Should I... Options

[Aurora196]

...finish my WIP-map I was working on two years ago?

For those who don't know me, or forgot me (understandable after two years of absence): Hiya! I am Aurora196 and I used to map for TS (and RA2). Today I was randomly looking at some of my old maps in Finalsun and I saw my old WIP map. About two years ago I really wanted to finish it, but after a while I lost interest, I got a new pc, some new games, a ps3 and so on. I slowly dissappeared from the TS community after I had already decided I wouldn't be mapping anymore. But still, I wanted to finish THIS map because I really liked it, and it was one of my bigger projects. So, long story short: I am right now thinking whether I should finish it, which will still cost a lot of time and work, or release it as a partially finished map, which would be kind of lame. So I asking you if you would still want it to be finished. On the one side: I don't know how active the TS community is and if there are still people who want to see a new map from me (could be for a mod I don't really care) and I would have to invest some time in it (also I haven't mapped for almost two years). On the other hand: I haven't really said goodbye to the community and I haven't really announced that I have stopped mapping, so this could be a formal goodbye with a last map, plus the fact that I have put a lot of effort in the map as it is now (would be a waste otherwise).

So you can decide:

1. I should finish the map (don't expect it to be filled with triggers and properly tested gameplay-wise, I would probably only visually finish it).

2. I should release the map as it is now, unfinished (which might prevent me from wasting a lot of time).

Also here's some screens I already posted a long while ago:

[Aurora196]

For people that are interested; I MIGHT (with emphasis on MIGHT) be doing more than just finishing this map. What else I'm planning is a secret... Well, ok it's not; I'm also planning to redo some of my older maps and I might finish up some other maps I have discovered that I hadn't finished.

I won't be doing ALL my older maps, but the ones that are either small and take a little while to redo (like 'Frozen Hell, of which I'm actually disgusted by the lighting I used; WHAT was I THINKING!) or the ones that I think had real potential, but I somehow managed to fail making them truly great (like 'FS Tiberium Lake' of OMC3, which had a fine cliff structure, but otherwise was extremely boring). The latter map is just one of my problems, that my 'mapping contest'-maps were never that great (I guess it was the pressure), which I still regret.

So basically the following maps are candidates (not TV-show-'Lost'-candidates) and YOU can tell ME which ones YOU want to undergo a MAKEOVER (I'm a bit addicted to caps at the MOMENT):

Frozen Hell [2] (on top of my list, due to size and awful lighting)
A Rivers' Journey [2-3] (not so sure since it's quite old and has a weird lay-out, on the other hand it's my second map and redoing it might be really nostalgic=fun)
FS Tiberium Atmosphere [2-6] (want to do this, because lay-out and detailing is already decent and lighting is awful, AGAIN)
FS Tiberium Lake [2-8] (map has great potential, but might be too big to redo)
Tiberium Night [2] (small, so easy to redo, however the map isn't that bad compared to the above, though I could to much better)

And about the unfinished maps, they were originally meant for a mod, but I stopped working on it and the maps were basically abandoned. One if them is a MP-map and it's VERY small (really tiny) and the other ones are SP-maps, which I'm less likely to finish or I might try to turn them into MP-maps. I was also working on a 'Tiberium Wars'-map, however that probably won't ever be finished...

Anyhow, I'm tired and this was a lot to type...