- Banned
- #51
Most maps have pretty self-explanatory names, such as "The Port City of Ara" (ara) and "The ruins of Keledros" (keledrosruins). Others have names that might make you wonder where they came from.
aluhandra2 - I'm pretty sure that LittleFrodo was working on "The Aluhandra Desert". Rickler also showed interest in the project and I guess that's why he figured he'd make a second part of the region; hence the "2" in the map name.
b_castle - The "b" stands for Barnum, as in P|Barnum, the map author (also co-author of ms_snow).
calruin2 - "cal" stands for "Calrian" and "ruin" stands for... ruin...! Hence "The Calrian Ruin". The "2" indicates that this is a new version - the original calruin didn't have the fancy Garonhroth boss chamber.
challs - The "c" stands for "Charthane" so that gives you "The Halls of Charthane".
demontemple - I'm quite sure the Kharaztorant Cult wasn't in-game yet when AmIAnnoyingNow started working on this map and my guess is that he originally didn't know what bad guys to put in the map, other than a demon (which turned out to be Val-sul).
foutpost - The "f" stands for "Forgotten"; "The Forgotten Outpost".
highlands_msc - The _msc suffix indicates that this is a revamped version. The original was incredibly laggy.
keledrosprelude2 - The "2" indicates that this is a new version. Because this map precedes keledrosruins it is named keledrosprelude, although it says "The Dangerous Pass" in-game.
lodagond-1 through lodagond-4 - I'm pretty sure "Lodagond" means "floating rock", according to Crow (the author).
lostcastle_msc - Yet another revamped version.
ms_quest - Here's another map with a name that totally hides what you might find inside. Quite a few maps have names that indicate what kind of map it is (edanasewers for example; it's a sewer RLY). The reason it's called ms_quest is simple: this is the starting map of Cyax' "MS Quest" map series.
ms_underworldv2 - The v2 indicates that this is an improved version over the original. Truth be told though; there isn't much improvement.
mscave - The "ms" stands for "MasterSword", obviously, and the "cave" for... you get it.
orcplace2_beta - A semi-revamp. The original orcplace was incredibly laggy and this "2" remake is still only in beta, probably because noone ever goes there anyway.
sfor - This is the only map name I never managed to figure out. In-game in transition areas to sfor, you either see "The dark forest" or "The haunted forest". The "for" part is obviously short for "forest" but I can't figure out what the "s" means. Maybe someone else knows.
unrest2_beta1 - The original unrest2 had a garbage monster layout and this _beta1 version sort of fixed that.
ww1, ww2b and ww3d - Originally these maps were just called ww1, ww2 and ww3 ("ww" stands for "World Walker") but the second and third maps went through Thothie's bugfix procedure (tm) so they had their names changed.
aluhandra2 - I'm pretty sure that LittleFrodo was working on "The Aluhandra Desert". Rickler also showed interest in the project and I guess that's why he figured he'd make a second part of the region; hence the "2" in the map name.
b_castle - The "b" stands for Barnum, as in P|Barnum, the map author (also co-author of ms_snow).
calruin2 - "cal" stands for "Calrian" and "ruin" stands for... ruin...! Hence "The Calrian Ruin". The "2" indicates that this is a new version - the original calruin didn't have the fancy Garonhroth boss chamber.
challs - The "c" stands for "Charthane" so that gives you "The Halls of Charthane".
demontemple - I'm quite sure the Kharaztorant Cult wasn't in-game yet when AmIAnnoyingNow started working on this map and my guess is that he originally didn't know what bad guys to put in the map, other than a demon (which turned out to be Val-sul).
foutpost - The "f" stands for "Forgotten"; "The Forgotten Outpost".
highlands_msc - The _msc suffix indicates that this is a revamped version. The original was incredibly laggy.
keledrosprelude2 - The "2" indicates that this is a new version. Because this map precedes keledrosruins it is named keledrosprelude, although it says "The Dangerous Pass" in-game.
lodagond-1 through lodagond-4 - I'm pretty sure "Lodagond" means "floating rock", according to Crow (the author).
lostcastle_msc - Yet another revamped version.
ms_quest - Here's another map with a name that totally hides what you might find inside. Quite a few maps have names that indicate what kind of map it is (edanasewers for example; it's a sewer RLY). The reason it's called ms_quest is simple: this is the starting map of Cyax' "MS Quest" map series.
ms_underworldv2 - The v2 indicates that this is an improved version over the original. Truth be told though; there isn't much improvement.
mscave - The "ms" stands for "MasterSword", obviously, and the "cave" for... you get it.
orcplace2_beta - A semi-revamp. The original orcplace was incredibly laggy and this "2" remake is still only in beta, probably because noone ever goes there anyway.
sfor - This is the only map name I never managed to figure out. In-game in transition areas to sfor, you either see "The dark forest" or "The haunted forest". The "for" part is obviously short for "forest" but I can't figure out what the "s" means. Maybe someone else knows.
unrest2_beta1 - The original unrest2 had a garbage monster layout and this _beta1 version sort of fixed that.
ww1, ww2b and ww3d - Originally these maps were just called ww1, ww2 and ww3 ("ww" stands for "World Walker") but the second and third maps went through Thothie's bugfix procedure (tm) so they had their names changed.
