Map Hosting Plans
New Reply
If you were logged in you would gain 3 XP for posting a reply.
Support Nibbits by linking to us:
Your
StarCraft Resource
Map Hosting Plans
More from Nibbits: WarCraft 3 Maps | StarCraft Maps | StarCraft 2 Maps | Gamer Configs
Contact | Advertising | About | Pending Changes from Users | Become an Affiliate | Database Statistics | Terms of Use | Twitter | API Documentation
Ok so map hosting is working great, congrats to us, now we want to make it amazing.
I wanted to throw out a quick plan for what we're going to be doing with the Nibbits map hosting bots, and the site.
Right now the bots can rotate maps, however, theres only one game in the lobby at a time, per bot. My plan is to run 10 bots on USWest, and USEast, each will host one of the top 10 maps on Nibbits, and they will only host that.
Going beyond this, we will also be integrating accounts on Nibbits with Battle.net accounts. This will let you verify your account with one of the bots, and have it linked with your account on the website.
Once this is done, we're going to be showing stats of which maps you play, how often you play them, and how often you get your ass kicked ;)
Even more so, we want to move beyond just map hosting, but more statistics for maps to improve our ranking algorithms. We're currently looking into watching Battle.net actively for games, and tracking how often a map is hosted, as well as being able to automatically submit maps which are hosted to the website.
Anyways, I will have more on this in a few weeks. Thanks for the continued support on Nibbits!
Out of curiosity I was wondering if you had noticed the bots having some performance issues lately? It seems like they've been a tad spiky, which can be a bit dangerous during Enfos.
Also, is there a way for people to earn some commands such as !swap and !end?
what could possibly be !swap and !end?
!swap allows them to rotate players in the lobby.
!end ends games to keep the bot from continuing on because it's over but there are AFK's/etc.
No reason to use !end, the bot has yet to fill up (that I've noticed). !swap is useful, but I'm very hesitant to give out any kind of moderation abilities on the bot.
and how about hosted projects?... does the bot ever host those maps?... coz it would be interesting for those maps to be known to more people dont you think?
Understandable. Would it be possible to have bots for Enfos at least with intended difficulties? Or perhaps 1 host a no-dl? The only reason I say this is that playing it on -easy -extrabounty 5 -sharedbounty is terribly dull for repeat players.
What about new maps?
I plan to automate the map hosting, but that's still going to take some time. Since hosted projects include maps, as long as those maps are "popular" they will get hosted.
Right now the current plan will be to update the popular maps each day, and that means any map that makes it to the popular stage, will get hosted for at least 24 hours.
It comes to the point that people do not try out new maps exclusively but get addicted to popular maps, that means new maps might not get the chance ;(. That's what I mean
Sometimes that is true, but the ranking system on Nibbits is designed to give new maps a benefit. So far it seems to be working decently but I might increase it a bit more.
I will erge you to try the maps you feel has the most rights ... To prevent cheats or otherwise mass download hacks
http://www.nibbits.com/wc3/maps/view/125238/ My Map blasted the top 10, click the link
Please reply
Can you update the Civ Wars bot? It is still hosting 2.17b and 2.18 was finally released.
Will try to get this updated tomorrow :)
what is progress?
Civ wars is now updated on the bot.
As of right now all development towards the bot is on hold. I'm waiting to see if Blizzard takes steps to ban them before investing more time into it (as it's quite a bit of effort to do what I want to do).
I can understand your effort, If 100 map makers come saying , hey my map went top 10 .. oh well yea I can understand =)