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Personally I have found that the fastest, easiest and most effective method is to work directly in file. I can build a zone about ten times as fast with that method as with traditional OLC.
You just need to be wary of the format, so you don't accidentally remove any ~, or the zone will crash the Port when you put it back in. Apart from that it's an excellent method, combined with a minumum use of OLC. You make
a minimum number of rooms in OLC with the correct room flags, because these are a bit hard to distinguish in file. Then you just copy that room to new vnums, and change the name, descs and exits. Same thing with mobs and objects.
Another advantage with this method is that it makes it so much easier to keep the descs at a reasonably similar length, which makes the zone look nice when you move around in it. Working in file you can easily move blocks of text from one room to another, until the descs look balanced. It also gives you a nice overall view of the zone, much easier than walking around in it or editing one room at a time.
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