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Re: I just noticed this...
Posted by Wild Card on Sun Apr 25th at 11:25pm 2004


? posted by Myrk-
Critiques affect the map, reviews critisize... therefore critiques are more useful to the mapper, but reviews are useful to 56k users because they want to know wether the map is worth waiting 10 mins to download

10 minutes? I tryed to download a map yesterday and gave up after 20

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Re: I just noticed this...
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 11:26pm 2004


? posted by Myrk-
Critiques affect the map, reviews critisize... therefore critiques are more useful to the mapper, but reviews are useful to 56k users because they want to know wether the map is worth waiting 10 mins to download

i would hate to think, i got, or lost snarkmarks because i was not 56k friendly on my critiques

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 11:27pm 2004


I guess it isn't so important to have map reviews anymore, because most people who play online can download any potential map in about a second and try it themselves. I think concentrating on helping people as they make their maps is a more useful focus for El Peet 'in this day and age', so to me critiques are more important than reviews.

Orph, I think he meant that it is easier for a 56Ker to read a review that takes a few seconds to load than for them to download a map that they end up not liking. He wasn't talking about your crits




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Re: I just noticed this...
Posted by Wild Card on Sun Apr 25th at 11:27pm 2004


? posted by Orpheus
? posted by Myrk-
Critiques affect the map, reviews critisize... therefore critiques are more useful to the mapper, but reviews are useful to 56k users because they want to know wether the map is worth waiting 10 mins to download

i would hate to think, i got, or lost snarkmarks because i was not 56k friendly on my critiques

I would read your reviews any day

Hey if you need a template review ish thingy, take Cliff Complex for a run I've been waiting more months than I have fingers for HLatlas to review it.

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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 25th at 11:30pm 2004


I hold them in equal regard - critiques are more useful as a development tool, but a review is like your little bit of glory (or shame). It feels like the legend of your map - critiques are gone and forgotten once they are used, the opinions of reviews are stuck in my head for much much longer. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sun Apr 25th at 11:31pm 2004


And we shall (hopefully) see some more reviews soon.



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 11:31pm 2004


Good point ReNo. I was well pleased with the reviews I got ty for the comment to.



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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 25th at 11:33pm 2004


No problem, I'm sure I commented on it ages ago but its one of the ones I never went back to remake once all the comments and things went missing (did that happen, or am I imagining that?!). [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 11:44pm 2004


i agree with everything you said duncan, but cannot help thinking, reviews are more intended to be ego boosters, or worse, they can end a mappers career.

but the lost critique you mentioned, i dunno, it has to be more valuable simply because its a vital step to the completion of the map, for which there would be no review otherwise..

i don't wanna give the wrong impression, i wanna do reviews myself, if its possible for me to do so.. and i do not plan on short changing people because i feel critiques are more valuable, i will give it/them 100% of my efforts as well.. but i just cannot see them as equal at all..

sorry to disagree, but thats ok, doesn't make me right after-all

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Posted by wil5on on Mon Apr 26th at 10:05am 2004


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WHAT!?!? HL1 snarks arent scabby, theyre cool.
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Do the ratings for your maps/tutorials/etc. get counted in the calculations? I know your user rating does...

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Posted by ReNo on Mon Apr 26th at 1:41pm 2004


Yeah the ratings for each thing are really important in the calculations I imagine, otherwise people who just spam out killboxes and they get marked 1 or 2, would still get high snarkmarks. [addsig]




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