Just Build for the longest time has had no proper map voting, and why would it? Just Build, for a building game, doesn’t really need map voting, doesn’t it? Well, maybe we can rework a few things to make that happen.
First of all, we need to solve these problems:
• Seasonal Maps
• No Map Variety
• No Easy Way to predict Build Topics
Seasonal Maps
Seasonal maps are a thing in Just Build (primarily for Halloween and Christmas), however they pose a problem. These seasonal maps force us to build what’s related to those maps all the time until those seasonal maps go away. Every other gamemode has seasonal content completely optional outside of Just Build where, as I said before, is forced upon you.
No Map Variety
Just Build always had the same map. There’s no variety in them, which is causing the map itself to feel boring. Sure, seasonal maps do bring variety, but A. Its only during holiday seasons, B. You MUST build related to the map. So there’s currently no real win here.
No Easy Way to predict Build Topics
Now you might be asking: “Didn’t they add the ability to vote for topics?” and I say yes they did. So why am I mentioning this? Well the fact that 5 topics appear seemingly at random is something that we can’t easily predict. You may get a good selection or a bad one. You just don’t know it. It’s just not predictable.
How do we solve these problems?
The answer is a new theme selection menu and a rework on when topics appear.
Yes. These aren’t real maps that I made myself for this post, but you get the idea.
It’s a similar way of voting maps, but here I call them Themes. This allows us to play any seasonal map and their topics completely optional, have variety in the overall look of Just Build, and allows topics to be more easily predicted.
But what about the maps we currently have?
Those maps wont be removed from the game, as they will appear in the theme selection menu. What will be changed about them is the topics that appear within.
Isn’t there already something called “Themes” in the game?
Yes. And to that I say needs to be renamed for this to happen. I’ve been calling them “Topics” throughout this post, because we have the themes for those topics to go into, and each theme will have their own set of topics to build from. Just simply rename the current Themes to Topics.
How will these “Themes” affect gameplay outside of the actual map visuals?
Each theme will contain their own set of build topics. Think of the Halloween or Christmas seasonal maps as an example. Both those maps have their own set of topics that we build upon and is more predictable than the standard map we have. Here’s an example:
I guess this is the closest we will get to a Content Update for Just Build, and I feel like the gamemode would benefit from this idea.