Dav Posted July 4, 2004 Report Posted July 4, 2004 It may be a good idea if we had a forum for supporting new zone makers in creating zones, a proper place for thjem to post and get help without being told to go to www.shanky.com/server. It may also be a good idea if a new SS group was formed of zone owners and talented bot programmers / tilers / mappers / settings makers who would agree to help new zones get started and give them some ORIGIONAL content to get up and running with. The forum and a list with a link to the SSForum messaging system was added to SScentral.
Top_Gun Posted July 10, 2004 Report Posted July 10, 2004 agreed. If any help is needed around that forum let me know. I own a zone and have owned many and would be willing to help out from time to time.
50% Packetloss Posted July 10, 2004 Report Posted July 10, 2004 I like to see new zones started but often they never last. So making a bot for these zones is frustrating because there is a lot of work that goes into a bot. I use to help out anyone who asked, but many bot devs and myself have been forced to only help zones that either are successful or have an original idea (meaning no CTF or any idea that has already been done and is being used by a SSC zone). I help people with their bot questions over at forumhq.com and minegoboom.com, but those are the only 2 forum that I consider to be worthy of my time. This place is nice, but the other sites are more focused on helping players with dev work. shanky.com/server is a great site. If a new zone owner cant figure it out there then they use the forum.minegoboom.com, if they still have problems -- then they need to learn a little more about comps before they can run a successful zone. People work for zones that they care about and i don’t see "bot programmers / tilers / mappers / settings makers" ever working together to help out zones that they couldn’t give a rats -*BAD WORD*- about. Forumhq is a good example of this phenomenon, just take a journey over there and you’ll see that only gerbils, suse, pixel, myself and mackie are helping out hundreds of newbs that have just discovered that AIM isn’t the only thing that computers are useful for. Its difficult enough to find 5 people willing to help out some new players with their tech problems, good luck finding people that will devote hours to dev work. Maybe its just my view, but it seems like all you guys want is to aquire some form of popularity. Something that you could do that would give you some type of SS status. Thats the only reason why you would list all your accomplishments in your SIG, like anyone cares.
Dav Posted July 11, 2004 Author Report Posted July 11, 2004 I like to see new zones started but often they never last. So making a bot for these zones is frustrating because there is a lot of work that goes into a bot. I use to help out anyone who asked, but many bot devs and myself have been forced to only help zones that either are successful or have an original idea (meaning no CTF or any idea that has already been done and is being used by a SSC zone). I help people with their bot questions over at forumhq.com and minegoboom.com, but those are the only 2 forum that I consider to be worthy of my time. This place is nice, but the other sites are more focused on helping players with dev work. shanky.com/server is a great site. If a new zone owner cant figure it out there then they use the forum.minegoboom.com, if they still have problems -- then they need to learn a little more about comps before they can run a successful zone. People work for zones that they care about and i don’t see "bot programmers / tilers / mappers / settings makers" ever working together to help out zones that they couldn’t give a rats -*BAD WORD*- about. Forumhq is a good example of this phenomenon, just take a journey over there and you’ll see that only gerbils, suse, pixel, myself and mackie are helping out hundreds of newbs that have just discovered that AIM isn’t the only thing that computers are useful for. Its difficult enough to find 5 people willing to help out some new players with their tech problems, good luck finding people that will devote hours to dev work. Maybe its just my view, but it seems like all you guys want is to aquire some form of popularity. Something that you could do that would give you some type of SS status. Thats the only reason why you would list all your accomplishments in your SIG, like anyone cares.agreed, alot of zone are rip ofs of something that has already been done 100s of time before but alot of zones fail because they do not have the support they require to suceed. A good bot is half the way there, then good graphics, balanced settings and intresting gameplay are required.
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