Would you want a BF Map Archive?

[tassadar920]

The idea is very good, and I have a way we can get it all put together. But it requires one of our moderators being active every day and taking the time to make the changes (doubt any of you guys wanna do this) but anyways:

On the very first post, and possibly the second, there would be a very large list of every map currently available for dl. Along with battleforums "rating", any user who plays a map could send a pm to the moderator, who would +/- the rating accordingly.

This way, you wouldn't have to sort through all of the posts to find a map, instead you would just search down the top of the first post.

 

[TrongaMonga]

I'm sure there's a way to do that without having to PM the mods.

Or people could post a thread per map (where's the rating system), and the map could be discussed and, perhaps, made better in there.

With the unprotectors policies we have, the posting of the maps in that system may be safe for the map creators.

 

[nonl33t]

didnt i already sya to make a thread for each map like on the mods section of www.phpbb.com. anyway i think we should have a small group of people who can test and validate maps but anyone can upload (duh...)

 

[tassadar920]

Sounds good, though we would really need a lot of people to be doing the validations..

 

[Lwek]

arbiter defense
By: Dark_Lwek {member name unknown at this time}
Type: Defence
Rating:

HAHA, that's me Mr. Crookedfoot.
http://battleforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20536

 

[DigitalElite]

I am all for this idea!!

 

[Supa]

I kind of say yes and no, normally if i never need to find a map i just go to www.starcraft.org

I mean its already huge x 1,000. So either way, although id just leave it out and just leave it to starcraft.org, i mean id think you guys may infact run out of bandwidth if you do infact, i mean pages dont really do to much to bandwidth, but then there are files, which may put u over the limit.

So im more concerned about bandwidth than anything else.

 

[Crazy Demon]

Hey, Supa. How far are you on you Elvenor RPG?

 

[Hot Action Akule]

make 2 categories one money one non money. My maps will be submitted soon.

 

[Supa]

As i said once before, not enough people asked to beta test "Elvenor Rpg" so I infact decided to give it an open beta test, it can be downloaded at the starforge site. (Go in the forums, Maps section, then the Submitteded Maps).

Elvenor 2 hasn't been worked on in a while.
The next version of civilization with doodads should be coming out fairly soon.
(Although it still is mainly private)

 

[Soujiro]

lol, go for it, old buddy

 

[Lwek]

If we're going to talk about maps, talk about it over PM's. Don't change the purpose of this thread.

Don't worry about the bandwidth issue. Just having maps on an archive will only waste hard drive space. But if many, many people download the maps at the same time, then bandwidth issue will have to be considered.

 

[Crookedfoot]

From what I understand and would expect, multiple downloads would never be the issue.
It's forum activity that seems to bog us down more than anything.
Hard drive space??
The forums are huge already, well over 1 gig in the database.
A few more meg won't make that much of a difference.

If you guys get them to me, I'll get them in and listed into a new maps category.
From there I'd like the mods to figure out how they would like to have them categorized.