What Steps Does It Take To Feature A FH Map?

Some maps are chosen out of the map section, or people hear about a map and if it gets enough notice the staff vote if it should be Featured or not.

 

Staff are always checking out the map forums and trying new maps. If a staff thinks the map is notable for a feature, and its got alot of good comments its then discussed, in a secret forum, from there the fate of the map is decided.

 

First we find a map that should/could be featured, this normally happens when staff, loyals and premiums browse the maps section. If they find something they think looks good, they'll download it and make a thread in the hub pub saying that we should take a look at this map.
Then, we simply get a party together and play on it, if a staff member deems it worthy of a feature, he/she will make a thread in the staff forum about it. If there are some minor tweaks that could be made to the map, a member will notify the creator (normally via PM) of the improvements that could be made, and then take another look at the map when it has been upgraded.
Once there is a thread in the staff forum, the staff will discuss the map, and a journalist will make a write-up for it. when everyone has agreed that the map is feature-worthy, a journalist will ask permission from both the creator, and an admin.
Once the journalist has a positive reply from both, they shall wait until it is time to feature it, which is defined by a schedule.

Hope that helped =]

 

mines the short version ivorys the long verison.

 

Secret Forum

Here is a rare photo from the last secret forum:

 

Since you put it that way, has anyone one (in as the creator) declined the feature?

 

95% of the maps that are featured, are by staff, loyals, Truedark. They don't really take the time to look for maps. Once in a while, they will feature a map, by a normal hubber, but not very often.

 

This has been argued countless times, they're the best maps, mainly because the premiums do make the better maps, mostly, and thats how they became premium.

Ond while I'm here, maybe the hub pub should talk about bloumbas' and TheXShadowXKings' new amazing map coming out Wink wink

 

I find a lot of the featured maps, to not be "the best." I find maps all the time that are better than most of the featured maps, but they don't get recognized because they weren't posted by staff or loyals.

 

I've had a map featured and I don't have any connections to the staff what so ever. It may seem like colored names get their maps featured more often because having good maps is just how they got their colored names.

 

Only once. And it was more of a delay than a straight up decline.

 

It was me, I'm getting featured soon enough though =)

But I can see someone doing that, wanting it to be perfect

 

this is true, but since this site was set up by people obsessed with forging, don't you think they'd be pretty good.

and i agree the featured maps are pretty sub par these days.

and so i don't think that the problem with it is that the maps made by staff and loyals and such are bad. i think the problem is that they just get more attention. i mean you see a map by a regular joe, sucking up to him will do you no good. but going onto a staff map and sucking up might do you good. you could get in tight with the staff.

just in case you were wondering, that's not my thinking. I'm exposing the retardation in the minds of the average hubber (pretty stupid). and you guys know, this won't work. you'll just be another one of the thousands of annoying little kids saying (for this part imagine that high pitched voice of that kid you hate on XBL): "hey i like your map. i can haz loyal? you'll be my friend? wanna make a map with me?!?"

see its not that staff don't produce high quality maps. its that the member's high quality maps get burried by low quality maps and the staff maps.

for example i have a pretty awesome map out there (cornered) that has about 5 posts on it right now. FIVE.

and thats what that's all about

 

Is that on Sandtrap?

Anyways, for some reason I figured this was how it worked, although I didn't know you told them how to improve it before it's featured, but I like it. =)

 

Dom... he wanted some time to improve his map before feature.

 

Bloumbas and i are going to make a map more than featured worthy ohh i sound like a school girl going on like this im just going to say that all the grate forgers look out me and bloumbas are going to pop up by suprize