While you PLEBIANS engage in ladder play, I enjoy sitting back and enjoying some custom games for the variety therein ;). Unfortunately, compared to Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3, the use map settings scene seems not quite dead but damn is it limping bad. Is there any particular reason why this is happening? After beating the campaign I got into UMS maps pretty hard and had a good time, especially with the new rage tug of war style maps, but inevitably I petered off and kept taking semi-long breaks (because I got bored with the same map selection). And now, each time I come back I hardly see anything new or for that matter, new and fun (I have very varied tastes so I'm not being a snob either). The RPGs are decent (all 2 of them) and stuff like the capital ship space battle are pretty good.
I'll throw out some of my own things here, maybe some people can confirm if they are accurate.
1). The "popularity" system seems to really lock in crap to the highest levels and people hardly play anything either. Then again, when I do a custom search its not like people are missing out on anything either. When the map tools were first described and all the early examples we saw I'm sure most of us were blown away and now not so much.
2). The NA/EU divide, where we can't share maps or something? I don't really know about this one, since it seems like a really shitty reason why we can't have cross pollination going down. I'm not asking EU or NA mapmakers to buy a second account but holy shit it can't be that hard to find ONE trustworthy person and upload it to the respective community?
3). The map marketplace. I recall seeing some very high quality mods and even total conversions going down which supposedly would only be happening when this happens, and we haven't heard shit about it from Blizzard. Are some map makers holding out on purpose for extra dosh or out of necessity due to file size limitations on a grand scale where we get jack squat filtering down?
Those are the three major things that I can think of and if anyone can shed some more light on any of them or something I didn't mention please tell us. I would love for the UMS scene to expand and for the really high quality stuff to start rolling in.
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While you PLEBIANS engage in ladder play, I enjoy sitting back and enjoying some custom games for the variety therein ;). Unfortunately, compared to Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3, the use map settings scene seems not quite dead but damn is it limping bad. Is there any particular reason why this is happening? After beating the campaign I got into UMS maps pretty hard and had a good time, especially with the new rage tug of war style maps, but inevitably I petered off and kept taking semi-long breaks (because I got bored with the same map selection). And now, each time I come back I hardly see anything new or for that matter, new and fun (I have very varied tastes so I'm not being a snob either). The RPGs are decent (all 2 of them) and stuff like the capital ship space battle are pretty good.
I'll throw out some of my own things here, maybe some people can confirm if they are accurate.
1). The "popularity" system seems to really lock in crap to the highest levels and people hardly play anything either. Then again, when I do a custom search its not like people are missing out on anything either. When the map tools were first described and all the early examples we saw I'm sure most of us were blown away and now not so much.
2). The NA/EU divide, where we can't share maps or something? I don't really know about this one, since it seems like a really shitty reason why we can't have cross pollination going down. I'm not asking EU or NA mapmakers to buy a second account but holy shit it can't be that hard to find ONE trustworthy person and upload it to the respective community?
3). The map marketplace. I recall seeing some very high quality mods and even total conversions going down which supposedly would only be happening when this happens, and we haven't heard shit about it from Blizzard. Are some map makers holding out on purpose for extra dosh or out of necessity due to file size limitations on a grand scale where we get jack squat filtering down?
Those are the three major things that I can think of and if anyone can shed some more light on any of them or something I didn't mention please tell us. I would love for the UMS scene to expand and for the really high quality stuff to start rolling in.