Ask TL Staff Anything - Page 291

On September 22 2011 13:45 MattBarry wrote:
Why do the mods dislike 4chan like habits when reddit like habits are normally accepted (except the obnoxious). Personally, I find both sites annoying, but reddit memes are just...draining the life out of me unfunny.

On September 21 2011 05:59 Radioman wrote:
Will you guys ever re-design the site's layout (not saying that I don't like it)

On September 22 2011 16:05 Barrin wrote:

Well okay... you asked for it

My name is Andrew Chilson; I am 23 years old. I live in Jupiter, Florida.

I became a banling on July 18th.

Having only joined TL in May of last year, I am the banling with the most recent join date and probably therefore the least experience.

My good friend iGrok (organizer of the Map of the Month (MotM) competitions/tournaments) convinced Plexa that my position is necessary (and vouched for me); Plexa personally read a good deal of(?) my posting history and described me as "level-headed"; I believe Empyrean (and maybe Chill and possibly others) put in a good word for me.

The last thing I expected that morning waking up and looking at my inbox was a PM from Plexa; I was utterly surprised! Even though I never expected to become a banling (who does?), I always knew I wouldn't decline the offer.

I browse and post in the entirety of TL and will report infractions where I see them (giving my own inexperienced insight to other mods), but the Custom Maps forum is really my cage ^^. Empyrean used to do this job (he is still around of course). This job has evolved since he had it; Plexa is interested in enhancing TL's accommodation of the mapmaking community, and I do everything I can to help.

I have not yet banned (or temp banned) anyone. I have only warned about 10-15 people since my time here... I don't think I've warned anyone for 2 weeks actually lol. The mapmaking community is a very productive bunch, not much time for stupidity and trolling ^^. Or maybe they know they can't get anything past me . I am actually understanding and merciful, but I have no qualms with laying out justice; it is not wise to cross me.

While I have not made any great maps yet, there is essentially no one in the TL(english) mapmaking community that will deny that I am extremely knowledgeable in terms of melee mapmaking. I believe I have made several significant contributions to the "metagame" of community mapmaking; every few months I look back and laugh at how little I knew and I love to teach what I've learned. Huge shoutout to ESV mapmaker monitor, nobody has taught me more advanced concepts than him, and even he agrees I know my shit. I've been meaning to make myself a "Player Map Thread", where I list all of my maps and significant thread OP's.

If you really want to know, my most successful map was made earlier this year: Glacial Spike. It was a finalist in MotM#1. MorroW was interviewed on the 5 winning maps that months, and while he said that none of them looked like they were made by a pro player, he liked Glacial Spike the most because he could see how all 3 races can expand well on it. I've actually scrapped multiple concepts recently that I feel are better than GS (not hard to do IMO lol), but I am currently decorating a map who's aesthetics are based on my first (non-competitive) map, Sinkhole. I am very slow and methodical.

I was the first person to sign iNcontroL's fan club thread ^^ If he was zerg he would easily be my favorite player (because of personality). Huge fan of many top zergs... Idra, Sen, Fruitdealer, Nestea, Julyzerg, CatZ, MorroW, Sheth, Haypro, and my uninfested friend TLO. My own playstyle is most like Julyzergs... I love to find weaknesses early on and punish them aggressively with timings while macroing behind it. Though you shouldn't read it because it's far too long and uninformative, but this thread is kinda proof that I've had this playstyle since before Julyzerg was playing SC2. I also play a lot like CatZ, but he doesn't make quite enough drones IMO >.<

I started playing SC2 in the beta (hence my fairly recent join date ^^). Every patch from early beta until season 2 I was in the highest league of 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 while playing Random. Sometime in Season 1 I switched to full time Zerg. I actually didn't ladder at all in Season 2; I really don't play that much in general since I switched to Zerg. But on a good day I'm actually about as good as an average NA Master player in 1v1 (feel free to put me to the test sometime). What I lack in mechanics I make up for with tons of vicarious experience through watching streams/tournaments, and TLO-esque flexibility. Mapmakers do not really need mechanics

Though I was playing SC1/BW not long after they came out, I was never actually good at melee (especially compared to koreans ^^). It was only about 3 years ago that I gained an appreciation for watching pro korean BW players. About 10 years ago I was in the most prestigious UMS mapmaking clan on USEast; everyone else loved melee more, but I could do UMS all day every day ^^ (I was actually about to give up on making melee maps for a while and do UMS mapmaking again for a bit... before I became an MotM Judge).

I played WoW (way too much) for about 5 years there (quit late 2008 / early 2009). In the lvl 60 days I helped my brother get Rank 13 (Field Marshal) on his gnome mage. In Nov. 08 my warlock was in the top 100 arena warlocks in the world list on arenajunkies.com (my 2v2 team was the highest ranked of it's kinda - Destruction Warlock + Elemental Shaman, yes that's a crazy ranged nuke team - 2v2 ~2700, 3v3 ~2600, 5v5 ~2350. That warlock was also the first Arena Master on the server (tied with my 3v3 rogue). Nobody really cared about 1v1 in WoW, but if there was a 1v1 arena my warlock would have been a god (only rogues could half-way reliably beat me). One time my Warlock single-handedly killed a fully max PvP geared Death Knight from 100% to 0% in under 1.5 seconds in a real ranked match- no lie. I had pretty much the highest burst damage (HIGH block value) prot warriors you could find... in one PTR my shield slam did over 27000 damage in a single hit (theoretically it could have done over 32000). Oh yeah I co-lead a decently successful casual guild, leading hundreds of raids, with my brother. That guild is still very much alive today even though we left it over two years ago.

My brother and I were high end legit D1/D2 players (mostly D2). MF'ing, Trading, PvPing - we have mastered these arts. Anyone planning on doing max level D3 arenas, watch out! ^^

If you've ever played Ultima Online (and liked it), you are automatically fucking awesome. If I went on about all of my UO exploits this post would consist mostly of them. Earlier this year I did some hardcore beta testing on a new version of the biggest UO free shard to ever exist. Many dozens if not hundreds of TL'ers came along on it's release, including djWHEAT (the coolest person ever). I was actually leading the TL guild lol

I am more than happy to answer further questions ^^ Just so you know if you read my entire post history (no easy feat), you can learn a LOT about me (lots of little "gems" lol, maybe too many o.O).

On September 23 2011 00:31 Probe1 wrote:
What is forum 17. If you won't answer that, what is forum 9?

On September 23 2011 01:00 KwarK wrote:

I have access to neither of them.

On September 23 2011 01:15 zatic wrote:
Generally on TL: The less accessible the forum, the more boring. Proof: lol nerds