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Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-18T14:00:24+02:00

Softly wrote:
What would you say is one of the most important thing you've learnt from managing communities in the past Giebmasse?

Be a part of the community yourself, don't just manage it. I'd say that is one of the most important things, I could go more into details about it but in essence that's how I feel.

Statistics: Posted by Viba — 18 Nov 2016, 14:00

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-18T02:58:02+02:00

What would you say is one of the most important thing you've learnt from managing communities in the past Giebmasse?

Statistics: Posted by Softly — 18 Nov 2016, 02:58

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-09T16:41:17+02:00

EcoNoob wrote:
I wholeheartedly support these ideas. I think the experience and vision of Giebmasse will make him an excellent PC. Although I cannot vote on 8 november (I'm going to watch the chaos of some less important election in Washington DC) you have my full support.

no problem EcoNoob, did you really think this would really happen at the 8th?
[EDIT:] my fault, I misread the year of cause it will happen at the 8th

Statistics: Posted by CookieNoob — 09 Nov 2016, 16:41

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-07T18:02:55+02:00

i can't see how the maps he plays qualify as criteria for voting,,

Statistics: Posted by UFO_113 — 07 Nov 2016, 18:02

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-07T03:27:29+02:00

I'd vote for Gieb if he played other maps a bit more. Seton's clutch is repetitive and everyone has a set meta, which limits creativity.

Statistics: Posted by Lieutenant Lich — 07 Nov 2016, 03:27

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-05T16:50:05+02:00

I wholeheartedly support these ideas. I think the experience and vision of Giebmasse will make him an excellent PC. Although I cannot vote on 8 november (I'm going to watch the chaos of some less important election in Washington DC) you have my full support.

Statistics: Posted by EcoNoob — 05 Nov 2016, 16:50

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-05T13:49:41+02:00

Convinced me on a formal and content-related level. His concepts are the best presented of the three. Also his suggested improvements, though ambitious, seem to be the best for a general improvement of the FAF community, esp. since he seems to focuse more on improving what's already there instead of trying to make new stuff, which is probably more realistic and easier for the community who doesn't read the forum to use and appreciate.

Statistics: Posted by Yakmann — 05 Nov 2016, 13:49

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-04T21:16:08+02:00

i'd rather vote for a Loyalist, but engineer will have to do

Statistics: Posted by UFO_113 — 04 Nov 2016, 21:16

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-04T21:13:57+02:00

He's also an engineer, full-time which means he is used to a more demanding, professional world which is key in my book.

Statistics: Posted by Morax — 04 Nov 2016, 21:13

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-04T15:51:41+02:00

Gieb is full of valor as of kindness;
Princely in both.

And thus, my most loving subject, you have my faith

Statistics: Posted by Hildegard — 04 Nov 2016, 15:51

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-04T14:17:49+02:00

tatsu wrote:
Exotic_Retard wrote:(especially the points which are directly related to coding features; expect 0 results from those)

^ THIS.

Just to clarify, I don't have any real programming education so to say. But I made my first webpage when I was 10-11 years old, I know the SQF scripting language used in ArmA -game series like the back of my hand (similarities with python, java, C++). I've fiddled around with perl, python, php, C++ and scala, mainly minor things, but I'm not unfamiliar with programming.

Quite absurd saying that there is zero results to be expected from coding features. In no way am I saying I will singlehandedly program everything, but I've been lurking around and would like to start coding again...

Statistics: Posted by Viba — 04 Nov 2016, 14:17

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-04T13:08:43+02:00

Exotic_Retard wrote:
(especially the points which are directly related to coding features; expect 0 results from those)

^ THIS.

other than that sure why not.

Viba wrote:
Where is the can-do attitude in the community? The positive team spirit? Often when something, somewhere is proposed it sadly gets to this "it cannot be done" -circle jerk

huh. can't help but adore this statement. I might even make it my sig. I really agree with both point of views. I don't think they're in opposition too. I can only hope more people get sick and tired of this "cannot be done" circle jerk syndrome we have here on FAF, Viba.

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 04 Nov 2016, 13:08

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-03T01:48:37+02:00

Exotic_Retard wrote:
tempted to quote gieb here and say wheres that can-do attitude xD

I can do something to improve FAF, and that something is to vote for Giebmasse <3

Statistics: Posted by Softly — 03 Nov 2016, 01:48

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-02T22:58:52+02:00

ofc im not expecting everything to be done in 2 weeks xD

however, i am expecting that the current dev team will not do a bunch of stuff you have on that list, or take a couple of months to do even one item on there thats technically inclined.

obviously, if they do even one thing thats already a benefit, so im cool with that. but i dont expect all things to be done and i find most of them being done also unlikely.

its not that they are impossible to do, its impossible to do them all in less than 5 years time at current speeds xD

to achieve that you would need to work hard and get a whole lot of new devs or inspire/make existing ones to those things for you, possibly pulling them away from other work.
possible? maybe. if you do pull that off then, only respect to you.
if you dont pull that off, well not really a bad thing, you tried at least.
if you dont pull it off and get nothing done as well, well in that case its a waste of time, but tbh i dont see this one happening either, so really we are probably gonna have a positive experience if you were PC. thats all.

Viba wrote:
Where is the can-do attitude in the community? The positive team spirit? Often when something, somewhere is proposed it sadly gets to this "it cannot be done" -circle jerk which I start to find a bit amusing.

Spoiler: show

tldr - ideas on their own are pretty worthless here, everyone has them. what we lack most is people who make them a reality. <3

also:

Simply isn't true, the moment you want to do something that some people oppose you're stuffed. That's what a PC will be able to sort out.

For what its worth, I think that Giebmasse has the skills and experience to match the points he's making above; I certainly know I'd enjoy working with him more.

One thing I am feeling positive about is the recognition by all candidates that the status quo isn't good enough, and that we can do better.

Spoiler: show

Statistics: Posted by Exotic_Retard — 02 Nov 2016, 22:58

Re: Giebmasse for Player Councilor

2016-11-02T22:09:05+02:00

Mainly in response to Exotic_Retard's post, but also in general to the community.

Sorry if I'm being blunt, but this is my view so far mostly as an observer: Where is the can-do attitude in the community? The positive team spirit? Often when something, somewhere is proposed it sadly gets to this "it cannot be done" -circle jerk which I start to find a bit amusing. I understand development is based on free-time, with limited amount of people etc. Still the atmosphere could be better and more inspiring so to say

In my opinion things I listed are not major coding tasks, not anything like rework the connections for the game or make game support multithreading better. Sure I listed a bunch of things, but none which I don't see as realistic. It will take some time to get things done and maybe not everything gets done. In my opinion, it is good to have ideas and start crossing them off one by one. If some good momentum can be gained, maybe the overall attitude/mentality in the community will change too With that maybe the contributing efforts grow too.

Web page, database input, UI changes and API implementation, CRM type of functionality for reports. That is the "stalk" of my ideas in terms of coding efforts required, rest is pretty much about content generation. Seems feasible to me? Unless you're expecting everything to be done in two weeks...

Statistics: Posted by Viba — 02 Nov 2016, 22:09