For anyone who is on the CCLP4 staff

[Ihavenoname248]

I'm thinking very general guidelines here: ruleset compatibility, whether or not levels should have borders, what spectrum of difficulty is welcome, etc. Then, go ahead and announce here on CCZone that submissions are open.

I think MS and regular Lynx, pedantic optional has the most appeal without being restrictive-I've seen a lot of good level ideas that in pedantic would require a ton of shenanigans to make work-if they even could. Personally, I think CCLP4 should model its difficulty after that of CCLP2-start off with some slightly more complex levels than, say, CC1 and CCLP1, and just scale up from there. The last few levels could approach late CCLP3 difficulty, since on their own and surrounded by shorter and easier levels, I think those would really shine in a community set. Nothing like Avalanche or YCTaOFNT, though

Borders should be up to the designer I think-for the most part, my levels have borders but every once in a while I make one without due to wanting a certain aesthetic (i.e., water everywhere) and then I give the player flippers as part of the level.

I think whenever the staff is formed should be around the time the community believes there are enough levels in the submission pool from which a voting process or some form of community-backed level selection can take place. Personally, I don't think we should wait too long for this to happen - maybe cap off the submissions at a number like 1500, give or take a bit.

The CCLP1 voting packs had 1,647 levels total-were these picked by the staff or the community? How big of a drawing pool for those levels were there? Depending on the actual process, 1500 may not be close to enough for a "first cut". I will say that the CCLP1 voting packs have been quite manageable, and breaking up the sets into 50 level anonymized chunks seems like the ideal solution-if not very close to it. It just comes down to what method of generating them is wanted, and that's where I think there is no perfect way to do it.

Purely community nominated levels turns it into a popularity contest of the designer (mostly) over the merits of the levels themselves. Having the designers put forth a certain amount of levels up to a point could work, but could also work against variety-and essentially makes every level have to pass through a double sieve. Perhaps if this bar was set very high it could work (maybe 100 max), but even then, there's a lot of good levels out there.

Just my 2 cents 2.5 times. Have a nickel.