Need Ideas - Spotlight / Roundup Suggestion System
Title says it all. I am looking for some sort of easy to use method for the community to suggest maps to be highlited as a Community Spotlight, or included in the weekly Community Roundup. Right now we have a semi automated process, using some MySQL magic to look at trending maps. But having some sort of human feedback system would be preferable to using magic queries to guess at what maps are good.
An email address? Suggestion box? "Suggest as Spotlight" button on the download page? Sticky thread to post in? Let us know your ideas, I would love to setup a new system for this.
Thanks.
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I like the idea of a suggest as Spotlight button. If the map is really good hopefully a number of people will go back to the page to click it.
I am going to look into the viability of that when I start upgrading/modifying the DLDB overall. Unfortunately, as it requires modifying phpBB itself, it seems the most difficult to add.
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I agree with chickenmobile, a spotlight button should be placed somewhere. Maybe near the "Rate this map" when at the download map part. But I think there ought to be a certain number of people to press it before it appears on the spotlight. Maybe 20, 30, 40? I don't know just thinking out load here.
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[spoiler]Maps:
Revenge of the Angry Turrets
Capture the Cube [Co-op]
Capture the Cube 2 [Co-op]
TPWEGTH Sample Map
Aperture Aquatic Testing Center
Aperture Aquatic Testing Center 2
Aperture Time Testing Center
ML's Halloween Trick - 1000 downloads!
ML's Halloween Treat
ML's Combination - 1000 downloads!
ML's Jailbreak Labyrinth
ML's Tricky Teamwork [Co-op]
WIP:
"Capture the Cube 3"
Workshop Maps Link: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198008890579/myworkshopfiles/[/spoiler]
It won't automatically appear on the spotlight, it will just gather data for us to look at later.
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A rating system would def help. Or maybe a button that says "Would you recommend this map?"
I think that there is already a rating system, do you mean one for the spotlight button?
My Work
[spoiler]Maps:
Revenge of the Angry Turrets
Capture the Cube [Co-op]
Capture the Cube 2 [Co-op]
TPWEGTH Sample Map
Aperture Aquatic Testing Center
Aperture Aquatic Testing Center 2
Aperture Time Testing Center
ML's Halloween Trick - 1000 downloads!
ML's Halloween Treat
ML's Combination - 1000 downloads!
ML's Jailbreak Labyrinth
ML's Tricky Teamwork [Co-op]
WIP:
"Capture the Cube 3"
Workshop Maps Link: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198008890579/myworkshopfiles/[/spoiler]
If you noticed that not many people actually rate maps after they play them and even less comment on the page to leave feedback. So the fact that over 20 people would click the 'suggest to spotlight' button is a little ridiculous.
msleeper did set up a sort of automated rating system that shows the most clicked/downloaded map, however she was saying that we needed human input as the automated download recorder doesn't really tell what map is good or is deserving on a spotlight.
Admin, you might want to talk to the people who play every custom map out there (djinndrache, coopcrowd, xdiesp etc.) and ask their opinion on who deserves to have the spotlight. Or even have their votes preferred over normal voters if you are going to have a 'spotlight suggestion' button.
Is it possible gather the top 10 maps that were released in the week according to downloads and create a poll topic, and we vote on that poll and the winner gets spotlight?
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There needs to be encouragement to rate a map.
Is it possible for map makers to apply a type of calculation that apears at the end of the map and asks the user to submit their performance.
This performance scenario could encoarage map makers to aim for a specific type of calculation relating to dificulty etc, and in vice versa, registering this by the user could keep a taly of their performance over a period of time, so you have rated authors, rated maps, and rated users.
Something like : 38 - 4 - 72
First number is number Time it took to complete the map, 2nd - number of time killed to complete, 3rd - number of portals used.
Maybe other scenrios could be considered along with a rating out of 5 submitted by the user as an overall rating.