rage88 wrote:
whatever happened to passion, people who do it for the passion of the game like me? oh yea, the main community (run uo) sucks. i should know better, ihve yet to have a single person show interest in my world.
$50 for a map puts me at about 25 cents an hour. i'd do it but it violates minimum wage laws. ship me over to thailand or something then lets talk.
You're right. But the main problem with the 'passion' of making it...
1) You make a map and people don't use it, or even mis-use it if you're handing it out to everybody
2) You make a special map for someone, and it takes quite a while, and the shard quits. Bye map =/
3) Mapmaking is the passion you only get if you're working on your own shard. You get to be in charge of what happens on most parts of the map and therefor you put much more work on it. If I make a map for someone I don't know I wouldn't change it that much. I could make it look good, though, but to let it fit my OWN needs is different.
And yeah, if you make maps with a passion (Like everyone here does for his/her own shard) takes alot of time. If I started making maps and giving them out, they'd only lower in quality as I make them faster and faster. Therefor, if you spend about 2 months making a decent map for someone, you'd like to be payed for it as well