The lack of negativity in this thread largely is because people tend to come to me specifically, personally, about their opinions and feelings about my maps because somehow I appear to have garnered the reputation for being quite personable already.
I kind of blew a fuse on felys because I'm not one who values polish as much as either Tess or Irreversible as it is, and I felt like the 10-15 minutes they spent in simultaneous yet separate modding could have been done at a more opportune time than halfway through qualification. But schedules yadda yadda. And I'm sorry for offending either of you or anyone.
The whole "DQ then discuss" is one of the most significant problems I fear with my maps because almost every single one of my maps does something "special" and if I need to explain myself several times over several DQs because different people find small bits objectionable, well, I'm just trying to explain why my frustration (and fear) is reasonable.
(And as a side note: Yes, at some point I don't care about improving my map any further because I am satisfied with it. If that's a problem it's down to the QAT 'team' to tell me to reach their standards and I'll happily work with them.)
It's just appalling to me that someone can completely reset the timer on the ranking process by bringing up something that was addressed before somewhere in the thread that the mapper certainly remembers. But we shouldn't expect Random Joe 13 to read the entire thread, right? So that's why I think discussion should be an OPTION before just resetting the timer off the bat. Especially if all of the parties involved are actively looking at the map in real-time on the client and are talking to eachother on the client.
Just seems silly to me.
I kind of blew a fuse on felys because I'm not one who values polish as much as either Tess or Irreversible as it is, and I felt like the 10-15 minutes they spent in simultaneous yet separate modding could have been done at a more opportune time than halfway through qualification. But schedules yadda yadda. And I'm sorry for offending either of you or anyone.
The whole "DQ then discuss" is one of the most significant problems I fear with my maps because almost every single one of my maps does something "special" and if I need to explain myself several times over several DQs because different people find small bits objectionable, well, I'm just trying to explain why my frustration (and fear) is reasonable.
(And as a side note: Yes, at some point I don't care about improving my map any further because I am satisfied with it. If that's a problem it's down to the QAT 'team' to tell me to reach their standards and I'll happily work with them.)
It's just appalling to me that someone can completely reset the timer on the ranking process by bringing up something that was addressed before somewhere in the thread that the mapper certainly remembers. But we shouldn't expect Random Joe 13 to read the entire thread, right? So that's why I think discussion should be an OPTION before just resetting the timer off the bat. Especially if all of the parties involved are actively looking at the map in real-time on the client and are talking to eachother on the client.
Just seems silly to me.
