Quote from Lpfreaky90 on October 10, 2011, 11:10 am

My favorite element is white gel... but it's soo extremly hard to build a good map with it :O
I dislike an overkill amount of turrets, which have to be knocked out one-by-one. This is repetitive, boring and gives me lags

EDIT: Geometry overkill maps are also something I don't really like. However, lasers CAN be used in other kinds of puzzles, which can be fun

Quote from spongylover123 on October 10, 2011, 11:14 am

I like the Repulsion gel, I don't like the light bridges

Quote from Pete on October 10, 2011, 11:47 am

Funnels are by far my favorite, with lightbridges a distant second.

Now lasers, those are just terrible. Thinking up a puzzle with lasers that doesnt degenerate into a university-level geometry problem is just ludicrously difficult.

Quote from Portal Gun on October 10, 2011, 12:22 pm

1 thing. do not make any funnels starting from the ground. and if you do use funnels at all then make sure there are absolutely NO portal surfaces on the ground. people can glitch it and beat any level with either 0 {if funnel on ground} or 2 {if portal surfaces on ground} so funnels are difinitely a no-go. I like cubes, spheres, and specialized buttons (cube button/ ball button) so you have to solve one puzzle to get the cube, which opens a puzzle to get a ball. which opens another puzzle which you use that cube in, to open the puzzle to the ball switc that opens the door. that is the concept I am going to use in my first custom (non-sandbox) map

also panels. they are simple to make and make the map look so much more professional

Quote from Hzamd on October 10, 2011, 12:35 pm

I like a lot Gels in general
And hate the lasers like Pete said it, but I'm not agains 1 or 2 lasers sometimes

Quote from Rubrica on October 10, 2011, 12:54 pm

Pete wrote:

Now lasers, those are just terrible. Thinking up a puzzle with lasers that doesnt degenerate into a university-level geometry problem is just ludicrously difficult.

This is, for me, a massive issue; at heart, I'm a mathematician, and I find it very difficult soeties to remember that other people might not be. Hence, I have an excessive love for laser puzzles.

Quote from RubyCarbuncIe on October 10, 2011, 2:13 pm

My favorite would be the Excursion Funnels, to be all honest i don't even know why I like them so much, my least favorite would have to be the Thermal Discouragement Beams or the Ariel Faith Plates, The Thermal Discouragement Beams are overly used in a lot of maps, they are, however, great for starting with Hammer (A few of my first map ideas involved Lasers a lot) The Ariel faith Plates rank as one of my least favorites because it's really difficult to make a decent single player level with them.

I absolutely hate an overdose of Turrets. (I made a map like that once and it wasn't the greatest)

I love Portal 1 styled chambers, you know chambers that involve little to absolutely no use of the new elements, it brings back the feel that made me begin to love Portal in the first place.

Quote from MasterLagger on October 10, 2011, 3:45 pm

What about non-toxic water? I know I'm only mentioning this because I made 2 maps with non-toxic water, but what do you guys think about it?

Quote from Spam Nugget on October 10, 2011, 5:26 pm

Depends how it is done, if done well i think it could be good. i might have to download these maps and see, cause i think it has a lot of potential.
and my favourite element would have to be hard light bridges.