Sillysoft Games

Each week, Sillysoft showcases one map as the Map of the Week (MOTW). The map gets featured in online rooms, and players get awards for winning on it.

Maps are selected based on a combination of playability and beauty.

If you'd like a specific map to be featured as MOTW, please post here. Some notes:

1) Post the name of the map along with a link to the map's webpage so there's no mixups and people can see details.

2) If you'd like to discuss a map in more detail, start a new thread with your thoughts (or look for a thread about that map and post there).

3) No Classic or variants. MOTW is about encouraging alternative maps. (World maps are OK)

4) Maps can only be MOTW once. Click here to see a complete list of past MOTWs

5) The sweet spot for multi-player maps is 40-60 countries. The closer your map is to that size the better chance it has of becoming a really popular MOTW.

Thanks for all your suggestions. We will try our hardest to work your request into the schedule as quickly as possible, please be patient.

Thank you,
mapLAB

The Dark Ages...FULL MAP! I didn't see it in the list. Why not?

mbauer wrote: 5) The sweet spot for multi-player maps is 40-60 countries. The closer your map is to that size the better chance it has of becoming a really popular MOTW.

I think that would be why Dark Ages isn't in there.

lmao europe huge would be a sweet map with 0% and no cards we can get 12 hour games

Has Horsey ever been MOTW?

DUDE THAT SHOULD BE NEXT WEEKS MOTW!

Only serious requests please

I actually think the dark ages full map would be a cool motw.

mbauer wrote:Only serious requests please

What if I seriously want Horsey or Rocks to be MOTW?

Dark Ages will be the MOTW the week of May 19th

enjoymoreradio wrote: What if I seriously want Horsey or Rocks to be MOTW?

Then you would seriously request them

Ok then, Rocks it is.

enjoymoreradio wrote:Ok then, Rocks it is.

Can we get it with scenario on?

RandomGuy wrote:

enjoymoreradio wrote:Ok then, Rocks it is.

Can we get it with scenario on?

Listen, I enjoy joking around as much as the next luxer, but I'm serious in wanting to keep this thread free from it.

Every so often someone is disapointed with the MOTW selection and comes to the forum to complain. This thread was started in an attempt to curb that and give serious MOTW players some control over what becomes the featured maps of the week.

If you are joking about your map request and I can't tell then that map will be made MOTW, then you will be negating what this thread is intended to do. Which is why I politely asked for only serious requests.

Rocks is quite intentionally a "joke" map intended to be "poor" (no offense Preach). It would not be a good choice for MOTW and I'm sure the serious MOTW players would not appreciate it. So please, I'll ask one more time, stop making a mockery of me and this thread.

Feel free to mock me anywhere else in this forum though.

Thank you,
MB

You make me sad mb...

I vote for Vermont - Independence Map to be MOTW ASAP.

mbauer wrote:Dark Ages will be the MOTW the week of May 19th

enjoymoreradio wrote: What if I seriously want Horsey or Rocks to be MOTW?

Then you would seriously request them

YES DARK AGES!

westsidekilla6 wrote:

mbauer wrote:Dark Ages will be the MOTW the week of May 19th

YES DARK AGES!

NOOOOOOOO
Dark ages took like an hour playing just with the bots
6 humans would be insane.
i can see the 5 hour marathons now.

it's a great map but you need like a 50 inch monitor and hours to kill to finish it playing with other humans.

MB even you stated that

mbauer wrote:5) The sweet spot for multi-player maps is 40-60 countries. The closer your map is to that size the better chance it has of becoming a really popular MOTW.

Mesoamerican Battles has 108 countries. that is 69 less countries than The Dark Ages which has 177 !!!!!
Mesoamerican was a successful map due to the simplicity of the country shapes (hexagons). In The Dark Ages the shapes can be confusing in smaller screens.
Personally, i can't see myself spending 3 hours for one game.

I personally like the Idea of another state map, maybe do them every other week or once a month (depending on the volume of requests). I want to be like one of those old couples that tour the states in a RV and get stickers for all the states they have been through posted on the side. (seems we are in this kinda trend anyway just want to see it keep on keeping on.)

-Ode

P.S.

mbauer, you kick ass! Thanks for all your hard work. If it wasn't for people like yourself we wouldn't have these kind of options.

** ROCK ON MAP MAKERS!!! **

Enokrad wrote:I vote for Vermont - Independence Map to be MOTW ASAP.

Vermont-Independence will be MOTW the week of May 26

Enokrad wrote: MB even you stated that

mbauer wrote: 5) The sweet spot for multi-player maps is 40-60 countries. The closer your map is to that size the better chance it has of becoming a really popular MOTW.

This is true. But it was requested and it's been requested in the past as well. So, why not give it a shot? Can't really hurt anything and it is a very awesome map. Who knows maybe it will work out great and people will open up to larger maps.

Odelay wrote:I personally like the Idea of another state map, maybe do them every other week or once a month (depending on the volume of requests).

Thanks Odelay! We'll try to keep the state maps in the mix.

MB

mbauer wrote: 4) Maps can only be MOTW once. Click here to see a complete list of past MOTWs

This is not a complete list ... is there any way to get the complete list posted ... starting with booze, I believe

The older MOTW list has been fixed. You can see them all here (also linked from the bottom of the MOTW page):

http://sillysoft.net/lux/rankings/motw/older.php

Not to point fingers or anything but
can someone explain how this ever happened?

Castle Lux MP

I just downloaded a super fun map: the Devil's Brigade! It's really cool, I think. I'd like to see it as a MOTW. I think it'd be a good one.

How about rip's old map generator?

I've always liked Organ Grinder.

Could the theme get an overhaul by the skinners though? The red gives me a headache when looking at it for a while

OK - I just, for the first time, played The Dark Ages. It's ridiculous. I've got 2 teaming reapers on there and I don't see how I can win.

3DA wrote:OK - I just, for the first time, played The Dark Ages. It's ridiculous. I've got 2 teaming reapers on there and I don't see how I can win.

killbot is even better for such large maps.
most of the times i played killbot won the game.
reaper has problems with large maps like Dark Ages and Stargate.
Sparrow crashes 8/10 in those maps.