I think it became clear to everyone else than Alias on why these maps were added and not anything else. Fr0Z3nR explained why it was as it is. I don't always agree with him either on some matters, but he did the logical choice on showcasing them. It's always nice to see your own work mentioned, but thats not why i agree with him now. I would have propably done the same on his shoes.
Custom made maps do deserve recognition. I know this better than anyone else, because for the past 10 years i've been running a finnish community and playing, testing and enjoying many of the maps people have made. Only ~7 years for TF2 but for the other games too before that, there has been countless playtests. It also takes 2 other things, to have maps and time to test the maps.
Exactly that nearly 7 years i've also digged into mapping myself and what happened less than 2 weeks ago, was the highlight moment of my freetime mapping "career". Just like having my CS Source maps played on community servers, such as UKCS before this.
There will be more showcases each month and a lot of maps that have never been made official, are waiting to get displayed and recognition. Maybe someone can make a list of maps that should be considered into showcase and we take the discussion there. Or a thread that could suggest maps into showcase, in addition of the person who did the map. If there are maps we have tested, i will dig in and tell why they are good or have not been accepted into mapcycles on our servers after the tests were concluded.
Got any maps right now Alias that you would like to see showcased?
Custom made maps do deserve recognition. I know this better than anyone else, because for the past 10 years i've been running a finnish community and playing, testing and enjoying many of the maps people have made. Only ~7 years for TF2 but for the other games too before that, there has been countless playtests. It also takes 2 other things, to have maps and time to test the maps.
Exactly that nearly 7 years i've also digged into mapping myself and what happened less than 2 weeks ago, was the highlight moment of my freetime mapping "career". Just like having my CS Source maps played on community servers, such as UKCS before this.
There will be more showcases each month and a lot of maps that have never been made official, are waiting to get displayed and recognition. Maybe someone can make a list of maps that should be considered into showcase and we take the discussion there. Or a thread that could suggest maps into showcase, in addition of the person who did the map. If there are maps we have tested, i will dig in and tell why they are good or have not been accepted into mapcycles on our servers after the tests were concluded.
Got any maps right now Alias that you would like to see showcased?