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[DeathJockeyGinger]

Would you please create a program so that we may create maps and submit them to you. If you take a month or two off from creating mechs and create maps instead, the community would not mind. I know this would never happen. Could you please give us something to make maps for you. You get free labor and credit, we get a creative outlet and new maps to play. Whatever it takes, I need new maps good sirs and ma'ams. Half the time the random maps aren't very random and there aren't many to pick from. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let us make maps. I would think it's a perfect solution to this problem. Thank you, in advance, for your time.

[Stingray Productions]

Just creating that program might take a little while itself (depending on how high of quality they want it to be.) However, I'd look at it as an investment. May take a fair while now to create, but later down the road it'd save them a whole heap of time. All they'd have to do is send it through bug testing, then maybe reward the map creator for their map submission.

Edited by Stingray1234, 25 May 2014 - 06:58 AM.

[Stingray Productions]

What might be cool to is allowing people to create maps and then host private matches on their own maps. That way it's not officially part of the game, but other people can try it out to see if they like it. Kind of a public map tester or something. If it goes far enough, maybe map creators could even start creating custom missions for their maps.

[Ryvucz]

I've learned that the current amount of maps for any game, is never enough.

One, yeah, obvious it would be nice to have more.

But there's a lot here, albeit two variations of two other maps, but... how many are you asking for?

Make a poll...

Like... "How many maps would you like to have on top of what we have?"

Then poll -

1 map

2 maps

32 maps, etc.

[Ancient Demise]

IIRC, a while long, long time ago they said that this would not happen since they cannot include custom/community maps in their server rotations and because there is no way to standardize the quality requirements of the maps from the community.
Now, as a cry engine mapper and having seen firsthand the "quality" of our current maps I would say the second part was thrown out the window the minute they released Alpine.
That said, it would still be nice if the community could submit their own creations using cry engine 3's own level designer - Sandbox 3 (I am sure that is what they use).
On the other hand, there are probably not a lot of different level resources (textures, skyboxes, brushes, decals, vegetation, brushes, sounds.....) created for this game that we would have to choose from so most of the work would have to be custom. On top of all that, Sandbox is quite a b**ch and likes to punch its users in the balls from time to time. (I am very familiar with Sandbox 2 and I am assuming Sandbox 3 is not too different)

Source: (former) MWLL Level Designer