Proposal system has failed - server selection team disolve
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The help would most certainly be welcome if you folks feel that Waterdeep is where our collective focus should be. There's a great deal of talent between the two of you, Indio and Aelred, and we'd be very lucky to have your help.
To be perfectly honest, I think the OAS is of higher priority than Waterdeep. It's the public face of this community and the only way for *new* players to get into ALFA. So if the OAS team is short handed, I propose that we first help them get online.
To be perfectly honest, I think the OAS is of higher priority than Waterdeep. It's the public face of this community and the only way for *new* players to get into ALFA. So if the OAS team is short handed, I propose that we first help them get online.
Maybe Teric can get a thread started in the NWN2 Team Discussion forum to begin allocating some jobs to be done on the OAS. After that we can move to Waterdeep. Let's get a few servers up, hosted, and actively added to. That's the key.
I think Darren said it best...let's do this work with a mind to getting it to beta. It doesn't have to be pretty or perfect. I admit to feelings of inadequacy when Aelred and Teric post thier shots on occasion, but as Teric himself will tell you, it takes a mountain of time to perfect an exterior.
I think Darren said it best...let's do this work with a mind to getting it to beta. It doesn't have to be pretty or perfect. I admit to feelings of inadequacy when Aelred and Teric post thier shots on occasion, but as Teric himself will tell you, it takes a mountain of time to perfect an exterior.
thats great you blokes are getting together and helping each other out.. with all due respect I think I'll stick to plugging away at what we've got for Moonsea (new computer next week yay!) as we already have a tonne done, just have to put it all together and iron out some walkmesh bugs..
I'll be happy to build some template interiors if people want them as I'll be working on some generic placeholder interiors for the Moonsea anyway..
but this stuff should probably go in a different thread as this thread was put forth as a proposal to disband the selection team.
I'll be happy to build some template interiors if people want them as I'll be working on some generic placeholder interiors for the Moonsea anyway..
but this stuff should probably go in a different thread as this thread was put forth as a proposal to disband the selection team.
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- Teric neDhalir
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Thanks for the offer, everyone, but I think I'm probably ok for the moment... Most of it is actually built in one form or another - most of what I'm doing is just prettification There are a couple of exteriors to create which shouldn't be too stressful (less trees, thank God) but apart from that it's mostly editing. From my perspective I think the OAS does have to be as finished as possible on release - there's no point in opening our "advertising" server and then flannel about how good it's going to be. You will have lost your audience right there.indio wrote:Maybe Teric can get a thread started in the NWN2 Team Discussion forum to begin allocating some jobs to be done on the OAS. After that we can move to Waterdeep. Let's get a few servers up, hosted, and actively added to. That's the key.
What I would like to see is when the OAS goes public there should be a good chunk of other servers in Beta (at whatever stage) so that potential recruits can see what they're potentially signing up for. So get back to work, all of you
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I'm more than happy to have the extra help. There's plenty to do to bring Waterdeep online.
Indio, Aelred:
Thanks for being so selfless. You're showing a real dedication to ALFA by setting aside your own interests for the moment. What a great team quality that is. Thank you.
I've added the two of you to the 01 group. We can discuss the what and the how on our builder forum so as not to sabotage this thread.
Indio, Aelred:
Thanks for being so selfless. You're showing a real dedication to ALFA by setting aside your own interests for the moment. What a great team quality that is. Thank you.
I've added the two of you to the 01 group. We can discuss the what and the how on our builder forum so as not to sabotage this thread.
I fully support any repository for template interiors/exteriors
especially with interiors it is really easy to customize them such that no one can tell they are templates when in-game.
+1 for all the folks who said the toolset is what's driving people away.
especially with interiors it is really easy to customize them such that no one can tell they are templates when in-game.
+1 for all the folks who said the toolset is what's driving people away.
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Now your doing it a much better way! Working together as a collective with 1 server at a time was the idea I put forward back before coach's aggressive stance made the self exiles think of looking elsewhere for our efforts.
Im glad you guys are finally seeing that its the only way forward however im sad in seeing its come about through lack of builders. I would like to chip in my thoughts and ofcourse you can make use of them however. Having got a test server live I feel the cost along the way has been massive, for how small the server is it has just taken sooooo long and this has been down to one big factor interiors. Not only do you have to flesh out interiors, tint and do some nice lighting and the rest but then you have to convert the placeables to environmental and cut them out. Then bug test the place, a bug i recently had to fix was down to double ating doors. Its just so much effort, I love building though and so will trudge on
Im glad you guys are finally seeing that its the only way forward however im sad in seeing its come about through lack of builders. I would like to chip in my thoughts and ofcourse you can make use of them however. Having got a test server live I feel the cost along the way has been massive, for how small the server is it has just taken sooooo long and this has been down to one big factor interiors. Not only do you have to flesh out interiors, tint and do some nice lighting and the rest but then you have to convert the placeables to environmental and cut them out. Then bug test the place, a bug i recently had to fix was down to double ating doors. Its just so much effort, I love building though and so will trudge on
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If there's going to be a group push to get 1 server up for testing/playing wouldn't it be better to choose a server that has more diverse geographies than Waterdeep? I reviewed the proposals and everything beyond the city and what is beneath is planned much further along than its initial build. Choosing a server that has rural and urban features to allow a place for more character classes and backgrounds as the first server pushed to Live would be better for bringing in and keeping players IMO. TSF seems a better pick and has the bonus of already being open for Beta testing.
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I think we are looking at getting both up and going. TSF is farther along and WD needs a bit of a boost.Twiggy wrote:If there's going to be a group push to get 1 server up for testing/playing wouldn't it be better to choose a server that has more diverse geographies than Waterdeep? I reviewed the proposals and everything beyond the city and what is beneath is planned much further along than its initial build. Choosing a server that has rural and urban features to allow a place for more character classes and backgrounds as the first server pushed to Live would be better for bringing in and keeping players IMO. TSF seems a better pick and has the bonus of already being open for Beta testing.