Did you recreate every trigger system from scratch?
I've created every trigger I've ever used from scratch. There are plenty of freely available triggers
Unprotectors are designed with a malicious intent: to circumvent the intentions of the mapmaker.
Not necessarily.[/quote]
Yes, necessarily. That is literally all they do.
I'm sure many mapmakers protecting maps intend to prevent anyone from either stealing maps or releasing unsanctioned mods of their map, or both, but would be okay with people learning from their maps.
Which can be done via Trigger Viewer which is already uploaded, or by asking the mapmaker themselves, or by asking
anyone.
At this point in time everyone already knows how to do everything, so sanctioning map unprotection has no educational value whatsoever.
There are no benefits to this proposition whatsoever.
It only serves to aid map theft and map alteration, which is already enough of a problem without a site supposedly dedicated to mapmaking aiding in it.That being said, the ideal tool would be one that unprotects the map and lets you view its insides but won't save an unprotected version.
Sure, sounds good. That's not what they're trying to sanction though.
I took maps with a nice concept and tried to improve it
Now you're talking about using a map unprotector for map theft.
Which would put the safety of any future map of yours into jeopardy as posting a map on SEN pretty much guarantees that your map can't be stolen
No, it doesn't. Most of the population of bnet has never heard of SEN, and most of the members of SEN don't get on StarCraft regularly, if at all. The two communities have almost no overlap.
The only thing jeopardizing the future of mapping would be a formerly reputable site helping make map unprotectors freely available to the population at large.
It is equally easy to stop them from being used maliciously after they are handed out because SEN already does this.
No, they don't. They do as much as they can.
It is impossible for you to stop someone from using it maliciously after you hand it out. This is not the only place that uploads maps. You cannot stop them from distributing maps on bnet. You have absolutely zero control over what is done with that program after it's given out.I don't understand how this is even up for debate.
If you want your maps to be unprotected, then release them as unprotected.You have no right to decide this for other people.Edit:
host the program and penalize the persons using it maliciously
People unprotect, then edit, steal, and destroy maps on bnet all the time. What the fuck is SEN going to do about it after they gave them the means to do it? There is no penalty they can force on anyone, SEN has no power. They can't even stop bots from permanently flooding their own channel. How about penalizing whoever is responsible for that? Oh, right.
Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Nov 30 2012, 7:35 pm by Azrael.