hey all
i like how lately a lot of people have started to make
their own sp maps or campaigns

because when you think of it
the sp map section is virtually untouched with just 4 pages of sp maps

i like the idea of an sp map boom that is going to happen

but what i'm wondering why have so few people tried to make a sp map?

Why have so many few people tried to make a sp map, because all the n00bs out there find it easier to make a BG mod and leave the Halo: Ce community thinking that they've made a 'lasting impression' but in truth, their BG mod just drops off the radar very easily.

Whenever people have predicted the demise of Halo CE I have been the one telling them that the download statistics do not support that conclusion. I see almost no drop off in downloads and actually have more people downloading today than before. Some of it is because this website is effectively the only place you can get the content but also because people are still playing the game. The number of game servers still hovers around 100 and there are people playing on them but I have always thought that Halo CE was very often played on LANS or by individuals playing the AI maps. The single player “boom” as you call it is, I am guessing, a logical result of the desire of more people to play against bots.

you should look at version 1.00 with version changer about 250 server and 1000 players
there are a lto of peopel still playing there even mroe then on halo combat evolved on the pc

But they are NEVER on custom maps.

Do you know why people still play 1.0.0.609? Because that's the patched version. You know, the No-CD crack that people used to play the game illegally, because it didn't detect multiple keys back then? Yeah...

They've since upgraded, and though 1.0.8.616 is also a No-CD .exe (not a crack, however), it can detect cloned keys, and won't let you play on the same server as another. I'll stick with the latest (legitimate) version...

Also, 1.0.0.609 doesn't support dedicated servers; which are very helpful, I think.

well there are a few cmt snowgrove servers adn a few others dedicated servers
for custom maps

from what i have seen the people with bad keys cannot join those dedis, leaving only the people who paid for halo to play on them, which is kinda dumb. i probly am wrong but thats what i thought.

The reason why people on cracked 1.0 don't play custom maps is most probably because aren't very well informed.
You can see easily when you compare 1.06 and 1.08- Even though 1.08 has less people, it has more custom map servers than 1.06.
Perhaps they don't know what Custom Edition is for?
Anyway I don't think that they are very smart either since they don't know how to google evil stuff ^^

More people like SP since they'res little lag, unlike online play. Also, there are more possibilities with SP than MP (in scripting and such).

When I first joined the community in early 08, few people were announcing or creating SP maps. That all changed near the end of 08, when 'the 'SP boom' happened.

So what caused it?

Maybe some people thought that MP was abondoned? Maybe someone started a new campaign, everyone thought it was cool, and followed after him? Possibilities are endless. I feel that I have contrinuted to this SP boom in some way.....
Edited by Polamee on Mar 3, 2009 at 08:05 AM

I think Bungie should have merged Custom edition with Combat evolved... since CE is basically the same thing With custom maps that people would love to use if they knew about

yeah that would have been a cooler thign if gearbox would have done that

then the community
woudl be a lto bigger
with all the halo pc players
and stuff

Halo Custom Edition is what Halo PC retail would have been if there were no restrictions on the development. The contract for Halo PC was dictated by Microsoft and one of the requirements was that it fit on a single CD. You can argue all you want about whether they were right or wrong but the fact remains that Halo PC was a huge success. Gearbox however thought that custom content was something that should have been included and on their own time and own dime they finished the development of Halo CE and convinced Microsoft to allow them to release it as a free downloadable upgrade to Halo PC. Most companies would have just fulfilled the contract and be done with it, but it was Gearbox who went above and beyond to develop what they thought the game could have been.

hmm yeah it is very nice of them

i just wonder why they then just add it into an option at the halo instalation

that way you could have had 1 halo 1 pc game and the same mod tools we know and use

but maybe they didnt had the time to add it

It would have had to recreate the structure of the game, partially. As Dennis said, Microsoft dictated what Halo PC would and wouldn't do from the start; making it restricted. Gearbox created CE entirely on their own for the most part, with their own money and on their own time, just for the community. Though it is partially owned by Bungie and Microsoft, Gearbox holds the licensing for CE itself; they didn't own PC, so they couldn't change it...

It would've been nice to have them both in one program, but I actually like them seperate at the same time. I use PC for actual gaming, and CE for custom maps.

Not everyone has the time/know-how to make a SP map. And even fewer try.

Not enough space on a single CD.

Thank you gearbox :)

I'm making a b30 modification...

Quite a few things to be done.

I think Campaigns are a great way to experiment with new scripts and features. If we use our noodle, we can expand the game farther then ever before.