SPMC: Tributional Page

Suicizer | 2013-10-13 22:11

After being able to map for 133 days, only a few of the 9 people which signed up for the challenge made it to the end. It was for most of them a tough challenge which required dedication and discipline, but as comments have shown so, it should be worth it.

As only the votes of participants were actually counting, I still call 1 general vote for the public which were kind enough to vote on certain maps as well.
The rankings of all participants listed right under this sentence.

Mmeaninglez:     Crun:           Skur:            Suicizer:
#1 Meltdown      #1 Meltdown     #1 Mystic Farm   #1 Meltdown
#2 Mystic Farm   #2 Mystic Farm  #2 Missile Pass  #2 Missile Pass
#3 Missile Pass  #3 Air          #3 Air           #3 Mystic Farm

As the votes show so, we've got a 1st, 2nd and 3th place:

1st, Meltdown, being ranked 3 times as 1st!
2nd, Mystic Farm, being ranked 1 time as 1st, 2 times as 2nd and 1 time as 3th!
3th, Missile Pass, being ranked 2 times as 2nd and 1 time as 3th!

Which brings us to the victorious winner, Skur with Meltdown!

He will be rewarded as his node being promoted on the frontpage of Quadropolis and on top of the bill, some (experimental) reward title on his personal page. Congratulations, Skur!

As evaluational point for all participants; feel free to put your struggles in a comment while you've been mapping for this period of time. This can be very valuable for the next event which might be organized.

I would like to thank all users which have been participating on this event!

Comments

Doko | 2013-10-13 22:46

congratulations :)

restcoser | 2013-10-14 10:47

My personal struggles.... I think if I'd been more engaged, I would have pulled this off just nicely...
The first thing which I was not prepared for was the One-Map limit... Which led me to having to prepare map-corners, individual boxes, that would all contain different parts of my map. I really had to limit the parts in size and therefor in length...
The heaviest bummer for me was definitly the first weak.
It happened to be a very busy one, I was not doing much, suddenly, the day of "show your progress" was there, and i pretty much had to improvise... I started mapping a hell part, and the result I'd consider hardly any good. It was very closed off, hardly any areas showed some kind of impression of being big or impressive. I'd also call it very linear.
Why was it that way? Having intentionally limited the hell to a quarter of the map... didnt turn out well, not enough space to pull off a good hell, as well as the limit of getting something done in 1 day.
Advice I'd give: If you are planning multiple parts, DONT worry about the third when you are not already done on the first, also, layer them above and below each other instead of next to.
Then I had to paste.... a result, and as it was hardly any textured or any impressive, I considered ( and i think quite some others did too) the screenshot one of the worse.
That was just the end of it for me... I continued some more... but this early bummer lead to no good content creation, as well as the existing map not allowing anything good.
My advice there: If you realise, that something you have created has obvious flaws, and you can't improve it, scrap it and start over.(as long as you are still early in the map creation cycle)
That led to me silently deleting my node...not having motivation anymore to work on it.
Also I was slowly getting off sauerbraten and towards RE, which might be a reason as well...
(How about a RE mapping challenge? :D)

Edit: Oh, for the next challenge I'd also like a more flexible opening. Such as, you can start mapping later/join later, as long as you start after you joined.

Suicizer | 2013-10-14 16:51

You are free to organize an event on Quadropolis, so go ahead, make a RE challenge.

restcoser | 2013-10-16 09:24

While it's nice to know that I'm free to organize an event, you understood me maybe wrong.
I'm not personally very connected to this site. If I'd make something such as a mapping event, I'd probably just talk to a mod or dev of RE, post something on the forums, and thats it. No involvement of this site.
So my message is more like: If somebody is interested in the rescue of this site (which im not by much) and happens to want to host some mapping event (which im also not much, i suck at organizing anything), i appeal to this persons openmindedness to maybe also allow alternate game contributions (or to make it for another game), as the mapping community for SB is currently at a low (thats how i feel it at least), and the mapping community of RE is having a decent time.
Doing this, said person could fuel the resurrection of this site.

I'm not said person. I have no interest in doing any of this, although, if there happens to be a mapping challenge for RE(or RE + SB) on any site, i will happily participate.

Suicizer | 2013-10-16 14:37

If you are bad at organizing things, then a mapping challenge would be a perfect start for you as a lot of tasks (like rules and such) can be copied directly from other events.

restcoser | 2013-10-20 11:23

Thanks for valuing whats in the parenthesis as high as whats out of it. Read the comment again please and catch the main point.

Suicizer | 2013-10-20 12:51

Well, I know it would sound unlogical to keep it over here for Red Eclipse, but then it would bring back those guys we once lost.

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