What do you feel if your map edited by someone without premission?

[Violent]

Unfortunately that is what happened to me...

Today I searching game on B.net ,try to take a break on map making.
I found out my map was edited by someone ...and what he edits in my map were totally break up my original purpose on editing this map.

Now I am trying to clarify myself on B.net ,but I think that is not enough for clarify what happen on my map.

I feel so desperate.

Sorry if there is any grammar mistakes ,I tried my best to explain my feel so hard in English.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Mehh, my maps has been stolen, edited and so on many times, I just stopped caring, but the first 2 times I got kinda angry.

 

[chaosraider]

i dont feel mad or sad.
anyway its gana keep on happening on bnet.
thats how dota .....is anyone gana break out and say it sucks???anyway
and sheeptag got famas by other people riping other peoples work and ex ex

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

At least if you upload your map to the Hive, while the people on b.net will easily forget a legacy if it is replaced by map stealers, your legacy will still remain on the Hive, assuming it's good.

 

[Wolverabid]

Maps uploaded to our Hive must follow the Map Submission Rules

Original content maps. All maps should be original in design and content: this means no edits of other people's work without the author's permission. This includes Blizzard's maps. One exception to this may be if a map was willingly passed on from one owner to the next, not simply edited from an open source map. If a map is based upon or contains a large percentage of another map's ideas or components, full credit is expected to be given.

If anyone feels that their map has been pirated, uploaded here, and gone undetected they should immediately create an Admin Contact thread and report the situation.

Pirates may very well be "hung by the highest yardarm." Ahoy.

 

[Violent]

I was tried to upload my map on wc3sear.ch
and I found out there is someone uploaded it for me

After wc3sear.ch shut down for some reason
I was tried to upload my map on Hiveworkshop too
but there is someone uploaded it for me ... again

Luckily they had both gave credit to me.

 

[Ralle]

Ai. That's what we'll do to those people.
Prune 'em!

 

[Violent]

Thank you for you guys talking to me
and Wolverabid told me the Map Submission things

Now I know what should I do if map stealing happen ,thanks a lot

 

[Teh_Ephy]

thats how dota .....is anyone gana break out and say it sucks???

In the history of WC3s and THW, there have probably been at least 10 threads (I've seen 3 or 4) that devolved into how DotA sucks, or at least how everything else is better than it.

 

[atropos007]

that was pure flamewar invitation

 

[Teh_Ephy]

If this thread is hijacked by DotA, every member of the hijacker's family will be fugly for several hundred years. Anyways, map theft sucks, and all you can do about people editing your map is releasing better versions faster than they do.

 

[Asgard_Ragna]

Mhh i somewhere have seen a protection system where u just can't change the name...this might help sometimes since verybody can still look ur maps and learn from your triggers.

Btw...I think Dota is balanced and the autor really putted much work in it, even if his credit giving sucks and he stole some things. I sometimes play it at around 24:00 when all stupid kiddies sleep and i got some really nice games there.

 

[panther-anthro]

To Raging, seriously raging what of yours has been stolen? That one wisp game definitely wasn't. Although, I think piracy sucks, the issue is with the new rule re-form piracy will be even easier to commit and get approved on hiveworkshop.com.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I never said that map was stolen, I have made more than one map you know and the Wisp map was protected, my first 3 maps wasn't.

We are all tired of listening to all your crying about piracy, stop advertising your views at every chance you get.

 

[Ham Ham]

The best way to dont let people steal your map is protecting it.

Use the map optimizer created by Veroxian. it is on the resource section.

This toll damages the map and his mpq structure, leting him impossible to be opened.

 

[jonhpath]

Yes its a good protection but there are some map deprotector... as long as the map can be play, it can be deprotected... At least when you deprotect a map it (most of time) put everything in a single jass triger. Its still easy to be cheated/edited.

Why the hell do people steal maps? Is it to feel beter? Or they are just pice of shit that wan to have credits for things they havent done? Well one thing is sure, map stealing SUKS!

p.s. if you guys havent noticed, Master Crafters 5.5c is stolen map, a guy stole SomeWhiteGuy' map and added boss and CHEATS FOR HIM! what a jerk! This rpg is so easy and he need to cheat... He even made that everyone can have Ownage Items.........

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I'd be pissed. Then I try to prove it was my map.

But then again, no one ever plays my maps.

 

[Redeemer59]

Never had it happen, but if it did I would definitely try to clear my name (futile, but still) and contact the person who editted it. I would feel angry and cheated.

 

[Violent]

Yes its a good protection but there are some map deprotector... as long as the map can be play, it can be deprotected... At least when you deprotect a map it (most of time) put everything in a single jass triger. Its still easy to be cheated/edited.

True ,my map was protected but there is still someone edited my map.

 

[Pyritie]

Shit happens. And then you die.


>^.=.^<

 

[Fulla]

I wouldnt really care, but then I protect my maps so unlikely it will happen.
I guess it can be annoying if ppl remove all mention/creidts of your name and replace it with their own. Some are atleast good enough to place originally made by ..., edtied by ...

 

[Pyritie]

Well one time I saw a map which said in big white text:

This map was unprotected by <insert name here>!

 

[azalgath]

Honored that someone felt my map was worth something xD

I like to edit peoples map and program AI for the other teams if they havn't done so. I don't like bnet so I would rather play against a smart AI that another game of DOTA.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

p.s. if you guys havent noticed, Master Crafters 5.5c is stolen map, a guy stole SomeWhiteGuy' map and added boss and CHEATS FOR HIM! what a jerk! This rpg is so easy and he need to cheat... He even made that everyone can have Ownage Items.........

Acctually, the guy didn't add cheats for himself, he added cheats for everyone when he decided too make it like that. A friend of mine once unknowingly stole one of Gloomfrost's maps and added and taken out a few things and instead of a good rep he now has quite a bad rep, of course, his version NEVER gets hosted anymore, so he's ok!

I sometimes play it at around 24:00 when all stupid kiddies sleep and i got some really nice games there.

Don't say it is all kids, I am a kid, do I come out stupid too you overall? I can be a bit rowdy when I want too be but still... I'm not stupid, which therefore means not all kids are stupid.

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There is one thing that annoys me, you make a map and then you make sure nobody on any other server has nicked it, so you try making all of your account names on these other servers, and you will ALWAYS find that someone has nicked it, it also makes me mad when people do stuff like one of my old accounts, Death-Stalker, someone made an account called Death_Stalker and another Death-Stalker, and I found someone host my game too find the host had namespoofer on... I wasn't at all pleased with any of these guys, I asked them too not use the accounts/not spoof and they happily did it but it still got me annoyed!

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Yeah, map deprotectors exist, but that one single JASS trigger is supposed to be hard as hell to interpret.

Don't say it is all kids, I am a kid, do I come out stupid too you overall? I can be a bit rowdy when I want too be but still... I'm not stupid, which therefore means not all kids are stupid.

He's talking about all the stupid kiddies, not saying all kids are stupid.

@Asgard_Ragna: Congratulations on failed DotA hijack.

 

[Jaakko]

Use the map optimizer created by Veroxian. it is on the resource section.

Does it work for campaigns also? I tried it once but after that the map couldn't even be played. And I wonder if it works with WEU or not. And I don't like stealers.

 

[Pyritie]

Well, I've never seen a protected campaign, so...

Although, it won't be spread around bnet, so that's a plus.

 

[Ham Ham]

A good option after finishing him is:

1-Save a copy of him.
2-Convert all your triggers to jass. (Theres a command in the trigger editor menu that can convert any trigger to jass)
3-Protect and Release the map.
On protection, always make mpq recontruction. It makes the mapo harder to be unprotected.

Even if the guy can unprotect your map. He will only able to edit it if he knows jass.

 

[Jaakko]

Maybe somebody can protect it for me later because I'm not sure how to do it.

 

[Captain Griffen]

I quoteth a wise man (well, me):

"I AM my target market."

I don't really care if someone rips my maps, because my maps are made to be played by me and people I know. You others just get a lucky look in. And since my reputation that I care about exists at WC3C, nothing that happens due to some b.net kiddies can damage it.

I pitty those poor souls who have to suffer broken maps though.

 

[Redeemer59]

If I ever edit somebody's work, I still have their name in all of the credits as the creator, and will put "Edited by Baneling_Aspect" at the bottom of the loading screen or game-initialization text. My worst BNet fear (I know I shouldn't worry, but I do, I worry too much about my reputation) is that someone will take my map and change all instances of my name to his name, then release it and find it will be more popular than my own version. =X

 

[Pyritie]

Well, at least noone would do that to my campaign, as the main character is called Pyritie, and I have fade filters which say "Pyritie", and voice acting... It would ruin the game if someone replaced all of that with "Shad0w_Lord465" or something, for example.

 

[Maelstrom_]

Some guy called Warlord deprotected my Micro Battle Arena v1.1. He replaced my name every where with his, changed the terrain a bit then released it as v1.2. I was angry. He was smart enough to put his email address inside the map. I sent him an email and he replied about 2 weeks later. He was sorry, apoligised and said he respects me. Still not sure why he deprotected my map tho. (If he wasn't sorry there was an ownage virus going his way )

 

[Hakeem]

I was riding in the car one day and I had a good idea for a map: Warcraft Tag!
Well, I guess I wasn't the first to think of it. Who made the first tag map? I would like to give them credit when I finish.

 

[Jacek]

I was riding in the car one day and I had a good idea for a map: Warcraft Tag!
Well, I guess I wasn't the first to think of it. Who made the first tag map? I would like to give them credit when I finish.

I remember tag maps in Starcraft. I wouldn't be suprised if Wc2 had these as well