FFA stands for Free For All. It is an area where most of the maps on the server are. Currently, the theme is an airship flying above a lava-filled area, facing a ban hammer. All the maps are located in the sections below the main deck.
Contents
Areas
This page only refers to the individual areas of FFA. For the definitions of the types of maps in each room, see Challenge Types.
Pure Parkour
The Pure Parkour room is located on the left side of the first floor of the airship. It contains maps of various difficulties that fit into the pure parkour map category. Pure parkours can be streamed and recorded freely.
Mixed Parkour
The Pure Parkour room is located on the left side of the second floor of the airship. It contains maps of various difficulties that fit into the mixed parkour map category, meaning the maps may include mazes, puzzles or other challenge types. Mixed parkours can be streamed and recorded freely.
Pure Mazes
The Pure Maze room is located on the right side of the first floor of the airship. It contains maps of various difficulties that fit into the pure maze map categor. Pure mazes can NOT be streamed and recorded. Doing so is a bannable offense and will not be tolerated.
Mixed Mazes
The Mixed Maze room is located on the right side of the second floor of the airship. It contains maps of various difficulties that fit into the mixed maze map category, meaning the maps may include parkours, puzzles or other challenge types. Mixed mazes can NOT be streamed and recorded. Doing so is a bannable offense and will not be tolerated.
Puzzles & Searches
The Puzzles & Searches room is located on the right side of the first floor of the airship. It contains maps of various difficulties that fit into the puzzle or [[search] map category. They may include additional challenge types. Puzzles and searches can NOT be streamed and recorded. Doing so is a bannable offense and will not be tolerated.
Adventure Maps
The Adventure Maps room is located on the right side of the second floor of the airship. It contains maps of various difficulties that fit into the adventure map map category. Adventure Maps can NOT be streamed or recorded. Doing so is a bannable offense and will not be tolerated.
The Bottom Floor
The Bottom Floor, formerly referred to as the "Multiplayer Games and Events Hub" is the closed off room at the bottom of the airship. It was closed off in 2017 due to it's low usage. The room may be re-purposed for something else in the future, but for now it is closed off.
Additional Features
Below are additional features of the FFA airship that don't fit into the Areas category.
Map of The Week
Map of The Week is a small board on the middle-right side of the airship deck where a random map is featured every week.
New Maps
The New Maps board is located on farther right side of the airship's deck. It features the latest maps added that have passed through review and have made it into FFA.
Challenge Boards
The Challenge Board is located on the right side of the airship's deck. It features information on the Daily Challenges as well as a sign to join them.
FFA+
FFA+ is another area with maps meant to give spotlight to maps which are of exceptional quality and as such should be given better treatment than other maps in FFA. The maps in FFA+ maps are voted for every so often by Greens+ in ballots.
Ballots
FFA+ ballots are hosted every so often, usually by a server Admin. The ballot consists of two phases: nomination and voting.
During the nomination phase, ballot participants suggest a maximum of 5 maps to be entered into FFA+. Any map can be nominated, but a participant cannot nominate their own map, or a map that they've worked on significantly. Exceptions may be made for Community Maps as they are usually made by over 5 people at a time. Other participants may agree with the nominations, but not disagree as that's reserved for voting. Maps that have at least 2 nominations go onto the next phase, which is voting.
During voting, participants vote either Yes, Neutral or No for whether a maps nominated should enter the FFA+ area. Participants cannot vote Yes or No on their own maps and are instead encouraged to vote Neutral. Maps that receive over a certain percentage of positive votes (usually around 60%-80%) will exist FFA and enter the FFA+ area.
The Board
The Board is an area for greens+ to submit their maps and review other people's maps. Its predecessor and the opposite of FFA+ is The Valley , which is covered in the next section. Below is an explanation of the map review process.
Review Process
Firstly, maps are submitted on the forums for tracking purposes. This post includes checkpoint coordinates, the map name, its authors and similar.
Next, an Op places the map on The Board and sets the tag on the forum post to "Added to the board". Other players are then given 2 weeks to write their reviews of the map, either anonymously or publicly.
After the two weeks have passed, an Op goes through the reviews and decides if the map is ready for FFA.
The Valley
The Valley was an area where unfinished/rejected maps were put and where maps under review used to be temporarily. It was removed with the introduction of the new checkpoint system because of the existence of The Board and the fact that no one played the rejected maps.