Not to add to the speculation too much, but a feature that I see coinciding pretty naturally with this is to allow game creators to set a max/min level to join games.

That seems likely Eagle, but it it wouldn't be too much different from what we have already in place in prereqs.

I don't think there should be a grandfather clause.... just knock everyone down, make us all level up. Why make two tiers?

Pooh, people still start at level 1, but Fizzer doesn't want to take any features someone currently posses away from them, such as making games with maps you used to be able to or other things (not sure what he is taking away yet). Also it is better like this imo

Hey I got an Idea for map creator so you dont have to download a Painter Thingy. Warlight Map Creator Huh so will you do it?
Please??? My computer is too old for those painter thingies.

Besides, if existing players wouldn't be grandfathered, no games at all would be created on those maps until somebody levelled up. Very few games would be created until a lot of people levelled up. I don't think that's a good scenario.

@Mesan King:
Could you please rephrase that; I have no idea what question you are trying to ask...?

what is the highest level? knowing this might help us set our map levels.

He is asking to have a Warlight map creatore built in! So you can draw directly from the site, without downloading any program to paint. Thank me later.

default levels are too low on some maps. make the newbies earn the maps! my maps: level 100.

One of my map has unlock level 40. As I see the highest level player now level 9. So this mean that noone can create game with this map until someone reach the level 40?

Urfang: Yes, no NEW players can use it, but older players, whose accounts are grandfathered, can still use it!

But if the highest level oldguy is level 9 it means that really noone can use it :\

A tip for any map-makers:

If you're looking for visibility, don't set your map to a level that is a multiple of ten. Not only will those naturally be the busiest levels, but they are also the levels that appear to have maps already selected.

Urfang it is for creation. So grandfather accounts and accounts of that level can create a game with that map. Any person can join a game with that map.

I thought that the aforementioned position was the case, but I've just tried to play on Ancient Greece, from a saved template, and I cannot!

Gui thought it would be funny to set his map levels so high that nobody could use them, so he locked everyone out of his maps.

I've fixed it now so grandfathered accounts can use his maps again, since I didn't explain before that setting the level too high would lock everyone out.

Map developers: Don't set your level higher than 200 or you'll lock everyone out of your map, even grandfathered accounts.

Haha, that's a rather amusing solution to something that had irked me!

Thanks Fizzer!

Fizzer, that is not an accurate description. According to the logic of the update, grandfathered accounts can use maps no matter what, so no matter the level mapmakers set their maps it does not affect the grandfathered accounts. It is only the new accounts that are affected by the new levels. I think new players should start wih very few maps and slowly unlock them. The standard level you set all maps at was too low (almost all maps were set at 1, some maps were higher: for example, Roman Imperium's mapmaker is not around, yet his map unlocks at level 2 or 3). Some of my maps are not as simple as oher maps (in terms of how the bonuses work). Why have newbies play such maps and then rate it badly, if they won't understand the bonus system (or won't be at a certain level to want to or be able to adjust the bonus values to their liking)? If my levels were a conspiracy, as you suggest, I wouldn't have made it public knowledge (and give a reason why.

As this thread is about maps, I may as well write it here:

Fizzer, I think there's something wrong with the "win on X maps" achievement. I just got the "won on 50 maps" achievement and I'm SURE I haven't played on 50 maps yet. In fact, I did count: played on 41, won on 30. I had to count manually so I may be off by 1-2, but not by 20.
Does changing bonus values make the system treat it as a different map? That's the only explanation I could come up with.

differnet map versions might count