Forum thread for xmasjam2020
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Unregistered user “onetruepurple” posted:
Reiterating my argument from akm1: I’d very gladly give this a 9/10 instead, if given the opportunity, as this is a very good release but not on the same level as something like Honey or Rubicon 2, IMO.
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Unregistered user “Markie” posted:
@otp
Granularity in an aggregated ratings system is universally a bad idea. A 3/5 can mean something completely different from one person to another.
There’s a reason why most websites have moved to a thumbs up/down system.
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Unregistered user “onetruepurple” posted:
Well, I don’t know about “most websites”. I know that YouTube moved to thumbs up/thumbs down because 5 stars and 1 stars were the vast majority of ratings left. I’m making a safe assumption that other enterprises followed suit for a similar reason (or for none).
And even still, YouTube does sometimes bring up a prompt with a request to rate a video on a 1-5 scale, for whatever algorithmical reason.
Having administrated https://www.jazz2online.com/ for almost 15 years and counting, I’m aware that increasing rating granularity tends to bring diminishing results over time, and that it’s a pointless experience to try and reverse-quantify the actual meaning of ratings like 7.3 and 7.4, or 82% and 83%.
There is probably also an argument to be had that granularity in the lower half of the range serves no purpose - you probably don’t need 6 different ways to say “I didn’t like this map”.
However, my point still stands - there’s currently 269 uploads on Quaddicted with a 5/5 rating, from my own experience I can tell that there’s still a wide variance of quality between all of those, which is not appropiately reflected by the rating. This also makes the rating an useless metric for the average end user who will often want to check only the very best of the best.
And inversely, this would also mean the people who weren’t as fond of Ter Shibboleth didn’t have to place it in the “worst possible rating” tier alongside all the fullbright, unexitable boxmaps from 1997.
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Unregistered user “Spirit” posted:
I’d suggest you take these thoughts into a forum thread? I have some input on this but won’t post it hidden in a discussion thread of a release.
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Unregistered user “GunSgtHighway” posted:
Its great!
Thank you for this peace of work. The graphics are AAA and the gameplay is challenging.
Best wishes Gunny Highway
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Unregistered user “edGeLoRD” posted:
Great maps. Show completed when you finish so you won’t be playing levels twice.
Great Christmas present in a wack year. Do a new years/2020 pack!
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Unregistered user “Alex” posted:
Hi, I’m using the mark_v engine and in the menu when I try to view the maps of Arcane Dimensions (from the “Levels” option) the engine crashes and the error message “Can’t open ad_rock1” is displayed. I looked and “ad_rock1” isn’t among the maps. Same error with the Xmasjam2020 pack. Can somebody help me fix this?
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Unregistered user “Bal” posted:
Alex, Mark V’s level menu just doesn’t seem to work with AD as it’s trying to parse some bsp files it shouldn’t. Unfortunately there’s no fix unless you want to fix Mark V, just use the map command in the console or use the start maps like in other engines.
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