Hello there. As I&#039;m sure most of you already know, the current 2012 IDL wad is not the final. Earlier today there was an instance of ChaosCore and TT and possibly Funcrusher all having a wad named idl2012.wad and guess what, there was 2 versions. Why was this? Well lets take a trip down memory lane.<br /><br />Apparently the first idl2012 was made by Ralphis. However it contained changes that the board did not vote on. The main things being the spawns on map28, the mspaint textures on map32 and the inclusion of proctf map# whatever. Although a majority of the players prefer Ralphis&#039; re-texture of map32 (a poll was even made that reflects that most players hate the mspaint textures) the board voted to have eyerape map32. The map28 dilemma was a bit more split but overall most players wanted the 2 spawn version since they found out that the 2 pistol spawns created with the 6 spawn fix fucking suck. But the board voted for 6 spawns to be implemented. 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.<br /><br />Now, the next big difference regards the proctf map. If you don&#039;t know what map it is, take a look at map24 in the v2 2012 wad. Pretty dopey looking huh? As far as I know, the map probably wasn&#039;t properly playtested. Unless they board took the trouble to play it on skulltag because the damn proctf wad doesn&#039;t work at all on zd. So the horrible map that was Pissed Off Libraries (which was probably barely playtested at all) that was voted on got replaced by another map that was selected based nearly only on looks and 1 person&#039;s word. So we have a 75mb soon to be 1tb wad that:<br /><br />Has mod music that bloats the wad<br />Has 6 spawn map28<br />Has mspaint map32<br />Has an untested proctf map<br />Has misnamed maps (AlexMax apparently made Exophase II)<br /><br />And another kicker is that map04 is once again broken. Ralphis`wad fixed not only the hall of mirrors in the slime tunnel but the invisible barriers that stuck out on the bridge. However, v2 tosses these fixes aside. Yippie.<br /><br />So this begs the question of why can&#039;t we just use Ralphis` wad and be done with daily updates to the 2012 wad? Few care about mod music. The majority of players hate mspaint textures. Map04 is fixed. Most players want 2 spawn. None give a shit about proctf. Oh and Alex would like his map named properly and I understand. How about we just make things easy and use Ralph&#039;s wad? I understand the board wants to maintain integrity and credibility by standing by what they vote on. However in the eyes of many players they have already lost those qualities. <br /><br />Yes, I know there will be a patch for 32. But why should we have to put up with this bs? Just include the fucking thing in the wad. Its already 70+ mb full of shit. You can include a few kb&#039;s of something that is important. Just put aside lousy politics and use a finished wad that doesn&#039;t need to be updated everyday.<br /><br />edit: ammo imbalance is gone<br />edit: don&#039;t post at midnight