Holy Sh(LANGUAGE), who could ever done like this?

This is my style, too. If you got inspiration from something, it's only fair to credit the source especially in the case of mapmakers who are just doing this as passion projects (as opposed to large game studios who I personally don't feel as obligated to credit for ideas). In my Impossible map, everything was created from scratch, but I still credited Cyrus who created Impossible Cyrus since playing that map is what inspired me to make mine.


You are giving way too much benefit of the doubt here. Bumping the version forward a number doesn't mean anything, it takes all of two seconds to change that. I checked the modified versions of my map, and there are no significant changes except for the complete removal of my name. There are actually fewer triggers in the versions they stole than in my original version. On top of that, they abolished my name from every place in the map. If they wanted to simply edit the map, they could say Made by: Ultraviolet, Updated/Modified by: Dark(DvS). The only reason to remove my name from everywhere would be so they could take credit for my work.

I'm also not opposed to map edits when due credit is given, although I do believe permission should still be obtained when possible. In cases where the mapmaker left the scene a long time ago, I don't think permission matters as much since it would be difficult/impossible to obtain, but the original creator should still be credited. Ultimately that's not what this topic is about, we're talking about plain and simple map theft.


Of course it's possible, but is it likely or feasible? Seems to me like you're playing the devil's advocate just for the sake of argument. It's obvious from the evidence Excalibur presented that Alykzandir is guilty.

@ultraviolet arh ok i thought more than 2min edit, to change map from 1playr to 2 player or 3 player etc..


i have to warn about someone using bots on us west server to spread info, this kind of work is negative for the sc community, by those kinds of bots used on spreading news. Such ways is or can be seen as manipulation of the game lobbies. i advise the ones, if someone here on sen are the person or persons behind those bots, to remove them from servers. Its not a legit way to work against map theft, doin that would be as stupid as stealing maps.

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I do agree that despite there being large issues of Map Theft, there is a high chance that most people playing casually on SC1 just don't care. On top of that, from an outside perspective before I saw the warnings on SEN, I was actually nervous that someone was manipulating game lobbies and possibly hacking games. I state this because originally when I played on US East, there was a known player who would create a bunch of duplicate lobbies or harassment lobbies against someone and they would essentially drophack everyone's game, selected game types, and games he made also crashed SC. There were times when you couldn't even play custom games for hours at a time without being immediately drophacked which resulted in only private games being playable.

Anyways, I would advise against this method.

I concur

Anything can happen on the internet