For a long while now, I've been worried about how hard it is to get a good ranked map nowadays. It totally depends on the ammount of mods you get + having to poke a MAT to mod your maps + waiting / poking a BAT to mod your bubble. We now have trouble with the ammount of bubbles, the quality of them itself, and whatnot...
So I thought about some hours, and discussed a bit with StarrodKirby86, of what could we do to move the community forward. I came up with an idea and we discussed it a lot, so after some hours, I got these ideas:
Priority System:
Popularity System:
Other uses of the Popularity System
If these things were implemented, I'm compromising myself to make a storyboarded map teaching the basics of mapping, such as timing, placing notes, all the tools and all the basics things. This map would be stickied to the guidelines, and for those who doesn't read guidelines at all, maybe stick it somewhere in the BSS. Like "Click here to read this tutorial on the basics of mapping".
Of course I'd be glad to take some help from people who are willing to help me on it.
The pros of this system:
- It will increase the quality of maps.
- It will make MATs job easier, which would also make BATs job easier.
- The number of things getting bubbled would go down a lot, working as a control for the number of bubbles.
The cons of this system:
- It's hard for veteran mappers to get mods that would actually improve their maps, so getting the necessary priority would be a bit troublesome, but hopefully the Popularity System helps balance the balance of it.
- It doesn't solve the problem of the numbers of mappers, which is fairly superior to the ammount of modders. Hopefully Popularity System helps here too.
Have any ideas? Got any questions?
Please give me your feedback with some constructive criticism, I'm really willing to read everything and answer the questions, update with new ideas if any and whatnot.
Hopefully if we all work together, we can make a move towards a better community!
People that are willing to help me on this:
So I thought about some hours, and discussed a bit with StarrodKirby86, of what could we do to move the community forward. I came up with an idea and we discussed it a lot, so after some hours, I got these ideas:
Priority System:
SPOILER
Its job is to decide what maps are ready to be ranked.
- Priority is given like this: When someone gets a kudosu for the post on the thread of the map, the map automatically gets +1 priority.
- To avoid random kudosu abuse, a report button would be implemented.
- When a map hits 20 priority, a button on BSS ( or even on forum ) called "This map is ready to be ranked" would be available to click. Clicking on it makes your maps visible to MATs on somewhere around the forum, like the bubbles place. This would make it easier for MATs to pick up what they should mod.
- The kudosu star would remain the same
- For each two ranked / approved maps, the priority needed for the button to appear would go down by 1.
- The maximum that the priority would go down to is 8, which means 24 approved / ranked maps.
- Conversion of the current system to this new system would be as follow: A search for posts that were kudosu'd. Each one of those increases the priority of the new system by one.
- Priority is given like this: When someone gets a kudosu for the post on the thread of the map, the map automatically gets +1 priority.
- To avoid random kudosu abuse, a report button would be implemented.
- When a map hits 20 priority, a button on BSS ( or even on forum ) called "This map is ready to be ranked" would be available to click. Clicking on it makes your maps visible to MATs on somewhere around the forum, like the bubbles place. This would make it easier for MATs to pick up what they should mod.
- The kudosu star would remain the same
- For each two ranked / approved maps, the priority needed for the button to appear would go down by 1.
- The maximum that the priority would go down to is 8, which means 24 approved / ranked maps.
- Conversion of the current system to this new system would be as follow: A search for posts that were kudosu'd. Each one of those increases the priority of the new system by one.
Popularity System:
SPOILER
The system made for people that wants to give their support to the map / A system to determine what maps are popular.
- Each month every player is given 5 Popularity Stars ( here referred as PS ).
- The player can then support maps with PSs. They throw a PS at a map they like, independent if it's ranked or not.
- To avoid some abuses, people can't throw a PS at their own maps. Plus, they can't throw more than one PS at a map.
- For unranked maps, each 5 PSs, 1 Priority would be given to the map.
- Conversion of the current system to this new system would be as follow: Simply convert the priority in the current system and convert it to Popularity in this new system.
- Each month every player is given 5 Popularity Stars ( here referred as PS ).
- The player can then support maps with PSs. They throw a PS at a map they like, independent if it's ranked or not.
- To avoid some abuses, people can't throw a PS at their own maps. Plus, they can't throw more than one PS at a map.
- For unranked maps, each 5 PSs, 1 Priority would be given to the map.
- Conversion of the current system to this new system would be as follow: Simply convert the priority in the current system and convert it to Popularity in this new system.
Other uses of the Popularity System
SPOILER
The use of popularity for the ranked / approved maps.
- A "Top 10 Popular Maps" system would be implemented. It would work similar to "Most played in the last 24 hours", except it's not based on time. The 10 maps with the biggest ammount of PS would be displayed on it.
- A "Top 5 Popular Maps of the month" system would be implement. It would work as an incentive for players to play that map. Each new month it would be reseted.
- The maps for monthly charts would be based on PS too, for the maps that were ranked / approved on the previous month.
- A "Top 10 Popular Maps" system would be implemented. It would work similar to "Most played in the last 24 hours", except it's not based on time. The 10 maps with the biggest ammount of PS would be displayed on it.
- A "Top 5 Popular Maps of the month" system would be implement. It would work as an incentive for players to play that map. Each new month it would be reseted.
- The maps for monthly charts would be based on PS too, for the maps that were ranked / approved on the previous month.
If these things were implemented, I'm compromising myself to make a storyboarded map teaching the basics of mapping, such as timing, placing notes, all the tools and all the basics things. This map would be stickied to the guidelines, and for those who doesn't read guidelines at all, maybe stick it somewhere in the BSS. Like "Click here to read this tutorial on the basics of mapping".
Of course I'd be glad to take some help from people who are willing to help me on it.
The pros of this system:
- It will increase the quality of maps.
- It will make MATs job easier, which would also make BATs job easier.
- The number of things getting bubbled would go down a lot, working as a control for the number of bubbles.
The cons of this system:
- It's hard for veteran mappers to get mods that would actually improve their maps, so getting the necessary priority would be a bit troublesome, but hopefully the Popularity System helps balance the balance of it.
- It doesn't solve the problem of the numbers of mappers, which is fairly superior to the ammount of modders. Hopefully Popularity System helps here too.
Have any ideas? Got any questions?
Please give me your feedback with some constructive criticism, I'm really willing to read everything and answer the questions, update with new ideas if any and whatnot.
Hopefully if we all work together, we can make a move towards a better community!
People that are willing to help me on this: