Pardon Our (CMT's) Ignorance.

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so if I disagree with you more than once on the same subject it's harassment?
so if I make statements about me being unhappy with obama more than twice, I'm harassing the president?
Didn't know that..

That's not the situation, though. People have said many times in the threads that CMT should/shouldn't use OS. There's nothing wrong with that. jcap in particular has repeatedly insulted and patronized members of the team, including making a whole new thread to argue with us.

Two sequential downloads for one level. Oh dear god I don't think my pea brain can handle it.

FTFY. We're talking HaloMaps here.

Everyone who goes to this forum will be able to handle it just fine. You're just very optimistic that the novice user will be competent enough and not too intimidated by four extra files when every other map (SP or MP) just requires the single .map file, and that the average user with a passing interest will be interested enough to bother downloading.

You assume that people really want to download this. Sure, some do, but in order to get all those people who might download, the process needs to be easy.

Do people remember the days before YouTube? I used to be a regular at HighImpactHalo. As the webmaster Ducain stated, the more steps it takes a user to view your video, the less people will bother. If the video is on some hosting service and isn't a direct download but requires the user to wait, you will lose viewers. If the file is archived, you will lose viewers. Even with YouTube, someone's more likely to watch an embedded video than follow a link. Dennis also showed similar concerns with OS.

That's basically our situation; we want to attract anyone we can to our mod, so we want the fewest steps possible to play the mod. If it requires extra work, we will lose potential players. If it sounds like it will require extra work, then we will lose potential players.

EDIT:

And just how many people are going to be downloading just one level?

Downloads on HaloMaps:
a10 - 45,406
a30 - 27,698
a50 - 23,283
b30 - 24,001
b40 - 23,237
c10 - 16,953
c20 - 14,730
c40 - 16,770
d20 - 13,719
d40 - 19,387

Many.