By the basic meaning of Transformice, it should be a game where mice get to transform into different thing to achieve their goal (cheese). Instead, Transformice mostly feature shamaning, racing, bootcamping, and all sort of other competive game. Only a few transform map rarely appear in tfm. Those are the maps that truly represent the meaning of this game, that mice can transform into other things.

I'm here to collect supports for those who want to bring transform map more frequent, and be able to make their own "transform" map, so that there's more fun in Transformice, while they represent the meaning of Transformice. To be more clear, I suggest that this will go into rotation, and mod will tried to perm submission maps from other players.

Some of the already exist transform maps are shown below from a transformice video:

CREDIT: Nickdreadskull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-67-W11rxI

i hope you dont have anything against the ambiguousness of the name~ i think its charming~

User-Made Transformaps would be awful if it was a simple option like Soulmate etc. If it was a new Rotation that has to get permed by mapcrew, then sure.

But I think they only play with less than 25 mice so.

My thoughts exactly!!

Note that "Transformice" is actually meant to be "Transfer-mice". Or mice that transfer cheese to the hole. The "transfor" I'm pretty sure is an error when they named it. Remember that Meli and Tig are French and typos or other pronounciations will vary when translating to english. Besides it sounds better that way.

Iamconz a dit :

User-Made Transformaps would be awful if it was a simple option like Soulmate etc. If it was a new Rotation that has to get permed by mapcrew, then sure.

This is my intention, but thank you for making the point more clearly. Edit post.

Knowntroll a dit :

Note that "Transformice" is actually meant to be "Transfer-mice". Or mice that transfer cheese to the hole. The "transfor" I'm pretty sure is an error when they named it. Remember that Meli and Tig are French and typos or other pronounciations will vary when translating to english. Besides it sounds better that way.

I understand how you feel about this. But according to what you said, Transformice is translate into Transfer-mice, transfer can have multiple meanings. You are looking at "mice transfering cheese", but transfer also mean "to change into something else", and with the "mice" after "transfer", it's very easy to confuse some EN players. Changing the name of the game is obviously not an answer, so if you apply my suggestion into it, there will be a way going around the confusing meaning.

Thank you to bring up the point though! ^^

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Support

/support.

@Knowntroll

It pretty started off a
idea what tig had what was a small project where the mice turned into planks boxes etc.
i got that off tumblur xD

/support

support

Knowntroll a dit :

Note that "Transformice" is actually meant to be "Transfer-mice". Or mice that transfer cheese to the hole. The "transfor" I'm pretty sure is an error when they named it. Remember that Meli and Tig are French and typos or other pronounciations will vary when translating to english. Besides it sounds better that way.

(offtopic)
It was named transformice because of the transformice maps (the maps where mice turn into bricks) but soon after that shamans were added
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/Support

hehe can't wait to unleash my shapeshifting powers

/support

Full /support

Do you mean that the game has to be ENTIRELY about transforming? I think the would be better as a mini game.

/half support. Transform maps in public rooms are absolutely horrible, with all the first whores jumping over you and refusing to help, leaving the people who actually did help with no cheese. I only enjoy transform maps when I'm with friends for the precise reason that the game's community, unless they know you, couldn't care less about helping you out.

Lemodile and I developed a module with this exact idea in mind called #transform. It's based on user-created maps rather than the official ones, and allows for more features such as forcing teamwork, using different shaman objects, forcing creative solutions rather than just spamming boxes, etc. These features together alleviate the problems mentioned in this thread.

As for the suggestion itself, I don't think the way official vanilla transforming maps are meant to work right now is suitable, they have many issues as mentioned in the rest of this thread and would need a lot of of tweaks to make the maps actually fun for most players if there were to be more.

To be honest the vanilla maps show the original concept of transformice iirc?

Knowntroll a dit :

Note that "Transformice" is actually meant to be "Transfer-mice". Or mice that transfer cheese to the hole. The "transfor" I'm pretty sure is an error when they named it. Remember that Meli and Tig are French and typos or other pronounciations will vary when translating to english. Besides it sounds better that way.

Actually melibel said this:

Melibelule a dit :

it's called Transformice because the mice we're supposed to Transform into objects to help other mice. But it was boring for other players so we added the shaman to summon objects.

and /support for the creaater. And your name says knowntroll!