Please get the rights to this map!

[mapguy]

Hi mapguy... welcome and thanks for the feedback.

There's not much I have to add to this discussion beyond what badorties already said. CC has their own system of map making and copyright protection, and it's a system that works very well for them given the history of the site and the size of their community. We've got our own systems for developing site- and user-generated maps, and it's a system that will work well for us considering our beginnings. We won't have 140 maps overnight, but neither did CC.

As for creating CC map "sequels" - while it would certainly be easy to just port over a bunch of CC maps, we would only do so for a map that (1) we created in the first place (there are 30 or so CC maps that are the creative property of the current MajorCommand team, and more which we co-authored), and (2) we thought was such a unique and kick-ass idea that it deserved to be reincarnated here. When and if we do this it will be, like you suggested, to rethink and improve upon the graphics and gameplay, not as a copy. But ultimately we'd like MajCom to stand on it's own with original high quality maps; we don't just want to be a clone of some other gaming site.

Yes, and remember that many of the Clubs maps are of subjects that are, shall we say, up for grabs for anyone to make. Like all of the Famous Historical battles and such. Just because the Club has a Pearl Harbor, or Waterloo map (for example), that does not mean that MC can not create a map on those subjects.