Should Orph rekindle his passion for critiques?

I have been bored silly of late, i miss my times spent critiquing maps, but have seen the level of interaction remain constant in spite of my no longer doing them.. i am proud to say that snarkpit has a great collection of members dedicated to helping others.

still since my childish, self imposed exile, and subsequent return i have done very little to contribute to the pit, at least nothing on the level preceding that event.

my question is simple, would it be worth it to anyone for me to reinstall HL and all the updates?

I think you're critiques were well-written and useful, but I also think you should do more reviews...

I personally enjoyed reading the reviews for the last Snarkpit mapping competion - the reviews were honest and well-meant without being too brutal.

...and the Snarkpit lacks a decent reviewing system :smile:

What would be good would be if any user could post a review of a map, for example:

Eden by Peter Manson,

Read a review by matt, Orpheus, Vash.... etc.

That would be good.

It would be good, yes- if you're that desperate you can do it with a comment. When I figure out a decent way to 'do it' (i.e. format, archiving, keeping them seperate from 'proper' site reviews or not, etc.) I will :smile:

/me cringes at reference to "proper" :sad:

but i think i understand.

Well, "officially endorsed" ones anyway- I'm guessing there would be some reviews submitted that would be rubbish that I don't really want to 'clog up' the website with :/ Maybe if it was like submitting news, and crap ones get shunted into map comments...

Yeah, there is potential for rife posting of inane rubbish like "ths map was well cooll, 11/10" all on a review page :/

precautionary measures would be a requirement, and i am sure an expectation of everyone here as well..

i would say, any system that filters out the rubbish, would be acceptable to everyone, and could incite some to improving their efforts to be one of the chosen.

my only fear, would be 2 fold, if someone was biased against, or for a person, and secondly, if it was to stringent a system it could discourage overtly.

we could possibly entertain the idea of a rating system for reviews.. IE, my reviews of the competition maps.. some might have liked them, some not.. i think a system that involves everyone could be useful..

/my thoughts

snickers

some people, they vote so in character

for the record, i voted #5

How about a review doesn't get added to the review listings until an admin reads it over and deems it acceptable. At his point it is put into the list of user reviews for that map. If its extra good, then the admin can mark it as official, in which case the link to the review will be more prominent and it will be added to the official reviews database.

And yes orph, you should...if only coz I'm gonna start a 24hr "classic" mapping project either today or tomorrow, and I want as much feedback on the beta (yes its meant to be a quick project but I wouldn't release it without getting snarkpit feedback!) as possible :wink: Seriously though, loads of people still comment on maps and that is great, but few go into the depth you did.

Yes Jon, start your reviews again. They arent just needed, they are appreciated. :smile:

LOL, for some reason I think those two should have been the other way around WC

Whatever :razz: He knew what I meant..

Besides, it was 9am when I typed it and I was in a rush at school :biggrin:

/lame excuse

i have discovered 2 very interesting things today..

they have really advanced the download speeds for some of the HL upgrades and/or mods.

check out these speeds :biggrin:

While you're at it reinstall HL and recompile the snarkpitcrewmap :razz:

Yak_Fighter said:
While you're at it reinstall HL and recompile the snarkpitcrewmap :razz:

Oh yeah.. you and who's army?

has there been significant updates to said map since Spit was last compiled yak man?

i also assume, the compiling process is driving you nutz as well?

it would take me a while, just to remember how.. but i will if its necessary :/

<!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->Wow orph, :eek: whats connection you got there?

$loth said:
<!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->Wow orph, :eek: whats connection you got there?

DSL at 1.5 mbps

i got kazaa running on another pc as well, downloading...... stuff :wink:

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does anyone have a link to CS, that doesn't involve a steam upgrade?

Orpheus said:

Yak_Fighter said:
While you're at it reinstall HL and recompile the snarkpitcrewmap :razz:

Oh yeah.. you and who's army?

has there been significant updates to said map since Spit was last compiled yak man?

i also assume, the compiling process is driving you nutz as well?

it would take me a while, just to remember how.. but i will if its necessary :/

I haven't been able to get it compiled, but I also haven't changed anything in the map. If I could get someone to compile it I can fix the entity issues and it'll be done in my eyes.

Yak_Fighter said:
I haven't been able to get it compiled, but I also haven't changed anything in the map. If I could get someone to compile it I can fix the entity issues and it'll be done in my eyes.

i will see what i can do..

<!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->WOAH nice speed there, ill have a look for a cs link for ya orph.

matt said:
What would be good would be if any user could post a review of a map, for example:

Eden by Peter Manson,
Read a review by matt, Orpheus, Vash.... etc.

That would be good.

Like the idea too, m8te.

Hey Orph if you need some compiling done, I guess I could do some. lol feels weird saying that to you now. But I can leave it be all day while Im at school.

How about attempting to stop lame spam reviews by only letting people who have been a member for a certain amount of time do them.

scary_jeff said:
How about attempting to stop lame spam reviews by only letting people who have been a member for a certain amount of time do them.

I've mentioned to Lep about different user levels, as so far we are all level 1 users...

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Steam Name- Orpheus Rex

Orpheus said:

$loth said:
<!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->Wow orph, :eek: whats connection you got there?

DSL at 1.5 mbps

i got kazaa running on another pc as well, downloading...... stuff :wink:

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does anyone have a link to CS, that doesn't involve a steam upgrade?

That doesn't involve a steam upgrade??? yup :biggrin: http://www.fileplanet.com/files/50000/57255.shtml

I stick to my promise

/me giggles at my suck up attempt

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Useful post orph :rolleyes:

Having problems with something?

ReNo said:
Useful post orph :rolleyes:

Having problems with something?

was gonna place my steam name in there, but changed my mind.. i wanna see how it looks first.. will update soonish..

oh, and thanx sloth, but i was forced to update to steam anyways :sad: NS refused otherwise ..

<!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->Darn, but it should take no time at all on you r nice 1.5 connection :razz:

now leave me alone to eat my hash browns :biggrin: <!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->

Orph, bring back t3h leetage that was your critques ^_^.

as i said once already, you can pretty much see whom votes in character :biggrin:

i put the derogatory options in there just so i would not discriminate against anyones opinions, knowing full well some would vote negatively.. which i feel is fairly justified from their perspective.. i thank everyone for their honesty.

bumps

although, i am not surprised of the outcome, i am however surprised at how few voted.

no, not cause i am an invaluable asset, but i honestly thought we had more active mappers currently at snarkpit :/

anywhos' HL is reinstalled.. DoD and NS is as well as TFC OP4 and CS, i could not recall if there were any others of note. please advise if i erred.

now all i need to do is ask, since i have done no critiques with steam, is it any different than it used to be?? i mean, basically, is screenshots and the maps folder still easy to find?

The Steam directory structure for HL is more or less the same...it's just buried a few directories in :/

i.e. Steam\SteamApps\adamhawkins@planethalflife.com\Half-Life\valve\maps\ I think...i'm at work and can't check!

Screenshots are the same and are saved into the Half-Life folder as I remember it :smile:

K, thanx, i can sort it if need be, i just am finding stuff difficult to locate with steam..

good thing, i backed up all my wads i suppose..

Orpheus said:
bumps

although, i am not surprised of the outcome, i am however surprised at how few voted.

i personally tend to avoid voting on the polls... nothing personal, its just me and internet polls. we just dont get along :biggrin: