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LaForge is the most ambitious project I've embarked on in Forge. It has taken probably at least 100 hours of problem solving and inventing, though, as you walk around the map it may not always seem apparent. In order to make a map that is both inside a starship and large enough to be playable, it took 10,000 full budget and lots of fixing and tweaking.

This map features a unique turbo-lift design that allows both upward and downward movement in the same shaft. There is one located on each side of the bridge. TO USE THE LIFTS: Walk to the back of the lift and simply jump straight up. you must be in the rear portion of the lift in order to be within the Trait Zone.

Features:

Unique two-way turbo-lift design (super elevator)
Bridge, Engineering and corridor sections of the Enterprise 1701-D
Aesthetics to drop your jaw, but is still very playable in a slightly more competitive atmosphere.
Unique viewscreen design to eliminate frosty windows
Space battle active in main Bridge viewscreen, with enemy weapon charging up disruptors and your ship firing torpedos at regular intervals.
Transporter room with two transporter pads with unique aesthetic design
Use with Star Trek Gametypes on same fileshare account!!!
Lighting trick used in most areas to better illuminate the interior of the map.
FULL BUDGET and almost full item count, with 100s of hours of troubleshooting and innovating. Quite literally, this map should NOT exist if not for my unwillingness to give up on it.

**I'm not absolutely sure of this, but a few things were done in this map FIRST before other people started incorporating ideas into their own maps, this one just took much longer to complete due to its complexity and challenges.

Firsts may include:

Two way super elevator design which if replicated, could be made functional at very great heights, more than this map required.
First use of Dominion shields as asthetic pieces to create visual effects such as viewscreens, televisions etc. I'm pretty sure that I was the first to post shots of this.

PLEASE NOTE: this map has a splitscreen rating of 6/10 meaning that two players can share the screen but in complex areas the framerate will drop and focus should be on 1 Local player at a time over Live for best results. Splitscreen is possible, but not great.

For more explanation of how the map came together during its constructioon, feel free to read through its Preview Thread.

Grab Star Trek gametypes from my fileshare also, for the best slayer variant to use for this map.

Screenshots:
(Please note: Darker images are due to theater mode glitch that will not show the lighting trick used on this map. See map in-game for most accurate visuals)

more shots:

Exterior forge shots: