Mugzippit's Castle 1.01

[Moderator]

16:55, 3rd Feb 2009
Septimus: rejected

 

[bounty hunter2]

Here is my rating and comment:

1 - 10 points go on originality
1 - 10 points go on object editor work
1 - 10 points go on scripting
1 - 10 points go on terrain
1 - 10 points go on bug free
1 - 10 points go on gameplay*/fun factor
1 - 10 points go on lag
1 - 10 points go on proper submission and crediting
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->That equals 80 points max.
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+ Cinematic
1 - 10 points on camera work
1 - 10 points on dialog
1 - 10 points on music and or voice acting
- Cinematic
Object editor work
* Not in cinematic
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That equals 100 points max.
To get a Hive grade over 1/5 at least 50% of the 80 (Triggered map) or of the 100 (Cinematic map) points is needed. That means at least 40 or 50 points. However if a map gets rated over 1/5 by me, that doesn't mean that I will imidietly vote it to be approved.

Originality: 2 points
Basicly grab a hero and kill the main negative character. No custom spells, nothing orignal whatsoever.

Object editor work: 6 points
You colored some things nicely, which always is nice. Hotkeys worked beacuse you kept the warcraft spells. Custom spells!

Scripting: 3 points
Defficent in some triggers, like the scout had to say something and nothing happened, when we leaved the city, I could blink anywhere with the pendant :/

Terrain: 2 points
The terrain needs a lot of improving.

Bug Free: 3 points
The biggest problem is the necklace whom with you can blink anywhere, like in the hero chosing area and then activate triggers for heroes.

Gameplay/Fun Factor: 4 points
It was pretty boring and dull, I didn't even finish it, sure teamwork is always nice, but with no custom spells it isn't much.

Lag: 8 points
Some lag, nothing too drastic. Fine loading time.

Proper submission and crediting: 6 points
You should add images here, more description, but you did credit the authors atleast.

In overall: 34 / 80
42% minimal 50% not met.
For the hive grade: 1/5 I suggest this map for: Rejection
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In overall it is a boring map with some issues. The terrain needs major fixing as well. You need more custom items, spells... Try again, improve and update the map maybe something does come out of this. The large 3.5 Mb size doesn't help it at all.

Good Luck, bounty hunter2
I might not be checking this topic for some time. If you have any questions about the review or you update the map and want me to check it again, feel free to PM me or Visitor message me at any time.

 

[Mugzippit]

Reply to review

Ive fixed the necklace so it can still help players move around but not teleportation anymore and im working on the terrain and spells atm. the scout probably said nothing beacause subtitles needs to be on

 

[Nukitty]

-_-

"In overall it is a boring map with some issues. The terrain needs major fixing as well. You need more custom items, spells... Try again, improve and update the map maybe something does come out of this. The large 3.5 Mb size doesn't help it at all."

THAT AINT FAIR! its his first map so you gotta give him some credit -_-
there is originality in it sometimes cos otherwise nobody would rate it.

give him a break will ya?

 

[bounty hunter2]

Ive fixed the necklace so it can still help players move around but not teleportation anymore and im working on the terrain and spells atm. the scout probably said nothing beacause subtitles needs to be on

Hmm okay, I hope you manage to pull something out of it. Subtitles :/

"In overall it is a boring map with some issues. The terrain needs major fixing as well. You need more custom items, spells... Try again, improve and update the map maybe something does come out of this. The large 3.5 Mb size doesn't help it at all."

THAT AINT FAIR! its his first map so you gotta give him some credit -_-
there is originality in it sometimes cos otherwise nobody would rate it.

give him a break will ya?

Am I supposed to say: Great map, some issues, here have a 4/5 and mini mod approval vote. This is fair, and only this. People aren't supposed to post their first stuff, but they do and when they do they need guidelines on how to improve, and harsh criticsm to face them too see where are they standing. There is no originality whatsoever. Give him a break? Did I do anything wrong? No I just helped him and this is how it is supposed to be.

bounty hunter2

 

[Mugzippit]

i appreciate the criticsm. its needed for something to be improved. did you find any other bugs aside from the necklace?

 

[Septimus]

"In overall it is a boring map with some issues. The terrain needs major fixing as well. You need more custom items, spells... Try again, improve and update the map maybe something does come out of this. The large 3.5 Mb size doesn't help it at all."

THAT AINT FAIR! its his first map so you gotta give him some credit -_-
there is originality in it sometimes cos otherwise nobody would rate it.

give him a break will ya?

Being a newbie doesn't give a excuse of making a poor map. I had seen a maze map being make by a newbie, which is his first map and it was rather impressive and it was very well done in terrain, trigger and everything else as if it was develop by expert map maker.

So, using the excuse of "Hey, it was my first map" and "I am newbie in WE" is strictly unacceptable.

When I was new at mapping, I get a rather harsh critique as well and doesn't like it; but I soon discover the usefulness of those critique which gradually improve my mapping skill. Try view my map, you would notice most of my map have gone through a tremendous improvement.

A comment that said "Hey, great map", "5/5", "Superb" and etc etc are useless and pointless as they tend to make you more lazy and doesn't give any effort at mapping. This kind of comment are more likely to be an ass-kisser comment.

At here, you might sometimes receive compliment. But at wc3campaigns.net, they won't kiss your ass by praising your work if it was really awful. They tell nothing, but the truth. At here, a few of us tell the truth like they does as well.

I am reviewing this resources and would give feedback soon.

1) Poor terrain, you know your terrain is poor thus you must strive to improve it or get a person to help you.
2) Coding not that good, most of it could be optimize for better performance.
3) All unit seems to be massive spam.
4) Some hotkey doesn't working.

Overall rating was 1/5 and mini moderator vote was REJECTED

 

[Mugzippit]

while making ive tried to cover all aspects of the worldeditor without doing something that hasnt been done hundreds of times before (for example maze maps) and without finding an unprotected map and working it out from that, with the exception of finding out how to cancel a cinematic midway. there arnt that many maps of the same type as this one.

 

[bounty hunter2]

i appreciate the criticsm. its needed for something to be improved. did you find any other bugs aside from the necklace?

No, no I think the necklace seems to be the only problem.

 

[Mugzippit]

v 1.01

ive tried to improve my map using the points you made in your review.
ive redone the necklace so its still valueable and made quite a few new skills as replacements to the normal wc3 ones and ive tried to improve parts of the terrain but i know it still needs work.

 

[HolographicGuy]

yeah, why you allways have to be so negative?

 

[Mugzippit]

1.01b

Uploaded the update before double checking the hotkeys!
They are sorted now though
ive also shrinked the map to 2.84mb

 

[Mugzippit]

rejected.... no mention why...

 

[Nukitty]

sorry mug but i'll keep testing with you ^^

 

[Nukitty]

tiil the end xP

 

[Nukitty]

sigh, i feel bad about myself now =[