CEONSS

After comparing the amount of players on each map, how often they were played, and how long the matches went, I isolated the green maps on the right side as the most promising ones for an edit. The idea behind the public testing was to both receive ideas about what should be changed, but also to figure out if these maps would be accepted well by our player base. In the past, our mappers have poured countless hours into maps that people simply never played, so we were hoping to avoid this in the future.
At the same time, the metrics that I used are also a bit flawed, because they are highly dependent on how well optimized a map already was at the time of the public testing, and the average play time is especially dependent on the node setup/layout, which is often one of the major or first things that we edit. So I did not exclusively limit myself to looking into the maps on the far right side.

Meadowlands is the one the received an edit first, because it was also one of the qualitively best ones and seemed to be liked well.
Downtown seems great, but I haven't figured out yet which pre-existing edit would be the best as a basis for an edit for us. There are a few edits out there already, with some weird differences (textures looking great in one version and shit in another). I need to do more groundwork before I can tackle that one.
IronFist is oddly familiar to me and I'm hoping there is already an edit of it floating around, but I can't find anything.
I decided to edit Julia despite it not being on the list on the right side because I personally liked it a lot, and had many ideas for an edit.
ONS-FBU-Stonehaven was one that our players seemed to like based on the in-game chat, but the main verdict was "it is too big" and I haven't been able to figure out how to shrink a map in the editor...

The problem is that I'm the only left doing any editing for CEONSS, so while the maps from the testing are "next in line" for an edit, they will only receive one when I can get around to it, and only if I have the necessary editing skills to make the changes.

I considered posting a long analysis of the testing results in the testing thread, but no one seemed too interested in the topic. And I also didn't feel like potentially arguing about the metrics that I used to come up with the list of maps to edit if I'm effectively the only one doing any work anyway. I decided to be less strict about only editing the green maps on the right side and decided that the "motivation of the editor to edit this map" needed to play a bigger role as well, and that is how we got ONS-Julia.

In the end, I will just pick maps that seem reasonably worthwhile to me from the testing project for my next edits. In the meantime I received an offer to use a map from OMNI that would need to be "de-omnified" but might make a nice addition to the server. I'm hoping I can do some editing once I'm on maternity leave, but realistically new maps will be few and far between.

On that note, if you have a personal favorite among the maps that we tested, Joe, and you read this entire block of text by some miracle, let me know and I will take a look at that map next.