Suggestion: Community Competition for maps

Uber ( @jables ) it would be super cool, if there was a community competition to get some community maps included in the base game, not the ranking pool, but for custom games, like valve do with there TF2 maps

Not sure on format, perhaps 3 categories and 1st of each category wins.

• 1v1
• 5v5
• FFA

Whats everyone else think?

[UPDATE]

Q. Why not a category for ranked 1v1.
A. This has been brought up in the past with uber, and the answer was "we got this", but theres been no suggestion thats the case for custom maps.

Q. Why only 1 per category.
Baby steps.

yes!

But still there should be one for the ranked pool.

There are some great map makers out there so I think a contest to find the best would be awesome

The *real* question is though, how would we do such a competition?

This is a cool idea, would give some room for community contributions.

I don't see why they should not make it a ranked map.

I'd gladly replace almost every existing system in the game that isn't from the ranked pool with community contributions. We can do so much more with maps now than we could earlier in PA's life.

By the sounds of it, even the rng systems could use some improvements in the simple layout, sizes and metal spots.

Let alone fully custom maps.

@guest1 needs to release his .pas direct editor ui mod, so i can my go even deeper quicker with maps. atm im waiting for height brushes, also im thinking of gettting custom brushes in the game with some help from people. if i do that I think i can make some brushes in the shape of the continents of the world, scale them up, and bam. earth = done

4 player or 8 player FFA?

I think we should add them to the ranked maps, if balanced and no real issues appear I think it would be a great way for the community to see their physical input into the game with ubers support!

Yes please! Now with the custom placement of terrain features, there is so much potential for gameplay-changing map layouts.

I've only played 35 1v1 ranked, but I think the game need a bigger map pool.

Well Uber are slowly building up the pool... I'll bet they'll add another map or 2 with the next set of updates. I wouldn't be against some community made maps being added though.

I'n not complaining, by the way, I'm just saying it will be a good thing.
Where I can find a list of all the 1v1 ranked maps currently used?

To be honest I don't know, I'm pretty sure there are 6 maps in total for 1 v 1 now (ladder was released with 3 single planet maps, then they added 3 more with the last update including 2 water maps and one multi planet map).

Forge (Lava multiplanet), Pacific (Water), Osiris (Winter), Enki (Water big central island), Ephestus (Lava)...

Is there another one?

I think if you install the systems sharing mod it will make it so the ranked maps are listed as uber maps in the map selection.

I've no mods installed atm, I will try that along with PAStats...

don't think we could have enough maps ... both ranked and custom ... so yea totaly for this ....

I'd love some FFA maps. Is the general long term plan to release good player made maps into the standard game or will the answer be 'download it as a custom map'?

It would be awesome if the user made mods would get routinely added to the game as I'm not that interested in messing about with mods but would love to see some new stuff coming through made by players.