Alright. I'll give it a go.

I wish that we had at least two map submissions per user. I feel like I can't experiment much. I like really weird maps, but y'all might be massive sweats, and those two don't mesh. Still excited to see people's maps as they release them!

Hope lots of people submit. Excited to see the quality of maps designed for this contest.

I won't be taking part but just to clarify for others, in the past I know FH has kind of put a lesser value on remakes of official Halo maps, will that still be the case here? Or maybe at the very least would you recommend against it?

I will be entering! This sounds so fun! Btw, your prize money in the placements adds up to 10,500 not 10k. Not sure if that was intentional, or a typo, or arpod just simply can't add. But just wanted to make sure that was accurate. K bye.

Asked a similar question on Twitter, but Are there any rules around using prefab pieces from other forgers? Specifically Trees for beauty work, but figured I'd ask for clarification before starting.

Damn, I wish I could make this one but I'll def jump into the next one! I can't wait to see what people create!

Really excited to see the entries for the contest, 2’s in this game is so sweaty and in my opinion a bit underappreciated at the moment.

I don’t think I agree with the December 1st start rule to be honest. It’s good to prevent others who had early access to forge from getting a head start, but I think a few of us were already playing with layouts with no plans to enter into a contest before this was announced. It feels a bit punishing to the few of us who wanted to start with 2’s maps off the start as opposed to the rest of the community who started with 4’s or BTB.

Edit: What I mean is because we’ve already started tinkering with our ideas, we essentially can’t use them. Just seems like we have to downgrade to a secondhand idea to qualify.

Two months is not nearly long enough for a Halo Infinite contest with a 10k prize pool. The new forge is more complex and has a significantly higher budget along with new features such as scaling that really increase the amount of time it takes to create maps. If you want quality maps, you need to give contestants at least 4 months if not 6 months to concept and design maps. Inevitably some individuals may not even hear about this contest for a week or two which gives them even less time. Considering many people work 5 days a week, those individuals will only have 16-20 days to concept design build and test there maps?

That is one heck of a prize pool! I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone does for this.
Salty nails my personal challenge with getting something decent completed in 2 months, only getting a few hours per week at most to load up forge. But I'll give it a go nonetheless!

I plan on forging solo, but for clarity's sake I'm curious about how co-forges will be handled. I assume that if you're a co-forger on 1 map that will count as your submission?

This is a really awesome opportunity for everyone in the community.

Oh boy fierce competition I’m seeing here. All the same good luck everyone and may the odds be forever in your favour

Okay, I'm in

Good luck my friends

"Clarification: You are allowed remakes if you want to work on an old design that you have not started in Halo Infinite yet. But if you have already started on a map in Halo Infinite before December 1st, 2022, then you cannot use that for this contest."

This rule also makes zero sense. If the goal of the contest is to come up with the best the community has to offer, why would you arbitrarily punish an individual that may have begun art dabbling or design dabbling on a layout in the first 3 weeks of infinite forge releases? At the very least make the creation date no earlier then Nov 8th.

Just a reminder, a ton of people had special invites to the insider build and or had the leaked version of forge and have had the opportunity to use infinite forge for much longer then anyone else . So if the contest is not going to be longer then you should definitely allow maps that were begun no earlier then NOV 8th.

Some of the decisions being made arent of sound judgement, and yet the community is supposed to trust y'all to judge there hard work?

The first red flag was the contest STARTING on the announcement date.... Like are y'all familiar with how announcement procedures for contests typically work?

You have to give information time to travel so it can reach a wider audience. How crappy does it feel to find out about a contest your excited to participate in only to realize you found out two to three weeks in and there is only a little over a month to participate?

Not exactly contest related, but since this is the most active post here atm, I thought it would be a good place to ask:

Is there a more active Discord that the OG Forgers here are using? The official FH one is kinda dead atm to be honest, and I would love to be able to chat and playtest with the folks around here who are into making more serious and competitive style maps.

Agreed.

I'm doing other projects for the contest, but Minister Muffin and Myself had started a 2v2 the day forge came out and is from my experience one of two 2v2 maps I've seen. Of course I'm bias so I would like this rule changed to include maps from the launch of forge. The rule seems to only punish a few instead of making equal starts for the contest.

The rule also sounds like it was suppose to nerf those who had early access to forge. To prevent them from having an unfair advantage. But none of them had made a 2v2 in the months of early access they had.

The real issue being created here is that the ones who had early access have learned how to art their maps and are more familiar with the tools. Having a short contest time only makes this even more unfair since people have to both design a map and learn the tools in an insanely short time.

The end date is more likely for a matchmaking push so I understand that it can't change.. But the feedback being given is honest and true and it would be a mistake to ignore for future contests.

Giving transparency here would make the situation less frustrating.