Stig maybe u should make a thread called "Question the judgment of the feature mods" so this one stays on topic
Alright I'll give a quick reasoning why I haven't featured any of these tracks. Since we get to feature tracks without having to get votes from all feature mods and everyone can just feature tracks they find feature worthy that means not a single mod thought these were feature worthy. I'd like to say that this certainly isn't because we don't want to have your tracks featured. I personally am a big fan of both you guys. Spruces contest entry was pretty much my favorite track from like the past year and citysheps remix contest entry with the factory thing that you start in is also one of my favorite tracks on this database. As we have explained before, we want players to strive to make the best tracks they can and both of these tracks are nowhere near the best you guys can do. Mineral Springs is just a cave track like I've seen a million times with pretty sloppy detail and a not too fun ride imo and dover bay is also a tunnel track that we've seen a bunch of the past year with no points that it truly shines at. Alright that might sound harsh but these tracks are still good but just not what I would consider feature worthy. I didn't feature some of the recent tracks so please don't tell me they're better than those, I'm comparing this to my standard of featured tracks. Again, you guys are great authors but these don't stand out among your tracks for me and I think for the others mods that's the same. That's the way I look at this
I agree with the way you put it, but I only ask one question. Is the goal of a feature for the track to stand out among its author's works, or is it to stand out among the works of all authors? Just playing devils advocate. I don't want to feed the argument, but I feel like this is the one question that has the biggest meaning in this debate.
I believe that a featured track should have a bit of both. It should be good enough to be considered feature worthy and it should be visible that the author really tried hard to make this a great effort. For example, some author could make a heavy detailed cave track and we'd feature it and when the author notices that he creates 10 other heavy detailed cave tracks that are all about as good as the first one but don't do anything exciting. Then I believe that they shouldn't be featured.
How about this. https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/370907-high-peaks This track is best and played nothing like this before.
Read the description lmao, this dude sounds like he's Gollum by referring to himself in the third person
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/50087-stilts-contest-entry Its somewhat large, but the detailing is pretty monotonous at points