Screw maplantis. If Sen gets back to a stable state it will catch maplatis and far surpass it. Sen dominates mapping scene when people aren't hacking our systems and shutting us down. (ps that needs to be fixed too lols)
You never even gave maplantis a try, I'm sure of it. You need to stop making ridiculous posts like this.
The more I read here the more I realize how right devilesk is.
Burn!
Devilesk is about 50% right on this one, probably a little more, imo. The community has lots of members which are exactly as he described, less weeded out than Maplantis, but as always, he's being overly blunt and harsh with his words, not that bad of a thing though.
No offense, but SEN is a shithole at the moment (IMO). This site needs a DB and tutorials, and someone in charge. Currently it has none of those.
The future of SEN? I'll be honest - my opinion is that it will be a place for newbs and noobs. It can't beat the mapping aspect of Maplantis. It's just for chatting here and there... and playing the Mafia games, that's it. All the mapping in this wold is done at Maplantis. So I see the future of SEN as a huge shotbox.
No one in charge is the biggest problem at the moment. I agree with everything you said but to a lesser extent.
The community of Staredit and Maplantis are comprised of the same people. (I might have made that up. I just can't think of any members in particular that are unique to either site.)
Spreading our efforts across two sites seems pretty silly to me. I'm not sure why this site even exists.
Well, there are TONS of people exclusive to Staredit, as you know, but not just the noobs. Echo (if you don't consider him a noob) is just one of the people who have been around a while and only go to SEN due to not liking maplantis for reasons unknown to me. Also, there are plenty of members that you would know very well that go to both sites, but have a much (and I mean much) higher activity level at Maplantis. Laser Dude, Excalibur, and Farty, (from what I can see) are just a few.
This is the exact sort of thing I don't understand.
Do people have some kind of emotional attachment to the name "Staredit" or is there actually something here worthwhile that I'm missing?
It's the former for those particularly people that you're talking about. SEN has been around much longer and will be a much more likely place for lots of new ones to come to before maplantis. The help section in UMS here far exceeds Maplantis in activity due to it. As for what I actually find worthwhile here, the "Politics, Science, and Religion" (which comes with the larger amount of subforums) has a lot more serious discussions than any at Maplantis. Some of the other off-topic subforums also get some interesting topics in them. But, even that has it's problems, when several pages of a topic end up being incredibly off-topic discussions about whether peoples posts are spam or not, and other ridiculously shit just like it.
Agreed.
So, there doesn't need to be a maps section because someone, somewhere, might have a copy of the map you want, and you could potentially get it from them directly. The same goes for tutorials. You're a genius.
Exactly on point.
None.