: BTW, I am super impressed with the efforts of all of the Community
: Cartographers. I wish you could all be given free "fill in the
: blank" for your work. It is slippery ground fans tread on when
: volunteering to help a developer. Where is the line drawn between
: collaboration and exploitation, for example.

: I've read you're more of the hard core player and yet efforts to enhance that
: style seem to be soundly rejected by the population. What player types
: should be catered to in the future? In your opinion, of course.

Thank you! It's important to remember that this is all as you said, volunteer work. We're not obligated to do any of it. I put in all the work I do because I care about Halo.

I don't know if that's completely fair to say. I think even though many efforts have been made to remove aspects of Infinity and to make things how they used to be in Halo, many of the game's elements simply can't be changed. I strongly believe the population was going to continue to drop no matter what we did (the Community Cartographers) We don't have the power to change aspects of the game that I think people have the most issues with (weapons, scoping, flinch, in game ranks, sprint etc) We do the best we can.

I think the issue is the lack of a balanced, standard gametype. No loadouts, BR/AR start (or whatever solid utility weapon) 2 frags, weapons on map, radar on. I think that's the core Halo gametype that's been missing. Other things come into play as well such as the things I mentioned before (sprint, armor abilities, scoping) It's more than just the gametype although a lot can be done with it.