When could be the next contest
That's exactly what I meant.
Never is a terrible word.
I don't see why you would never use the authoring tools again for reasons such as not having a contest. Like josepezdj said, you could use it for fun or to experiment with things. I use it to derp around and occasionally, come up with interesting test elements. This is just my personal opinion though.
Yeah, use it for fun if you have plans for maps. You can't make a map once a year. (But if you want, you can organize a fake contest yourself without rewards and things, just ratings, it doesn't really matter).
I see what you mean by having a map plan to make for a contest because it's your best concept, though if you make it before the next contest, it can't join the contest. But just wait and see.
There are some PeTI mapping contests that happen once a week, and one of the groups mentioned that they would have some Hammer only competitions. The group is here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mapping_challenge
yeah... I understand what you guys say use it for fun but, I've already had that fun, i've experimented and that, and it is much time consuming... Soon i'll start university, and well...
But I will make a map for the next contest, because this contest are the ones I like, i'm sorry I didn't understood right, english is not my native.
I hope the next contest will be quite notorious so more people can notice and participate.
- Somewhere Underground Complete
Workshop:
- http://steamcommunity.com/id/eladiozro/myworkshopfiles/