Some points:<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=581.msg5886#msg5886 date=1326349757]However it contained changes that the board did not vote on.[/quote]<br /><br />Actually the board did vote on them, twice.&nbsp; Once before constructing the initial version of the wad, and again after testing it for several weeks.&nbsp; These were the results of the initial votes:<br /><br />Map28 Spawns (with Humanbones acting as our 5th board member in Mikehail&#039;s temporary absence): 3 for 5 spawns (Mass, Xen, Dew), and 2 for 2 spawns (Nostar, Humanbones)<br /><br />Map32 Textures: 1 for new textures (Dew), and 4 for old textures (Mass, Xen, Nostar, Mikehail)<br /><br />The second set of votes were insufficient to overturn these.<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=581.msg5886#msg5886 date=1326349757]a poll was even made that reflects that most players hate the mspaint textures[/quote]<br /><br />Actually, 15 out of 72 players (3 of whom dropped out) is not even close to being most of the players, not to mention the opinions (whether included in the 15 or not) of players like Mikehail and Jenova who did not sign up this season (and whose opinions count also).&nbsp; The poll was taken from a sample of people who were upset about the map changes.&nbsp; The ones that didn&#039;t care, like me, didn&#039;t vote, and it looks like there were at least 54 of them.<br /><br />If you pull 3 marbles out of a 100-marble bag, and 2 of them are black, that doesn&#039;t &quot;indicate&quot; that most of the marbles are black.<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=581.msg5886#msg5886 date=1326349757]Now Ralphis` wad did include the past masterbowl maps in a special slot and thankfully it was kept in place in a less redundant manner in v2 of idl2012.[/quote]<br /><br />We also voted on and decided to include those maps.<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=581.msg5886#msg5886 date=1326349757]Has mod music that bloats the wad[/quote]<br /><br />Actually, Ralphis&#039;s version of the WAD is 89.6 MB while mine is 75.6 MB.<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=581.msg5886#msg5886 date=1326349757]Has mspaint map32[/quote]<br /><br />That is actually what the map looks like, and there are much uglier maps in idl2012.<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=581.msg5886#msg5886 date=1326349757]Has an untested proctf map[/quote]<br /><br />Nah, we played it in skulltag.<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=581.msg5886#msg5886 date=1326349757]So this begs the question[/quote]<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=581.msg5886#msg5886 date=1326349757]Oh and Alex would like his map named properly and I understand.[/quote]<br /><br />An interesting question is how far map authors should be respected.&nbsp; Alex&#039;s map should have the correct name because he worked hard on that map and it is an excellent map.&nbsp; On the other hand, Caboose intended to have 5 spawns and Exl intended for his map to have the colors he gave it, and those both seem even more important to respecting an author&#039;s work than having the correct name of a map.&nbsp; You can&#039;t have it both ways without committing [i]ad hoc[/i] fallacies.&nbsp; Arguments about precedence don&#039;t work either.&nbsp; Maybe I can leave Alex&#039;s map misnamed for a year and we can all play on it until the misnomer becomes an IDL classic!<br /><br />[hr][hr]<br /><br />The point:<br /><br />Rust&#039;s story isn&#039;t quite accurate.&nbsp; Every year the IDL administration decides through one means or another to make changes to the official IDL WAD, and somebody (whether they are an administrator or not) volunteers to implement those changes.&nbsp; In the past, Ralphis has usually both made the decisions and made the changes.&nbsp; This year, Ralphis is not an executive or an administrator of the IDL in any way, and so has no authority to make decisions about changes to the WAD.&nbsp; Nevertheless, he agreed to implement the changes this year.&nbsp; At first, that was true.&nbsp; He implemented the changes.&nbsp; But this year, we decided to have preliminary versions of the WAD to see what needed tweaking.&nbsp; After several weeks of playing the WAD, we reconvened and voted on any changes to make or not make.&nbsp; Then, we notified Ralphis of what we voted on.&nbsp; He again said he would implement the changes.&nbsp; This time he was lying.&nbsp; Instead, he made his own decisions about map characteristics, took out maps that are in the WAD, put in maps that aren&#039;t in the WAD, and so on.&nbsp; Basically he compiled his own WAD and then mislabeled it [i]idl2012.wad[/i].<br /><br />[b]So why are there 10,000 versions of idl2012.wad?[/b]<br /><br />There are two versions of idl2012.wad because a player who is not an administrator made an illegitimate compilation of maps he likes and called it idl2012.wad, and then the IDL administration released the actual idl2012.wad.&nbsp; Ralphis can&#039;t make decisions about idl2012.wad just like Capodecima and Majik can&#039;t--all three have the same administrative authority.<br /><br />[b]Why is it fucked up?[/b]<br /><br />I initially released it as idl2012y.wad to get checked out by everybody for errors, but was pressured into making it a final version by the incessant whining of the player base.&nbsp; My b.<br /><br />[b]Why did you break Map04 again?[/b]<br /><br />I didn&#039;t break Map04.&nbsp; Ralphis broke Map04.&nbsp; He fucked it up when he made the original versions of idl2012.wad.&nbsp; I just didn&#039;t fix it when I made the latest version.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t fix it because I didn&#039;t know it needed to be fixed, first of all because I thought Ralphis had already fixed his fuck-up in an earlier version, and second of all because he never notified me or anyone that talked to me of the changes that he made to the WAD, whether legitimate or otherwise.<br /><br />[b]Why is this taking two months?[/b]<br /><br />It is taking two months because we thought that Ralphis was not lying when he said he would help us out.&nbsp; If I had known that he was lying at the time, I would have made the rest of the changes myself and had this done long before the beginning of the semester and the regular season.<br /><br />I&#039;m sure Ralphis is very sorry for the confusion and difficulty that his recent lying, paranoia, and attempts at dismantling the administration have caused.&nbsp; You&#039;ll really have to ask him about that.<br /><br />I am just making the changes to the WAD that I am supposed to make because the people who run the IDL told me to make them, and I am doing it on short notice and without any help whatsoever.&nbsp; If anyone would like to help out, that would be great.&nbsp; If not, that is actually OK too.<br /><br />I want everybody to know my level of emotional commitment to the league.&nbsp; So I&#039;ll leave you with a song that expresses how I feel about the approval of the players in this time of uncertainty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nZ6SULBtdQ&amp;t=0m23s<br /><br />As you sing along, here is yet another version of the official idl2012 wad with all of the corrections that everybody helpfully pointed out.&nbsp; If any of you has any further suggestions for improvement, shoot me a pm, and I will be happy to make them.<br /><br />http://speedy.sh/hun5m/idl2012final.wad