Take the advice, and try planning your city out first. You should notice a huge improvement with a little planning and thinking. Good luck with your project, keep us updated when you have more.

I have to agree with the criticism on the mapping. From a first glance it does look quite nice but I can now see some fatal mapping errors which I think have already been pointed out.
I wont pick each problem out but you really need to work on the town. The best idea before starting a multi-level map is to PLAN PLAN PLAN. From what I see of your town map there was no planning or thought, it was simply you having fun with the chipset and impressing yourself with stairs going UP AND DOWN omgzzz.
All I can say is you should be delighted with the good comments but you really should consider the constructive criticism given by members on this forum instead of shrugging it off.

If you added some NPC's to that town, the little loop around with nothing in would still be pointless. Also the point I made about you putting in stairs pointlessly? Most multi-level towns are much more simple in design. From what I see you have to walk through ALOT of stairs to get from the top to bottom or from one building to another.... You should look into organising it more and giving the town a more solid structure. This often works best by building up 2-4 layers of the town... On each layer put categorised buildings ("inn, shop on one level").

I am simply trying to help you because at the moment it just looks like another VERY incomplete FF-Fan game with medicore mapping. I hope you take the criticism from me and the others here and amend your work. Maybe then it would appeal to a wider audience.

A very good way to start out is compile a list of each members favourite songs, then randomly select a few and each learn your part.
Doing covers is a good way to see how each person plays their instrument and should bring you all a bit musically closer... Also from the covers you should be able to define the sort of sound you are going for.
Once you all feel comfortable together start writing songs... In generic bands its often the Guitarist of Bassist that will write the base tunes and so on!
Good luck to you, Music is much more fun when you play it with other people!

You're probably not looking for anyone anymore but... Sign me up if you are!

Its quite an epic tune! This could work really well in an RPG as Ragnar said.

Haha... I agree with both of you and we are trying to find the right quality for us. We are going for the same kind of tone that you heard in the current recording but we deffinatly want it to sound alot less messy. I will bump and update this when the final mix comes. Thanks again guys!

Haha yeh, you can lock this if you want. The other band member took it down, we are awaiting the final mix! Thanks for your comments though, its all been taken into consideration.

Thankyou!
The guy is mixing it for us but we are emailing him are comments on the current state of the recording, I will update this post when we have it. Thanks!

@lars: Yep... I agree with you 100%! The studio we went to (for free) didnt have a drum booth and ProTools wasnt set up on the computer so we were working around this problems. This isnt the final mix and the instruments seem a bit of a mess because it hasnt been mastered yet. Also my voice echos like crazy and I sound like im singing on a different plantet then the band. I am glad you think it could be good, thats hopeful haha. Thanks for your comments though, I will keep the frequency thing in mind.

Yeh haha thank you. Well the reason for the rythmic issues is to do with HOW we recorded it... There was a problem having to do every part individually and using a program OTHER then protools... Kinda sucked but the rhythmic issues WILL be fixed. Any more comments?

Get one of them Whale noise CD's... Genius!

I was going to say The Doors until I read further on... Damn.

Hey, I posted a while back in here showing you all my acoustic recordings. We recently went to a recording studio and recorded a song, we have been sent a rough version of the song (unmastered) and I was wondering if I could get your opinions. We set up a small myspace and put on a min or two preview of the end of track to show to people. You can listen to it here:

http://www.myspace.com/flyingcoloursuk

Thank you for your time!

p.s. Don't say things like "It needs mastering" or... "its not perfect". I don't want comments on the recording quality yet, but I DO want your opinions on the general sound and mainly the (slightly too loud) vocals.

Thanks