posted 11-30-02 10:34 AM CT (US)
If you want to 208 Tanneur99*: Luke Gevaerts started the review request thread 03/30/2002, some reviewers left or lost interest in the review process since then. The inactive list got long during the last months and took up too much space. I remove reviewers from the inactive list after 12 months of inactivity. We need more reviewers, active reviewers, and I hope that many return to reviewing again. Find your name above and please post a review to become active again. If your name is not listed inactive anymore, your last review dates before 09/30/04. You can reenter the thread after one posted review only. Updates Recent updates, reviews to edit (In order of date of the update): 02/16/05 Battle of Falkirk, by sSc_Cobra007; Reviewer: Sceletar Hall of Fame 938 total plus 2392 below = 3330. [This message has been edited by Tanneur99 (edited 11-09-2005 @ 09:21 PM).]
Please note the different ratings for Balance, for Multiplayer you rate nothing but the starting position; this refers to the respective paragraph in the tutorial and read post 264 of this thread. Another exception are scenarios where fighting was not intended by the author, a 100% cut-scene receives an automatic five for example. Some things are self evident when reviewing. If the scenario is designed for AoK review it playing AoK, if you think it's too easy on standard, play a higher level or vice wersa.
A utility is a tool for the designer and has hardly any use for the player; keep this in mind when you rate utilities for USEFULNESS/NOVELTY and QUALITY/INSTRUCTIONS. Often you cannot rate the novelty factor; it is another eye candy map of LotR, Volcano, Waterfall, Trigger Guide, Tutorial or collection of battle sounds, in other words not new. Originally the fifth category was creativity; but to close to novelty to have an extra category, best to rate novelty together with creativity if possible and when you feel that novelty does not apply, you can well replace it with creativity. The four categories are of equal importance for the overall rating of a utility.
A MPS is mainly an item for the player, which has a limited use for designers; keep this in mind when you rate mod pack scripts for USEFULNESS/NOVELTY and QUALITY/INSTRUCTIONS. The main categories are usefulness and quality for the overall rating of a MPS; use novelty and instructions to correct the category rating. Still, for a perfect rating the MPS has to excel in all four categories.
The first question to ask is what is the AI intended to do and how well does it perform in that specific area. There are AI-files developed for scenario design, as trainer, for specific maps, for death match, as tournament AI, defensive or aggressive files, for water maps or land maps only. If the AI-file is developed for AoK test it only playing AoK. To rate an AI from your own playing experience against it might be biased unless it cheats. Cheating AI-files, as forbidden for tournaments, are meant to play against human players. A good indication to test a non cheating AI is against the standard AI. If its performance compares to the standard one, it is average and its minimum rating a 3. Rate the AI-file according to its time, many AI-files were developed to beat another specific one, it would be unfair to knock off points of an AI developed in 2000 because it looses against a recent one.
Thread Reviewers (In order of no. of posted reviews):
marked *=official reviewer of HG.
-94 Lord_Fadawah:
-37 rwilde: Single Player, Utilities
-24 RF_Gandalf*:
-18 Berserker Jerker*:
-18 Medieval Warfare: Single Player, Utilities
-14 Stephen Richards: Single Player
--6 Luke_Feanor: Single Player, Utilities
--5 Rangar: Single Player
Currently inactive Thread Reviewers (In order of time of inactivity):
13 Sceletar: Single Player, Utilities
21 AnastasiaKafka*: Single Player, Utilities
04 Chewmen_zak: Single Player, Utilities
11 WildCardDoW:
30 zyxomma100:
10 kevingamer prime:
91 BrandNewCar*: Single Player
25 Magnum Zero:
04 nathbert:
06 King Joshua III: Single Player
12 DarckRedd:
Review List
The below list consists of downloads recently rated by thread reviewers. Requests are marked R and will be added at the bottom of each list. Thread reviewers are free to review whatever they want, but should be aware that
Campaigns:
R Lonely Singing Angel v1-0a, by paladin_maker0, No Reviewer
R Reign of Wolves(English Version!), Khan Ivayl; Reviewer: Berserker Jerker
R Reign of Wolves(German Version!), Khan Ivayl; Reviewer: Tanneur99
R The Pirate Outcast: The Campain, by jackdeathwish; Reviewer: Tanneur99
R The assault to the Rochelle, Rat del desierto; Stephen Richards
Byzantines vs. Huns v 1.00, by Suboai; rwilde
Teuton in Love, by oliver; rwilde
Oppenent Vs Siegfried (And marth?) (VERY FUNNY), by The_Follows; rwilde
RISK - Crusader, by King Bob VI; Rangar
Myth of Tomorrow - Teaser, by paladin-makr0; Rangar
The Adventures of Sir Asterix, by Tzekel_Kan; Tanneur99
R HCC - Athelstan, Emperor of the World of Britain, by Stephen Richards; Reviewer: Luke_Feanor, Tanneur99
Single Player:
R Run, homer, Run 1.0, by terrythewhite; on hold until edited
R Eye Candy City Template, by HeroPatrick; No Reviewer
R LOAM 2, by jackdeathwish; Reviewer: Tanneur99
R The Defence 2 - Black Opening, by Peej; No Reviewer
Naval Warfare - Pisa And Genoa (1284), by pinoyballa; rwilde
Theoderic the Goth, by Joan of Florida; Tanneur99
R Siege of Viena, by pepin yeah0; Reviewer: Stephen Richards
The Partisans, by gaston; rwilde
Multiplayer:
R Middle Earth Reloaded, by ax_man1; No Reviewer
R World Map_Kings and Empires v 0.1, by Highlander_FFS; No Reviewer
R Wrath of the Gods, by Era Productions; No Reviewer
R Forgotten RPG, by sSc_Cobra007; No reviewer
R Helm's Deep - Control the Monuments, by BIHSting; No Reviewer
R Project K, by Polemistis, No Reviewer
R Battle of Agincourt, by sSc_Cobra007; No Reviewer
R R-A-V-E-N's War game, by ACR4V3N; No Reviewer
R Undead 3
AI Files:
Ultimate RPG AI, by Jedi Master Bryl; Berserker Jerker
Projectile Detection, by Jedi Master Bryl; Berserker Jerker
Taunt Detector, by paul the ewok; Berserker Jerker
Mod Packs:
R rUiNs oF bLoOd Modpack, by DarckRedd; Reviewer: AnastasiaKafka
R Sacred Entrance, by The X King; No Reviewer
RMS:
R The Hunted, by Magnum Zero; No Reviewer
Utilities:
Aoc Recgame Manager ver0.2, by bari; Lord_Fadawah
Age of Empires & Age of Kings Campaign Manager, by Lloyd Kinsella; Medieval Warfare
AoK-TC Night Scenes, by Berserker Jerker; rwilde
Please edit your review after an update. A designer can ask for the removal of all reviews after an update if he feels that they do not represent the actual version of his submission. Reviews that address issues that are fixed, altered, ameliorated do not serve the visitors of our site. A review has to be a valuable tool for the designer and the downloader.
02/17/05 Run, homer, Run 1.0, by terrythewhite; Reviewer: Medieval Warfare
02/18/05 Maldon, 991 AD, by Exar; Reviewer: nathbert
03/26/05 ~The War of ~TROY~, by Sceletar; Reviewer: Ruler of Hell, WildcardDow, Leinad le Grand
06/23/05 Hrolf's Adventure (Updated), by GeodesicDragon; Reviewer:rwilde
06/27/05 Siege of the White City,by WhiteTreePaladin; Reviewer: King Bob VI
07/07/05 Siege of Gondor ver 2.1, by AmericanIdiot14; Reviewer: rwilde
07/09/05 Lonely Singing Angel v2-0b (Update:7/10), by paladin_maker0; Reviewer ThUnDeR77
This is the review request thread, I cannot consider review requests posted in other threads of the SD forum or other forums of the Age of Kings Heaven Forums, nor can I consider posts of reviewers in these threads or forums announcing that they review one of the requests of the review request thread. The same applies, but is not limited to posts of designers informing that a certain reviewer will review their work unless the reviewer posts his promise in this thread.
Review Thread History
64 clayperboy
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Don't ask me why, the number of downloads tell me this. Probably Anastasia is right when she proposes to rate first a scenario you really enjoyed. 
