No, of course i can understand if an author is able to attend, that they would get priority over one whom cannot. For starters, they would presumably be organising it on the spot, which is the point of the tf2lobby; right?
I was just surprised such a rule was put in place. It seemed overly strict considering most things like this in the community self moderate; i would have expected the general rule of thumb to dictate such priorities naturally.
I don't mean to sound like i'm really bothered by it, it just sounded counter intuitive in the grander scheme of things. As such i didn't understand why it was in place.
P.S. I can appreciate the point you're trying to make here Shmitz:
but isn't so important that it overshadows the fairness of putting the time into testing your own map if you're going to ask 11 other people to do the same.
But when mapper's are putting in several hours a day, a week, essentially working for the competitive scene, playing a couple half hour PUG playtests is the least i would expect in return. It's not just a favour to us but themselves. It's up to the competitive scene to decide whether they want to play Badlands and Granary for the rest of TF2's life,
or have more variaty. My point being, i've already spent around 25~ hours in Hammer making ctf_sabotage for the competitive scene and it hasn't yet seen a test. I don't mean to sound hung up about it, i otherwise wouldn't have mentioned it if you hadn't have said
that. It just seemed like a moot point when the competitive scene is getting as much out of this as the competition entrants. I'm already putting in the hard work, from my perspective, the least they can do is test a map that they (presumably) want/need.
But that's just the other half of it i felt i needed to voice. I
can see it from both sides. But spending hours on end in Hammer to make the comp scene a map and then being told i'm not doing enough/i'm disrespecting comp's is just a little insulting. The phrase
don't bite the hand that feeds you comes to mind.
But I am more than happy to attend my own map in PUGs. I just figured i'd be able to use demo's as an equal resource like we have in the past. Sorry to pester you so about it.