A possible idea for Zorchenhimer.

[ril3s16]

So i was thinking about this and thought,
What if you could sort the maps by who made that specific map.
Like a category of the persons name. If you click on their name, a list of all the maps made by them will show up.

Does this sound like a possible idea?

[Eiii]

Nope. Not with the current menu system, at least.

[ril3s16]

dang.
i was really hoping to see that.
Zorchenhimer or jitspoe, think you guys could make this work?

[Eiii]

Even if you could 'make it work', there's no guarantee that a mapmaker would have signed their maps in the same way each time, let alone signed them at all.

[ril3s16]

Ya true.
But still I would lovee to see who made what map.

[Zorchenhimer]

I had this idea, or rather some thing similar.  I would love to be able to implement it, however I cannot with the current system.  It would require some sort of tagging system for the maps (similar to that of mp3's) and a more functional (fixed) variable system.

[ril3s16]

Yeah i know exactly what you mean.
Well if its ever possible, try to make it happen.
other than that. Do you have any current projects i could peek on?

[Zorchenhimer]

I've got a few things I'm thinking of adding.  I put them in this post.

[ril3s16]

Any pics?

[Zorchenhimer]

Not off hand.  Sorry.

[y00tz]

It would require some sort of tagging system for the maps

Someone needs to request the 'author tag' idea again so we can vote for it.

[Foxhound]

This seems impractical.

I like the map for the map not the Creator

(beat Garret to the post)

[Garrett]

Beat me to what post?
EDIT:  Never mind, it was another pointless flame.  My bad.

[Zorchenhimer]

This seems impractical.

I beg to differ.  This would allow me to do some stuff much easier and more accurate.  You know how I have the game types on the left side of my maps menu, Where you click a game mode and it only lists maps that game mode?  This would make those menus much more easy to write, and much more accurate as to which maps you have (the way those are implemented is not very practical).

[sk89q]

Well, I wrote an algorithm to pick out author names from title fields for the map database. From my experience, it got it relatively right 90-95% of the time (I ran it through my entire map collection at the time). That, and the map database already has the information to begin with.

[eradicator]

even though its a no, shouldn't this go in feature vote?

[i_am_a_pirate]

Maybe, but it's sort of something that zorch would implement, not jits. The feature vote is (I think) a priority list for jits to implement. Zorch is the guy that you would want to go to for menus.

EDIT

Re-read the topic: It should go on feature vote under a new map 'tagging' system to show Mapper, name, date, etc. (like MP3s)

This could get really big if implemented...

[Zorchenhimer]

Exactly.  Jits needs to put the functionality there so I can do something with it.