Yes, yes, and yes. Every person who has made anything worth a damn in blockland and been around here a while knows exactly whats up. Those who praise shaders as greater than maps either never played with real maps or are loving peasants grobbling for their e-points with badspot / bandwagon.
Obviously not, because otherwise everyone would be playing V20.
The only thing I miss from V20 is the occasional skiing down the slopes.
Even if the entire Blockland community wanted maps back, do you really think Badspot is going to do it?
No he will not.
I am not dissing the guy as he has worked on this game for over 10 years, but everyone can see he has gotten tired of it.
We should be happy he even keeps the masterserver alive.
So I really don't see what you guys try to accomplice by making these kinds of posts.
Instead of dwelling on the past, why not look at the future?
[GSF]Ghosts terrain generator will be at least a 1000 times better than maps ever could have been.
-It will actually allow you to mold the terrain exactly the way you want.
-Servers look different because different terrain is generated.
-Buildings actually don't look out of place.
-Beautiful shaders to wrap around the terrain.