I did a search on the great custom map Hobofire. All I came up with was that Nipper created it and he is MIA for some time now.


We have been playing it on our server again the last month, and now I see Kettle has added it back on (last few weeks ). BUT, the map crashes some peoples HL when they try to join (esp. noticable when you try to join Axis).

I know the code of mappers is not to re-release anyones work without consent of the original person. But if that person is MIA for a year or more, shouldn't it become public domain?

The main reason for my post is to urge someone with a bit of talent to take on redoing Hobofire. It has an awesome layout. People love to play it ... but it gets alot of complaints for how U G L Y it is (and it is hideous to look at). Even if you could just figure out how to make it not crash, that would be a huge improvement.

This is probably all in vain .. but I thought it wouldn't hurt to try one post .

PF, if you can give me a good drawing of the layout, with everything, paths and all. I can give it shot, my previous work, actually the only one you can play would be dod_slav which I just released, my other projects won't be done for quite some time.. but yeah, give me some layout sketches and I'll see what I can do.

Here is Nipper's official map site: http://nipper.punkassfraggers.com/

I have a hard time seeing why this map is so great...maybe I'm looking at a wrong version?

Yeah, I've never actually played it, I've heard its got a pretty good layout, but thats it. But, if its worth remaking I can give it a shot, I have nothing better to do.

there is a hobofire2, made by Nipper

You can download it off of most map sites, or you can play it on a few servers (do a search on steam)

Nevermind it's the same version. I really, really fail to see the attraction of this map, it looks terrible, plays terrible and has a boat-load of brush errors and suffers from a hardcore scaling issue. :|

Saying it plays terrible is subjective. (It actually plays real well, and is quite popular among custom players) But to say it is visually hideous was the reason why I posted this request. I would like to see someone give it a little polish, but keep the design.

Gameplay is always subjective. I mean, some people love killboxes and think they have superior gameplay. I for one, aren't into that stuff.

It's a "death match" type of map for DoD.

Peeps on the KK servers love it . . . nuff said.


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nippers not gone, contact him on his forums:

http://forums.joe.to/index.php?c=15

but you'll never find him on AIM anymore, hes never on.
*reminisces to old chats with nipper*