I'm having troubles getting people get into the lobby of new maps. The problem being the level of popularity of a map. Whereby popular maps have an exponential number of players joining and creating. And those new maps (even if they are good or newer) are placed under several "SHOW MORE" lists.
Take for example Bunker Defense (quite fun map). Even when new patches come along most players continue to play older versions and enter in older versions because it appears on the first (or first couple of) list. Same as with Google, most people just check the first page, maybe the second but hardly ever get into page 5-7 unless they are really looking for something in particular.
Now, this is not only a concern for my maps but even when I'm trying to play something that is not a TD/Defense of Something. Are we again going to have the DOTA problem? where only DOTA games were showing up and it was insanely hard to find enough people to play new or non-popular games?. Not for the same particular reason though. DOTA was due to its sheer massive fanbase. This time it will be because of 10 or 20 good games and in the case you want to look for something different you and me are going to have to dig down in the "SHOW MORE" not just a couple of times but several just to find diferent versions of popular maps.
But lets get to the bottom of it. How do we make a map popular or put it higher on the list?. I have already tried the corny ways, invite a couple of friends and tell them to spread the word. Also joining similar types of games and telling them: "Hey, there's some good shit over here". And also just hosting a map with bots, qutting the map, hosting it again and quitting it so it "increases the popularity" and puts it higher on the list.
And the end of the day I don't care so much about my map, its not that awesome and its just one map. My concern is regarding your map, I want to play all those other good maps that will come in the future. And that I will hardly even get to play unless you and me really dig down for them.
I hardly know what to ask, but here it goes: "How do we promote new map?"
I apologize for my Galaxyfu is not strong enough!.
Question: Is it possible to create new weapons?. If I wanted the marine to instead of using the weapon of a Colossus. Could I create my own weapon or even better yet use an ability like nukes as weapons?.
So far, I'm just playing a lot with the data editor to see what comes up. But I want to make it so a unit can use an ability as a weapon. Instead of having to click the ability for that unit to use it.
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Hello,
TL;DR: can I has popularity?
I'm having troubles getting people get into the lobby of new maps. The problem being the level of popularity of a map. Whereby popular maps have an exponential number of players joining and creating. And those new maps (even if they are good or newer) are placed under several "SHOW MORE" lists.
Take for example Bunker Defense (quite fun map). Even when new patches come along most players continue to play older versions and enter in older versions because it appears on the first (or first couple of) list. Same as with Google, most people just check the first page, maybe the second but hardly ever get into page 5-7 unless they are really looking for something in particular.
Now, this is not only a concern for my maps but even when I'm trying to play something that is not a TD/Defense of Something. Are we again going to have the DOTA problem? where only DOTA games were showing up and it was insanely hard to find enough people to play new or non-popular games?. Not for the same particular reason though. DOTA was due to its sheer massive fanbase. This time it will be because of 10 or 20 good games and in the case you want to look for something different you and me are going to have to dig down in the "SHOW MORE" not just a couple of times but several just to find diferent versions of popular maps.
But lets get to the bottom of it. How do we make a map popular or put it higher on the list?. I have already tried the corny ways, invite a couple of friends and tell them to spread the word. Also joining similar types of games and telling them: "Hey, there's some good shit over here". And also just hosting a map with bots, qutting the map, hosting it again and quitting it so it "increases the popularity" and puts it higher on the list.
And the end of the day I don't care so much about my map, its not that awesome and its just one map. My concern is regarding your map, I want to play all those other good maps that will come in the future. And that I will hardly even get to play unless you and me really dig down for them.
I hardly know what to ask, but here it goes: "How do we promote new map?"
Thank for reading
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I apologize for my Galaxyfu is not strong enough!.
Question: Is it possible to create new weapons?. If I wanted the marine to instead of using the weapon of a Colossus. Could I create my own weapon or even better yet use an ability like nukes as weapons?.
So far, I'm just playing a lot with the data editor to see what comes up. But I want to make it so a unit can use an ability as a weapon. Instead of having to click the ability for that unit to use it.
Thanks