind that 
			"your map stinks" won't help me make better maps.
			Be sure to tell my WHY it stinks and what I could do better.


Additional Credits to:	id - without whom I would never have made a map.
			Lithium (for QOOLE, my editor).
			RUST: for his excellent and useful tutorial.
			Quake 2 workshop: the guys who monitor qworkshop@quake.com, also
				for great tutorials and E-Mail assistance.
			Ridah (Ryan Feltrin): author of the amazing ERASER BOT, which is
				how I test these maps out.
			Colin ("funkyassmime"): my son, whose patience and assistance in
				play testing is invaluable.
			Diane (my wife): A Q2 widow, who puts up with this absorbing 
				pastime of mine.
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* Play Information *

Game			: Quake II/CTF
Level Name       	: Lost Freighter
File name			: freightr.bsp, freightr.rtz (ERASER BOT routes)
Single Player            : No.
Cooperative 		: No.
Deathmatch 		: Yes. (but it's not geared for DM play)
CTF players		: 16 and up
Difficulty Settings     : No.
New graphics		: No.
Anything else new:	: No.
			  					    
* Construction *

Build Time      : about 1 month (on and off) 
Editors used    : QOOLE 2.45
		   	  

Compilation:	Qbsp3	: 45 seconds, 1189 brushes
			Qvis3 	: 1636 portalclusters
					  4493 numportals
			Qrad3 	: about 20 minutes
			Your mileage may vary.
		
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Platform used   : Win 95 on a P-233 64MB SRAM
Known Bugs    : None that jumped out and bit me.

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The Story:
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CTF:
This ship is a modular cargo vessel, whose components plug together 
depending on the cargo and destination.  The ship survived the
accident that stripped away its black hole and living quarters.  Since it can
no longer go hyperspatial, it drifts through the galaxy at sub-light speeds,
randomly changing course as the reactors occasionally get up enough
juice to trigger the lasers and fire off the Bussard Ramjet.  The surviving port
and starboard side crews have become bitter enemies.  Each has adopted the
color coded "side" identification as a badge; their "colors".
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* Loading information *

To load this Q2 map:

Unzip the freightr.bsp in the archive to c:\quake2\baseq2\maps\
Start Quake 2/CTF normally.  When the game starts, hit the tilde (~) key to bring
down the console and type:

map freightr

If you have the ERASER BOT, I've included my routes for this map.  It's easier to test
with BOTs, but I'd like to hear of human/human interactions as well.  The routes file
is freightr.rtz.  Unzip this to ERASER's ROUTES directory to use it.

For whatever, just email me at barry@icom.net.		 


* Copyright / Permissions *

(c) by Barry Walker, 1998.
The author's written permission is required for commercial use.

You MAY distribute this BSP over or on any electronic media, provided that you include all
distributed files intact and unmodified, and you don't charge the recipient anything beyond
the actual cost of the media and shipping.

Use of this BSP and all associated files are entirely at your own discretion and risk.  I
assume no liabilty for any direct or consequential losses you might incur as a result
of using these files.  I don't even guarantee that they'll run on your machine, but I'm
willing to help if you have a problem.