M&M Councillor and Map Vault Cleanse

[speed2]

Yesterday I applied for the last empty councillor position, you can find my thoughts, ideas and plans for the future there:

The Map and Mod councillor position

Today 18.12. there's scheduled server update that will go with a moderator client update as well. One of the features will be to unrate and hide maps from the vault. It will be available for moderators right now as it was the easiest way of implementing it right now.

With that I'd like to apply for the map and mod coucillor position. I wanted to improve the content of the vault for a long time already, since the first ideas of the council was presented. And with this update I will be able to start doing so.

As you know the vault is flooded with broken versions of failed update attemps or bad versioning of the same map. Hiding maps like that will be a good start. Also there are still some "cheat" maps with eneven reclaim.

Why am I the right one for the positions?
I know a lot aboout both maps and mods. I've created couple of maps myself, rewrote the map making wiki tutorials to make it more accessible for others, put together map tools with proper guide on how to install them and with solving common problems. I know a lot about the official map editor and how to use it. I'm also active on the mapping subforum, helping other with their problems with maps or the editor and giving feedback on how to improve their maps. Lately Im helping ozonex to tune up his new FAF map editor as well.

When it comes to mods I have quite an experience with them as well. Starting with maintaining and improving the Coop mod for 2 years now, then contributing to the game code and writing several small test mods for the game.

Other things to do is to improve communication between everyone who wants to work either on maps or mods. I've already set up #maps channel on slack for the mappers. But since we don't have a slack history anymore it will probably get moved to the Discord. Similar thing would be good to make for modders as well. In near future I plan to improve the guides on modding, doing some small example mods available together with some nice documentation and wiki guides.

I hope this sums up my will to help improving things in this area. I wasn't waiting for any official position to do already quite a lot of things, but with the upcoming ability to clean the vaults I think it would be best to have a officially assigned (since there as a plan for this position). So if you think Im suitable for the position I'd be happy to take it.

speed2

[Brutus5000]

I vote for speed2 as vault janitor

[Mad`Mozart]

I dont trust this guy

[speed2]

I dont trust this guy

I'd welcome if you could be constructive for a change and said your reasons why you think I'm not good for this position.

[Morax]

Looking forward to a vault that is not littered with poor content.

Good luck in your new role and hope it improves things as planned.

[Cuddles]

So it might be obvious, why do we need a councillor position to clean up vaults, can't any mod do it?

[TheKoopa]

So are we having elections or

[speed2]

So it might be obvious, why do we need a councillor position to clean up vaults, can't any mod do it?

You could ask the same question about other councillors as well. But at the end you need someone who will make decisions.

Also this was one of the suggested spots. Now that we have first tools I think it would be good to fill it finally to show that things are happening.

So are we having elections or

Right now it doesn't look like elections, I dont know if there are any candidates or if anyone else asked for the position.

Since I was doing quite a lot of relased things already, I decided to ask for this position now that I have a tools as well.

[Farmsletje]

I'm happy as long as someone is happy to clean up the trash in the map vault :3

incoming trash joke about eridani

[jackherer]

I have one objection, buy yourself a new mic, you cant be a faf councilor if you dont have a decent mic