Let me just say that I love the game, and I enjoy using the SDK to make custom maps. As I'm sure many others do.
But publishing and updating already uploaded maps is becoming increasingly painful to the point where I am losing motivation for making maps. I am now personally in a jam where I cannot even publish my newly finished maps, nor properly update existing ones. The command line upload tool fails to connect and upload, even on multiple different computers. And the Steam GUI tool refuses to assign "Maps" tags to uploaded maps, meaning that while it does publish the map, a large segment of players searching for maps will likely never even notice it because it is unlisted. The only way to currently tag a map is to use the command tool - which often doesn't work.
Are you interested in the continuation of custom maps for your game, to help keep the community entertained? Then please help us - the custom mappers, who contribute a steady influx of content to your game FREE OF CHARGE - by improving on your Steam Workshop upload tools. Is that really too much to ask?
The GUI tool works fine except for that one *CRUCIAL* little detail where it fails to add the "Maps" tag. Why is this feature being constantly ignored and never fixed? I don't know much about coding, but I cannot imagine it being in any way shape or form a complicated procedure.
The need to switch between the upload GUI and the command line tool, when one or the other isn't doing what it is supposed to, also creates an ocean of Workshop version mismatch errors, further complicating and frustrating custom map maintenance. I know I am not alone in feeling this way. I know there are other mappers out there, wildly talented who have - and probably still want to - create high quality maps for your otherwise excellent game. But the longer you ignore these grueling Workshop issues, the more you push us away.
So in closing, at the very least please add the option to set tags on our maps in the Steam Workshop Upload Tool. There would be little to no reason for us to use the command line tool if this small addition were made. Please.
But publishing and updating already uploaded maps is becoming increasingly painful to the point where I am losing motivation for making maps. I am now personally in a jam where I cannot even publish my newly finished maps, nor properly update existing ones. The command line upload tool fails to connect and upload, even on multiple different computers. And the Steam GUI tool refuses to assign "Maps" tags to uploaded maps, meaning that while it does publish the map, a large segment of players searching for maps will likely never even notice it because it is unlisted. The only way to currently tag a map is to use the command tool - which often doesn't work.
Are you interested in the continuation of custom maps for your game, to help keep the community entertained? Then please help us - the custom mappers, who contribute a steady influx of content to your game FREE OF CHARGE - by improving on your Steam Workshop upload tools. Is that really too much to ask?
The GUI tool works fine except for that one *CRUCIAL* little detail where it fails to add the "Maps" tag. Why is this feature being constantly ignored and never fixed? I don't know much about coding, but I cannot imagine it being in any way shape or form a complicated procedure.
The need to switch between the upload GUI and the command line tool, when one or the other isn't doing what it is supposed to, also creates an ocean of Workshop version mismatch errors, further complicating and frustrating custom map maintenance. I know I am not alone in feeling this way. I know there are other mappers out there, wildly talented who have - and probably still want to - create high quality maps for your otherwise excellent game. But the longer you ignore these grueling Workshop issues, the more you push us away.
So in closing, at the very least please add the option to set tags on our maps in the Steam Workshop Upload Tool. There would be little to no reason for us to use the command line tool if this small addition were made. Please.
