OMG - This again (Map Editor)

[battlezoby]

One of the most annoying thing I've seen in game map editors is the inability to copy maps.

You make a map, you edit it, and when you're done, you're done.

Other games let you edit a map after you submit, which is more than I've been able to do so far...

But the important thing is to COPY MAPS and then make new copies. So you can create a really cool them, and then use the elements in new maps instead of starting over again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and I'm not really sure how to described it, but you know, a whole bunch of times.

For example, you could make a pretty cool track, and keep changing the artwork or theme.

Or you copy make really cool artwork and/or themes, and then completely change the path from easy to hard with only a few changes to appearence. But so far, all I know how to do is to START ALL OVER AGAIN.

Am I missing something?

Is there a way to copy a map and then edit both copies into different maps (and then make more copies, etcetera?)

Thanks.

Disclaimer: I assume this is appropriate for both "General Discussion" and "Bugs". If there's some reason I'm wrong, Moderators, please just delete one copy instead of banning me. I'm trying to helpful. Thanks.

The "General Discussion" copy is post to solicit feedback from the community, while the "bugs" copy to inform the developers - two completely seperate functions.

[VJFranzK]

+1 Yes, you may want to revise things. You could also allow Remixes!

HELP: How do I make another Map, after I finished my first?
The Create button seems to only want to edit what I already did.

this User Interface needs work, please!

[SlorkTheShark]

its also just way too limited and finicky.

[Ninja Zyborg]

not entirely sure what this is asking, maybe you want to have more than one saved map?
I do agree on that.

Though this definitely wouldn't belong in a bugs section, since that's for the game functioning in unintended ways (though there isn't even a bugs section here, so idk where you put it)

Originally posted by DontBodyYaSelf:

its also just way too limited and finicky.

Do you know how hard things like this are? This is way less limited than I was expecting. In what way is it too limiting for you?

[VJFranzK]

Originally posted by Ninja Zyborg:

not entirely sure what this is asking, maybe you want to have more than one saved map?

OP wants to be able to make a Map, and then copy that Map - probably to change things about it? But you could also make a new version, or season of it. (As they did with "Dark Path" just now.)

I am still trying to figure out: How do I make more than one map, without erasing the first? It's not obvious how to do it

[battlezoby]

Actually, in "Good Map Makers" unlike this one, you can make a map many times the size of the screen. You can create lots of "assests", at a minimum a bunch of stuff in groups that go together to make new maps faster. Here, you just have to start from scratch every single time.

Not being able to edit after you're done is much worse. You make some beautiful map, testing on mode "X", and the realize the something weird makes it way too hard or too easy on some other mode, use using a different build. Easy to fix: Just delete/destroy the entire thing and start over, and hope it doesn't happen again.

[TheGoldNinja101]

-1 because someone could steal your creation and say that it's theirs. Copycats aren't allowed and would've been an issue.

[FirstTie70]

Originally posted by TheGoldNinja101:

-1 because someone could steal your creation and say that it's theirs. Copycats aren't allowed and would've been an issue.

He probably meant that you can copy YOUR OWN map so you can reskin or have a template

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by FirstTie70:

Originally posted by TheGoldNinja101:

-1 because someone could steal your creation and say that it's theirs. Copycats aren't allowed and would've been an issue.

He probably meant that you can copy YOUR OWN map so you can reskin or have a template

Yes, of I course I did.

But if you don't want people stealing your stuff, you shouldn't be using Microsoft.
PERIOD! Most games also have terms and conditions that says they own your maps and you don't, so NK could probably sell your map for money and you can't.

That's based on most over games I've played, Blizzard was the first one to really annoy me that way and now they are Microsoft. Window-11 is pretty upfront with saying that if you do pretty much anything without your computer, they get steal did and do whatever they want with it.

Back when Microsoft Hotmail was really popular, I spent a long time looking through thieir TOS. It was loaded with stuff that says "We can do <something reasonable>, <similar>, or <something shade> or <good reasons> or <other any reasons>.

I'm paragraphs heavily, but the catch is the you can take out the "or" and reduce it to "We can do <something shady> whenever any why-ever we want to. (<any other reason>).

Once I edited does the Hotmail terms, it said the copy Copy your email, EDIT IT, and then give it anyone anywhere if it was in the interest of litterally ANYONE!

So if you wrote "I miss you honey, see you soon", their TOS said they could take a copy, EDIT IT (changing it to "Death to Capitalism - I will blow up government builds now" and then publish it. It did say "reasonably edit", it said "edit". And if someone in the government wants more funding, it's in their interest to make it seem like there's a need for mode anti-terrorism spending.

Again, I did read the BTD6 terms, but I'd be more suprised if they didn't reserve those right than if they did. If they did, Steam probably has claimed something like that, and if not, Windows-11 CERTAIN HAS. And it'll be what, about 30 months before Steam probably breaks Window-10 making you move to Win-11 so you don't own anything on your computer.

Will all of Microsoft Data Gathering and Spyware and not EXPLICIT AI's, it seems like they're using your computer more than you are.