so you're a modder who makes custom/fan maps to a BF2 mod.... and you refuse to call your work modding?
*aww... my head hurts, on that specific place right above my right temple*
Well, i dont =) I think its more proper to call it map-making, becouse like i said, if one would call all maps modding then one could consider all official FH2 maps as mods of FH2 no? As they all have (or at least that is the point) provide diffrent gameplay, so if one would be really extreme in taking the word modding, he could say that they all modify gameplay (like all custom maps do, in "custom" not the ones created by official crew of FH2 i guess) =)
Therefore, i think it is natural to split modding and mapping into two diffrent categories even if they sometimes overlap eachother. I mean, making map sometimes means to manipulate code or graphics to make it map specific, you could call it modifying, but the porpose is diffrent and it would be confusing with modding overally. For exemple, "Hey people! Lets play Operation Cobra mod!" would be confusing... Same with exemple, "Hey people! Lets play Warsaw Uprising mod!" would also be confusing... As mod, is something generally accepted as an modification that manipulates/replaces smaller or bigger parts of the modification source (here BF2 is source, and FH2 is mod). And i am yet to meet an exemple of a "mod" by this definition that can be played at the same time as its vanilla (like if BF2 players could join FH2 server and vice-versa). That is, where i would say, mapping and modding are taking two diffrent paths =) As my "mod" by your definition Warsaw Uprising, can be played without any modifications to existing FH2 and BF2 files
But i guess, in the end, its all about what each one of us want a word to be, as words are only and always, an attempt visualisation of our intellect, nothing more, nothing less.
The exemple about FH2 WaW turnament shows that some map packs are "accepted" while others are "not accepted" through =) Nothing against that turnament, it was fun, just an exemple =)
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Allright, updated