GladiOol wrote:
I HAVE NO SOCIAL SKILLS AND DUNNO HOW TO ASK BATS TO MOD MAP, AND WHEN THEY DO MOD MY MAP THEY FIND SO MANY ERRORS THAT THEY IGNORE IF I ASK FOR RECHECK CUZ I NEED LIKE 10 OTHER MODS FIRST BUT IM LAZY FML
I
did ask a lot of them. And I don't even know what you're even talking about in the second part, because something like that never happened.
GladiOol wrote:
In all seriousness, your map got HUGE mod posts and the first mod posts you got were after 6 months. So don't say you've been trying to get your map ranked for 9 months already.
I didn't say that. The map has been online for that long, but I've been working on it quite a while before it went into pending. If you subtract that time, there's still several months left, however, so yes, I've been trying for quite a while.
Odaril wrote:
This is going on my list of awesome posts.
I didn't want to take part in the drama - watching is enough - but I'll just leave a comment here: no MAT has been constantly busy for the past 9 months. If you don't get any to mod your map, you're not trying hard enough.
Wait, you too? I seriously didn't expect that coming from you.
After all, you're one of the MATs who don't accept requests anymore. And when you still did, I asked you for a mod on a map of mine, but that never happened. So what should I read into that post? "I'm a MAT; try harder to find one, but don't bother me"? I don't get it.
Odaril wrote:
If you really cared about the quality of your maps, you would be happy they spend so much time in pending, it's just your chance to polish them until they are perfect.
I polish my maps as far as I can do by myself before putting them into pending. But they don't magically get better by sitting there, so how could I be happy about that? I'd be happy about a MAT mod. I start looking for MATs when I feel that the regular mods don't really help me much anymore, but if I don't get any, I can't do much. And of course I also want it ranked. I didn't spend all the time mapping something to have only a few dozen people play it in the end. D:
Beuchi-chan wrote:
Then, if you ask MATs/BATs politely and regularly, they will find a spot for you, you just need patience.
A lot.
Yes, I knew that patience would be needed even before I started mapping. And I wouldn't be angry about it if everyone did. But some people do and others don't, which is the unfair part.
Well, I can understand if famous mappers get their maps ranked faster, since they have less stuff to fix and more people are interested in them, but don't you think that days vs. months is a bit extreme?
I can't ask most of the MATs/BATs, because they won't take any requests. Some of them say so in their signature, others tell me when I ask. But then again, I see these people modding maps like this one, just a few days after they're uploaded. So what apparently just counts is having good connections to the "important" people. There seems an elite of mappers who're friends with them and they'll only mod their maps, but not anyone elses.
Of course these people won't see a problem with the way things work and they just tell me to put more effort into it, but it's not like I am given much of a chance.