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Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby safariguy5 on Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:51 am

For the 86th edition of the CC Newsletter, mapmaker extraordinaire cairnswk will be interviewed. Ask away!
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby macbone on Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:50 am

Cairn, which map are you proudest of?

If you could go back and revise one of your maps, which would it be?

Which of the other maps on CC do you wish you had thought of?

What are some things you wish you could do with a map but are not possible right now?

How did you get interested in designing maps?

Do you ever find your maps too difficult to play yourself?

Qwert is teaching an advanced SoC class, an introduction to his maps (which has yet to be conducted, but will once we have some team grads). Would you ever consider teaching the same kind of class through the SoC?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby Gillipig on Sat Dec 15, 2012 6:19 am

What new map making tools would you like to have at your disposal?

If you could drag one user into the foundry and make him comment on the maps, who would it be?

Are you pissed at all about not being able to get more than 30 map making medals?

What do you want from Santa this year?

Apart from the map foundry, do you ever browse the forums?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby chapcrap on Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:38 pm

Who's mapmaking skills do you covet?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby Dukasaur on Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:01 pm

Do you sometimes wish you could run a medieval dungeon and torture people?

What's your favourite method of execution?

Who is the more important cultural icon: Puff the Magic Dragon or Squiddly-Diddly?

Would you rather cross the Pacific in a kayak or cross Eurasia on a tricycle?

What's your favourite food?

Cat person or dog person?

Which changed civilization more: indoor plumbing or the printing press?

Who's the most famous person you've ever met?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby Ace Rimmer on Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:35 am

chapcrap wrote:Who's mapmaking skills do you covet?


Whose grammar skills do you covet?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby AndyDufresne on Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:42 pm

How many ideas do you try out (offline) before you find something you want to work and spend time developing more thoroughly?


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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby chapcrap on Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:54 pm

Ace Rimmer wrote:
chapcrap wrote:Who's mapmaking skills do you covet?


Whose grammar skills do you covet?

How many times has Ace Rimmer bested you?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby AndyDufresne on Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:42 pm

What Australian phrases would you like to see brought into wider use on Conquer Club?


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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby Nola_Lifer on Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:17 pm

What motivates you to continue to make maps while others just seem to fizzle out? What would CC do with out your maps?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby Funkyterrance on Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:21 pm

I'm a big fan of cairns, I'm looking forward to hearing the responses. :)

Cairnswk, a number of your maps are recreations of historical battles. What is your single favourite historical period and why?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby greenoaks on Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:49 am

What's doing with that bloody butterfly
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby Funkyterrance on Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:17 am

greenoaks wrote:What's doing with that bloody butterfly


Oooh, good one! I second this one lol.
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby Gillipig on Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:53 am

Is there any map that you've done that you wish you never made?
Describe yourself with three words.
What is your greatest strength?
What is your greatest weakness?
Do you look down on mere mortals like everyone else except you and me?
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Re: Conquer Club Dispatch Interrogation- cairnswk

Postby Dukasaur on Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:22 pm

Do you think the world would be better off without the Northern Hemisphere?
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