WT Serious changes...

Well as most of you have notcied, the WT is not working well at all nowdays. I have been thinking about doing a serious makeover. So next week we will be starting the new kind of WT, or as it should be called MT. It will be a month long instead of a week, and will consist of making full maps, proper pathing ect will be required. This week there will be no WT while we prepare for next week.

Let me hear what you guys thing of this idea.

Hmm... it might be nice too some people who don't have all that much time too do it all in a week, but it would maybe get kind of old, every month, you know? I look forward every week too seeing the new WTs etc. I think it might be good if it was like a fortnightly thing or something. Also, must we attach the maps?
Only my 2 cents!

Making a fully playable and good terrained map over a 2 week period is a bit hard.

So, it must be playable? Like is supposed to be an actual map, that you must play on? or just a map with terrain?

I am seriously appose this suggestion, its just not the spirit of WT, also pathing isn't needed for a good terrain map, maybe cinematics where there are actors etc...
I don't think it will help WT, it seems to me the whole community is down... :(

My suggestion is that you could add MT to the Terrain contest.

Well I believe the idea is basically that non-terrainers can propose projects that they are working on that need a terrain. As such the resident terrainers here are given a theme, map size, and whatever specifications the user gives. The contest lasts a month and the winner would receive rep and an award icon in their profile (And below your rep bar).

Exams.

Like I said already, I support this idea.

What Tim. says sounds like a great idea, would really be a big help to new people in need of a good workable terrain. So that would mean this isn't a contest until the need arises yes? In that case the WT would still be in place and whenever a need comes up, a MT would be held. Sounds good to me.

Personally, I say keep WT but implement MT.

WT is all about the fun, not the technical aspects of a terrain. It's about creating a nice looking piece of land (or sea).

I like the idea of a MT though. Seems a bit more challenging and makes you think about different things. It would be the ultimate test of skill in my opinion. Creating a nice chunk of land like in the WT, but more in depth and keeping the map playable.

Just so you know, this could lead to a massive increase in the use of invisible platforms...

It will be much more challenging for the new terrainers, such as myself aswell...

I oppose to this idea, im looking forward to seeing a good inspiration each time there's a new WT, but making an entire MAP in a month seems too useless for me, far too timeconsuming.

As I see it, the actual terrainers oppose this. The non-terrainers agree with it.

Suffice to say, if this follows through, it will probably kill WT.

hmm, I think WT is nice already.. it's just not so many people now are into terraining, I guess..

I am aginst this idea becaus i think that playable map and terrain map are 2 diffent things, in terran map you dont have to care about pathing (or the lack of pathing) you can create a clutter map with duddads and raise trees to thair propper height (hard to control the units if you dont use 3 peson camera).
with terrain map you can focus on a theme polish that theme.
And last a mont is a long time people will be bord from it.
sorry for the bad spelling.

I think you should:
-Keep WT because it is an easy (well, sort of...) way to make something cool without having to worry about what it might become. That way you can make something that looks cool. I bet after exams things will pick up a bit.

-Use both, that way everyone can be happy. Some people want WT and some people want MT, so just compromise. The only flaw in this plan is that a lot of of people will be split over it, and each will be smaller... so I dont actually think this is a good one and I'm going to stop ranting on and on about this right now.

So... basically I think you need to pick one, and my vote goes to WT, even though I dont really participate. It's just that I know if I join one, it would be WT because I dont always have the time to make a working map... although, that could be interesting too...