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Hey, I'm looking to refill my addon folder, and I wanted your guys opinions on what the best mas of all time are. I'm specifically looking for some fun maps that always stay in your addon folder, because they are just great maps. Anyone have any suggestions?

I'll just post this link rather than spend two minutes typing. Covers most of the same thing, anyway.

Anything made by Mav should definately be on your PC.

Another easy way to find good maps, is to go to SWBF Files, and get the maps with the most downloads. Good maps will have a lot of downloads.





Edit: DANGIT!! Ninja'd again!

I'd have to say Pestox: Urban Wasteland has the best environment, while Training Installation ICC-Whatever has the most fun/interesting replay value.

I think AQT's Republic Commando: Extraction was very entertaining, and you should download Majin Revan's old Rise of the Empire map series (they're lots of fun, but personally, i like his BF1 maps better).

Squeddies Mappack, Battlefront 0 (if only for the mustafar map), Death Star II: Emporers Throne Room, Nal Hutta

THEWULFMAN wrote:Another easy way to find good maps, is to go to SWBF Files, and get the maps with the most downloads. Good maps will have a lot of downloads.

Umm, not true... there are some good maps with lots of downloads, but only very few.

Take a look at Jendo07's maps, they are really good!

Marvel4 wrote:

THEWULFMAN wrote:Another easy way to find good maps, is to go to SWBF Files, and get the maps with the most downloads. Good maps will have a lot of downloads.

Umm, not true... there are some good maps with lots of downloads, but only very few.

Abraxas Platform: 14000+
Ancient Research Facility : 21000+
Aquilaris Deep Sea: 15000+
Battle Arena 2.0 : 16000+
Battle of the Titans : 34000+
Battle of Endor:Space : 36000+
Battle Over Coruscant : 57000+
Coruscant: City : 53000+
Coruscant: Streets : 32000+
Naboo: Theed Hanger : 19000+

I browsed for 3 minutes. My argument stands.

Its all up to opinion...

Somone who loves poorly placed objects with no ryme or reason floating above the ground with default units could say a map is awsome.

I dont realy know of any jungle maps...

So im just gonna say Christmas in jinglin town (ironicly) and defualt Endor...

1FGR1NightGhost wrote:Its all up to opinion...

Of course...

1FGR1NightGhost wrote:Somone who loves poorly placed objects with no ryme or reason floating above the ground with default units could say a map is awsome.

Tell me which of the maps I listed has "poorly placed objects with no ryme or reason floating above the ground". And default units is sometimes better than poorly modded custom units.

I don't see the point in arguing this point. All the maps I listed as examples should be respected somewhat at least.

As for good Jungle maps, yeah I can't think of many myself.

My addon folder:


Finished .

The ones I find myself playing the most are:
Training Installation IC-177 by The_Nasal_Abyss
Death Star II: Emperor's Throne Room by Maveritchell
Mos Eisley Spaceport by Rends

Oh and Alderaan from the Conversion Pack, but the pack takes up a lot of space, so if you're just looking for individual maps, I don't recommend it. Though it DOES have a lot of good maps in there (specifically, the ones from BF1, but you can get those from Marvel4, too), I'm not a huge fan of every map in there.

THEWULFMAN wrote:

Marvel4 wrote:

THEWULFMAN wrote:Another easy way to find good maps, is to go to SWBF Files, and get the maps with the most downloads. Good maps will have a lot of downloads.

Umm, not true... there are some good maps with lots of downloads, but only very few.

Abraxas Platform: 14000+
Ancient Research Facility : 21000+
Aquilaris Deep Sea: 15000+
Battle Arena 2.0 : 16000+
Battle of the Titans : 34000+
Battle of Endor:Space : 36000+
Battle Over Coruscant : 57000+
Coruscant: City : 53000+
Coruscant: Streets : 32000+
Naboo: Theed Hanger : 19000+

I browsed for 3 minutes. My argument stands.

Of course there are good maps with many downloads, but there also bad maps with many downloads or good maps with few downloads.

Marvel4 wrote:Of course there are good maps with many downloads, but there also bad maps with many downloads or good maps with few downloads.

A good map can be released like one week ago, and it'll not have lot of downloads compared to a 2006 map, that's logic. For my part, i have tested all the maps of swbf filefront and kept them classed by Makers on my external hard drive + GT ones + Exclusive betas and alphas and others. (752 maps or mods).

THEWULFMAN wrote:

1FGR1NightGhost wrote:Its all up to opinion...

Of course...

1FGR1NightGhost wrote:Somone who loves poorly placed objects with no ryme or reason floating above the ground with default units could say a map is awsome.

Tell me which of the maps I listed has "poorly placed objects with no ryme or reason floating above the ground". And default units is sometimes better than poorly modded custom units.

I don't see the point in arguing this point. All the maps I listed as examples should be respected somewhat at least.

As for good Jungle maps, yeah I can't think of many myself.

Mav made a really cheesy wild crazy map under the pseudonym something-helicopter just to test this out. It got quite a few downloads if I remember correctly.
Also, Ghost wasn't calling you out. He was basically saying that download numbers are often skewed by taste, not quality.

THEWULFMAN wrote:

1FGR1NightGhost wrote:Its all up to opinion...

Of course...

1FGR1NightGhost wrote:Somone who loves poorly placed objects with no ryme or reason floating above the ground with default units could say a map is awsome.

Tell me which of the maps I listed has "poorly placed objects with no ryme or reason floating above the ground". And default units is sometimes better than poorly modded custom units.

I don't see the point in arguing this point. All the maps I listed as examples should be respected somewhat at least.

As for good Jungle maps, yeah I can't think of many myself.

I never said any of the maps you called out sucked... I was just saying not every player has the same tastes and opinions of every other player...

For Example: Loads of people LOVE death star, i think its a metal, under-sized claustrophobic hellhole...

Im just saying everyone has their own idea of what makes a map good, thats all...

Re: Maps with lots of downloads as a measure of quality:

Let's keep it friendly and on-topic. Just to clear up any confusion, there are a handful of factors that go into how often a map is downloaded that have nothing to do with the quality of the map - two big ones are time the map was submitted and alphabetical order. Maps high in the alphabet with familiar names tend to get high download numbers, and if you do a sort by downloads on SWBFFiles, you'll see this. You'll also notice that the vast majority of the highly downloaded maps tend to have been submitted in 2007 or 2006 - four or five years ago. They've simply had more time to be downloaded, and more popular maps get downloaded more - it's a self-perpetuating cycle.

That doesn't mean that a high download count isn't indicative of a quality map. Inevitably, quality will draw people in. However, if you search by downloads alone, what you'll see is representative of far more than just quality as a metric.

Now, re: The OP:

"Best" is probably an unfair title, since there are lots of ways to judge this. Some maps may have really nice design but poor art, while some may look really nice but have a poor gameplay feel, and others may be technically great but simply lacking in polish. I keep maps for a lot of reasons, and here are some of the maps that populate my addon folder and their reasons:

Technical/scripting stand-outs:
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... Pass;72406 (ACH)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... _20;101637 (BAA)
http://www.gametoast.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=21987 (CRP)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/19d6k ... v3/OFM.zip (OFM)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... ase;100022 (TTB)

Extensive/unique design:
http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 35&t=20139 (CCC)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... City;57986 (CO1)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... kes;104501 (CTO)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... ase;103193 (DIB)
http://files.filefront.com/Pestox+Urban ... einfo.html (DQ9)
http://files.filefront.com/Muunilinst+R ... einfo.html (MUU)

Visually appealing:
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... ice;116131 (CX1)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... 177;118310 (FCS)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... ort;104563 (MOS)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... ngar;85165 (NTH)
http://www.filefront.com/14569717/tatoo ... naman.rar/ (PTC)

Conceptually unique:
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=23952 (DMI)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... nds;100426 (asst.)
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... ers;118546 (NBS)

Some of those are old chestnuts, of course, and I certainly don't have links to every map that I enjoy. However, since I have the privilege of reviewing and uploading the majority of maps that are published, I usually know where to go back to look when I want to play a map.

Maps that will always stay in my addon folder:
Corellia: Coronet City Beta-My all time favorite map
Shakara VI: Swamp Assault-I absolutely love the chaos
Lotashi Z: X Province-Great close quarters combat and urban defense
Pestox-Great amount detail in the environment
Flooded Oil Refinery 2.0-Good overall conquest flow
Abraxas Platform 2.0-Great space combat
Rhen Var: Temple-The chaos modes are fun
Ryloth: Nabat 1.0-The destructiveness is cool
Rhen Var: Spaceport-Playing "commando" on this map is fun
Clone Wars: Kashyyyk 1.4-The CIS get a great play experience
The Old Republic Sides Beta-The sides are nicely done
Thrakia: Par'Vallia City-Great overall urban map

My favorites ones:

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Pestox: Urban Wasteland
Battle of Naboo V.1.1
Tatooine: Outpost by Jendo7
Correlia: Coronet City 0.5
Rancor Doom Star II by MetalCore_Rancor
Attack on Venator by ForceMaster
Kotor: Dantooine
Kotor: Tatooine
Muunilinst - Rooftops beta
Saleucami - Canyons 1.1 by Captain_Mazda
Flooded Oil Refinery 2.0
Iego: Cliffhold City
Redline's Attack on the Death Star
Rainbow Road 64 beta (Race map)
The Correlian Resistance 1.0
Space: Boarding Action beta 0.6
Mon Calamari: The Battle of Dac
Rhen Var Spaceport
Dxun - Mountain Outpost
Ez'Shz - Sun'Ken Beta

Campaign maps:
Acezuraize Canyons 3.0.1 (Alpha)
Battle of Teth (B'omarr Monastery)
Operation Ferret Master 1.0
Felucia: Mission BountyHunter 2.0
Christophsis Battle: Crystal City
Mav's Rebel Ops maps
Talay: Tak base by AQT
Aldura Landfall, Beachhead and space Aldura
Endor: Dead Watch Bunker 2.0

Revan's Return maps:
Outer Rim - Unknow planet
Ryloth - Ambush
Kril´dor - The Fate of the Galaxy

Boras II: Stunt Course (and pretty much everything else by DannBoeing)

Mos Eisley Spaceport

Pwnfest

Space Endor