Map or Mod contest built in game webpage/downloader

Retrofraction · November 2010

<div class="IPBDescription">menus / mods</div>What would be neet if there was community page built into the game that allowed you to upload maps and mods to a community server then you could look through all the maps people have made and search though them. Then as the developers can have a monthly contest and pick their favorite map and give a special gift to that person and work with them to make their map one of the "official maps"

Now obviously you could do that with game mods and character mods, since it is on the page in the game it would automatically download the mods, maps, and characters to the right spot in you computer so then you do not have to spend time looking for hidden folders.

It would almost be like the mii online channel on the wii, in which people can search for specific characters they want and rate the characters.

Now obviously you would have to get servers and space to save all the uploads, but I think this would encourage people to want to make maps and mods and organize it in a way that it would be easy to find them without having to leave the game.

Retrofraction · November 2010

now obviously you would not have to do contest you could literally just have an in game cite to organize all the mods and distrobute them without having to go download them yourself and not have to find the folders and such.

In a way its like making a facebook of game mod makers, and if you guys actually looked into this I feel it might be the edge to put the game into a new cult classic.

Yes that is what internet fourms are for, but this would be more convient and you be able to find more tallented people out there with mods that are usefull and hire some of them and get a bigger and better staff while getting all the little people interested into making games go crazy with trying to create the most popular mods.

Now this does happen on popular mod sites and Unreal, but what if the developers of a game were host contest year round and it was determend by how much the "consumers" actually valued their creations and not by a pannel of judges or a third party site that not all of the people that play the game normaly use, thus making their satistical data flawed.

You could also link this site to facebook and create some connections like in SC2.

Next since all the mods are on the site in the game client it should be simple to make a mass downloading cliente and tell it where to put the files to make modding simple and easy for people that do not want to get their hands dirty.

I'll post some graphical stuff and show how you could orginaze the site, but if you were able to get this feature in the game it would possibly push NS2 to be the next big idea since lobby system match making on PC. (AKA quake 2)

Retrofraction · November 2010

Map or Mod contest built in game webpage/downloader

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