Games: I really only play Starcraft. I love Civ V, but thats pretty weak on the Sci-Fi Side.
Books: I love Dan Simmons and his Hyperion Books as well as Illium and Olympos. Asimov's Foundation Books forever!! Basically any Sci-Fi books that deal with a large chunk of time and a crazy expanded universe. Niven's Ringworld!!
Movies/Shows: Prometheus, Alien, Aliens, Serenity and Firefly. I can never seem to get into Battlestar Galatica, but maybe one day...it seems like I should be obsessed. I loved all the Matrix stuff back in the day, but now...
I noticed on the Bnet forums that the Custom Mod portion is pretty dead, that is it gets like a posting once a week. I'm sure new folks click on the forum cuz they are like oh cool custom mods and then are disappointed by the lack of well anything. Anyways, I was thinking that the Custom Campaign page might be a nice addition to that dead forum. I didn't want to step on anyone's toes so I thought I should post here before posting on Bnet. I'll probably throw it into the Arcade Forum as well, but it is a little more happening.
I gather from the veterans that Curse has pretty much set us adrift, i.e. they know we exist, but they could care less.
Perhaps a push to get Sixen's privileges restored would be a good first step. I gathered that Curse did something funky to the code and he has been unable to delete the poll or update the Current Events. I'm really into the idea of us all writing emails to the Curse web folks. I would be happy to type up a form letter that folks consent on and then you can just cut and paste and email away.
I think it would be smart to point out that Blizzard is making the Arcade free, which could bolster the SC mod community and thereby increasing the traffic on the SC2Mapster/Curse website. Curse makes most of their money from ads....the more traffic on this site the more ad revenue, but if the site seems dead, then why come back.
Stickies
We should have a separate discussion thread for stickies and try to "stick" to updating the website. I'm all for sticky renovations, but I gotta set my goals simple.
Website
Do we have access to the code of this website? I'm not a programmer, but what's the platform/code the website is built on? I think, if we can, we should tinker with it a bit. I would say just deleting that poll would be a good start and try to move onto simple house cleaning tasks. Perhaps one day we can make it epic.
Succession
A Mapster successions seems unlikely. Building a website from scratch and transferring all the files over seems likes an epic task. I think staying with Curse is the best bet for now, but getting a few tweaks on the front page is the simple, hopefully attainable, goal.
Niche
SC2 modding is a total niche community. However, I found this place because of HuskyStarcraft doing a playthrough of the Remakes. Did you know that the Remake of Rebel Yell has 1.5 million downloads from the Curse Site. That's basically Heart of the Swarm. The downloads go down in numbers for each episode, but RTS is a difficult genre for a lot of folks and those episodes get harder and harder. I'm just now finishing up the BroodWar: Queen of Blades and some of those missions took me a long time and patience. Anyways, I then see a posting of more custom campaigns on the Mapster site and I'm like no way there's more free stuff! Soon I'm tinkering with the Editor. Anyways, I have attained super nerd status, but I couldn't of done it without Mapster!
My problem is I want it to rain drop pods. I missed around with some stuff and got this to work okay. The Wait/Don't Wait part of the last Drop Pod Action seems to do something as well as inserting wait times. I'm still missing around with this and there might be a trigger or function I could be using, but this is the best I could do for it raining drop pods. Any help is much appreciated.
That is a big bummer. Perhaps a more coordinated and focused effort could be made by the users of the website?? Curse gets money from the ads so keeping things fresh and up to date is in their best interest.
Also...can anyone just edit events or does it have to be a moderator?? I haven't look into this.
I gather from other PMs and threads that most people who frequent this website are very busy with their own personal projects and life. I would love to do the WTE but have so little time to devout to my own project that I can't do it let alone other activities. However, I agree that the WTE should have its own sidebar as it is a very active and interesting activity. I've actually gone through a few to get some inspiration and ideas.
I do strongly believe that the home page needs to be updated. I'm not advocating for some amazing polishing or crazy new features, but just some simple additions and deletions. I have a limited understanding of web development, but I know it would not be difficult to at least get ride of the current events and expand the active threads. I would be happy just with that.
So...who is in charge of the website! Do we even know?
Who is in charge of the website? Is it possible to get some sprucing up done?
Sprucing:
1) Expand the active thread box. Why? The forums bury stuff. More threads on the first page means more responses, especially nice for new people.
2) Get rid of the Current Events. Why? Seems like a dead place when things go back to 2011 and there are only five of them.
3) Get rid of the poll. Why? Its been around since 2011?? Seems like a dead place again.
4) I'm a big custom campaign person. I would love to see a quick list of campaigns instead of the poll. Other genres should also have their own lists. Thinking the sidebar on down to the bottom.
I'm very new to Mapster, but I really really appreciate the amazingness of this website!! I just want new folks to come in and see what really is a vibrant, helpful and inspiring community, which is tough when the first thing you see is from 2011.
I'm down to help, but I have limited web abilities. Lets discuss!
I'm playing through this campaign and it is a lot of fun!! I noticed the author has gone MIA cause of school and probably wont be able to finish Amber Sun. :(
Is there a reason he never loaded this up onto the arcade?? Its a pretty cool story arc and not too crazy difficult. I think it would get rave reviews on the Arcade.
Any chance we could increase the number of Active Threads on the Home page? I find this the most useful thing on the Home page to view when I'm out and about.
Any chance we could get the Current Evens not to say something from 2011 and 2012. Makes us seem like a dead forum, which we are not. Perhaps this could just be active threads and the articles could be the current events.
Any chance we could get rid of the survey that is from 2011?
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@nolanstar: Go
Games: I really only play Starcraft. I love Civ V, but thats pretty weak on the Sci-Fi Side.
Books: I love Dan Simmons and his Hyperion Books as well as Illium and Olympos. Asimov's Foundation Books forever!! Basically any Sci-Fi books that deal with a large chunk of time and a crazy expanded universe. Niven's Ringworld!!
Movies/Shows: Prometheus, Alien, Aliens, Serenity and Firefly. I can never seem to get into Battlestar Galatica, but maybe one day...it seems like I should be obsessed. I loved all the Matrix stuff back in the day, but now...
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First time of hearing of this campaign. Very excited! Can't wait to get home to play!
You should get Sixen to upload on the front page as well as Tyneara to add in with the Custom Campaign Initiative.
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Hey folks,
I noticed on the Bnet forums that the Custom Mod portion is pretty dead, that is it gets like a posting once a week. I'm sure new folks click on the forum cuz they are like oh cool custom mods and then are disappointed by the lack of well anything. Anyways, I was thinking that the Custom Campaign page might be a nice addition to that dead forum. I didn't want to step on anyone's toes so I thought I should post here before posting on Bnet. I'll probably throw it into the Arcade Forum as well, but it is a little more happening.
Here is the link http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/custom-campaign-initiative/
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Hey folks,
Trying to not lose momentum.
I gather from the veterans that Curse has pretty much set us adrift, i.e. they know we exist, but they could care less.
Perhaps a push to get Sixen's privileges restored would be a good first step. I gathered that Curse did something funky to the code and he has been unable to delete the poll or update the Current Events. I'm really into the idea of us all writing emails to the Curse web folks. I would be happy to type up a form letter that folks consent on and then you can just cut and paste and email away.
I think it would be smart to point out that Blizzard is making the Arcade free, which could bolster the SC mod community and thereby increasing the traffic on the SC2Mapster/Curse website. Curse makes most of their money from ads....the more traffic on this site the more ad revenue, but if the site seems dead, then why come back.
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Wow. I didn't know you could do stuff like that. I'm just getting to know the Editor, but very cool.
Some of the units seems sorta choppy.
Did the Carrier go through the Battlecruiser at the end? Like something out of Star Wars.
Perhaps a little back story.
Stars and a planet would make it seem way less dark and bleak.
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Stickies We should have a separate discussion thread for stickies and try to "stick" to updating the website. I'm all for sticky renovations, but I gotta set my goals simple.
Website Do we have access to the code of this website? I'm not a programmer, but what's the platform/code the website is built on? I think, if we can, we should tinker with it a bit. I would say just deleting that poll would be a good start and try to move onto simple house cleaning tasks. Perhaps one day we can make it epic.
Succession A Mapster successions seems unlikely. Building a website from scratch and transferring all the files over seems likes an epic task. I think staying with Curse is the best bet for now, but getting a few tweaks on the front page is the simple, hopefully attainable, goal.
Niche SC2 modding is a total niche community. However, I found this place because of HuskyStarcraft doing a playthrough of the Remakes. Did you know that the Remake of Rebel Yell has 1.5 million downloads from the Curse Site. That's basically Heart of the Swarm. The downloads go down in numbers for each episode, but RTS is a difficult genre for a lot of folks and those episodes get harder and harder. I'm just now finishing up the BroodWar: Queen of Blades and some of those missions took me a long time and patience. Anyways, I then see a posting of more custom campaigns on the Mapster site and I'm like no way there's more free stuff! Soon I'm tinkering with the Editor. Anyways, I have attained super nerd status, but I couldn't of done it without Mapster!
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My problem is I want it to rain drop pods. I missed around with some stuff and got this to work okay. The Wait/Don't Wait part of the last Drop Pod Action seems to do something as well as inserting wait times. I'm still missing around with this and there might be a trigger or function I could be using, but this is the best I could do for it raining drop pods. Any help is much appreciated.
0
@SoulFilcher: Go
That is a big bummer. Perhaps a more coordinated and focused effort could be made by the users of the website?? Curse gets money from the ads so keeping things fresh and up to date is in their best interest.
Also...can anyone just edit events or does it have to be a moderator?? I haven't look into this.
0
I gather from other PMs and threads that most people who frequent this website are very busy with their own personal projects and life. I would love to do the WTE but have so little time to devout to my own project that I can't do it let alone other activities. However, I agree that the WTE should have its own sidebar as it is a very active and interesting activity. I've actually gone through a few to get some inspiration and ideas.
I do strongly believe that the home page needs to be updated. I'm not advocating for some amazing polishing or crazy new features, but just some simple additions and deletions. I have a limited understanding of web development, but I know it would not be difficult to at least get ride of the current events and expand the active threads. I would be happy just with that.
So...who is in charge of the website! Do we even know?
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Hey good people,
Who is in charge of the website? Is it possible to get some sprucing up done?
Sprucing:
1) Expand the active thread box. Why? The forums bury stuff. More threads on the first page means more responses, especially nice for new people.
2) Get rid of the Current Events. Why? Seems like a dead place when things go back to 2011 and there are only five of them.
3) Get rid of the poll. Why? Its been around since 2011?? Seems like a dead place again.
4) I'm a big custom campaign person. I would love to see a quick list of campaigns instead of the poll. Other genres should also have their own lists. Thinking the sidebar on down to the bottom.
I'm very new to Mapster, but I really really appreciate the amazingness of this website!! I just want new folks to come in and see what really is a vibrant, helpful and inspiring community, which is tough when the first thing you see is from 2011.
I'm down to help, but I have limited web abilities. Lets discuss!
0
@ArcticalEX: Go
This is by onetwosc from the tutorial page. It should get you on the right path.
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Hey,
I'm playing through this campaign and it is a lot of fun!! I noticed the author has gone MIA cause of school and probably wont be able to finish Amber Sun. :(
Is there a reason he never loaded this up onto the arcade?? Its a pretty cool story arc and not too crazy difficult. I think it would get rave reviews on the Arcade.
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I'm looking for how to make them spawn faster. Like rain drops from the sky. :) At the moment they spawn like every 6 seconds.
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Who is master of the website? Is it someone from curse.com??
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Hey,
Any chance we could increase the number of Active Threads on the Home page? I find this the most useful thing on the Home page to view when I'm out and about.
Any chance we could get the Current Evens not to say something from 2011 and 2012. Makes us seem like a dead forum, which we are not. Perhaps this could just be active threads and the articles could be the current events.
Any chance we could get rid of the survey that is from 2011?