Should we give people the ability to make new maps?

[pippins]

Since a lot of people complain about 'meta-gaming' by relying on previously gained knowledge of maps, if we opened up map making to the general user we could have some 20 or so new maps produced in a short amount of time.
This gets around the difficulty of coding procedurally generated maps to add diversity and spice to the user experience. The marine briefing period could involve giving out a map of the new area, just like it would have been in the movies.

Some maps may be lemons, others surprisingly good. The point is, there would be such a wealth of maps available that no party would confidently know that location of a hive, the regions of the brain allocated for new learning will be constantly lit up, the gaming experience more alive.

A lot of games do this to great success. It doesn't require any knowledge of coding- it is just the artistic placement of terrain and artifacts. Each map would be reviewed for play-ability of course.
So, is this a reasonable idea or should we stick to the same 2-3 maps that we continue to play to death?

[AcuteCircle]

making maps is not easy, and we have a "mapper" spot on the team if people want to make their maps

[juliansl]

Map creation is typically rather tightly connected to the code in other SS13 codebases so I assume that it is in CM as well. So the only way to open up map creation for everyone would effectively be to go open source. Which, unless a major shift in developer opinion has happened, is simply not going to happen.

[BeardedWall]

Dont we have a staff position to for that?

Also.. no thanks. I dont really want to play on a map that just spells out the words "xenos mad" when you zoom out

[Saytkl77]

Dont we have a staff position to for that?

Also.. no thanks. I dont really want to play on a map that just spells out the words "xenos mad" when you zoom out

New map "Murderbox" the map is just a cramped 30x30 box, with patches of weeds, random items laying around, and a reinforced wall with boxes of heavy weapons behind it, with mechanical toolboxes outside the wall. Marines spawn in naked, larva spawn in as larva.

[PogoMarimo]

Dont we have a staff position to for that?

Also.. no thanks. I dont really want to play on a map that just spells out the words "xenos mad" when you zoom out

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