SMBX Level Designer Tier List By Request - SLAM disclaimer added

Archived · Postby **Archived** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 3:38 am

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Postby **Ness-Wednesday** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:08 am

You mentioned recent content, so I guess I'll give this a yes for my name.

FireyPaperMario · Postby **FireyPaperMario** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 5:30 am

My best guess is I'm a "D" tier, since my AVLC entry got 23rd place

Akromaly · Postby **Akromaly** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 7:09 am

Hm yeah I'm in with this one

Cedur · Postby **Cedur** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 7:43 am

Are you deciding tier placements yourself?

Archived · Postby **Archived** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 3:25 pm

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cato · Postby **cato** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:37 am

I guess I am B then. ( From the perspective of my levels in my project )

Cedur · Postby **Cedur** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:46 am

Honestly Ness' AVLC level was the most exciting of all to me and I really can't understand why it placed so low. Sure the blasters were roary but that's something he couldn't have done anything about. This level was still extraordinarily creative and fun so it should have placed top 5 at least (in fact, it was my winning candidate).
I may agree that Ness is overdoing things at times but I think he should at least be placed in B tier (the wording literally matches the problem, "the one thing that's missing to A")

Teemster2 · Postby **Teemster2** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:44 am

Cedur wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 08, 2020 7:43 am
Are you deciding tier placements yourself?

He should have multiple judges or a voting system as 1 or 2 could end up being biased towards what they like to play or have favoritism. Also this could end up causing some people who are not as good to get discouraged but I do like that eclipsed seems to give good advice to help those people out.

I think this could be ok if done right as new members were wanting more advice for levels and episodes and may actually encourage some to do better.

Archived · Postby **Archived** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:51 pm

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MECHDRAGON777 · Postby **MECHDRAGON777** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:34 pm

In multiple calls, I was told tiers are "S, A, B, C, D, E, W" where "W" stood for Wild as in "Wild Card". I was also told I was W tier only due to my levels ranging from High A tier to low C tier. You played my levels over the years and you know this. Out of the levels you played released in February, we will ignore "どこようがんのうごきおするのでちきゅうます.lvl" as that is a level made back in 1.3 in the Spring Vanilla level Contest. It was also last place due to me testing something out with lava and layer movement. We should also ignore "Tesseract Redux" due to the fact it was purposely bad as a joke. That would leave:

Thunderstorm Tempo Temple
Connect Four in SMBX (Not a level really)
Pyro Peaks
Abyssopelagic Aqueduct (First version)
Glacial Growth
Xenial Xeriscape
Stellar Station

Of those, We all can agree TTT was not that great. Also, my first water level, "Abyssopelagic Aqueduct (version 1)" was not good and quite repetitive. Xenial Xeriscape was not even test that well since I was forcing myself to be on a time crunch. That leaves Pyro Peaks, Glacial Growth, and Stellar Station. Glacial Growth was too short to say anything about. I would personaly see this as C or B tier. Pyro Peaks is a level you told me you enjoyed and a lot of people seem to like it, so I would say that qualifies for A tier. Stellar Station is the level I am most proud of and think is the best out of the Bunch. These would be my rankings for my own levels in the past month:

Thunderstorm Tempo Temple (C)
Connect Four in SMBX (W)
Pyro Peaks (A)
Abyssopelagic Aqueduct (First version) (C)
Glacial Growth (C)
Xenial Xeriscape (B)
Stellar Station (A)
Tesseract Redux (E)

I would prefer a tier list for playing skill personally.

Archived · Postby **Archived** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:49 pm

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Chipss · Postby **Chipss** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:43 pm

Hmm. Interesting. I’d be curious to see what my rank would be. Although I’m not sure if I have enough of my content actually released yet to constitute a fair ranking.

Postby **Valentine** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:03 pm

try me bitch.

Cedur · Postby **Cedur** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:12 pm

MECHDRAGON777 wrote:We all can agree TTT was not that great.

Fun fact the Mosaic Contest is still going on, I haven't even submitted my judging of that level yet. I'd say publishing the level and talking about it was a little indiscrete.

Eclipsed wrote:You have failed to account for more than only his AVLC level. His 3 most recent levels include Cloud 9 and Memezuh two of which were all over the place. Even if the AVLC level did not have all those problems. His other two levels would have dragged his rating down to a C overall. Moreover, there are a lot more people in the B/B- tier that have shown more consistency with their recent design.

Fair.

Teemster2 wrote:Also this could end up causing some people who are not as good to get discouraged but I do like that eclipsed seems to give good advice to help those people out.

I think this could be ok if done right as new members were wanting more advice for levels and episodes and may actually encourage some to do better.

^^^^
I also hope that this turns out a productive encouraging of LDers rather than a popularity contest

Postby **ShadowStarX** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:13 pm

Well I don't really release much content.
But if I have a place somewhere, I'd like to know.

Archived · Postby **Archived** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:39 pm

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Postby **Ness-Wednesday** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:41 pm

Cedur wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:12 pm
Fun fact the Mosaic Contest is still going on, I haven't even submitted my judging of that level yet. I'd say publishing the level and talking about it was a little indiscrete.

Huh. I've been wondering what's going on with the Mosaic contest lol.

Archived · Postby **Archived** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:47 pm

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MECHDRAGON777 · Postby **MECHDRAGON777** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:19 am

Cedur wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:12 pm

MECHDRAGON777 wrote:We all can agree TTT was not that great.

Fun fact the Mosaic Contest is still going on, I haven't even submitted my judging of that level yet. I'd say publishing the level and talking about it was a little indiscrete.

Eclipsed wrote:You have failed to account for more than only his AVLC level. His 3 most recent levels include Cloud 9 and Memezuh two of which were all over the place. Even if the AVLC level did not have all those problems. His other two levels would have dragged his rating down to a C overall. Moreover, there are a lot more people in the B/B- tier that have shown more consistency with their recent design.

Fair.

Teemster2 wrote:Also this could end up causing some people who are not as good to get discouraged but I do like that eclipsed seems to give good advice to help those people out.

I think this could be ok if done right as new members were wanting more advice for levels and episodes and may actually encourage some to do better.

^^^^
I also hope that this turns out a productive encouraging of LDers rather than a popularity contest

I was asking about that level for over a month and Mosaic gave me the okay to release it on Leap Day when I asked back in January.