I am completly for map protecting, accept for in one area, someone may, as was said before, leave a map unprotected so people can learn from it and edit it for good but then inturn change the map a bit, remove your name, put in theirs, then protect it and distribute it, people froget about your version because of the new one, and you loose all credit for the map you worked hard on.
edit- Also, many maps I have seen have good imported models skins and spells that would be helpful to others for their maps, but since they are protected, you can not extract them from the map
Im for map protection, i mean. Its just to stupid to see poeple on battle.net that edit a great map and call there own. But on the other hand. I often use other maps to see how thay made, surten triggers work and stuff so. I use the un protected feture, but i like the proteced feture. What can i say?
I'm against anything unprotected, including maps. You say you want to leave them unproteted so new mapmakers can learn how to do triggers and make custom units, etc. etc. But rather than that, you can protect your map, and leave your msn or AIM name, since everyone has one now-a-days, and they can message you on that and ask how to do this or that.
Also, like 5000 people have already stated, if you leave it unprotected, they can cut your name out of all the credits, add some cheats, rig it, etc. etc. And then make it really lame.
You are forgetting that most map makers are uncooperative and will not help when you ask...well at least the ones on b.net...I am against map protecting, I think it's essentail for new map makers to be able to open things to learn how aspects of triggerwork are done. That's how I learned, and that's how probably the next guy will learn too. If people are so paranoid about having their stuff being stolen (which I wouldnt worry about, since only a dozen different maps from well-known mappers maps are played regularly on b.net) then they should submit them to sites like these where they're name is in concrete. -VGsatomi
Yeah, same opinion. I'll never protect one of my maps. If someone re-creates it? I don't care. All the guys on this page will know that this cpn/map was done by me. That's enough. By the way, if you really wanna open a map, there will be no map protection that can't be hacked!
Valid point VGsatomi But still. If they want to learn how to do triggers, there is NO better way than oepning a blizzard map.They make everything neat and tidy. I've learned triggers by experimenting, blizzard maps(The Tower Defense, and Easter maps), and helpful people on forums. I haven't opened up anyone elses map.
@ Sopho: Right! But I can't understand those guys. @ Kaptn.Konietzko: Yap, the Blizzard maps a perfect for learning anything. I learned everything from them. (Yes, everything, including importing models/skins/icons/etc)
