Arid is confusing and Nex hunters is more experimental than MotW. perhaps put techneticum up there, it has proven to be a winner before.
I really feel that it is a great map presented every week, not a NEW great map presented every week. Id go for Forbidden Zone MotW.
perhaps we should just skip this voting process and take turns in desiding what map to go for. Then you can prepair the text a bit more and really motivate why you think that map should be motw. and also you only would have to be involved in the process every 2nd or third week, giving you more time to decide and do pre-work (interviews, graphics perhaps etc).
This is imo the best sollution so far.
We could also invite "guest MotW pickers" like famous player pick MotW etc.
Forbidden Zone, MOTW? I don't really see what the point of having already known maps as MOTW is. I was under the impression that the MOTW thing was intended to expose unknown maps more.
uhh, I don't like your proposition SP. Imo, it shoule be user-maps only. Maps like forbidden zone already get enough attention and games played on anyway. I think we still have like 30 motw-worthy user maps in the database, no need to worry;)
"I really feel that it is a great map presented every week, not a NEW great map presented every week. Id go for Forbidden Zone MotW. "
Map of the week is still supposed to be a great map. if there are no NEW great maps every week, should we just pick a mediocre one simply because we have no one else new?
No, it really should be a great map in general and there should be no demand that it must be new too. The idea of the site is to promote maps, not to promote NEW maps in particular.
Why don't you just pick maps that were actually submitted in the week of that particular MOTW prior. I think that would be more logical, and in some cases the best one might only be mediocre.
Actually I wanted to do it the same way as snooky. Listoric and SP forced me to change it to what it is now. But no pro maps---we have really enough cool user maps here.
I don't want to let this die. If noone makes a strong agenda for one map, I will chose one myself after some testgames. At least this way the motw has been played a couple of times :)