Artillery
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Okay, I have a good idea.
As of now, we have a lot of people working on the project already. When I joined in, I knew that there's going to be conflicts of interests, which is why I pushed my map slot to e4m5, because I joined in lately.
To me, the most reasonable thing to do would be to finally open up the episodes 4 and 5. Why? Because as of now, I don't think it's terribly important where we have our maps, as long as they're included. I think the idea of having only 3 episodes is stupid, and here's why.
With the number of mappers kicking in at this speed, we'll end up with a deficiency. Take a look at the list. Merging the ler's and torn's list (and I don't see why not) will result in the worst thing possible: Some maps will get kicked out or pushed aside to be released as an "outtake" or never released at all. Why? Just for the sake of keeping some stupid principals. Quite unreasonable, if you ask me, because it'll harm the overall quality of the megawad.
Snarboo is the latest entry, at this speed, we'll soon have more than enough quality mappers. I also see no reason to kick out the mappers which have expressed the wish to do 2 maps. Lord_Z and I have specifically stated that we'll join in with extra map, if the number of the open slots gets bigger. As of now, we already have a pretty good idea on what we want to do. We got ler's green light. Fine. Many maps which have been created under ler's leadership have been properly and professionally tested and are of good quality.
I see no reason whatsoever not to have Torn and ler both doing the leadership work and getting properly credited as such. By sorting out what we have done so far, and adding the finished, tested maps from Torn's list, waiting those who have applied for slots (including those who have 2 maps), we'll manage to keep the "community" spirit healthy and going, while still keeping a certain cohesion to the team. Once we have it all sorted out and worked on, we'll open new slots, so that more people can kick in, once this list has a *done* tag on all of the maps, and they get properly sorted out. And I don't think it'll be a flashback project either, since the new textures and different style of the mappers will produce an interesting and innovative combination of styles.
My wish is to make this as best as possible a project. But if we continue this way, we'll soon have to many people, it'll all turn into chaos, the quality will suffer, and some great maps will get kicked out. Very, very bad idea, if you ask me. Opening the new slots, OTOH, will ensure that everyone is satisfied, while the quality of the overall project will kept high, and we'll end up having a megawad that will be both extensive and fun to play.
After all, heretic offers us 45 shiny new slots to work on. Why not use it? As of now the last thing to worry about would be that we won't have enough mappers. At the latest stage, the maps will get tweaked and worked on, detailed etc. most all community projects had this process going on, and I don't see why this one should not. But first, let us sort things out and change and update the list of maps on the first page, and open the much-needed extra slots.
This way, the only people who'll get kicked out are those who have applied on the Torn's list, yet have not finished anything. And even they might get another chance if they apply again, when we get the extra slots. The finished maps from that list would be added detail, or tweaked, or whatever necessary, and we could all be happy. Otherwise, I don't understand how we can have 2 e1m1s, or e2m7s, or whatever, and having practically 2 projects existing under the same name. It just won't work. Period. And anyway you put it, kicking out anything wouldn't be fair nor reasonable. As I say, this is a compromise solution, the only idea that needs to change is to add the extra 18 slots.
By the very end of the whole thing, we can then deal with trivial subjects as to who's map fits where, and where will it be relocated, which music will be included etc.
Last edited by Artillery on 05-04-08 at 16:33
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05-03-08 23:48 
