Revamp of Map Categories

Subelectronite
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Revamp of Map Categories Jul 20, 2020 14:46:45 GMT

Post by Subelectronite on Jul 20, 2020 14:46:45 GMT

What area of New Blood are you suggesting this for?

Forums

What is your suggestion and how will it work?

Reorganise the map list into new categories that have the following characteristics:

are based solely on gameplay and not on aesthetic.
consist of maps that are similar to one another in terms of gameplay.
avoid overlapping with other categories.

My suggestion is:

Closed Course (maps that allow primarily only one path to take)
Open Course (maps that have a defined start and end, but allow space for pro-run or hiding along the way)
Open (pro-run, spleef, circular parkour structures, etc.)

I've drawn up an Excel spreadsheet that details how the current map list would fit into these new categories, which I left in the staff Discord a while ago. If Administration is interested I'd be happy to send it to them again.

What are the advantages of your suggestion?

The current map categories are: Parkour & Course, Themed & Themed Course, Pro-Run & Maze, Spleef & Digging. The issues with these categories are that:

Themed & Themed Course is an aesthetic category, meaning that if another map category is full, maps of that type can spill out onto Themed & Themed Course, effectively nullifying the map limit.
Some of the map categories consist of maps that simply aren't similar, e.g. pro-run and maze involve entirely different styles of gameplay. Similarly with spleef and digging.
The map categories overlap, i.e. a map can simultaneously be a pro-run map and a parkour map.

This suggestion would resolve all of these issues, and successfully enforce the map limit.

What are the disadvantages of your suggestion?

Work must be done on the forums in rewriting the map list.

semolinapilchard
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Revamp of Map Categories Jul 21, 2020 10:53:05 GMT

Post by semolinapilchard on Jul 21, 2020 10:53:05 GMT

This is an interesting suggestion and I think I'd like to see aspects of it implemented. However, I worry that spleef maps will still be underrepresented with this suggestion, and that prorun & circular parkour maps would dominate this category. Perhaps spleef should have its own, much smaller category?

Subelectronite
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Revamp of Map Categories Jul 21, 2020 13:49:19 GMT

Post by Subelectronite on Jul 21, 2020 13:49:19 GMT

Jul 21, 2020 10:53:05 GMT semolinapilchard said:

This is an interesting suggestion and I think I'd like to see aspects of it implemented. However, I worry that spleef maps will still be underrepresented with this suggestion, and that prorun & circular parkour maps would dominate this category. Perhaps spleef should have its own, much smaller category?

Yea, I guess it makes sense that spleef ought to have its own category too.

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Revamp of Map Categories Jul 24, 2020 20:57:55 GMT

Post by Chero on Jul 24, 2020 20:57:55 GMT

Agree that map categories are definitely in need of updating. After the recent map removal poll had ended I had to go through and rewrite the whole map list all over again, and for maps that weren't labeled on the list I had to assume the category, which wasn't always an easy process. I don't see the point in the themed category myself either and would like to see the new system based solely around gameplay. Although I wonder how exactly this suggestion would be implemented, and how would the already existing maps be relabeled.

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Revamp of Map Categories Jul 24, 2020 21:03:01 GMT

Post by Subelectronite on Jul 24, 2020 21:03:01 GMT

Jul 24, 2020 20:57:55 GMT Chero said:

Agree that map categories are definitely in need of updating. After the recent map removal poll had ended I had to go through and rewrite the whole map list all over again, and for maps that weren't labeled on the list I had to assume the category, which wasn't always an easy process. I don't see the point in the themed category myself either and would like to see the new system based solely around gameplay. Although I wonder how exactly this suggestion would be implemented, and how would the already existing maps be relabeled.

I believe implementing this suggestion would be as simple as rewriting the map lists on the forums. As for where the existing maps fit into the new categories, I've already done that so I have an idea what the numbers are like for each new category. If you're interested let me know and I can send you the spreadsheet.

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Revamp of Map Categories Jul 24, 2020 21:12:34 GMT via mobile

Post by Chero on Jul 24, 2020 21:12:34 GMT

Jul 24, 2020 21:03:01 GMT Subelectronite said:

Jul 24, 2020 20:57:55 GMT Chero said:

Agree that map categories are definitely in need of updating. After the recent map removal poll had ended I had to go through and rewrite the whole map list all over again, and for maps that weren't labeled on the list I had to assume the category, which wasn't always an easy process. I don't see the point in the themed category myself either and would like to see the new system based solely around gameplay. Although I wonder how exactly this suggestion would be implemented, and how would the already existing maps be relabeled.

I believe implementing this suggestion would be as simple as rewriting the map lists on the forums. As for where the existing maps fit into the new categories, I've already done that so I have an idea what the numbers are like for each new category. If you're interested let me know and I can send you the spreadsheet.

By "how exactly this suggestion would be implemented" I had meant how the administration team would go about remaking the categories if changes had to be made to your suggestion.

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Revamp of Map Categories Jul 24, 2020 21:18:37 GMT

Post by Subelectronite on Jul 24, 2020 21:18:37 GMT

Jul 24, 2020 21:12:34 GMT Chero said:

Jul 24, 2020 21:03:01 GMT Subelectronite said:

I believe implementing this suggestion would be as simple as rewriting the map lists on the forums. As for where the existing maps fit into the new categories, I've already done that so I have an idea what the numbers are like for each new category. If you're interested let me know and I can send you the spreadsheet.

By "how exactly this suggestion would be implemented" I had meant how the administration team would go about remaking the categories if changes had to be made to your suggestion.

If it turns out that my suggested categories were not appropriate, I'm sure staff and perhaps even the community could put their heads to come up with some suitable categories. Regardless, I strongly believe that any new, reasonable category system will promptly resolve the aforementioned issues with the current category system.

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