Blizzard did the same with Left2Die (it had 5 Game Variants and was
therefore listed 5 times), then they removed all Game Variants and
merged them into one.
I'd like to know how to merge map copies. But I don't know how, maps don't merge after you disable variants. Maybe blizzard made it manually. But still I think that all your bookmarks lead to the most popular copy, the easy one in yoru case.
You can have only one game variant, but none of gamespeeds disabled. And this leaves a map a possibility to be doubled. But if an author disables all gamespeeds except the desireble one and(or) make speed unchangeble, no one can double your map.
But if it happened yet, all bookmarks and the map you see after search lead to the clone which has best rating. So, if you can somehow keep the proper one higher, players will join it frequently. I may be wrong here, because in my case, the "faster" one was winning, but then it was beaten by the "fast" one. Dunno why.
Popularity is equal for all clones at the moment of cloning. But then each clone become independent in popularity, and usually one copy stays popular. others fall down.
If a player removes the map, all clones become unjoinable. But if you upload the map with the same name again, all bookmarks and all popularity ratings will be the same. But all clones will stay too.
I don't know if it possible or not, but the best and obvious thing would be like this: u delete a map -> all clones gone. U reupload it back with the same name -> only one copy appears, bookmarks still work. But it doesn't work this way if you reupload the map in a short period after u deleted it. Maybe if you give the server a time and reupload it after a few days, clones may disappear. But it's only a hypothesis, I never tried it. Yet.
Yeah, I will do it if the wrong one keep being higher.
Btw, I found out what exactly copies maps.
I allowed all speed opions again, and created a game instead of joining it. Then I changed speed to fast, made map public and started it. This created a 3rd copy of the map with speed = fast :D
But now search shows the faster version, and player bookmarks lead to the faster. Maybe because faster one has higher rating. Hope it will stay this way and slower ones plunge into the bottom of map list's ass.
Hmm, maybe I need to wait more time until maps disappear from the list. I can see them after I deleted it, they just unenterable. When I reupload it, they both become enterable again and the slower one works slow still.
I believe you fix it by editing the Map -> Game Variants -> Game
Attributes -> Game Speed, set Values to Faster, check everything except
Faster in Removed Values and in Access make it Locked (removing values
might be redundant, but do it anyway).
Tried - dind't help. Both maps still there, speed option isn't visible anymore, but one works slow, another one - faster.
You know, sometimes maps getting doubled in bnet. One stays with usual (fastest) speed, and other one has slower speed.
Today I found 2 instances of my map: with fastest and medium speed. And in spite of my attempts, the slower one won in popularity and getting higher, while fastest one going down. Probably because search shows only one instance, and it's not the proper one. But my map is slow itself, i'ts just unplayable with medium speed.
So, how can I remove somehow the slower one? What if I delete the map from server and then reupload it again? I'm afraid it will make it lose all the bookmarks ;/
Any advices?
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I'd like to know how to merge map copies. But I don't know how, maps don't merge after you disable variants. Maybe blizzard made it manually. But still I think that all your bookmarks lead to the most popular copy, the easy one in yoru case.
Oh, didn't know gamespeed can be set by a trigger. It totally solves the problem, thank you.
@Oatin: Go
You can have only one game variant, but none of gamespeeds disabled. And this leaves a map a possibility to be doubled. But if an author disables all gamespeeds except the desireble one and(or) make speed unchangeble, no one can double your map.
But if it happened yet, all bookmarks and the map you see after search lead to the clone which has best rating. So, if you can somehow keep the proper one higher, players will join it frequently. I may be wrong here, because in my case, the "faster" one was winning, but then it was beaten by the "fast" one. Dunno why.
Popularity is equal for all clones at the moment of cloning. But then each clone become independent in popularity, and usually one copy stays popular. others fall down.
If a player removes the map, all clones become unjoinable. But if you upload the map with the same name again, all bookmarks and all popularity ratings will be the same. But all clones will stay too.
I don't know if it possible or not, but the best and obvious thing would be like this: u delete a map -> all clones gone. U reupload it back with the same name -> only one copy appears, bookmarks still work. But it doesn't work this way if you reupload the map in a short period after u deleted it. Maybe if you give the server a time and reupload it after a few days, clones may disappear. But it's only a hypothesis, I never tried it. Yet.
@yukaboy: Go
Yeah, I will do it if the wrong one keep being higher.
Btw, I found out what exactly copies maps.
I allowed all speed opions again, and created a game instead of joining it. Then I changed speed to fast, made map public and started it. This created a 3rd copy of the map with speed = fast :D
But now search shows the faster version, and player bookmarks lead to the faster. Maybe because faster one has higher rating. Hope it will stay this way and slower ones plunge into the bottom of map list's ass.
Hmm, maybe I need to wait more time until maps disappear from the list. I can see them after I deleted it, they just unenterable. When I reupload it, they both become enterable again and the slower one works slow still.
Tried - dind't help. Both maps still there, speed option isn't visible anymore, but one works slow, another one - faster.
You mean I need to download the slower one from bnet? But I can see only one in the list of my maps...
You know, sometimes maps getting doubled in bnet. One stays with usual (fastest) speed, and other one has slower speed.
Today I found 2 instances of my map: with fastest and medium speed. And in spite of my attempts, the slower one won in popularity and getting higher, while fastest one going down. Probably because search shows only one instance, and it's not the proper one. But my map is slow itself, i'ts just unplayable with medium speed.
So, how can I remove somehow the slower one? What if I delete the map from server and then reupload it again? I'm afraid it will make it lose all the bookmarks ;/
Any advices?