CC2 Community Pack Survey

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11 hours ago, The Architect said:

The trackless railroad tile is an edge case. Like zero-directional blocks and blank "no" signs, its "behavior" is just an extension of the base element's behavior. The trouble is, its extended behavior is not actually useful for anything that any number of other elements can't do, thus its only real value is for deceiving the player with "fake gravel". Is fake gravel something we really need or want?

Fake gravel sounds evil. Let's not allow this, especially since at the moment, the only way to do this is hex editing.

I agree with Jeffrey about bonus flags and aesthetic balance.

About including solutions, though...I would say to keep the solutions in the released set. The main CC2 set has solutions included, and the workshop also requires solutions.

11 hours ago, The Architect said:

What about standards for hiding logic (either by the Hide Logic flag or by the level layout) and RNG mode?

As far as I know, hiding logic was not used in the original set. I think logic circuits should always be visible with exceptions determined on a case-by-case basis.

For RNG mode, extra random with, once again, exceptions on a case-by-case basis.

11 hours ago, The Architect said:

Some level names (e.g. ones with question marks) cannot be used as C2M filenames. Should there be a standard for file naming that takes this into account?

How about XXX-LevelNameWithoutPunctuation.c2m?

11 hours ago, The Architect said:

Should the staff delete non-hint text from the level's Comment box, or replace it with their own comments, or leave it alone (maybe seek the designer's permission to delete any comments deemed inappropriate)?

Perhaps the comment box could include things like "additional testing and bust fixes by [person]" and "replay by [person]", as well as the set the level originally came from? Personally I'll probably blank most of the comments in the levels I will submit.

Also, I agree with Miika about tutorials. There should be several tutorials for obscure (and not so obscure) mechanics that have yet to be officially introduced in the original set, or the CC1 sets.