Edit: Starcraft II will be released on July 27th, it's official! (Source)
Hey all,
As you probably noticed, sc2mapster is going really well and we are really proud of what you all did so far with the Galaxy Editor. We want to build a strong community of mappers and give you all the resources you need. To achieve that goal we just released a new curse portal for Starcraft II: a fully searchable map database.
You may be confused about why two separate websites. Developers and players do not need the same things.
- On one side we want map makers to have an efficient environment full of coder things like map repositories, forums were you can talk about techy stuff and so on. This is the goal of sc2mapster.
- On the other side, players want to see what are the most downloaded maps, and how they are being rated or find a special one. This is going to be on sc2.curse.com.
In order for your map to appear on Curse.com, you just have to mark your map as "Released", nothing more.
I hope this will help you either find or spread maps! Keep up the good work!
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Posted May 5, 2010Actually, Curse.com uses a Bayesian weighting system for its ratings. This means maps or addons with lower than average number of ratings will have their ratings pulled toward the average rating value. I'd assume that the ratings showing as about a 4 probably have a single rating of a 5, which is being pulled down toward the average. This is done in order to stop projects with a single rating from automatically jumping to the top.
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Posted May 4, 2010There are really few people rating maps. Therefore the ones who are rating have a huge effect on the map rating.
If you only have a 5/5 rating, it will have an average of 5 and will be displayed first. We can put some minimum threeshold to avoid that but there will still be troubles. Also, rating is a really vague notion. Everyone does not evaluate the same way, so a 4 might be a good rate for someone and average for another one.
The download count is really relevant, the most things are 99% of the time of great quality. We've been using that system for 5 year in WoW Addons and it worked really well. We tweaked it to use the download count of the last 24 hours :)
If you have suggestion to improve the system, please let us know.
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Posted May 4, 2010weird my map isn't up.
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Posted May 4, 2010I'll say it again: download counts are BAD.
BAD. BAD. BAD.
You want players to pick maps based on their rating, not their downloads. This only causes popular maps to become even more popular and unpopular ones to never get off the ground.
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Posted May 3, 2010We have no idea how the publishing system will work. We will see how it will evolve when it comes.
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Posted May 3, 2010Can you elaborate a bit more on how this will be used as soon as the publishing system goes up?
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Posted May 3, 2010Nice! Great idea of keeping development and released maps on separate listings.
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Posted May 3, 2010SWEET! My SC1 campaign is up there! COOL! XD
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Posted Apr 27, 2010Nice work.
Is http://sc2.curse.com/downloads/sc2-maps/default.aspx down though?
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Posted Apr 27, 20101) The download counter is curse.com only. We may integrate the sc2mapster one later.
2) We are heavily caching things for the release so we don't get insta-killed by the number of visitors. Your map should be added within the next minutes / hours.
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Posted Apr 27, 2010We don't know yet how Blizzard is going to do their Battle.net system. If there is a need for the client, we will update it to let you download the latest release of your maps :)
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Posted Apr 27, 2010My map is release, but it don't appear on curse :'(
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Posted Apr 27, 2010Is this going to work with the curse client?