Custom Maps - Here's an Idea..

[Garabaldi]

I love Battlefield 2 - no other game has managed to keep me interested for over a year - but with a premise like BF2, it's hard to screw up.

The only thing that I get a little tiffed about is the repetitive and stale maps. We've played all of them for over a year, and we know the in's and out's of all of them.

Heck, some people have been playing Karkand ONLY for over a year :laugh: !

So, why not do something like this..

User created maps are to be sent in to DICE - maps that are approved are then voted on by the community monthly and made official. This means RANKED servers are able to put them in their rotation, meaning the community gets new maps every few months, and all DICE has to do is some balancing issues, small modifying, and finding any glitches that may occur.

I mean, I'm all for playing on unranked servers.. but the problem is, 98% of the community isn't.

I would love to see something different, like the air only map presented in the recently released map pack on TotalBF2 - since it's AIR ONLY, it basically balances itself out.

Why couldn't it be done? Users create maps which get approved by DICE. Doesn't seem like a whole lot of work.

I know it will likely never happen, but it's worth a shot, eh .

[Abyss_of_Borg]

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Holy crap I had the same idea a couple nights ago. I was recently playing COD2 and some other FPS games. I realized that every other server was running a custom map. And I thought of how the ranking system was scaring people away from running and playing custom maps because they wouldn't be playing for points. Never thought of the voting and stuff though. But they would receive thousands of submissions. I think it should go from community voting on BF2 sites like this and the best of the best are sent to Dice.

[FFOLKES]

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This topic has been debated since last year. Although it is a great idea I am very doubtful it will ever see fruition from DICE.

I think TotalBF2, BF2s, PlanetBattlefield or another forum should find sponsors, schedule a contest, and host the custom map winner each month on unranked server(s).

[ActiveMatx]

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Wont happen. Because glitches will quickly be found. It would be hard for dice to control it.

Just look at Karkand, which has been out forever. You got your hotel glitch, players disappearing glitch, you can hide in the fountain glitch, etc. Wake island had the glitch too.

People would find exploits, and it would make more work for dice controlling it all.

I personally think its a awesome idea, it just wont work though. I wish Battlefield 2 didnt have any ranking at all.... or no ranked servers.... because, well it makes less variety....

but on the other hand, points and ranks are the only thing which keep people coming back.

Also from a finacial point of view, if this were true, EA would make like a lot less money on their expansion packs.

If you want to play new maps, buy one of the expansions. Its the only way to experience a new map, and get points for playing on it. EA is the biggest money grubbing game corporation in the world. They are the MIcrosoft of the game companies.

[Desertfox]

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The thing is though, If there is too many maps it will be bad.

[=tGA=Harry]

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A lot of glitches, like the Karkand hotel glitch for example, is because the object-static itself are faulty, not an error in map design. These types of mistakes is something DICE has to fix themselves, since it can happen on all maps that has the hotel object in it.

[stu75]

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yeh , come on , why does'nt a MOD move this over
to the feedback section so SOMEONE from DICE can read it

[GMEM]

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I wish FH2 will be ranked!! but i don't think that will happen

[Garabaldi]

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Also from a finacial point of view, if this were true, EA would make like a lot less money on their expansion packs.

Good point, and I wouldn't doubt that is probably the only reason this idea is not feasible.

I do have the Special Forces expansion pack, but again, the maps are repetitive. I'd like to see something like an air only map, an oilrig (both done in the map pack recently released, and both are detailed wonderfully). The only maps which I can see being something different are possbily Operation Harvest and Midnight Sun, even though I have played neither.

[frazzman]

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I wish FH2 will be ranked!! but i don't think that will happen

I belive POE will have its own ranking system so ive heard (could be wrong tho) wouldnt know about FH2 though.

[ConscriptVirus]

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do u really trust custom maps that peple will throw out there? sure maybe some ppl who have experience w/ making maps for mods will be great, but since ive played cs...anda lot of those custom maps are....fun but terribly low quality and dont look that great

[Garabaldi]

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do u really trust custom maps that peple will throw out there? sure maybe some ppl who have experience w/ making maps for mods will be great, but since ive played cs...anda lot of those custom maps are....fun but terribly low quality and dont look that great

I dare you to say that after playing the X-07 Map Pack. Most (I haven't tried all of them yet) of the maps are incredibly detailed. just check out the Oilrig and Street map.

Also, the point is DICE would need ot approve of the map first, and then have it voted on by the community, this means the overall quality of the maps would be above average. It's my experience that modders can usually do better work than paid developers, but that's just me. They would be voted on by the community, again, assuring a cetain degree of quality. DICE could always make some modificcations if any problems are present.

[pYura]

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discussed many times... it wont happen!