Hey there SEN community. I'm Ashenden and I'm a UMS fan. My original Starcraft B.net name was ++Phreak, created before they disallowed the + character in names. My home channel was RPG, where I hung out with people like SickDeathFiend (Alone in the Dark 1-4, the original The Thing map, Predator, and countless other advanced but underrated gems), RagingRaptor (map thief IIRC?), and Tobias (might have made one of the early D&D roleplay maps? It's been so long). I've never gotten in to actually making my own maps, I just like playing them.

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Welcome. Hopefully you'll have a good time here. Any other interests? SEN really is a starcraft site, but there is definitely a lot of other stuff that goes on here.

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Welcome to SEN!

Welcome to Sen, Ashenden.

I presume from one of your posts in an SC2 Showcase topic means you have SC2? Do you play melee at all? Which UMS games do you play? Do you play any other games?

Do you have any interest in picking up mapmaking for either SC1 or SC2? If you're interested in game development or computer programming, using a map editor is a fun and easy way to gain some experience in those fields. If you want to be a liberal arts or political science major, on the other hand, maybe it's not for you.

I want to play the original The Thing map. Way back when, a friend of mine told me it was awesome, but then later when we went to play it he said it was the wrong version or something.

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omg hi 2 u~

Hi

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Welcome to SEN!

Thanks! This thread is dedicated to you, because you told me to do it in the shoutbox.

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Nicest thing anyone has ever forum replied to me.

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Welcome to Sen, Ashenden.

I presume from one of your posts in an SC2 Showcase topic means you have SC2? Do you play melee at all? Which UMS games do you play? Do you play any other games?

Do you have any interest in picking up mapmaking for either SC1 or SC2? If you're interested in game development or computer programming, using a map editor is a fun and easy way to gain some experience in those fields. If you want to be a liberal arts or political science major, on the other hand, maybe it's not for you.

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Welcome. Hopefully you'll have a good time here. Any other interests? SEN really is a starcraft site, but there is definitely a lot of other stuff that goes on here.

Thank you for the welcomes. Playing UMS has probably been the longest continual hobby of my life. I've always enjoyed user created content, especially with the drop in and discover mechanics introduced to me in the bnet 1.0 lobby system. I was also an active member of the BYOND (Build Your Own Net Dream) community for years. Long ago I fiddled with trying to learn to map, and my one Starcraft goal (I got as far as some basic triggering and continent terrain) was a multiplayer map inspired by the SNES game Uncharted Waters: New Horizons. I've always loved those types of games, and I logged quite a bit of time hosting Thrax-'s Bloody Pirates! and attempting to get players that would stay til the end. One of my favorite SC maps was Space Pirate Wars, which felt very inspired by things like Cowboy Bebop. One of my favorite WC3 maps was Legacies: Tides of the Serpent (I was a sucker for RPGs with -save functionality, and it was one of the first).

I have never seriously, or even quasi-seriously, tried to play melee. The closest I get is being a rather passive diplo fan, always on an island when possible. I play all sorts of games besides Blizzard's craft series. I'm a fan of roguelikes such as Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Cataclysm Roguelike. I play the Dota 2 beta very sparingly (I was more of a Tides of Blood/EotA Twilight/Advent of the Zenith/Desert of Exile fan, personally), I want to be an anesthesiologist but can't afford continuing schooling at present. I'm bad at paragraph formatting.

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I want to play the original The Thing map. Way back when, a friend of mine told me it was awesome, but then later when we went to play it he said it was the wrong version or something.

If we can find it and it works (SickDeathFiend didn't seem to keep any of his maps on his personal website when he switched from mapping to making flash videos) I'd be very down to play it, or just about any other new or classic Starcraft 1 map.


Anyways, your community seems awesome and I am glad I found it.

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Tides of Blood/EotA Twilight/Advent of the Zenith/Desert of Exile

wow someone who knows all four?

what the fuck man

what the actual fuck

(I prefer AotZ, DoE, ToB, and EotA T, in that order)

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wow someone who knows all four?

what the fuck man

what the actual fuck

(I prefer AotZ, DoE, ToB, and EotA T, in that order)

I put them in more of an old to new format I guess. My favorites order would be almost the same as yours, only with DoE basically tied for first. As an AoS fan maybe you can help me out, I've been trying to remember the name of a map. It was a newer one, had an okay following. Had pretty much no original characters, featuring people like Predator. Feel like the name might have been Something of Legend(s). It had really impressive hero abilities. Just been bugging me that I can't remember it.

Edit: Remembered. Age of Myths

We do love to see people enjoy the stuff we create. You're as welcome here as anyone. Feel free to give your input on maps and stuffs, I'm sure your perspective will be unique and worthwhile.

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I'm bad at paragraph formatting.

This actually made me laugh out loud, good on you.

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I want to play the original The Thing map. Way back when, a friend of mine told me it was awesome, but then later when we went to play it he said it was the wrong version or something.

What is the original The Thing map by the way? My guess is that it was actually called The Unknown but there may have been a predecessor even to that.

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My home channel was RPG

I remember one time I was given the account for "RPG" on USEast. I deleted all of his friends at the time :3

Sorry about stealing your limelight, but does SickDeathFiend happen to make Flash cartoons, or is he just a fan of the animator?

I'm late on this 1 but welcome! Hope you are enjoying your stay!