Well, it appears the Maps and Replays section has faded out from these forums, at least it looks like it to me. Occassionally we have questions about map making and replays from some curious, prospective minds, which are half-answered (and yes, this is partially my inactivity too) and ignored by the map makers i know use these forums. What is to come of the future of this section? Who else is an experienced, or dare i say, veteran map maker that is still active on these forums, and has the time and energy to put forth in to bringing back the once-glorious Maps and Replays section, which once had at least 2-3 posts a day? Another topic: Map of the Month. How are we to relive the competitive map making that these forums were once adorned with if we have no map makers actively using these forums? iMaGiNe. and I are the only people i have seen post that actively made maps before. Please, if you are a map-maker, help bring the glory back to this wonderful section. If i get enough people to reply interested in the MotM, i will host it myself, with a 1k mineral prize out of my own pocket if i dont get any donations, and i will host it monthly so long as i have competitors willing to participate-even if i do end up running out of minerals, and we have to resort to powerup prizes.
I see... This section is really dying Once, I was a mapmaker, I had time to make maps.. But I don't have mood, and time for it anymore. It's a pity, but I don't have other ideas, other original ideas to create maps, and I don't want to make the 10000000Th version of the same map style.
Don't worry, when Starcraft2 is finally released, there will be a lot of new mapmakers. I will be one of them, you can count on that, I love mapmaking for Warcraft 3, and making them for Starcraft 2 will be even more awesome to do, especially since there will be more people to play them. I already have some little map/mod ideas in my mind for this game. Maybe we should make a map/mod team when the game is released? By the way: Lol.
Yeah, go Inside Sin, I already thinking about map ideas for SC2, and I have some quests which would be awesome I think, but I won't be able to finish it alone in 1 year so I guess I am going to teach my friend the basics of mapmaking, and give him the texture, and visual works. I will be happy with the triggers too. I so hope that the basics of the triggers won't change..
INTERJECTION! Uh, my question was answered well, to what I wanted anyway. If it was 1/2 answ2ered I would've been bugging you to no end to answer, which I didn't . And 2-3 posts per day really, really isn't that much... sorry to burst your bubble =P. And, in fact, I'm currently de-bugging my original CnM idea (renamed to CnM - Squared, if you care, because of the fact that the map's terrain is squares, and the cute little ^2 symbol is just so... cute...), while mapping out another map (a team CnM game :O). Actually, it's mapped out, I just need to do the trigs now that I think of it... BUT ANYWAY. Mapping isn't dead. Just think of it like this: if (otherMapSite !=existant) { otherMapSite==fail; SC2forums.org==mainstreamMappingSite; } I win . -Pandemic EDIT: 1. That should be in a while loop, now that I think about it... 2. I would be all for participating in a contest! Me, being a pessimist, would never think that I would win, but it would be fun participating anyway . I would donate all of my mins... if I knew how, and if ou get that I'm actually trying to help, not being sarcastic because of the so few mins I have .
Yeah my unwarranted and useless threads tend to come back while my best ones (Community Writing Challenge - GO WRITE!) tend to die off and stay dead.
*BOO* .. haha too bad, eat. :C there's just not enough real SC UMS people anymore.. most ppl here are old melee SC'ers.. or *shudder* WC'ers, who knows nothing about the UMS mapping community
