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The Custom Game Night Primer! - Next Night: CANCELLED because 1.30 instability

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The Next Custom Game Night's at 6:00 pm UTC on Saturday, August 11th, 2018!
CANCELLED because of expected 1.30 instability until further notice.
Want to mod as well? Check out the Map Challenge, brought to you by AvatarsLord!

Welcome to the Custom Game Night Primer! I am Selaya, your hostess and shall now detail a buncha things you may (or may not :^]) want to know about the Custom Game Night, brought to you by yours truly Selaya & Wareditor!
It is the spiritual successor of the Funmap Evening Event, the folks over from inwarcraft.de used to host.

Fundamentally the Custom Game Night is a place where we all gather together to have fun together! And, maybe try out a new map you haven't heard of before.
The other aspect of this is obviously to socialise while playing games! After all, we may just head over to ENT and !pub something otherwise and go play with randoms.

<3, Sela

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You are all invited to bring your own maps or any of your favorite maps to the CGN! However, to ensure that we all have fun during the event, please consider the following guidelines for your submissions:
  • The map should not contain gamebreaking bugs.
  • The map should work well with (almost) any given number of players
  • The map should not prematurely eliminate players.
  • The map should be fairly intuitive to play, and not have a steep learning curve
  • The map should not take eternities to finish.

I'd like to ask you to post your map suggestions beforehand, For now, you can use this Google Spreadsheet.
Please be advised that the final decision of the maps played is at the staff's discretion.

: You are, of course welcome to bring your very own map that you've just made! Please however be aware that this is not supposed to be your place to debug your map. Sometimes you just dont realise a (critical) bug until it's too late. Shit happens. However, if you consistently bring bugged, subpar maps instead of debugging them first we may just opt to not play your map(s) anymore. Do not be the boy who cried wolf.
Please also note that we may decide to abort your map after playing about 20 minutes. While we all appreciate your efforts and would encourage you to show off your work during a Game Night please understand that your map may not be considered fun by everyone, especially in its incomplete form. We're prepared to give it a shot anyways; however we also are aware that you may not be able to correctly judge your maps length without extensive testing, and in order to not block the entire Game Night (refer to submission rule (v)) with it nor to completely forbid showing off your own work, we'll have to set an abort horizon. Hope you can understand us on this!


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Hopefully we're all adults and can make do without a huge list of things-to-not-do-to-your-fellow-players, however please especially note rules 2 and 3:
  • Be respectful towards your fellow players! Do not insult and/or verbally abuse them!
  • Be respectful towards the map we're playing! I understand that there's a vast amount of maps from 16 years of depth, and that not everything may be your cup of tea. However, please consider staying instead of ruining the game for everyone else! You may respectfully disagree with a map choice during and/or after play.
  • Be respectful towards the general (list of) map choice(s). Again, see the above. While a specific map/genre may not be your most favorite, consider giving it a shot anyways. In turn, we shall commit to your favorite map which may not be our favorites either. Having 12 attendees but only 7 people playing at any given time because the other 5 are afking instead of trying something new can be incredibly frustrating.
  • Be committed. If you cannot make it to a Game Night, do not pretend so. It's really disrespectful when you have 5 people no-showing and leading to a cancellation of the night, wasting everyone's time. This is also related to the preceding rule. Be commited to the Game Night, and consider playing every map even if they're not all your favorites. It's really disrespectful when you are just cherry-picking your favorite map to play while expecting everyone else to join in even if isn't their favorite as well.


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I own a hostbot that we're using for the Game Night. It connects to the following realms:


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The current standard schedule is Saturday Night (EU times), 7p 6p UTC (Daylight Savings, hooray! jk). Please pay heed to the respective specific Night's announcement for further details. May be expanded to stuff like NA times if there's sufficient demand.


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We shall convene in the Hive Discord's #gaming_chat channel. Game Names shall be announced there. You are encourage to join the voice channel there and have fun with the Moose :^)




If you have any questions or suggestions, whether about things to add to this Primer or concerning the Custom Game Night itself, please let me know!

Thread's neat now. Graphics & formatting (mostly) brought to you by yours truly, @Wareditor <3

Changelog
Mar 23rd - Made thread neat with the help of Wareditor! <3
Mar 24th - added a new third rule: Please play all the maps!. Also expanded on the former third (now fourth) rule, which is related to the new third.
Mar 24th, the 2nd - added a note concerning submitting your own, self-created maps.
 
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Map choice is made ad-hoc, basically.
So yeah, Discord or ingame when we're playing.
 
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Next Night on the 24th!

Will edit Primer with all the changes & new features later, but for now:

Please suggest maps you'd like to play now, won't take suggestions during the night anymore if I can help it, too chaotic.
 
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Added time. I think i will do the 1-outta-3 draft you proposed, will fix stuff up later ~
 
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Oh, and if you would kindly post your map suggestions in this thread so I don't have to go through 15 days of discord logs! Thank you!
 
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How sad what I ill and can't end work on my best map :(
I think it is interesting and I never saw any maps like mine before.
This event is so interesting. People will just play maps? Will you do stream?
 
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Updated. Next Night @Mar 10th.
Will also figure something in the meanwhile to make this less chaotic.
 
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And yet another fortnight passes with yet another Game Night.
Stepping up the organisation a bunch together with Wareditor, but still kinda lazy and a lot of room for improvement. Oh well.
Was kinda busy and lazy too, so there's that.
Still decent turnout and pretty good Night! ggs to every1 who played! <3

Stay tuned for the next Night on the 24th!
 
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I'll be working until 10 pm. If by any chance you're still playing at that time I'd love to drop by.

I also updated the map pool with some suggestions of my own.
 
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Next Game Night's on Apr 7th, at 6:00pm UTC. This is a change from the previous incarnations (by UTC reckoning) as the majority's voted for EU Primetime, and EU Daylight Savings will take effect starting tomorrow.
If you're EU this will likely mean that nothing changes for you. For everyone else, this will mean the Night starts out an hour earlier.

Also, some rules have been added and/or clarified. Please review them!
 
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I feel like the part about suggesting our own maps was more or less forwarded towards me, so I just want to say that I've never had a game longer than 40minutes, they usually end at around 20-30minutes. I'm glad you tried out my map and I'm happy I got feedback.

The game nights are fun and I hope I'll be able to attend them all as often as possible
 
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I feel like the part about suggesting our own maps was more or less forwarded towards me, so I just want to say that I've never had a game longer than 40minutes, they usually end at around 20-30minutes. I'm glad you tried out my map and I'm happy I got feedback.

The game nights are fun and I hope I'll be able to attend them all as often as possible

I believe this happened because everyone was like "Ooooh, what does this button do? How's the dev going? What about models? Have you though of custom spells?" and were busy dissecting it instead of playing :D Also, wanted to see everything and that is not achieved just by ending it fast ;)
 
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I believe this happened because everyone was like "Ooooh, what does this button do? How's the dev going? What about models? Have you though of custom spells?" and were busy dissecting it instead of playing :D Also, wanted to see everything and that is not achieved just by ending it fast ;)

Yea, to be honest I was expecting a better reaction but whatever :D I'm not complaining, still glad I got to play it with a lot of people :)
 
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Another fortnight, another Game Night!
Still rollin', still going strong!

Due to both me and Wareditor being relatively busy with life we didn't really prepare too much for this iteration of the Game Night, and was thus rather on the short end of things, however we all had a blast anyways!
I'll see what I can get done in the meanwhile; however rest assured that the Game Night's here to stay! <3

inotherwords, we shall convene again on the 21st, at 6p UTC for the next Night! Stay tuned! <3
 
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Update:
Depending on how bad the situation with 1.29 will be the upcoming Night may be cancelled.

Will update y'all sometimes next week.
 
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Hello,

Because of the current situation with 1.29 I've decided to skip the next Game Night. The schedule will resume as normal with May 5th again. Hopefully all the critical issues have been dealt with by then. See you all in another fortnight!
 
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Well.
That was rather a fiasco tonight. I guess it's at least partially on mine head bc I've been mostly busy & lazy in the past few weeks.
I'll see what I can get done for the next night.

rip

EDIT: Will try again for the next week, May 12th! Stay tuned! <3
 
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Alright.
Pretty decent night this time 'round, peak attendance was like, 7 or so players. Could use a few more, but still made a good night!

We shall reconvene on May 26th, 2018 for the next Game Night!
 
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Update: Next Night will be postponed to June 2nd instead because of reasons.
Means we'll be back to the initial schedule after a break and a hiccup.
 
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Good showing people, keep it up.
Next night on the 16th.

Also, another reminder to please use the spreadsheet to suggest maps! 15+ player maps preferred as we seem to have quite a following by now.

CGN - Map Suggestions
 
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Another week, another successful night!
Despite the slow start we eventually had 11 players rollin'.

Keep it up!
Next night on the 30th. And please continue using the spreadsheet, we played a buncha maps that people suggested!
 
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Meh night.
Guess it is World Cup after all. :^]
Good maps tho, and more specifically, good new maps :^]

Next Night's on the 14th.
 
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I can have a revote, but most people are used to Sat night by now, also a pretty big majority voted for that the last time 'round, might not be different even if I have a revote
 
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Another week, another meh night.
I guess
(a) its summer
(b) world cup and
(c) i kinda slacked on announcing on discord bc busy
:^]

Next Night on the 28th. Hopefully we can get a few more people then!
 
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