Why Is Squad Battles Dead??????

[TheBigRedOne]

I've long thought JTS should add a proper map editor to the SB title series that would allow players to create their own maps, rather than as now having to use the ones the games come with over and over again to design new scenarios on. 

I have no problem with the UI and, I have to admit SB is by far my favorite of all the JTS titles I own.

But a proper map editor would be a simple way to breath a new life into the game.

Spud.

The Map Editor debate is one that has gone on the entire lifespan of the series.  In realistic terms, I doubt that it would have created more sales of the games, which would be the point of doing something like this (from Tiller's perspective).  SB is a pretty niche game, so the numbers are always going to be modest in terms of sales.

There is a map editor with the game, just not a full one.  There have been hundreds of custom scenarios made from the stock maps.  I don't think a map editor would have increased those numbers by that much overall.  Tiller put fairly huge maps for all the game so that would-be scenario designers could explore things.  At the end of the day, there were only a small handful of folks out there creating new scenarios and releasing them to the general SB community.