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Palm Plaza

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Palm Plaza is a free roam map.


Much like trade servers, like 2fort, like Hightower, or like that one mario map we all remember fondly because of Team Fabulous 2, you can spend all day on it, fight, trade, dance and more!



It's also built to be detailed like an official map, instead of looking like an empty gray box with a glitchy leak for a swimming pool.



This map has a little something for everyone. Tryhards? Friendlies? Casuals? You name it!






It's divided in 3 sections:
-The Main Hub is the Mall, home to a variety of shops, restaurants and the likes. You wanna go to the Disco club, spend some quality time in Pyro's Café or practice your aim in the Mann Co. Shooting range? This is the place.

-For combat, the King of the Hill zone in the underground subway station is decent enough to accomodate for most classes, with highs and lows, deadly trains and rapid action, condensed in this zone.


-Outside the mall, is the outside courtyard connecting each area, including each team's secondary spawns. Beyond this is the street, with the Palm River Resort, where you can relax in the lobby away from the constant chaos and the outside rain.












List of features and cool stuff to interact with:

-4 spawns, 2 per teams with many different exits, to prevent spawncamping. If someone's bothering you, just taking another door should be sufficient. If not, 2-way teleporters link both spawns together.





-5 unique safe rooms for friendly players who aren't in the mood to get shot at. Each come with special "griefing-proof" doors to prevent abuse such as shooting people while invulnerable, or using the safe rooms to run away from a fight. Simply walk to a door, enter the "airlock" and wait for the second door to open. Some of these have jukeboxes with looping songs in them!

-The Shooting range is one such safe room, in the Mann Co. Gun Store, where you'll be able to train your aim on multiple targets undisturbed, with dispensers to keep you topped up! Try to shoot them as fast as possible, and keep them down! Comes with headshot critical hits!

-The Disco club is another safe room, below the mall's logo, where you can dance between the neons, with 8 different music tracks all set to loop, with disco classics like MJ and the Bee Gees, and other various tunes from games and movies!

-Merasmus has set shop in the mall, allowing everyone to use his bumper cars free of charge for 2 minutes around the plaza: You can deal damage to regular players by hitting them as hard as you can while dodging their attacks. Heavy with Fists of Steel is recommended.

-Merasmus also proposes minigames once in a while:
-Duck Hunt is a simple game where you have 3 minutes to run around the map and collect as much ducks as you can! The team that gets the most earns a random reward
-Bumper Car Arena is a hellish match where you must survive and bump the other team into lava to win a prize that YOU can choose. This minigame is optionnal and can be accessed after Merasmus announces it via a purple vortex portal, either in your spawn room or at his ticket booth in his shop. If the minigame has 2 people in each team, then rewards are enabled and the winners can go to the reward room when they capture the arena's point.





-The Underground combat zone is traversed by subway trains which are both dangerous to innatentive players, and a fast platform to jump on.

-The map features a UNIQUE Dynamic Weather system, which changes between clear weather, rain and thunderstoms periodically. It also changes the clear weather's atmosphere, changing skies and fog after each rain, from sunset to nighttime, to keep the mood fresh and to show the passing time.
Thunderstorms are similar to rain, but feature actual visible lightning bolts, which light up the sky and have a realistic sound delay, heard all across the map.

-Full moon mode is enabled, allowing players to use halloween cosmetics, while the health kits remain the same, meaning the server does not need to change the holidays, and is discouraged to do so for the next feature:

-a Dynamic Holiday System using TF2's internal calendar means that the map will go into:





-Halloween mode during October, Enabling spellbooks that spawn around the map for everyone to use, the wheel of fate and it's counterpart, the Misfortune teller as well as the Skeleton king for control point captures. This also enables an eerie thunderous purple sky after rainfall. Can also be enabled as a Bumper Car Arena reward.
-Smissmas mode during December, enabling more cosmetic changes such as festive props and snow which replaces rain.





-Capturing the control point will change some of the advert panels with the team that captured it.





-The Nature shop has a brazier for huntsman snipers to play with





-The tailor shop has a changing room, with a locker and a mirror to admire yourself peacefully, with a door lock mechanism to keep intruders away.





-The Robo-medic at the pharmacy can provide quick heals to anyone who's in need.

-The map is bot-compatible and has a nav mesh packed in it.





-It has gone through an optimization process, to reduce lag as much as possible. It worked fairly well on my old potato computer.



-A few secrets are out there somewhere...























I hope you enjoy your time in Palm Plaza.

Hopefully it will catch the attention of some server owners, who may wish to replace their old bad trade maps with something more catchy and polished, as well as with features that cater to almost everyone.
With that being said: here's a few things to consider when choosing it, as a server admin:

-I HEAVILY recommend to not enable halloween mode or full moon mode, as the map already does so on it's own and has a dynamic holiday system (see above) that can be broken with the tf_forced_holiday command.

-Bumper car plugins are less useful, since the map allows you to do so around the main playable area at any time, albeit for a limited time. It is however, less glitchy than bumper car plugins I have experienced, which can get you stuck easily.

-This map has no idling features, and aren't planned, unless the community really wants them. As such, there is no mechanism for killing players who afk at spawn, to encourage more activity around the map. There are plenty of idle servers everywhere already.





-The map comes built with a secret self-destruct and reset button, in case of something breaking and needing resetting without restarting the server. The way to access it is still secret, and something for players to figure out.





-There is NO time limit in the map. The timer at the top of the screen is meaningless.

-The map has got a lot of entities. While it's been tested and optimized to be able to handle many players and their cosmetics, I would avoid things like sandbox plugins that add a lot more entities, which could make it crash due to the Source Engine's limits





-The map contains some copyrighted music. There are warnings before you enter rooms with such music. If it causes issues, I can create a copyright-free version if it is highly requested.