Girl_Power wrote:Everyone has different reasons for why they keep their maps closed. I prefer to keep most of my maps closed because there have been times when people copy my maps for their own benefits while my maps were open-sourced. I do have some maps open-sourced and those are my testing maps. I keep all of my testing maps open-sourced so others can learn about the trigger functions and other things in the map if they wish. If someone truly wants to learn more about trigger functions, the forum is always available and they can ask others to open-source their maps.
Girl_Power wrote:I'm sure that if Paul308 decides to open-source his base map again, there would be multiple copies of it.
The process of copying a map in my scenario won't be possible at all, I said you are unable to copy and paste anything from said map, making the stealing process very hard to come up. You'll basically have to ''copy'' every single object one by one and write every trigger from scracth if you wish to steal in this scenario, do you think someone would bother with all that work just so his map gets reported and ragevoted for copying?
Besides, if people are able to copy someone's entire work without punishment, that's pretty much a problem with the moderation system, not the feature itself. I assure you that if more people get punished for said action, it won't be an issue at all. Should we disable chat entirely just because a couple of idiots say the n word, or should we ban the people that use said word?
Girl_Power wrote:If someone truly wants to learn more about trigger functions, the forum is always available
My forum post regarding trigger functions questions is still left unanswered after weeks.
So, what's better?
1_ making a forum post that may be answered after 1 day and not completely adressed
or
2_ almost instantly find out the answer yourself by checking out a map that has said function implemented.
I think it's easy to assume which method is far more effective and helpful.
Girl_Power wrote:and they can ask others to open-source their maps.
And if said person is inactive for months/forever or doesn't want to?
Girl_Power wrote:And besides, maybe their map has secret triggers and regions where they don't want others to know, such as the famous Paul308-base design.
That's a good reason; However, paulbase is awful game design so I wouldn't even care if it suffers because of it either way.
Girl_Power wrote:If someone decides to close their map source or refuse to open source their map when someone asks, respect their decision.
I will never respect someone that has such backwards mentality, ever. I've seen this group of people on other games, for example there's someone that made a tool to mod a game and left his tool close-sourced because of ''muh copyright'', gatekeeping the people that want to modify said tool to improve and expand the modding capabilities. His backwards mentality pretty much is gatekeeping said game from progressing further into the modding facet.