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    Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    I am posting to voice my frustration with the difficulty setting a lot of level makers set for their custom tracks.

    I downloaded a whole bunch of Medium tracks yesterday, expecting a nice mix of speed and mildly challenging obstacles. Instead I'm greeted with vertical metal bars with obstacles on their other side that I have to scale.

    The difficulty level guidelines given by RedLynx are obviously not important to half of the level makers out there. I don't care how elite you are or if you find this to be a medium track. I also have nothing against the tracks in general. Just don't post those obviously difficult tracks as Easy / Medium, because it's frustrating as hell.

    I actually struggled for 5 minutes through one of them just so I could finish and rate it. It was a great Hard track, I suppose, maybe even a decent Extreme track, but it was not Medium.

    I gave it 1 star just because it's grossly misleading in its difficulty label. If I wanted Hard/Extreme, I would not download Medium.

    With that said, I hope new maps released would be more suited to the general difficulty guidelines given by RedLynx and a Medium track would mostly correspond to the original game's Medium tracks and not to some elite ninja's perception of Medium.

    Thanks in advance!
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    Re: Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    The guy has a decent point though
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    Re: Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    Really decent point. Some people obviously have no clue about the difficulty of their map. In a perfect world, everyone would at least follow the guidelines Redlynx set with the licenses.
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    Re: Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    Originally Posted by Curunir
    I am posting to voice my frustration with the difficulty setting a lot of level makers set for their custom tracks.

    I downloaded a whole bunch of Medium tracks yesterday, expecting a nice mix of speed and mildly challenging obstacles. Instead I'm greeted with vertical metal bars with obstacles on their other side that I have to scale.

    The difficulty level guidelines given by RedLynx are obviously not important to half of the level makers out there. I don't care how elite you are or if you find this to be a medium track. I also have nothing against the tracks in general. Just don't post those obviously difficult tracks as Easy / Medium, because it's frustrating as hell.

    I actually struggled for 5 minutes through one of them just so I could finish and rate it. It was a great Hard track, I suppose, maybe even a decent Extreme track, but it was not Medium.

    I gave it 1 star just because it's grossly misleading in its difficulty label. If I wanted Hard/Extreme, I would not download Medium.

    With that said, I hope new maps released would be more suited to the general difficulty guidelines given by RedLynx and a Medium track would mostly correspond to the original game's Medium tracks and not to some elite ninja's perception of Medium.

    Thanks in advance!
    i cannot believe you thought a track was a great track but you still only gave it a 1 star - so the creator made 1 slip up and probably doesnt realize it and for that his great track gets 1 star - that is lowest of the low if you ask me (on your behalf).

    When i rate a track i take lots of aspects into account, yeah if they have set the difficulty wrong they MAY get marked down but NOT to a bloody 1 start when the track is actually good - we are not rating peoples personal impressions of what makes a hard track and what makes a medium we are rating for good tracks to play of all difficulties so that our feeds are not filled with crap tracks but it seems you are helping remove the good 1s

    you could have simply done the decent thing and msg'd the guy telling him about this so he knows for the future, but now the guy has a badly rated track that he probably spent a lot of time on and doesnt know why its rated bad plus his next track will probably be the same ..... you think you have just helped track central but in fact you have just added to what is wrong with it already

    track making is difficult and some creators play and test their tracks so much that they become very easy to them and without having others test them for them it can be very hard to set a difficulty on something you personally find very easy, give them a break or give them some feedback to help them dont just be cruel just because it doesnt suit you

    track creators spend all their time creating tracks and sharing them with the community to give them something to play and that deserves some appreciation if you ask me, but instead all it seems is that they get hate mail, abuse and demands for what you want and how you want it, if we are not making them the way you want them and you are not willing to give us some feedback then why dont you go make your own tracks and see what its like yourself, it is not easy plus you will have a constant battle with doosh bags making sure your tracks disappear off the feeds, yes rating the difficulty wrong is an issue we need to deal with but you are dealing with it all wrong and hurting people on the way
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    Re: Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    Well said smeg! I also get annoyed with this sort of stuff.. im always looking for feedback, negative/positive i dont mind, as long as im getting something back to let me know what people think and what i should do different, but instead people ignore the feedback and just focus on giving silly ratings. Curunir.. im not aiming this at you its an overall because alot of people do the same thing as you done, when you think back on it maybe you find it could have been a little over the top, as smeghead89 said... That guy may not of remembered or maybe didnt even know to change his track difficulty label.
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    Re: Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    giving feedback is the best way to help improve the tracks on TC, this thread is also a good idea cos it voices our concerns in TC to the creators in this forum but please try to go about this in a positive way rather than negative, hurting people doesn't help any1, helping people does
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    " actually struggled for 5 minutes through one of them just so I could finish and rate it. "


    why do you complain about something you decide to do yourself? btw 5 mins to complete a "difficult" track is nothing.


    ok rap lyrics, qc?
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    Re: Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    Can I send direct feedback to the track maker through the ingame Track Central interface?

    Also, can a track maker change the rating of the track once it's been uploaded?

    If both of those are a "yes", then I stand corrected and indeed did a bad thing. On the other hand, if you expect me to scout the internet for the author and send them feedback there...
    Or if my feedback doesn't change the fact that a hard track will forever remain labeled Easy and annoy other people, this again makes the whole process kinda useless, preventing future disaster at best.

    Judging by the hostile tone of some of the replies I get here, I also get the feeling that this community is already half-full of snotty elitists who are so full of themselves and are so sure of their superiority and better judgment, that even if I send feedback, as long as the exchange remains between me and the level maker, I'd get a reply along the lines of "lolz learn 2 play, kiddo".
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    Re: Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    consider tracks in tc a gift, not something you can demand to be made after your spesifications.
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    Re: Frustrated with difficulty levels set by level makers

    yes you can send an xbox live msg to the track creator and i often get msgs of constructive criticism to say that something isnt quite right and i use this advice and am thankful for any1 who takes the time to send me the msg just as long as it is not malicious and just as i would hope that they are thankful that i took the time to make a track for them to play, we are not game designers and we are not professionals we play the game like you and we all learn from each other, this whole forum is about helping each other out pretty much imo,

    and no unfortuanately the track cannot be rendered once it is shared but at least the creator can be made aware its issues for future tracks, we all make mistakes and this is how we learn, i mean no hostile from my post
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