Community Map Vote

[konsta]

Really? V4B1? You people are freaking kidding me, there was a good reason why it failed and we decided to have a map change, it was terribly optimized, don't get me wrong, I love the map but at least I acknowledge and recognize the flaws of it. There's no way we should go back, I want to play with a decent FPS. The only way to fix this issue is to completely optimize the map and perhaps even redo the map which the development team requires different skills and different people, something that is beyond Pollux's capabilities. He cannot code, fix and update everything, he has some limits like any other human being. Remember that Gmod is a very old game with flaws that doesn't even use more than one core, the gamemode of CityRP certainly doesn't make it better, it's terrible.

I'm requesting Soulripper and SA to think carefully about it, listening to the community is great and everyone admires the idea of democracy in FL but it has some flaws. What if the community wants to add an RPG or something even worse? Would you still listen to the community and add something stupid?

Let's compare the community to a ship vessel, if you were going on a sea voyage, who would you ideally want deciding who was in charge of the vessel, just anyone, or people educated in the rules and demands of seafaring?

The staff team gives the community way too much power than it should have.

I feel like FL is going to have a map change every 2 months.

How do you know exactly what each of the developer's capabilities are? How are you able to say with certainty what Pollox's skills are and aren't? 

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Well, do we have an experienced person in the development who has experience in making maps, editing them and knows all the demands for the editor? I don't think so. If I'm wrong, that will be great, let the developer optimize V4B1 for us and I hope it won't take more than 1 month.

Pollux said "leave that part to me" but I doubt he can even optimize the map, it's not easy.


Editing a map is a complete pain in the ass because of the editor, and the engine limits doesn't make it any better.

Optimizing a map can be hard for a few reasons, Gmod will generally give you bad FPS when under pressure because it doesn't really support more than one core. 

Fixing optimized maps is going to be difficult if the map is very open, as the way the engine works pretty much renders everything unless you use area portals but then it might look funky. The other difficult thing might be obtaining the .vmf file of the map, which contains everything about the map pre-compilation. If you try to de-compile a map you might run into the issues of brushes or entities not being where they should as well as possibly loosing much of the optimization done by the original creator. If you de-compile a map you also need to run around and find all the missing models and textures and chuck them on your model/material folder.