I agree wholeheartedly with what you say Ashrak, and I could point you to a thread on our forums where I have made these exact same points to my players, but, I can tell you from a server owners POV that the Mariokart map is more than a DM map, it's a community map.

Apart from trade/idle maps I have never seen before a map where regular players wish to participate in both DM and friendly behaviour at the same time. It has caused much upset and debate on our servers and there are strong views on both sides, as your quick reply shows.

Note that I did not ask for the whole map/level to be friendly. I would like a room or small area where players can go if they wish to be friendly for a short while, to isolate them from everyone else. Anyone who doesn't wish this does not need to go to the room.

It is a community map and ideally the option of a small friendly area would be a great asset to it in my opinion :-)

Hi Archanor.

Firstly, it's great to see you back mapping and working on Mariokart. Your maps bring so much pleasure to others and you deserve all the credit you receive.

The feeback I have received regarding Mariokart3 is all very positive but it isn't being played quite as much as MK2_b3 due to the lack of world 1.2, so great to see that you are considering adding this in to MK3.

I think 1.2 in MK2 is a near perfect area. Obviously there were problems with engineers camping the cave entrance and exit, but otherwise it was hugely popular due to the extensive mix of fun things to do.

I would ask you to please consider adding a no-kill friendly area (or room), either somewhere in 1.2 or perhaps a small seperate area and call it 1.3. This is the single most request I receive on our Mario servers. Sometimes players just want to take a break from killing and chill or trade. Don't make it easy for them though - if you kindly add this please make them work in order to get to the no-kill area/room, just like you did for 1.2 in MK2. Me and my admins would thank you greatly if you could remove the angst and constant battle and tears caused between "friendlies" and "unfriendlies" trying to live in the same area :-)

I honestly think though that 1.2 was near perfect in MK2, so I struggle to think of other additions to suggest, other than perhaps adding the other bosses to spawn and different ways to trigger them. Mesmarus and the Wheel of fortune would be awesome now I think about it. If you are going for a castle then it has to be Mesmarus doesn't it? :-)

Great work Archanor and thank you very much again from me and on behalf of the thousands of our players who enjoy your awesome creations. We can't wait to see what great additions you come up with next :-)