A league with custom maps is in the works!

MadMapper · Post by **MadMapper** » Sun May 09, 2004 6:10 pm

Okies... sorry brain dead... maybe next time then.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sun May 09, 2004 6:45 pm

Hopefully more competitions will follow in the use of custom maps, so lets hope this league is a success

panTera · Post by **panTera** » Sun May 09, 2004 8:35 pm

Last thing I read about it was that there was no starting date yet and it would probably take a few months. Oh well, too bad then.

Bjarne BZR wrote:Hopefully more competitions will follow in the use of custom maps (...)

yeah let's hope so! Custom map pimpage is a good thing.

P.S.: please keep us posted.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sun May 09, 2004 8:52 pm

Will do!

MadMapper · Post by **MadMapper** » Sun May 09, 2004 8:55 pm

Again: We need a .Map Server/League

M&M · Post by **M&M** » Sun May 09, 2004 9:56 pm

its really a shame that such a great site doesnt have a server whatsoever !!!

MadMapper · Post by **MadMapper** » Sun May 09, 2004 11:06 pm

Heh we have no money!!

M&M · Post by **M&M** » Sun May 09, 2004 11:47 pm

well,.map isnt a profit organization (if i can call it that) .but im sure there must be some1 around here that has ,or can have a server .and could be kind enough to dedicate it or even share it with .map
after all he will have this communities support ,and i doubt it will be empty since quite a few ppl here would love to see a server up (inlcuding me ,after i get a faster connection) .
or maybe we should start some donation account or something to get a cheap server

MadMapper · Post by **MadMapper** » Sun May 09, 2004 11:56 pm

I, as an official, unofficial official, officially place you in charge of the official .map shared server fund (OMSSF).

M&M · Post by **M&M** » Mon May 10, 2004 12:14 am

what the heck

is that english ?

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Mon May 10, 2004 6:55 am

I asked Game-hosting.com, but they couldent sponsor with a server.

Maby my clan-leader coulld lend us one... hmm...

Krane · Post by **Krane** » Mon May 10, 2004 3:15 pm

I was wondering, while reading this post, about 1 thing:

If you go online and open the servers list, you'll see that 99.9% of the maps that are being played are stock maps. This is mainly (imho) coz 99.9% of ppl playing online are inside these internet/game places where they don't allow you to put your pk3 inside their computers...

I was living in Virginia (near Washington DC, USA) for 2 years and there was no such places around...When I moved to California, I've found one (or dozens...) of these places. I went there and ask to put my pk3 in the computer so I could play my maps online...No, no and no, the guy said...So i realized why 99.9% of the maps online are stock...Am I right?

I would be VERY cool if the engine supports kinda d/l, like in 4x4 Evo...In this game, if you don't have the map, there's a option to d/l the map before join the game...

Maybe a good C++ programer could make a patch and we could BEG EA to make it official, so these internet/game places had to update their games...

Just wondering...

seere · Post by **seere** » Mon May 10, 2004 3:37 pm

Most of the problem with having custom pk3's in alot of peoples main folder is because most servers are clan servers that play in leagues and ladders.
Within these leagues and ladders there is always an element that cheat and these cheats are often hidden under a different name... ie Mymap.pk3 is realy norecoil.pk3.
This is very sad as much of our work doesnt get seen or played by the many.
Dont know how many of you are familiar with it but the anti cheat DMW3 scanner is soon to be out and will incorperate what they judge as "good maps" and therefore you can have them in your main and still scan clean.
Im sure when its released you will see more servers with these maps on them.
Seere.

M&M · Post by **M&M** » Mon May 10, 2004 4:05 pm

well,it would be smarter if they had something like a safe list of maps (similar to the email one) where certain maps in the safe list wouldnt be considered cheats and allow them to be played ,while other pk3s (wether they are maps or cheats) that arent in te safe list are blocked !! that way the more a server plays maps ,the bigger the safelist will be and more custom maps wil be played on it

i dunno how that could be done though

seere · Post by **seere** » Mon May 10, 2004 5:40 pm

Thats exactly how its going to work M&M