Fastest was already made?

I'd love to put together a map of trigger squad AI, using a priority system I had planned out. I've also considered a collision detection system that works pretty simply... Sort of.

I think it'd be easy to get a bunch of SENners to participate in a contest. There were a bunch of people in the contest yesterday that weren't even on SEN, so we'd be able to get them plus some of our own to form quite a large number of participants.

How many total showed up? On my count there were, I think, 7 actual participants, and 10 people or so that showed up. Overall it was successful but I couldn't stay post-mapping, so I need all of the participants' maps. I imagine this could turn into a monthly, tri-weekly, or just random thing.

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What would people be scored on? What would the theme be? What would the time limit be?

We had the weekly contests that only a handful of people joined, and conversely we currently have the year-long contest that a ton of people have joined.

I think it'd be best to just make a poll and have people vote for their fav map.

Judging usually takes too long and may be biased anyway.. and from previous contests, judging usually fails pretty hard ><"

The year long RPG contest takes care of a huge contest, albeit I don't see too many people submitting a completed work. I liked the weekly contests, though. If we could rally up participation they'd be a lot better, but I loved the short story contest because not only did it have a good theme but there was also a peak amount of participation. Judging shouldn't even be done, especially by assigned judges that never get to judging. The community should just be like OH I LIKE INFERNO'S MAP and then we move on to the next contest. One hour/two hour contests or whatever are good, but usually there are lots of joke submissions or just very, very low quality submissions. I like them though, they're a lot of fun and in my opinion their purpose is to bring ideas to the table rather than a high quality map. A week is just enough time to make a somewhat good map as previous contests have shown us.

Here is my suggestion:

• Make a 1 hour contest ever week.
  
• The first week, you make a map for 1 hour.
  
• All the following weeks, everyone exchange their maps and you work on someone else's map.
  
• Then, you see how each map evolves from weeks to weeks.
  

Simple enough? Should I explain in more details?

Why weekly? We could do this daily, it doesn't require full participation.

Although an interesting idea I can't see it happening. People have too differing of mapping styles to ever collaborate with triggers, and I know this from trying to work with Samsizzle in the past.

EDIT: Actually the map would evolve from this... but I can see a lot of people unwilling to do it.

I'm sort of in the
"Let's just try it" mode...

Lil-inferno, let's host another one hour mapping contest this weekend.
If you need help, just ask!

GO GO GO

You know I can relate to this more than anyone. Most people have structure to their maps... I don't.

But I would like to give it a shot, might be fun.

I'm interested in trying this, but I've gotten so used to how SC2 mapmaking works. This will be an interesting backwards transition.

You'll have fun working with hypers and wait blocks and everything. >:D

Its a bit lame... also multiplayer. It'd probably be best public.

Make a contest called: Make as much maps as you can in X amount of time! (And hope one of them is good.)

actually I'm gonna have to agree with UnholyUrine... Day long contests sound best to me.

Let's do this this Sunday!

My point by "get everyone to join" was to try to get some people that aren't usually mapping (I'm thinking of people like Kame here) to actually try their hand at least once at creating a small map. :>

That would require Kame to have StarCraft. Or know how to make a map in general.