Important Mapping News
New Map Voting System
To raise the current standard of maps the map submission process will be dramatically altered. Please pay attention carefully to the following so that you understand in the future the process by which your maps will be submitted for the kz or custom tag. Maps will now be filtered through a mapping community.
It will be required that any mapper submitting a map have access to IRC. If you are serious about submitting a map through this process please realize that it will require a lot of dedication and effort on your behalf, just as it requires a lot of time on our behalf. This form of map submission will work something like this: We have a channel dedicated to discussing and sharing ideas – a place for new mappers and old mappers to communicate within the community. There will be a team of mappers that will check your map WITH you.
Let me make that clear – the map you submit will be looked at with you – therefore any constructive criticism will be given at this point and any information you wish to share about your map can be given to the map team. This will allow you to IMMEDIATELY fix any bugs within the map – it will also allow you to discuss the map with the map team – if you don’t know how to fix the bugs in the map the individuals on the team can also offer some guidance in helping you improve your mapping knowledge.
This process is being designed to encourage mappers to work collectively in the community – sharing ideas and sharing expertise. For the mappers with little experience please don’t be discouraged if your maps are not added officially because this process is designed to help you specifically increase your mapping abilities. Over the next few weeks we will be attempting to perfect this new form of submission, and seeing how it works out for mappers. Please realize too that there will be a team to test the jumps of your maps, as they are just as important as the aesthetic aspects of the map.
What we will do: Attempt to give encouraging feedback to be used at your discretion. Give you a forum to keep in contact with us about your map. A real time discussion via in-game, IRC, or/and Ventrilo about your map. Play your map with you and give suggestions / constructive feedback on what can be improved. Keep you up-to-date on what is going on.
What we will not do: Tell you what to do with your map or how to do it. Be rude or condescending in any form. Tell you when or where your map is to be released – these matters are at your discretion and yours alone. Do the work for you – we will help you as to the best of our abilities but we won’t do the work for you so please don’t ask us to. It’s a learning venture and we’re here to teach you not to do the work for you.
What is required from you? An open attitude about improvement or suggestions from other people is needed from you. Remember that this is simply constructive feedback that we will base mostly on bugs within your map. If there are other areas of the map that may require improvement we may offer an opinion or a suggestion but those are left to be decided upon at your discretion.
You will need to download IRC – www.mirc.com and connect to the Quakenet server channel #mappers (Guide) . The individuals there will be able to assist you further with your map submission process.
The Mapsubmisson Rules have also been changed and updated so we advice you to check it out.
Other ideas? Things we need to add or think about? Let us know.
The map crew:
Mappers:
angie
radon
gangien
Sadpuppy
Shizuka
Moxx
dropsys
maxeh
Chrizzy
dEMolite
Jumpers:
OddYsseus
gangien
eXcaL
elITe^
stukad
Moxx
dropsys
Blownaway
fatalis
faker
To raise the current standard of maps the map submission process will be dramatically altered. Please pay attention carefully to the following so that you understand in the future the process by which your maps will be submitted for the kz or custom tag. Maps will now be filtered through a mapping community.
It will be required that any mapper submitting a map have access to IRC. If you are serious about submitting a map through this process please realize that it will require a lot of dedication and effort on your behalf, just as it requires a lot of time on our behalf. This form of map submission will work something like this: We have a channel dedicated to discussing and sharing ideas – a place for new mappers and old mappers to communicate within the community. There will be a team of mappers that will check your map WITH you.
Let me make that clear – the map you submit will be looked at with you – therefore any constructive criticism will be given at this point and any information you wish to share about your map can be given to the map team. This will allow you to IMMEDIATELY fix any bugs within the map – it will also allow you to discuss the map with the map team – if you don’t know how to fix the bugs in the map the individuals on the team can also offer some guidance in helping you improve your mapping knowledge.
This process is being designed to encourage mappers to work collectively in the community – sharing ideas and sharing expertise. For the mappers with little experience please don’t be discouraged if your maps are not added officially because this process is designed to help you specifically increase your mapping abilities. Over the next few weeks we will be attempting to perfect this new form of submission, and seeing how it works out for mappers. Please realize too that there will be a team to test the jumps of your maps, as they are just as important as the aesthetic aspects of the map.
What we will do: Attempt to give encouraging feedback to be used at your discretion. Give you a forum to keep in contact with us about your map. A real time discussion via in-game, IRC, or/and Ventrilo about your map. Play your map with you and give suggestions / constructive feedback on what can be improved. Keep you up-to-date on what is going on.
What we will not do: Tell you what to do with your map or how to do it. Be rude or condescending in any form. Tell you when or where your map is to be released – these matters are at your discretion and yours alone. Do the work for you – we will help you as to the best of our abilities but we won’t do the work for you so please don’t ask us to. It’s a learning venture and we’re here to teach you not to do the work for you.
What is required from you? An open attitude about improvement or suggestions from other people is needed from you. Remember that this is simply constructive feedback that we will base mostly on bugs within your map. If there are other areas of the map that may require improvement we may offer an opinion or a suggestion but those are left to be decided upon at your discretion.
You will need to download IRC – www.mirc.com and connect to the Quakenet server channel #mappers (Guide) . The individuals there will be able to assist you further with your map submission process.
The Mapsubmisson Rules have also been changed and updated so we advice you to check it out.
Other ideas? Things we need to add or think about? Let us know.
The map crew:
Mappers:
angie
radon
gangien
Sadpuppy
Shizuka
Moxx
dropsys
maxeh
Chrizzy
dEMolite
Jumpers:
OddYsseus
gangien
eXcaL
elITe^
stukad
Moxx
dropsys
Blownaway
fatalis
faker