How is this a map editing community, when there isn't an actual place to beautifully show off your work? I'm working a project that is visually appealing and I cant share the images without adding a map file??? There's a stupid requirement that you provide an actual map file... that people can have access to.. in order to create a page for your map in the "Maps" section. I will be removing the link that brings people to this site, directly from my games info section in the arcade to my "maps" page because I dont want people to have access to the map file, but I wished for a place that they could post pictures and discuss the game. Battle.net doesn't even have an area for this.. What the f?!? I'm confused. Thousands of maps from thousands, maybe millions of editors... This has been something that people do for years and somehow.. there isn't a proper way of "showcasing".
There should be a place/page (not 2 websites with half of the stuff needed to flaunt your games qualities) where players and the makers could interact. I'm imagining a place where comments flood, images can be seen all on one page!.. and videos of that game are a click away. Images of recent additions to the game should be seen as well as patch notes. This entire time i thought the maps section was for this. It is the closest thing and I guess its a place to upload maps because people don't have another way of sharing the file? or creating a backup.. because no one has dropbox or an email address these days? because I dont see any reason why someone would use it. I mentioned a "Map Adoption Agency" earlier and now I'm guessing that the "Maps" section is it since people put their maps up to potentially be stolen.. might as well have given up on it if youre risking it that way. Better not be a good map, all it takes is a rename and now your splitting ratings.
So disappointed and frustrated. How the heck is this an editing community, without a singular place for showcasing? with all the things needed to properly showcase AND linking the players to leave feedback and comments on the game? Explosion over. Hate how everything is split up. Bnets all polished but doesnt support teams or live chat.. filesharing between 2 people or 6 however big the group. This place looks like a shack, all rust colored, and you cant post pictures of your project without having a file. Neither have live chat support. We have to download OTHER programs, on top of downloading the first 2 (sc and editor) for this.. and hope they have file sharing. Both sites have things they can do to meet these needs entirely. ITS AN EDITOR COMMUNITY.. how has this gone for so long without actually coming together. I'm seeing a problem, and 2 sites have been made with an inaccurate effort at solving it. Get it together. please.
Why don't you just open a feedback thread and upload images into the thread?? You don't need to host a map-file here . You just need to store the images here or have some other mirror hosting site. You can also have videos loaded into threads as well.
Everyone who cares about this site is a volunteer. The people who are in charge(paid) are pretty absent unless something catastrophic happens to the site. We are the bastard child of Curse and probably can never get out of this relationship unless Blizzard sets up its own site.
I have never heard of anyone having their map stolen from this site.
I don't really know what you were expecting, but SC2 is a niche game and has a hardcore audience but its size is minuscule compared to the other moba and fps games out there. I can't imagine anyone investing their time in making us a new site unless there would be a huge payout or lots of ad revenue supporting it that included all of your ideas.
How is this a map editing community, when there isn't an actual place to beautifully show off your work? I'm working a project that is visually appealing and I cant share the images without adding a map file??? There's a stupid requirement that you provide an actual map file... that people can have access to.. in order to create a page for your map in the "Maps" section. I will be removing the link that brings people to this site, directly from my games info section in the arcade to my "maps" page because I dont want people to have access to the map file, but I wished for a place that they could post pictures and discuss the game. Battle.net doesn't even have an area for this.. What the f?!? I'm confused. Thousands of maps from thousands, maybe millions of editors... This has been something that people do for years and somehow.. there isn't a proper way of "showcasing".
There should be a place/page (not 2 websites with half of the stuff needed to flaunt your games qualities) where players and the makers could interact. I'm imagining a place where comments flood, images can be seen all on one page!.. and videos of that game are a click away. Images of recent additions to the game should be seen as well as patch notes. This entire time i thought the maps section was for this. It is the closest thing and I guess its a place to upload maps because people don't have another way of sharing the file? or creating a backup.. because no one has dropbox or an email address these days? because I dont see any reason why someone would use it. I mentioned a "Map Adoption Agency" earlier and now I'm guessing that the "Maps" section is it since people put their maps up to potentially be stolen.. might as well have given up on it if youre risking it that way. Better not be a good map, all it takes is a rename and now your splitting ratings.
So disappointed and frustrated. How the heck is this an editing community, without a singular place for showcasing? with all the things needed to properly showcase AND linking the players to leave feedback and comments on the game? Explosion over. Hate how everything is split up. Bnets all polished but doesnt support teams or live chat.. filesharing between 2 people or 6 however big the group. This place looks like a shack, all rust colored, and you cant post pictures of your project without having a file. Neither have live chat support. We have to download OTHER programs, on top of downloading the first 2 (sc and editor) for this.. and hope they have file sharing. Both sites have things they can do to meet these needs entirely. ITS AN EDITOR COMMUNITY.. how has this gone for so long without actually coming together. I'm seeing a problem, and 2 sites have been made with an inaccurate effort at solving it. Get it together. please.
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Why don't you just open a feedback thread and upload images into the thread?? You don't need to host a map-file here . You just need to store the images here or have some other mirror hosting site. You can also have videos loaded into threads as well.
Everyone who cares about this site is a volunteer. The people who are in charge(paid) are pretty absent unless something catastrophic happens to the site. We are the bastard child of Curse and probably can never get out of this relationship unless Blizzard sets up its own site.
I have never heard of anyone having their map stolen from this site.
I don't really know what you were expecting, but SC2 is a niche game and has a hardcore audience but its size is minuscule compared to the other moba and fps games out there. I can't imagine anyone investing their time in making us a new site unless there would be a huge payout or lots of ad revenue supporting it that included all of your ideas.
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Free Model Developing Program: http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/maya
You can upload an "experimental" map (that will appear in the list as any other map) WITHOUT a map file.
(just select "experimental" in the map's status or whatever when you right up your map thread, all you described is accessible on mapster)
So, mmm while i understand the "outcry" about blizzard not doing it properly.. it is completely unfounded when applied to mapster!
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I agree, there are lots of developer communities out there that are using the most basic functions and yet we have this outdated xenforo of a site...
I've sent a ticket to Curse about it... Lets just say i'm hoping something will happen in the end of the year!
Until then, Im interested in *helping* with financing a new website if that doesn't happen.