Originally posted by NHawk
I didn't take it as having anything to do with my map.
Sorry, seeing you posting that made me deduce too much.

What I begin to wonder is how many maps are enough? It already takes a good amount of time to go through the rotation and each added map increases that time.
What Toad said. It's not having many maps, it's about having good maps. And, yes, that would mean leaving some of the ones we have now out of rotation. Honestly, I don't think you'll hear complaints because "Uterus", Baltic or the Beta map have been put out of rotation (of course, I may be plainly wrong about this).
And there is much more involved than just changing terrain textures. Snow and tropical terrains would require the buildings to be retextured and trees would need to be modeled. Skins would also need to be made for snow terrains. These are all "custom objects" in the TE, so unless they were made a standard choice they would be unlikely to ever appear in the MAs.
Remember, the MAs are made to allow everyone to play. Even the lower end systems with slow dial-up connections. A terrain completely customized would be a huge download for dial-up.
Yes, what you said it's true. And I've always wondered why HTC didn't give us standard tiles with desert or snow. Right now, we have people that makes custom tiles and objects, we could use them.
Of course, that would bring up the matter of the file size. I didn' think about dial-up people, my bad, but, honestly, I don't even think it would be such a big issue: one of the biggest map, with a lot of custom objects, Karelia, has a dimension of 27 Mb. A MA small map, should be less than that, that is an affordable download even for dial-up people.
And, better yet, if I didn't misunderstand, there would be no issue at all, if HTC made those tiles and objects standard... it shouldn't be that difficult, as I said, many terrain makers have already built a lot of them, HTC should only review and approve them.
Maybe my perception is wrong and I think that the whole process is a lot less difficult than it actually is, but, if so, please, correct me and explain.
