Profile of OnkelSam

It has 5 water markers, which i remember is not good for performance. But that aside, looks really cool! =)

there was a guideline for watermarkers in one of the map contests, because basicly the mem-stats button was/is broken and it is hardly possible to measure the map performance.
If you know what you're doing, you can break those rules here and there, but need to be careful. The rules were just enforced on us to be 100% sure about map performance in this contest, leaving no room to fuck up for the contenders.

The problem with water markers is, each of them creates a water surface which is used for the calculation of reflections individually. So, if you have multiple of them on one screen, the performance will drop significantly, cause all of them have to be calculated at the same time. If you make sure that individual water surface are separated so you don't have more than 2 on a screen at a time, the influence on performance controlable. Just save some resources by keeping the render count in that area low, don't use more than 1-2 textures, don't pile splats and splines, and you are ok.

Smart ass comment: Whiteflash was lazy. Same ground texture with the same splat on it all over the whole map. If I would do the same, my whole texture pack would only include 2 textures.

I explained it already, but i'll explain it again. Ground textures are used as the basis, not for details on coh maps. Using ground textures for details is way too resource heavy and will result in insane lag. There's a rule, not more than 3 ground textures per chunk, or even the whole map. Worldbuilder even guides you here; the numbers in chunks become red in worldbuilder once you use more than 3.
Not only is it because of performance, but also because of precision. You can't paint ground textures to the pixel. Splats and splines are much mire detailed and can be easily placed pixel perfect. The normal maps on them create depth and interact with the ambient light.

Long story short. There's nothing wrong with keeping the whole map with 1 or 2 ground textures. You are supposed to paint the detail with splats and splines anyway.

In fact, trying to improve the map appearance by replacing it with dominant HD ground textures is the lazy way. It certainly affects the whole map at once and you see a quick result, but i breaks with the concept and overrules the map makers details (which are done with splats).
Consequently, it won't work for all maps, while splat/spline tuning would.

Do yome splines and splats yourself?

no thanks, i like the ones that are ingame.

P.S. I could care less about what you're doing. But if you insult a buddy for something which is a conceptional fault on your side, i'll say it.

you mean you like talking about jews, niggas, faggots and all the other insulting stuff that makes up 95% of the ingame chat?

but yeah, an ingame lobby would be nice.

To be fair, a big factor in increasing the viewer count on SNF this season was that SNF was temporarily featured on the twitch.tv frontpage.

But Lynx initiative to help make it visible through facebook and twitter surely had its influence as well.

Nice to see such initiatives from the community. Looking forward to teh event!