oh oh oh i pissed someone off
oh wait, its the same person who was also already pissed at me 3 year ago when the review scheme got created i said it was bad
loosing calmed is weak
Scoring maps as Art is absurd, remove any objectivity and be dispositioned to "suXXorz" and "OMFG this map Rulez!".
-a. mapping is art, and if something is art then it should be reviewed like art
in fact i wrote a 2 page article about this for vandora full of arguments and thoughts, you are thinking of art in the wrong way
if mapping wouldnt be art, then any dickwit could make good maps
if you think its not then ill be happily awaiting a few pages of arguments and thoughts about the subject
-b. please explain what suxoromfhg glrules has to do with mapping as art, i really do not understand the connection between the two
As to what "Awe", "Build" and "Cast" mean? FFS click a link from time to time, it's spelled out and the root meanings of the headings are about as confusing
-so you are saying, if a first timer visits NC he should go take a dictionary or search the site just to understand some of the basics the site offers
thats not userfriendly. that would be like making a map where you spawn in a small room with a hidden exit and let the guy search an hour for the exit
he wont play that long, the names are just very not straight forward
-multiple languages has nothing to do with this, creating unneeded steps to further confuse potential users does
one of the base rules when creating user interfaces: make it dumb simple
for all as suggested by the "Art" ppl
who are the art people, apart from "the people who like art" and why are they art people, any definition for this ? never heard of the term before
Only a MAX score of 9 because NC was deemed idiots for map reviews like Scimitar.
now this was a very noble idea, and a good one but imo at the end it doesnt work out
instead helping and balancing the scores, by not giving out any of those unrealistic 10's it does the invert
you dont think anymore like "oh this map is 8/10", you start to think "oh this map is 8/10 but i only have 9 points so its 7.5/9" which the end users see as 7.5/10
now i dont know about you but to me a 7.5 is "good", while an 8 is really good. and the map would have been 8, deserves 8 but only gets 7.5 at the end, and that is confusing to the users
for some maps it helps downgrading the score, so the scores are more realistic, not overrated but for other maps it just messes it up
at the end your reviewers need to be competent, thats all, you cant save yourself with rules like these
no reviewer would give a map a 10/10 while it sux, and if he does he a. should get fired, b. wouldnt get trough the damn appoval anyway
and if he rates a 9.5 map a 10 then so what, that 0.5 point..
+ i think all of the current reviewers are smart and realistic enough to never give out a 10
The purpose of the 3 catagory system was also to force reviewers into justifying their scores. Sure, no matter what it's opinion based on reviewer experience/knowledge. But that's got to be better than some neon sign from God flashing a score, one would think anyways
some people do like this yes, but on other hand some people dont...
at the end you are using maths to calculate a score, it stands in the way of the simple thought "is this map good"
you use 1 group of people as argument, i could user the other..
+ everyone i know whos good can play a map or even just look at screens and say a number, that number just popped in his head and most of the times those numbers are spot on
where exactly is the problem with that ?
Adding 3 scores together I know is rather taxing. Reading a review to find out how that score was derived is even worse. Shoot, you wouldn't want anyone to actually visit our site or take interest in the drivel written here. Nexus files had no written reviews, just a number attached to each map, oh that roXXorz, not even a frickin screenshot LOL!
its about the idea behind it that you use maths to calculate a map, that is absolutely not possible and against and logic and nature
this is not science, this is art and design, you dont use maths .
if one cant make a score without doing maths he sucks in judging maps
and dont overstate things, thats a weak way out, i could do that too
you know i saw a pigeon today, and it like flew trough the sky, and i also saw an oceancruiser and it was like far bigger then well an ocean cruiser and then this woman came and she trew a brick at the ship and then the ship sunk and this giant wave lifted a monstertruck in the air and like slammed it on the woman
see, thats interesting
I'm not saying that because I developed it,
looking at your text you take it quite personally tho
previous discusions were far more detailed and constructive.
hm, i was told to **** off and that all my ideas suck a lot of goats i remember, but if thats what you call constructive then be my guest
I also seem to remember that half the people who made that system now genuily hate nc, wow great
