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- Aug 30, 2006
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Hello people,
this goes into Offtopic as i didn't know if there was a better subforum for this, so bear with me here:
For years (literally years) i've been trying to get back into WC3 mapping. from 2005 to 2009 i've been a part of the great Clan CBS until it went down. I don't know if that group is still known around here, but it really shaped my youth and provided me with the greatest fun in my gaming life. I think a huge part of that was the community activity on the forums. For me it was like a smaller Wc3sear.ch, full with friends.
Anyway, since that community is no more, i've always since played WC3 with one or two friends, but nowadays it's really only those two left that can still be moved to play the old game. I created one or two fun maps just for the three of us, but that also means that they're full of real life references, in German language and so on... not really suited for public release.
My problem? Today, being 10 years older, i feel like my skills are ten times greater and i would really like to use my creativity to create a cool, innovative map again. After all, i freaking love being able to build my own maps! But everytime i start something in WE it get's lost and abandoned in my folder of unfinished projects, simply because i cannot keep up the motivation and in the end i think there will never be anyone who plays the map anyways since the community is dead. I think a huge part is also the big burden of starting from scratch. I love designing and tweaking a game, also adding new content once a map is already playable. However starting from scratch everytime is a huge downer whenever i open the editor. I get really tired of object editing after years and years of doing the same stuff all over again.
I guess there is no real 'solution' to this, but i'd like to ask if any of you guys that are still active overcame similar problems and if there is still a community to support fun mapping? Is WC3 an ancient thing for old people? Am i simply not loving the game enough anymore?
Please help me, i want to build a map!
this goes into Offtopic as i didn't know if there was a better subforum for this, so bear with me here:
For years (literally years) i've been trying to get back into WC3 mapping. from 2005 to 2009 i've been a part of the great Clan CBS until it went down. I don't know if that group is still known around here, but it really shaped my youth and provided me with the greatest fun in my gaming life. I think a huge part of that was the community activity on the forums. For me it was like a smaller Wc3sear.ch, full with friends.
Anyway, since that community is no more, i've always since played WC3 with one or two friends, but nowadays it's really only those two left that can still be moved to play the old game. I created one or two fun maps just for the three of us, but that also means that they're full of real life references, in German language and so on... not really suited for public release.
My problem? Today, being 10 years older, i feel like my skills are ten times greater and i would really like to use my creativity to create a cool, innovative map again. After all, i freaking love being able to build my own maps! But everytime i start something in WE it get's lost and abandoned in my folder of unfinished projects, simply because i cannot keep up the motivation and in the end i think there will never be anyone who plays the map anyways since the community is dead. I think a huge part is also the big burden of starting from scratch. I love designing and tweaking a game, also adding new content once a map is already playable. However starting from scratch everytime is a huge downer whenever i open the editor. I get really tired of object editing after years and years of doing the same stuff all over again.
I guess there is no real 'solution' to this, but i'd like to ask if any of you guys that are still active overcame similar problems and if there is still a community to support fun mapping? Is WC3 an ancient thing for old people? Am i simply not loving the game enough anymore?
Please help me, i want to build a map!