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This is a cool idea

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It's great you guys are reviewing worlds on here. That will realy encourage developers to work some up.

Good Job.
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thank you gerbil -- by the way, your gerbil lair map has 2 objects that are _well_ outside the realm of the world boundaries -- one is a box, the other is a teleporter.

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Thanks Fiber.

I make maps in notepad and Bzworld most of the time but then convert them to degree oriented (vice rotation) maps with Bzedit.

For some reason, bzedit does not always do well and chops them up or moves things--which on a complicated world is really hard to find sometimes. Since I test my maps on a radian coordinate version I don't run the "map" versions and never know if this random bug has bitten a particular map until it either crashes or someone says something.

That is why the map is buggy. Can u point out to me where these objects are in the map text? If so, I'll fix them.
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oi, with all them objects, I'd have to do some heavy work -- but I imagine, if you did some sort of a search within the file for any values > 400 square (i.e. the bounds of the world, you'd find the box), if you did a search for all things at a high Z, then you'd find the teleporter. I'm on a different machine right now, but I'll see if I can find em when I get home.

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