As you may know, in order for map to be released, it needs to be playtested. A lot. This has major flaws:
Reduces creativity (reference to Untimely incident, 21/05/22)
Obviously longers process of creating
Removes individual prefers (maybe creator wants some exact weapon to be in map, but ptesters and Durtle say no due to imbalance or difficulty of usage, or again, reference to Untimely incident)
Maybe allow map creators to release their maps without playtesting, but also make those maps grant no dp/xp until they are properly playtested either by community feedback in #zombies-general (discord)/ingame or private playtests. If you still want your map to be playtested as hell for balance - there is nothing stopping you
Benefits:
Maps would be more unique
Much more maps would be released at MUCH higher speed as there is no required playtest.
Maps will be exactly as creators want them to see, probably boosting their interest in making more
What did happen there? Did people say the P and B word for being too creative? Was there that 2 hackers went there infront of 3 mods? Was there a person who was kicked for all caps?
Here I agree because you need very much luck to get 5 people especially if you have too little charisma, i. e. just so much that the admins won’t ban you suddendly but you are trusted for map builder that you don’t do chaos.
Better it would be additionally to make them vote only
no we (and by we i mean multi payman) had to rework all chests just because idea of one coded class and 4 subclass chests was boring and dull (according to Durtle, literally everyone else beloved idea) even though it was never used
couldn’t agree more with this
if it’s in public then there is a chance it makes people hate them and that could make some rands stop playing, and from rands come pros as well just with time
This suggestion is more about what happened with Untimely Exploration rather than playtesting itself. Untimely would’ve had its chests rewritten whether it was playtested or not, because while chest standards are not as strictly enforced, Untimely’s chests were especially non-standard and very counterintuitive.
As for the delay issues, I’m sorry for that, been busy for the past few weeks, and I’m unlikely to be free to do map testing for the following weeks. Though that will be addressed if someone in the mod team would like the zombies manager role.