kumara4: the chip
Creator: mirddes || First Published: 01/08/2014 || Players: 2 || Size: 38x16
Categories: None
Rating: 4.17 in 6 ratings
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Comments:
mirddes (01/08/2014 01:24am | Edited: 01/08/2014 08:44am):
i hope someone likes it.

the last chip is the same but 1 quarter the number of tiles.

soon i shall think about a kumara that departs from this front and evolves into a larger front
with more of what the map committee wants.
Defuso (01/08/2014 10:49am):
Is there actually still an active map committee?
MorganLeah (01/08/2014 12:59pm):
There is. Well, sort of. The forum being down hurts our activities.
Nyvelion (01/08/2014 03:29pm):
That's unfortunate. I've spent a lot of time since the forums went down looking through
pre #45000 maps to comment on them, and I think I found a few hidden gems in them that the
map committee might like. But there's no forum to post them on! I don't even remember who
is on the map committee anymore... And there's nobody to ask because the only other forms
of communication we've ever had were some meebo room that was instantly filled with spam
from people who haven't played AWBW and just join random meepo rooms, which probably
doesn't exist anymore anyway, and the IRC room which, at the rate it was declining when I
stopped bothering to check it, is probably at an average of 0.0000023 users per day by now.

What's left? Map comments? 2-3 people attempting to make temporary forums that nobody
could find out about?

I am worried. I really like this site. For personal reasons, I've always been impressed by
Amarriner's projects. But it's been slowing down for years now... and a lot of great
people have left, and more will leave now that we can't talk on the forums anymore.

Already I miss reading the amusing jokes in General Chat, the innovation in the
Customization, the interesting puzzles to be solved in Bug Reports... I'm even starting to
miss the tryhards arguing about tier lists in Strategy, the Announcements which haven't
had many posts since 2006, and the idiots pretending they know more than me about Mafia in
Competition.

RIP AWBW. I for one will likely never leave permently short of IRL death, but I've
accepted that the best days are gone...
Mori2 (01/08/2014 05:14pm | Edited: 01/08/2014 05:50pm):
For the record, I'm currently head of the map committee, but it's hard to tell who's still active
on it.

I've been trying to set things up for you guys, I set up another forum here, and grabbed
Hellraider's old Tier List dealie (which arguably needs to be updated a little bit but it's still a
fantastic guideline), there's places to go but no one seems to be messaging me or using em
so I just kind of make stuff and post it and wait. I'm no programmer and no web developer, all
I really know about for helping AWBW is game design and balancing stuff. And that I know
well, but it doesn't help get our forums back online, haha. My powers are limited. I suppose
what I should be doing is sending this URL to essentially every user I can find on the site, but
that's gonna take a day or two.

http://isndev.omgforum.net/c5-advance-wars-by-web
http://isndev.omgforum.net/t517-current-state-of-awbw-january-8th-2014

And I'm still updating the Global League rotation and trying my best to find and make new,
solid maps. As long as I'm around, that particular aspect of the site isn't dead. And I'll try to
get some more public games rolling, but right now life is making it a bit hard to get enough
money to eat and sleep, haha. I know MorganLeah or someone in MC has been doing a lot of
categorization recently, and I appreciate the help.

I guess the biggest thing I could help with is making new map-making guides. We could use
those. I can do those. And I can add as many of the old forum categories as I remember to
that one until someone makes something better, like Bug Reports and Customization.

Also how bout this map
BamboozleIII (01/08/2014 08:07pm):
If there were more community events or something happening, perhaps it would be more lively. Truth
is, now that the forums are gone, and amarriner's own website too, I fear AWBW will randomly perish
as well. This and FEBW (to the best of my knowledge) are amarriner's last functioning sites.
mirddes (01/09/2014 05:37am):
i like map comments: they is the forumz
mirddes (01/09/2014 06:36am):
where did amarriner go?
MorganLeah (01/09/2014 02:29pm):
Time for a comment wall of my own, whee!

First: the IRC is not dead at all. As I type this there's 11 people in it, and it's
usually more in the evenings. There's not always a lot of talking, but it's usually not
hard to start some up.

Second, I do believe that we'll get the forums back at some point. I've heard a bit about
what went wrong, though I don't know the details; something about database corruption. So
it's a doozy, but it should get fixed eventually.

To the best of my knowledge, the active map committee is mori, myself, and headphone. On
that note, while I've been doing a bit of categorization I haven't done a lot, so it's my
guess that headphone is the one mostly behind that. I still want to do that basic
mapmaking guide I was thinking about a while back, but life keeps me busy. We'll see what
happens.

Bout this map: it's atrocious.

Amarriner, I believe, just leads an incredibly busy life doing stuff, and as such does not
prioritize spending any time being on/working on awbw, beyond keeping it running.
mirddes (01/09/2014 05:33pm):
atrociously awesome amirite?
walkerboh01 (01/11/2014 02:33am | Edited: 01/11/2014 02:34am):
Dang it guys. Don't put great comments on terrible maps. Go put them on Mori's maps or
something, that way the fate of these comments aren't in the hands of mires.

Also, genius factory. We should have a map category for otherwise shitty maps that are
excellent only for their comments. Thank me later.
mirddes (01/11/2014 10:15am | Edited: 01/11/2014 10:15am):
half funds nerf naval potential of this map. might as well have no ports at all.

they love me walker; just accept it.
mirddes (03/21/2022 08:27am):
And horray for discord.



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