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Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
April 18 2016 13:59 GMT
#41
let the shittiest map win
"Technically the dictionary has zero authority on the meaning or words" - Rodya
-NegativeZero-
Profile Joined August 2011
United States2142 Posts
April 18 2016 14:11 GMT
#42
On April 18 2016 22:59 Ej_ wrote:
let the shittiest map win

let the most creative™ map win

FTFY
vibeo gane,
Aggression1
Profile Joined July 2014
Denmark16 Posts
April 18 2016 14:36 GMT
#43
Let's hope for some good maps this time.
NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
April 18 2016 15:15 GMT
#44
On April 18 2016 23:11 -NegativeZero- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2016 22:59 Ej_ wrote:
let the shittiest map win

let the most creative™ map win

FTFY

If you're Blizzard that's basically the same thing.
"If you find yourself feeling lost, take pride in the accuracy of your feelings." - Night Vale
Blizzkrieg
Profile Joined March 2014
95 Posts
April 18 2016 19:26 GMT
#45
On April 18 2016 06:29 Nuclease wrote:
Siiiiiiick.

Map pools start getting SO much better once TLMC happens the first time in a new expansion

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. -Blaise Pascal
Blizzkrieg
Profile Joined March 2014
95 Posts
April 18 2016 19:31 GMT
#46
On April 18 2016 13:41 NewSunshine wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2016 08:11 Gwavajuice wrote:
Great news!

I just hope - as a mere observer of this contests - that there will be less negativity and salt about the state of sc2 and Blizzard that we had in previous editions.

Be enthusiastic, get that passion back and the maps will be great.

I wish it were that easy, the mapmaking community of late has been a mere shadow of its old self. I may submit something, but I don't have anything new, and I don't feel compelled to make something anymore. It has nothing to do with me, it's the game that's changing.


I don't even make maps (have been interested in trying for years, just never did for what ever reason) and I, too, have noticed how the game is changing just from looking at the new maps.

As far as map making goes... which SC2 changes would you say most affected your enthusiasm?
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. -Blaise Pascal
EatThePath
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3943 Posts
April 18 2016 20:40 GMT
#47
^ The relentless stark refusal to allow smart capable productive people to contribute to the game they love. That was the one for me.
Comprehensive strategic intention: DNE
Cnj
Profile Joined January 2008
United States5 Posts
April 18 2016 21:34 GMT
#48
...soon™ Good luck to all of the mapmakers out there! This should produce some real great maps. (:
joshie0808
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada1024 Posts
April 18 2016 21:35 GMT
#49
Yesss! Love TLMCs, can't wait to see what the community produces this time
NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
April 18 2016 23:43 GMT
#50
On April 19 2016 04:31 Blizzkrieg wrote:
As far as map making goes... which SC2 changes would you say most affected your enthusiasm?

Mostly the insanely powerful air units that render terrain features meaningless.

But that's if I had to single out one thing, the state of the game as a whole is something I care about, and my love of mapmaking is connected to it very naturally. If one suffers, so does the other. As such, both are pretty low right now.
"If you find yourself feeling lost, take pride in the accuracy of your feelings." - Night Vale
y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
April 19 2016 04:30 GMT
#51
On April 18 2016 07:36 Heyoka wrote:
TLMC is always awesome great to see its gearing up again

Couldn't have said it better
BigRedDog
Profile Joined May 2012
461 Posts
April 19 2016 06:16 GMT
#52
it's about time. LOTV's maps are pretty horrible.
Big Red Dog!
Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
April 19 2016 09:17 GMT
#53
Yeah,we need some descent maps.So good luck everyone! :D
(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ~Keep calm and inject Larva~
InfCereal
Profile Joined December 2011
Canada1759 Posts
April 19 2016 18:59 GMT
#54
On April 18 2016 23:36 Aggression1 wrote:
Let's hope for some good maps this time.


Unfortunately, you can't make a good map and hope to win in a blizzard sanctioned contest.
Cereal
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52798 Posts
April 19 2016 19:43 GMT
#55
On April 20 2016 03:59 InfCereal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2016 23:36 Aggression1 wrote:
Let's hope for some good maps this time.


Unfortunately, you can't make a good map and hope to win in a blizzard sanctioned contest.

Well, I mean, lots of good maps have emerged almost unscathed before. The process will also probably be better this time around.
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NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
April 19 2016 21:45 GMT
#56
On April 20 2016 04:43 The_Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2016 03:59 InfCereal wrote:
On April 18 2016 23:36 Aggression1 wrote:
Let's hope for some good maps this time.


Unfortunately, you can't make a good map and hope to win in a blizzard sanctioned contest.

Well, I mean, lots of good maps have emerged almost unscathed before. The process will also probably be better this time around.

Bound to be better than being judged by Blizzard directly. They need whatever help they can get.
"If you find yourself feeling lost, take pride in the accuracy of your feelings." - Night Vale
monk
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States8477 Posts
April 20 2016 13:01 GMT
#57
Added categories. Check the main post!
Moderator
eTcetRa
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia822 Posts
April 20 2016 13:30 GMT
#58
Disappointment confirmed.

JK. I like it.
Retired Mapmaker™
Salteador Neo
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Andorra5591 Posts
April 20 2016 14:14 GMT
#59
Using Scrap Station as an example for anything just feels wrong.

That map was S tier Crap /pun
Revolutionist fan
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-04-20 14:22:58
April 20 2016 14:15 GMT
#60
I don't like the categories much. First of all any type 3 or type 4 map can also be of either type 1 or 2 and in some cases a map could be three types. Choosing which category it 'best' fits in is obviously subjective, and so you will end up with incorrectly categorized maps and maps that fit better in other categories.

If someone submitted a macro map that happens to also have cool high yield usage in the macro category, but it turns out that there are four better macro maps, but that if it had been submitted in the gold base category it would have made it? These categories seem unnecessarily restrictive to the judges. Maybe there will be only 2 good high yield usage base maps, submitted, but more good macro maps. Maybe the fifth rush map will be better than the maps in the other categories.The judges should have free rein over which maps to select, while of course paying attention to the categories outlined by Blizzard; they shouldn't be forced to choose X of this, and Y of that.

Add to that, that "haven't seen before" is mostly up for interpretation, and that I don't feel that a map with "cool high yield usage" should necessarily be a map pool mainstay (more something that is nice to have once in a while).

It's nice to have categories I guess, but they would have done better as recommendations than categories. I only hope that the judges will get flexibility in numbers per category and moving maps between categories if necessary.

edit: Also more importantly, where do middle-of-the-road in between 'rush maps' and 'macro maps' go? If anything that's the most common type of map we've seen.
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