Keeping the community informed.
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:00 pm
The topic is misleading, of course. I'm talking about keeping a few key players up to date with everything.
I joined this community because I believed I ventured into places noone did. And I was partially right. I wasn't the first to openly share his research points, but it seems like I was the first one to research those points.
And while that thread had some really useful info, noone seems to have absorbed the lessons to be learned there.
Which means one of two things should happen:
1) Keep the key players informed. These are the people that are fairly certain that they will "never leave". Even if the website is empty and dead, they will still visit and tutor the occasional drop-by modder. This seems more plausible.
2) Start a wiki and write the shit out of everything. This requires more effort, but is a less error-prone method.
FTL:overdrive or not, this is something that *everyone* benefits from. I cannot stress this enough. Please communicate with one another. I just browsed the forum and saw that for the third time you "relearned" where the asteroid shower comes from.
As far as modding communities go, a community is only as good as the sum of knowledge it holds. This isn't a "hey i'm whoring for attention" or "are you aware there is people starving in africa" kinda post. This is an honest attempt of nudging the whole community to help itself help every individual member. If you know something works or doesn't work, say it like it is and save the man his time.That time can and will be better spent doing something more feasable, or something that doesn't include nasty side-effects.
You have a very low-level reversing guy, kartoFlane with solid programming experience no less. There's Vashti, with a decent hacking/programming background. There's Kieve the tech-savvy art guy. alextfish, all-round modder. These are your key players. As a newbie, you can only as far as these guys bother explaining
I don't have better words than "someone is doing a bad job of communicating problems and findings". I know my reputation here doesn't amount to much, and that I'm usually the guy that "shoots people down". But I do not gain any joy from "crushing" projects. I gain nothing of value by shooting down ideas, much less get paid for it. But when I go to bed that night, I know I saved someone the trouble of wasting a whole lot of time reaching the end of a dead-end street. And taking 10 minutes to see why your 12 hour venture won't work saves you 11 hours 50 minutes of sweating Moreso if you pick up this skillset just to do that one thing you really want, without first checking if it can be done. This works both ways - if someone shoots you down, you go and prove him wrong and shove your findings in his face. It feels nice when you just say "guys, remember how X couldn't be done? I did it, look". If you manage that you'll get to the key-players list pretty quickly.
Take care of each other You have good people here. Help each other Push the limits together, stop bouncing off the same walls individually.
I joined this community because I believed I ventured into places noone did. And I was partially right. I wasn't the first to openly share his research points, but it seems like I was the first one to research those points.
And while that thread had some really useful info, noone seems to have absorbed the lessons to be learned there.
Which means one of two things should happen:
1) Keep the key players informed. These are the people that are fairly certain that they will "never leave". Even if the website is empty and dead, they will still visit and tutor the occasional drop-by modder. This seems more plausible.
2) Start a wiki and write the shit out of everything. This requires more effort, but is a less error-prone method.
FTL:overdrive or not, this is something that *everyone* benefits from. I cannot stress this enough. Please communicate with one another. I just browsed the forum and saw that for the third time you "relearned" where the asteroid shower comes from.
As far as modding communities go, a community is only as good as the sum of knowledge it holds. This isn't a "hey i'm whoring for attention" or "are you aware there is people starving in africa" kinda post. This is an honest attempt of nudging the whole community to help itself help every individual member. If you know something works or doesn't work, say it like it is and save the man his time.That time can and will be better spent doing something more feasable, or something that doesn't include nasty side-effects.
You have a very low-level reversing guy, kartoFlane with solid programming experience no less. There's Vashti, with a decent hacking/programming background. There's Kieve the tech-savvy art guy. alextfish, all-round modder. These are your key players. As a newbie, you can only as far as these guys bother explaining
I don't have better words than "someone is doing a bad job of communicating problems and findings". I know my reputation here doesn't amount to much, and that I'm usually the guy that "shoots people down". But I do not gain any joy from "crushing" projects. I gain nothing of value by shooting down ideas, much less get paid for it. But when I go to bed that night, I know I saved someone the trouble of wasting a whole lot of time reaching the end of a dead-end street. And taking 10 minutes to see why your 12 hour venture won't work saves you 11 hours 50 minutes of sweating
Moreso if you pick up this skillset just to do that one thing you really want, without first checking if it can be done. This works both ways - if someone shoots you down, you go and prove him wrong and shove your findings in his face. It feels nice when you just say "guys, remember how X couldn't be done? I did it, look". If you manage that you'll get to the key-players list pretty quickly.Take care of each other
You have good people here. Help each other Push the limits together, stop bouncing off the same walls individually.
I'm a bit too perennial to be considered anything like "key" but my ego appreciates the mention