Who is Author Title?

[Pheidippides]

I was surprised to find today that Bismuth Blues had been submitted as a userlevel in N v2, along with a dozen or so other maps from other authors like Brttrx and lord_day and Yahoozy and LV. Who is posting userlevels under the name Author Title?

[zoasBE]

Apart from that this is my 500th post (congratulate me please) he must be someone, a sad deluded as cris56700 or M4xwell. I really do not understand what the hell happens to the Nv2's community. I saw this guy a while ago in Nv2 userlevels, and thought to make a poll about this. Honestly, all these little guys should be blocked, and Metanet should work much more in a stronger and more secure interface, at least to protect the intellectual property of other users.
While in this new community of Nv2's users there are interesting guys as Fujita Seiko there are also a large amount of them that they are rather disappointing.

[james_S]

Well, the only problem I saw with this was that Nv2 set up isnt good at dealing with many good maps (due to limits on maps shown and can be saved as favs). And of course his own tastes decide which NUMA maps would be shown which isnt fair.

ps. If it werent for some of us publicising NUMA in message maps, a lot of people wouldn't even know about it

[zoasBE]

Well, the only problem I saw with this was that Nv2 set up isnt good at dealing with many good maps (due to limits on maps shown and can be saved as favs). And of course his own tastes decide which NUMA maps would be shown which isnt fair.

So nosensical James.
Sorry, I do not understand that comment dude. I see no relation between Nv2's technical limits (the 25 pages limit and faves limit) with that someone is stealing and publishing maps from other NUMA's authors without permission. Which is the relation between this?

ps. If it werent for some of us publicising NUMA in message maps, a lot of people wouldn't even know about it

If they came to NUMA to not contribute, not to get involved with the community, not to bring anything new, if they came only to steal maps, better that they rested at Nv2.

[james_S]

-I think I didnt explain well enough, I meant the thing I dont like about people bringing maps from NUMA on to Nv2 while giving credit is that NUMA is huge and if people bring too many maps, Nv2 is going to be overwhelmed. New maps by Nv2 users should have priority (-and not get pushed down in the popular section never to be seen again pretty much).

The more people appreciate and gawp at good maps made the better surely

and congrats on your 500th of course ;)

[mintnut]

the real problem here is that v2.0 userlevels is an utter clusterfuck. there is seemingly no moderation, no space for dialog w/r/t specific maps, and maps disappear into the ether as the "recent" and "popular" lists are finite.

this means that there is zero incentive for a friendly, productive map-making community to develop. it's a damn shame.

also, the idea that "message maps" are a thing, yet you're worried that an influx of good maps is going to be a problem is mind-boggling.

EDIT: i think that might come across a bit more aggressive and "us vs. them" than it ought to. you (james) seem like a good egg and i don't want to bully you away from the community, because most of the people here are lovely, and if v2.0 can give the community a boost in activity and map-making then that'd be awesome.

[zoasBE]

EDIT: i think that might come across a bit more aggressive and "us vs. them" than it ought to. you (james) seem like a good egg and i don't want to bully you away from the community, because most of the people here are lovely, and if v2.0 can give the community a boost in activity and map-making then that'd be awesome.

Completely agree with that.
But it is a shame that to some extent it is not. It's awesome and very interesting that N2 has brought new people to the community, certainly. But it seems that is not entirely so. I have not seen any of them involved with NUMA or the rest of the former community (apart from M4xwell who was a plagiator and panstromek in NUMA, that they tried), I just see them lurking NUMA quietly and using it to their advantage without even saying hello. Actually everyone can make use of the community as they more wish, but I think to some extent. And these last things border on the inappropriate. It is true that N2 is not userfriendly, no moderation, no feedback and the database and how to access it or browsing is really pathetic, but that is no excuse for this kind of events. And it is also true that it is a shame that this looks like a 'them against us' or 'us versus them' community. I apologize for that, but would love to see some new members in the community more honest, more humble, more creative, but above all, more friendly and more integrated with the rest of the previous community.

[zoasBE]

Also,

-I think I didnt explain well enough, I meant the thing I dont like about people bringing maps from NUMA on to Nv2 while giving credit is that NUMA is huge and if people bring too many maps, Nv2 is going to be overwhelmed. New maps by Nv2 users should have priority (-and not get pushed down in the popular section never to be seen again pretty much).

The more people appreciate and gawp at good maps made the better surely

and congrats on your 500th of course ;)

I think I've already said that, it is just as simple as dowloading Nv1.4 or NReality_6g2, creating an user and/or a NUMA account and start to enjoy.

EDIT: I really can not understand why these new users are so extremely averse to this. Even more and when NReality is the best thing that Metanet has ever known, the best of the original Nv1.4, the classic 500 in-game maps, 10 new columns full of user levels for a grand total of 1000 in-game maps, plus competitiveness, a great engine, leaderboards, quick loading of maps by NUMA ID, new and interesting features, multiple game modes, and mods, many mods. I really do not understand.

[Pheidippides]

I really can not understand why these new users are so extremely averse to this.

As I gather from one of Author Title's maps, people have trouble playing v1.4 without lag on newer machines. Maybe that's part of the disconnect.

[james_S]

lag problem is just the tip of the ice berg. (it also doesnt help that in N1.4 the whole map has to reload when you restart). But before I talk about n1.4, I want to say that NUMA is awesome and should keep its popularity, I actually intend to publish some more of my Nv2 maps that people might find interesting whether they work in Nv1.4 or not -I'll just post a link with it. I also really suggest that N1.4 mappers should have a go at playing around with the extra possibilities that Nv2 offers.

Re: to Zoasbe about N1.4:
Playing the 1000 metanet levels feels kind of lonely for me sometimes and the competition there is mostly just pros perfecting runs which are hard to reach unless you also are into that and that talented heh. I think the main thing to want is to be able to play an interesting map with some buzzing competition.
N1.4 offers less potential for mappers (most of the 'bugs' look stupid) to make an interesting map (of course excluding unreality mods). And the maps have a better look in Nv2 because the ninja is smooth and the player can enlarge the map to either medium size or full screen (N2 can be stretched to a size in between full screen and normal, but it hasnt got a button for it, you just have to remember the size or have a reference point on your desktop).
And a lot of the things mappers can create are unnecessarily difficult for players to traverse (you cant even balance on gates etc) -the result being an intermediate player in Nv2 can do some pretty cool stunts while in N1.4 they'd just die and have to wait for the whole map to reload.

[james_S]

actually I dont know why I said all that. The lagging bit is enough to kill it. It lags on new windows when you play a map for a while (keep reloading a map) -and I just had kind of a painful experience trying a numa map I liked (even though i had sound disabled on flash player etc). I think there'll be more author titles eventually.

[james_S]

er what de heck?? there's an Author title 2 already look.

btw hello you!!!