Hi!
I think it would be nice (and easy to implement, I believe) if the game could look for game maps in a user subfolder in the configuration folder (~/.hedgewars/maps in linux, for example) in addition to the map folder that is in the system path where hedgewars is installed.

I have the system files and the user home files in different disk partitions and I don't like to mess adding custom files to the system folders, because I sometimes format and reinstall the system partition.

Keeping an additional map folder in the user space would avoid storing the user custom files in the system folders that might get reseted after a reinstall or that might require administrator password for adding new maps, or perhaps you just want to have different custom maps for different users of the OS.

Also, since admin password won't be needed perhaps this could be the first step on a feature for the user to auto-download the custom maps from the servers when playing online on unknown new maps, which would bring more exposure to the new maps and it would be easier to get them.

Thanks!