Map Name:	Ceremony
Author:	[S=A]Doobie (Click name to view all maps by this author, 7 total.)
Author URL:	http://www.strategic-alliance.org
Mission Types:	CTF, DM, Bounty, Hunters, Team Hunters, Rabbit, 1
File Name:	Ceremony.vl2
Downloads:	13674	Players Must Download:	No
File Size:	227,264 bytes	Custom Shapes:	No
Terrain:	Lush	Custom Textures:	No
Weather:	Clear	Day/Night:	Day
Bot Support:	Yes	Upload Date:	05/07/2001
Description:	This sacred ground is used for pagentry and medal ceremony's. However even in times of celebration violence can take hold, and whole battles could be fought over sacred ground. The Ceremony area is located on Gelatinus Prime, a planet known for it's unuseual water properties... This map need only be downloaded by Server Admins.
Screenshots: (Click to open screenshot viewer)

User Submitted Comments:

Grade: C+	Submitted by: Red Shifter - 03/19/2004 04:03 10287
Holy hell this map is old. There are just too many problems with it to give it a high grade. You can crash the server pretty easily, and bouncy water gets boring after a while. Almost 2.5 years after I first played it, it just doesn't hold the same feel.

Grade: B	Submitted by: Riavan - 02/08/2004 04:02 10216
Its a fairly simple map... Just bouncy water, which isnt exactly the hardest thing to do. The water creates a few glitches you know?

Grade: A+	Submitted by: Tin decoy - 02/23/2003 06:02 8595
This map is really cool!

Grade: A+	Submitted by: Ensign Munro - 10/20/2002 08:10 7858
I really like the bouncing water *winks and then uses evil eye*

Grade: A+	Submitted by: hehah - 08/25/2002 07:08 7298
i haven't even downloaded this map yet and already i give an A+ just knowing it is on gelatinus prime! woohoo!

Grade: B-	Submitted by: SlaughterLord - 04/28/2002 01:04 5591
decent map, but the bouncy water and causes problems, the trees on the islands are permiable (you can go through them) and the repair packs are hard to use, so an idiot with a mortar can easily blow open your spawn and you cant even repair the invs to get better gear. THis map is also very boring. I played this on combat 3.0 mouse mod

Grade: A+

Submitted by: [OF]GeForcer - 08/28/2001 01:08 2359

Hey, heres a great strategy if your playing online with alot of people. As soon as you start, get into ASSAULT armor and get a mini-inventory station. Head past the Storm area to a small island thats hidden behind another island not to far away(maybe 200m away) and set up your inv. station. Be sure to stay in ASSAULT so you can set up turrets and pulse sensors. Then, if you die, nobody but you and maybe a select few on your team will be able to get supplies after the real inv. stations explode. Another is to get sniping stuff and head towards the big log-arch thats to the side. You can walk inside the wider end and just snipe from there because nobody will see you. They will catch on after awile, though. Well, thanx for listening.

Grade: C	Submitted by: [OF]GeForcer - 08/27/2001 12:08 2324
This map is great for LAN parties, but it really sucks online.

Grade: A+	Submitted by: [S=A]Sephiroth - 08/24/2001 07:08 2229
WOOHOO!!! Great map doobie!

Grade: C-	Submitted by: mageta - 08/18/2001 03:08 2093
it was fun for the first 5 minutes, but when the vechiels are gone it gets really anoying.There isnt much game play in this level

Grade: A

Submitted by: Captain Darkbolt - 08/01/2001 03:08 1728

When the load screen got done, and i went into observer mode, i saw the small little two base connected in the center by a bridge and thought "this map is going to suck" once i joined the team, i started off in the water "from hearing about the gelatous waters" and started bouncing. From this moment on i was literally rolling on the floor laughing. I found it quite hilarious that i couldnt stop bouncing, and kept flying myself over the small base (very hard to land on) but overal this map is great, and entertaining when your having a bad day.

Grade: A+	Submitted by: })r.Pepper - 07/10/2001 08:07 1271
This map is an A+ map. For all those people who say it's not really that great of a map, well take this. It is a AWESOME map. It's not meant to be a great map for game play (i hope and in my opinion), but a map that is fun, which it a achieves very well. Also, if you like the water on this map play Gelatinus Prime!!!

Grade: B+	Submitted by: blut-dms- - 07/01/2001 02:07 1133
well its sorta pointless but its funny as hell, i go in the lil grav cycle and can bounce 3000m.... pretty halarious dude, imma check out ur galaticus map to a good big ctf map with bouncy water should be interesting :)

Grade: D+	Submitted by: outtrigger - 06/30/2001 02:06 1122
this map just wasn't enough to keep me playing the whole time. The bouncing water thing? who would have thought to do that, but it just got you stranded bouncing faster than you can run out into the mountains(not to mention a nightmare for the bigger armors). Plus it was a one floor short little bridge on bouncey water. Have you even played it before sending it out?

Grade: None	Submitted by: [S=A]Doobie - 06/27/2001 07:06 1057
For those interested, my new map called 'Gelatinus Prime' takes place on this type of terain (bouncy water), but is a full spread out CTF game.

Grade: D	Submitted by: Burn14 - 06/19/2001 06:06 933
This map is pretty much an entire flop. The base is pretty to look at but the gameplay value just plain sucks. Even with the bouncy water added, ins't enough to save this map. Next time focus more on the game play than the special effects.

Grade: A-	Submitted by: Steven - 06/18/2001 07:06 884
This is a CRAZY and WILD map. Bouncing water... who would have thought?

Grade: C	Submitted by: Star - 06/16/2001 04:06 860
If it is real lag that is your connection, but if it is fps lag that's your 286's problem and not the map's.

Grade: A-	Submitted by: GregKul - 06/14/2001 07:06 825
I only gave it an A- because of the lag. I love the idea of bouncy water and the vehicals, but their is alot of lag.

Grade: A+

Submitted by: Kid Antrim - 06/13/2001 09:06 812

OMG! Totally hilarious and fun map! We run it on "The Backyard BBQ" server and I love it! We have some people complain about framerate though. It does bog down with a lot of players, but I think that's due to everyone being so close on the platform. If you set up clamp turrets, one on each platform around the flag and on by the inv stations, you can rack up major points! I had over 80 points by myself in one game! Totally hilarious! I hopped completely off the map on the Wildcat one time... Didn't know it could reach 30,000 feet in altitude! LMAO! This is meant to be a fun map, to break the monotony of serious CTF. That's what makes it so entertaining in a rotation of maps on a dedicated server. I hope there are more Jello maps that come in the future! Good work!

Grade: A+	Submitted by: [S=A]CrYo - 06/11/2001 02:06 765
IT is the most kick asss map for everything dueling ctf and having fun lovin it doobie cant wait to see what u got next

Grade: A+	Submitted by: DiamondKnight - 06/08/2001 10:06 739
This map rules! It's quite possibly the best map to play on when ur just looking for some fun, and for those of u who check out the map you'll be able to find some vehicles...and just wait till u try boucing those...;)

Grade: A+	Submitted by: Tenchi Masaski - 06/08/2001 03:06 736
This is the best map I played on.The best part of the whole map is t he bouncy water. Its just fun!

Grade: A+	Submitted by: Cmdr_Ke3n - 06/06/2001 12:06 705
OMG!!!! THIS MAP IS SOOOO FUN!!!! Probably the only map where you can fly 20km in the air and gain some mad speed. I went 20km in the air, fell down, hit the water at 2000mph, went through the water and hit the floor!!! Great map, keep it up dude

Grade: A	Submitted by: -SL-Blood Hawk14 - 05/22/2001 06:05 463
O when i first played that map it was soo fun!!! i love seeing the bots just homp up and down being retarded but the thing is i didn't see and viehicals......

Grade: A+	Submitted by: [S=A]Fantom - 05/18/2001 07:05 390
Whahoo! ceremony map!

Grade: D	Submitted by: AGuyFromHere - 05/16/2001 04:05 353
This map is totally useless and unplayable. I would have given it an "F" but the bouncy water was fun at first.

Grade: A	Submitted by: Anrkist - 05/14/2001 10:05 331
I like the concept of this map... its just alot of fun =]

Grade: A	Submitted by: SirKewlAlot - 05/14/2001 01:05 307
Awesome map. Lottta fun with the bouncy water. Only problem is that with the vehicles, I take one bump and the first bounce I go up for 100 meters, then the second I go off the scale. When I finally make it back down I plunge through the water and die from the gravity. Perhaps you could turn down that little extra a tiny bit?

Grade: C+	Submitted by: Aggrippa - 05/08/2001 06:05 187
Crazy..yes A good diversion for some laughs after you've played waaaaay too much serious CTF..yes It's CTF+T2+Looney Toons and is good if you werent really too serious about getting the other guys flag anyway. :)

Grade: B+	Submitted by: =X= Bishop - 05/08/2001 05:05 184
damn hilarious when i see the bots hop'n off of the map while i have sniping practice... tho the duel concept of the map is not as great to the one made for tribes1.. if you could make a map soley for dueling EVERYONE would love ya for it! nice work

Grade: A	Submitted by: MaDAssassin - 05/07/2001 11:05 181
This map was submitted to me for the Duel Tournament, And it's got a good shot at winning! It's fun with the bouncing water and the good size platform to duel on. Good Job.

Grade: B

Submitted by: v5planet - 05/07/2001 07:05 178

This is a cool map, that's for sure. I saw your post on the Tribes 2 mapping forum, and it inspired me to play around with the water properties, and I've discovered a bunch of neat effects as well (you've inspired me to make my own "jel-o" map, but don't worry, it's not gonna be anything like yours). If you haven't figured it out yet, this map is all about bouncing around on a gelatin ocean, which is both it's weak and strong point. First the strong: I see some CRAZY antics happening on this map - you just can't beat bouncing around like a maniac, that's just too cool. Weak: The map seems like nothing more than a way to show off water properties. That's not entirely bad, but there's really not much here. Deathmatches and such can be a hell of a lot of fun, but I could picture rabbit being like this: guy grabs map and bounces too high for anyone to shoot him for the rest of the game. You only touch the ground for a second and then you're back in the air...If the flag is dropped, good luck getting it back - that thing is going to bounce into the horizon (maybe water density could be turned down a wee bit to prevent these problems). Also, I noticed the vehicles dropped in this mission are essentially useles. For some reason they take water density to the extreme - I drove the hovertank on to the water gently and bounced into the air about 10 miles. I didn't have as much trouble with the grav cycle, because it started on the water, but as soon as I ramped over a bit of land, it was good bye to that vehicle. All in all, this map is still very enjoyable, and shows mappers that they don't have to go the way of the typical CTF map - experiment a bit and you might get something as zany as this. Good work, all in all, but room for improvement.