Feature request: "needs maps?"

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ASchultz
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Feature request: "needs maps?"

#1 Post by ASchultz »

I was thinking about this as a way to help direct people to what to contribute.

I know there's a "needs solution" box when searching, and it'd maybe be neat to have a "needs map" box too. Of course this hopes up a whole can of coding worms! Some entries might not need maps, so we might need a boolean needs_map flag that I'd assume would default to True.

No problem if it's a bridge or two too far ... I just know when I looked through games I played or knew, I saw a few that didn't have maps, but I'd have liked to write them.

This also feels like it might be something directed towards relatively few and thus more energy for the site owners/programmers than it was worth, but I wanted to throw it out there just in case.
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Re: Feature request: "needs maps?"

#2 Post by Garry »

That's not a silly suggestion at all. I know that I've got a large backlog of maps and solutions that I haven't contributed yet, partially for lack of time and partially for lack of organisation on my part.

I would also like to see a Needs screen grab check box, as I can provide these fairly easily if there's sufficient interest, but you don't get any credits or acknowledgement for submitting screen grabs, so there's not much incentive to do so.
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Re: Feature request: "needs maps?"

#3 Post by nimusi »

Definitely vote for that.

Quite often, when I'm deciding between which of two games to play next, I go to the game page to see if they need maps. If one needs a map and the other doesn't the choice is made for me.
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