Hey! I'm here on behalf of the mapping community.
We face a small problem (no drama here, move along). We make a ton of maps, but hardly any of them get any play test time. And play test time is what makes the better maps (hell, even Arabia gets its occasional change). Then there is the problem that we like to make maps more innovative for our own good(think Sunburn and beyond), and those need even more balancing to be playable and on top of that will even ask players to change their precious build orders.
So there are two initiatives we want to try out.
1. Have a weekly list of maps to test. People give feedback, post a recorded game and the mapper will improve their map based on the feedback with a hint of creative-genius stubbornness. We are of course looking for people to help with testing, but you can post your maps over there as well and we will give it a shot. (Head over to our discord: https://discord.gg/4Ue74DC)
2. We would also like to make a map pack to have a place where people can play the matured and well tested custom maps. I personally feel this is especially beneficial to competitive style maps because of level of balance that is required. These maps will be curated by the mapper community with feedback from the players. I imagine - but this is up for debate - we will add 2 land maps, 2 water maps and 2 more creative maps and 1 Arabia variation on a monthly rotation (we switch out a portion of them for fresh ones).
We understand that there are many ongoing tournaments which are more important to the top players to practice for.
There is a third idea, and that would be to get a panel of pros, map makers andcasters analysts together so we can discuss map problems and come up with solution together. I know this already happens behind the scenes. But it could be better if it is more centralized and consensus based. Feel free to join us over at the discord for that as well so we can see if it makes sense to organize this.
We would love your thoughts on this! Good idea, bad idea, don't care idea. Would you like to play a custom map pack? Would you want to help with the weekly map testing (if so, join the discord)?
We face a small problem (no drama here, move along). We make a ton of maps, but hardly any of them get any play test time. And play test time is what makes the better maps (hell, even Arabia gets its occasional change). Then there is the problem that we like to make maps more innovative for our own good(think Sunburn and beyond), and those need even more balancing to be playable and on top of that will even ask players to change their precious build orders.
So there are two initiatives we want to try out.
1. Have a weekly list of maps to test. People give feedback, post a recorded game and the mapper will improve their map based on the feedback with a hint of creative-genius stubbornness. We are of course looking for people to help with testing, but you can post your maps over there as well and we will give it a shot. (Head over to our discord: https://discord.gg/4Ue74DC)
2. We would also like to make a map pack to have a place where people can play the matured and well tested custom maps. I personally feel this is especially beneficial to competitive style maps because of level of balance that is required. These maps will be curated by the mapper community with feedback from the players. I imagine - but this is up for debate - we will add 2 land maps, 2 water maps and 2 more creative maps and 1 Arabia variation on a monthly rotation (we switch out a portion of them for fresh ones).
We understand that there are many ongoing tournaments which are more important to the top players to practice for.
There is a third idea, and that would be to get a panel of pros, map makers and
We would love your thoughts on this! Good idea, bad idea, don't care idea. Would you like to play a custom map pack? Would you want to help with the weekly map testing (if so, join the discord)?