MyMap was developed by, basically, a rogue HC member (me), a great mapmaker without an agenda beyond making great maps (the illustrious XieC) a complete AGCEEP outsider (Agung pasha) and our merry band of madmen and contributors.
Early on I had to make the decision of either:
a: Going with the consensus-driven approach of the AGCEEP, and finish MyMap sometime in 2009 or
b: Completely going off and doing my own thing, consensus be damned.
I never asked the AGCEEP to accept MyMap, and I don't blame them for not accepting it. It did sort of mark the crossroads for us, which is kind of ironic since I was one of the two people who put AGCEEP together in the first place, but then again it's kind of in character since I was the one who enabled the AGC to get off the ground marking the initial break with the EEP.
Basically speaking, MyMap was how the MyMap guys wanted it. The same way WATK is how Kasperus wanted it. The AGCEEP guys, a lot of them REALLY didn't want it the way me OR Kasperus did it. They wanted it the way THEY wanted it.
The thing is, I had been modding here long enough to know that, doing things the correct, community driven, peer reviewed way takes 5x as long as it does just doing it the way you think it should be done. Making a new map is a HUGE undertaking, and I wanted to finish sometime that year. So I just up and did it.
AGCEEP will be roughly were MyMap was in 2005 in about a year and a half or so, by my math. It's harder to do, the way they are doing it, so there's no sense criticizing them.
By the way, I inherited my title around the time this thread started, due to the "horrible things I was doing to the map, the community, and their national pride".
Early on I had to make the decision of either:
a: Going with the consensus-driven approach of the AGCEEP, and finish MyMap sometime in 2009 or
b: Completely going off and doing my own thing, consensus be damned.
I never asked the AGCEEP to accept MyMap, and I don't blame them for not accepting it. It did sort of mark the crossroads for us, which is kind of ironic since I was one of the two people who put AGCEEP together in the first place, but then again it's kind of in character since I was the one who enabled the AGC to get off the ground marking the initial break with the EEP.
Basically speaking, MyMap was how the MyMap guys wanted it. The same way WATK is how Kasperus wanted it. The AGCEEP guys, a lot of them REALLY didn't want it the way me OR Kasperus did it. They wanted it the way THEY wanted it.
The thing is, I had been modding here long enough to know that, doing things the correct, community driven, peer reviewed way takes 5x as long as it does just doing it the way you think it should be done. Making a new map is a HUGE undertaking, and I wanted to finish sometime that year. So I just up and did it.
AGCEEP will be roughly were MyMap was in 2005 in about a year and a half or so, by my math. It's harder to do, the way they are doing it, so there's no sense criticizing them.
By the way, I inherited my title around the time this thread started, due to the "horrible things I was doing to the map, the community, and their national pride".