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Originally Posted by jake13jake
I can say that I waited too long in vain for Exodus to come back with the castle he had supposedly completed. I've assigned at least 5 LATs to the Gnome Caves (2nd Quest), and none of them have done a single level. Floydian came up with a decent gnome house idea and then he disappeared. Hopefully Maximus will get it done. I know he got the Kull's cave system done.
What's left with the castle? Well, I had finished the class scripting for it back in September-October. Exodus had done some of the sewers part, I took that and made it more implementable, Racil helped with some levels. I'm hoping I can catch him online so he can make the rest of the outlines. Pretty much now just the castle's basement and King's chamber. Yet before you can do the castle quest, I have to convince Storm to upgrade his warp ring system, because he has some random idea of how the quest should be initialized.
Once we get past initial run of mainland quests, things will go a lot smoother for a little while. And then all of a sudden, kabaam, more mainland quests. It will be a nightmare.
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Well then, as LAT Admin and a developer, maybe you should get rid of those LATs. Contrary to popular belief, you do not need a team of 8-9 LATs, you can produce well with 2-3 people, that combined have somewhat decent tiling ability, decent scripting ability, and somewhat decent image editing. There was never that big of an active LAT team, a majority of stuff while I was Admin was made by one or two tilers and Tyhm, the filler made by the players. You don't need extremely skilled tilers here.
This is classic, the style is supposed to be somewhat simple, it doesn't matter what
your preference may be. It doesn't matter that you don't like useless levels that you can't use for quests. Part of the big picture of Classic is that it was made by the players, sure the playerhouses didn't attribute much as far as purpose or quests go, but it was filler, it was content, it gave something newbies to explore. What do you have for newbies to explore now, after 1+ years of having the NPC server? Close to nothing, and a lot of empty houses with no links to go with it.
You have lost the fact that this is not a playerworld, but the Classic server, the what used to be the orginal server. You treat it as a playerworld though, both you and Storm. If this was a playerworld, it would have been shut down a long time ago, because it is by far the biggest joke of a playerworld anyone has seen. I think someone posted in the last classic needs reform thread, comparing Classic as it was to the requirements for a playerworld to go up, and it met what, a fourth of them? Its been pretty much stagnant since then, so I doubt we meet a 1/3 of them yet still.
The Manager is by far one of the worst I've seen, in the beginning, yes, Storm did a few things, like the now still very rough HD system and moment system, the bombs, bushes, etc. What does he do now, all I hear from you is how he does close to nothing for the server, and yes, I'd have to agree, when I was with GC, it was hard as hell to get him to approve anything major, all I got was a "hmm", pretty nice PR from the managerm eh? I had to go through Ibonic to get things done, which I really shouldn't have had to do.
The FAQ team, well, does it even exist anymore? Does it even have a use? You have one heart quest on the server now, one, which is a goddamn warp maze that looks like some 10 year old did in 20 minutes, and a small mini quest which while higher in quality by leaps and bounds(which still doesn't say much, that heart quest is downright awful), is short and yields close to no reward(yay a lamp and a graal). The admin of FAQ is
awful. He oversteps his bounds with FAQ regularly, and doesn't even do his own job. As the former admin of the division, the state the division is in now is an embarassment. Thermo doesn't push any sort of hiring, even though his team is nonexistant, and he does his own FAQ time by idling on tag at 5AM when noone is on, and got pissed when I questioned him on it.
The GP team is fine, as much as I like to mess with Stryker, he's a decent admin, doesn't step over his position like some of the former admins into other divisions(hello Chronos). While the GP team coverage is light, thats exactly where it needs to be. There is barely a need for the team in the first place.
There are no script kiddies anymore, no trainers around classic, the only thing I see the GP team able to actually enforce is profanity. The only thing I have a problem with is some of the questionable uses of the gag tool(toy).
GC team? As strong as it ever was. If you compare Classic to a dying patient in a hospital, GC would be the respirator keeping it alive. Without the constant events GC puts out, there would be a lot fewer players than there are now, there is no content or anything else to do on the server besides PK or chat otherwise.
LAT, well I pointed out most of it before, but it needs to pull off what Massokre wants, and turn into actual content, somewhat dedicated to Classic and not a playerworld, and also what the general consenus of players want, open up a goddamn voting booth, accept playerhouses to fill up some of the empty houses all over the place, and focus on producing one piece of content at a time instead of everything, don't pass the buck off on an inactive team, dump the inactive idiots and put some more pressure on yourself, you have very decent scripting abilities, and I'd imagine you could tile to some degree, thats all you need besides a graphics guy every once and awhile. Unlike most developers who you barely see online besides to test content because they are actually producing content, Massokre, you are pretty much the opposite.
Sometimes I wish Tyhm would return, and at least set things up for the better, but I doubt that would happen.
12-01-2005, 02:42 AM
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