Map year tags

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Map year tags

Adambean 13 Sep 2020 09:22

Can I get a solid answer on map year tags? There appears to be difference in opinion particularly among myself, @cold_blood3d, @w00tguy123, and @Dynamte.

Particularly for conversions. Look at the 6 maps I've converted with the TFC tag.

• Artifact: Originally built in 2003, converted to SC in 2020
• The Game (Kristine Edition): Originally built in 2001, converted to SC in 2020
• The Game 2 (Kristine Edition): Originally built in 2002, converted to SC in 2020
• The Climb 1: Originally built in 2003, converted to SC in 2019
• The Climb 2: Originally built in 2003, converted to SC in 2019
• The Climb 3: Originally built in 2010, converted to SC in 2019

There appears to be flip flopping going on with the year tag. I first thought that the year of conversion release should be used, but that got changed to the year of original build for The Climb maps, which is fine by me. Going by year of original build appears to follow suit with all other TFC ports with the exception of The Cube, which I know was originally 2004 or close to that, not 2009.

I don't really care which way around it is. Just looking for consistency. — Right now the consistent way would be to use the original build year, though if that's wrong let's update all conversions to get consistent on year of conversion and continue from there.

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Thanks,

Adam Reece.

Re: Map year tags

Garompa 13 Sep 2020 17:30

I think the original build date, not conversion date, would be best. Just to show off how ancient the things are and then look in the mirror and realise you too are ancient, then go cry in the corner

Re: Map year tags

Outerbeast 13 Sep 2020 19:19

I'd prefer it if the map was tagged the year the map was built and not when published but I've been told to tag them for the latter reason so I've just stuck with it, but I make sure to include both dates of when the original mod was released and the date that the conversion was published at the top of the page

Re: Map year tags

Adambean 13 Sep 2020 23:38

Thanks for your feedback.

I've been using the original build date in the tag, but specify in the conversion changelog at the bottom of the page the date I published (that version of) the conversion.

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Thanks,

Adam Reece.

Re: Map year tags

w00tguy123 15 Sep 2020 09:11

I'm also in favor of using the creation date instead of the port/ripent date. Using the port date implies to me that it's something no one has ever seen before. The map showing in the "Recent additions" list is enough to indicate that it's something new to try.

It'd be nice to have a separate feed for map updates, too. I guess that'd be complicated to do in wikidot, and probably why multiple year tags are sometimes used.

Last edited on 15 Sep 2020 09:16 by w00tguy123 Show more

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