TWO Ways To Greatly Improve This Site And Game and In Return Pull In A much Large Community
1).Give New Map Designers A Bone
As a once new map designer I found that the politics here are designed to push most players away and
only secure the most stubborn and hard working designers.
I understand that you want the game to feature high quality maps instead of having thousands of poor maps.
But to allow a mid range section maybe to allow players to openly build, test and redesign the maps as they go.
And maybe a community grading on the maps by each player as they play the new version of the map for the first time.
Allowing only the highly ranked games to be featured yet still having the poorly ranked games accessible for
testers and additional modification and growth of that designer.
I found that I might spend 15 hours or more in a row to fix a few issues that was brought to my attention
but then had to wait a few days or longer to be told in a vague manner that it was still not good enough
based off this one persons opinion how only took 5 minutes of their time to glance at it and gave little
to no support or constructive feed back
For a gun HO!..new designer who will stay up all night trying to adjust and build a map to have to stop and
wait a few days to get a vague comment on how it is not ready for the next stage is really diss-heartening...
Especially after spending months or longer on a project.
Instead allow the designers to go through all stages and post any map in a beta section.
Maps will stay in a beta section for one month or until removed by designer for more edits.
In that month other players can play it and leave their comments and grade it.
Maps that after a month have a high average grade can move into the featured list.
Else others will then have same day comments from multiple community players of what they think
the map needs; instead of having to wait days if not weeks for one assigned game creator mod to
give their one vague comment.
This will encourage new designers instead of discourage them....
ALSO:
2)modify or re-write the game engine to allow players to build RISK-like Boardgame Style play as done on Supremacy1914 or ThirtyKingdoms
They allow troop movement to be done by timers instead of turn based.
It allows for a more fluid game play feel.
I think if they allow the players to be able to design games like the two stated above and post them here;
Then this sight will also gain a lot of players and a more active community just as these other two sites have.(but more so)
I feel this is the true future of this site if this site wants to survive else it will never grow much more then it currently is...
that was a good chuckle
