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@ObsceneCereal: Go

Then it should be easy to find evidence for your assertion. Good luck.

Shall I refer to the 30 pages (500 post) of insults between you and EW?.

All I am saying is keep it classy, if you don't like someone that's fine, but don't continuously insult them when as far as I can tell they haven't done anything to you.

or at the very least, within the past 6 months.

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@houndofbaskerville: Go

It does. He got the same amount of respect he showed others (a ban).

@SoulTaker916: Go

I don't think you guys understand how professional organizations work. The goal of EG is to succeed at e-sports. That doesn't mean they should tolerate douchebags (hence the Idra ban). It's the moderators' decision how they want to run this site and be perceived by the community. As for me, I don't want to be in a community of racist bigot mapmakers.

To be fair.... you are pretty bigoted yourself anytime anyone ever mentions a religious affiliation, I have seen you flame and attack people without any reason for the mere mention.

Quote from DEFILERRULEZ: Go

I agree with KaitoYami it's ridiculous do a post with apologies and insult antartica at the end of the post,let's keep that troll out of here!! http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=160655873016 Da fuq? Antartica is this? Man how in the hell you can live on these temperatures?? You are Make of steel? O.o http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Antarctica_major_geographical_features.jpg

I am pretty sure that was his point, Antartica is so cold that no one actually fully lives there. There are Teams that study the place but they move out in the winter.

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@MasterWrath: Go

Eh IMO paying for customs is a bad idea. This game is primarilly played by kids, having the kids pay extra money to play thier favorite custom games or really any custom game just doesn't seem right, i know growing up as a kid i loved playing wc3 custom games and i didn't have the money to go around buying all these extra games. I mean the idea of shaking down kids for their allowance money just doesnt seem right to me. You don't have to make money on everything, some things are more important, if you like making games for people then do that, if its money you want make an Indie game and try to sell that or something. If you dont like map making to the point where someone would have to pay you to do it, maybe find a hobby that you would engage in for free.

Your right, But thats the reason we need to shift the focus of arcade games to Battle.net Indie games :). Blizzard still has a HUGE chance to make TONS of cash, If we focus arcade from RTS games and TO The new launcher were ALL players can play it from warcraft, to diablo, to starcraft, It can bridge the gap and after about 1 year open it up for a map marketplace.

@GhostNova91: Go

Quote from GhostNova91: Go

I hope this still counts but how about an importer for their Art Tools? May not necessarily apply to the editor but definitely applies to arcade games.

I actually asked the devs about this, and they said "They would have no use for it, so its up to the community to create a 3rd party importer" NOTE: Quote may be partially inaccurate but is overall the same meaning.

@Imperfect1987: Go

Your post reminded me of something minor I would like to see "Eventually".

The ability to dig through terrain, creating terrain bridges with pathing under them, or quarrys that can have textures painted on the tops. :)

@JacktheArcher: Go

Jack you can actually already texture swap in the cutscene editor, but its a bit tricky. here in the attachment, i have instructions on how to do it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbcg1pw39w32lur/Instructions%20Textureselect%20cutscene.txt

:)

@MasterWrath: Go

Yeah you CAN, but they are not the same, NO ONE, cares about in arcade achievements they want achievements on their sc2 account... not some meaningless crap inside the game :P. Achievements inside arcade are only worth for showing what stuff you unlocked and what you had to do to unlock them.

The more and more I think about it, I think There needs to be some kind of Incentive for playing Arcade maps, I mean right now you cant really get achievements, portraits, unit skins, anything from playing arcade. so I think if there was some sort of system, the one I have listed above as an example, then more people will play arcades, this will at least get us some achievement junkies

Quote from phanalax128: Go

Also I'd be careful making halo models. might get into some copyright issues.

@OP You really dont have to be careful there are already a few halo models, I would still alter it quite a bit to make it an original creation, the work looks great though. But remember, if you dont alter it and keep it in its current form as a halo model, then any map with it will not be able to be featured without it being removed first.

But other then that its not a big deal.

Well Dogmai, you know what I want...

PIPE DREAMS

• A Free 2 Play, platform that's just for custom games. That includes 3 mods Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo ,(maybe their other games and titan in the future). All maps would be easily convertible to this new platform, as it would use the same engine, maybe a slightly modified one.

• An In-game marketplace, not not like a real money marketplace, But one where you buy avatars, backgrounds(the Kerrigan /Planets is all we have), UI colors, New Command Cards perhaps? Unit Skins, In game Alert voices, etc. You purchase these items by playing the arcade, custom, and ladder games, You earn points for each game you play that last more then 10 minutes. maybe like have enough to buy something every 20-25 games, larger items 100 games. This adds a lot of replay ability to the game.

• IF the arcade doesn't get its own platform, THEN, make ALL arcade maps Free 2 Play in the starter edition. I really want my map to be 100% FREE 2 PLAY then you could add the old plans for the paid real money buy maps marketplace and no one could so much as fuss about it. :) (if its still in SC2, then anyone who has the full game should get all that games stuff, and anyone wh has the expansion should get the full game + the expansions stuff free of charge).

• Scramble the browse page to always show a different list of random maps, and make the top 10 list on the featured page Newest open games. if people want to play the maps they are used to playing they can book mark them, there's no reason to have a popularity list.

• A donate button in the game info so mappers can link their pay-pal accounts

• A bug report on the map info, so that players can leave bug reports without lowering our review score, or littering the section. allow players to post multiple times here.

AND FINALLY!!! this is for the editor.

DATA

• A Field in the Ability tab that says "Levels +" and one that says "Units Affected Levels +", These fields work like the upgrades field. but with some key differences.

• Levels + You select effects that get upgraded each ability level the same way you would in the upgrades tab, but this is for abilities this way you no longer have to use validators or many duplicated effects. This would GREATLY help out making heroes, I could then make a new hero in 15 minutes. rather then several hours.

• Also this would mean upgrading the Events + field in the actors tab, So that we can select which level(do this by a string so the levels can be unlimited) so that we can have different models/sounds for each levels of the abilities, if someone wanted to put a new effect in the ability level they could still do it like they used to do it. This would help everyone who makes heroes immensely though.

Upgrade the Terrain Editor

• to hold more pathing levels,

• Be able to use ALL the textures in a single map, not just 8 :P

• Add water pathing this would be paint able pathing for water.,

• add the ability to do 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, etc sizes of water squares, instead of HUGE squares.

• Allow us to tilt the water squares.

• Click and Drag for sizes of texture painting, like MS_Paint or Photoshop so we can paint perfectly straight lines, or perfect rectangles(make us hold a hot-key down to do this)

General Editor

• Video for loading screens(i realize this sounds stupid, and wont happen but I would love it lol)

• Sound Track on loading-screens(more likely), this would be great so my sexy voice can tell them how to play before the game starts.

• The ability to delay the loading screen(if the top part is possible with SOUND, or video I would want to delay the loading screen until that's over.

• Make all maps say "Porn Flakes, the cereal for men"

• Hmm dunno if this is possible but JUST came up with this idea, Have a way for the editor to AUTO GENERATE Wire-frames, This was when I create an attachment unit, it can automatically have a wire-frame, There should be a way to pretty easily do this.

• Make it so the cut-scene editor can play out abilities, so I can see what they look like with their visuals hooked up without actually going in game/ the ability to place a unit in the cut-scene editor :P

Quote from sethmachine: Go

Hi everyone,

I was curious if anyone knows the current situation with map security with regards to banks.

From what I found on past threads, a determined individual can eventually cheat the bank system of any map to get the best stats, rank, etc. since the encryption algorithm/secret key can always be recovered.

Is this still the case now? How do popular maps with bank systems like Mafia deal with this? I cannot imagine Dark.Revenant would tolerate such things...

Just do like mine is, Convert it to hexadecimal, and then convert it to a unique system of vigesimal(meaning dont use 1-k, use a-t or something). you wont have any problems. no one is going to break something that has over a million possibilities.

@sgtnoobkilla: Go

Okay thanks ill check through it.

Anyone know of any good sites I can grab non copy protected music for my mapping endeavors.