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Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-07-21T00:00:22+02:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5KGNH7TF74

Statistics: Posted by SeraphimLeftNut — 21 Jul 2016, 00:00

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-07-20T19:16:37+02:00

What is the council of setons supposed to do?

How do we measure success?

Statistics: Posted by Softly — 20 Jul 2016, 19:16

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-03-12T04:10:59+02:00

I would personally like to push a vote for PascalP as player councillor.

HEIL FAF

Statistics: Posted by Nanotech33 — 12 Mar 2016, 04:10

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-03-01T18:07:04+02:00

Morax wrote:
It's dead because forum message boards are not efficient in storing and sharing information. The old threads get buried deep and no one wants to become a human "Google" to search a messy wiki, either.

I'd love to take a shot at mapping but screw me if I have spare time to piece everything together well.

hmu if you need any help, if you decide to start xD

Statistics: Posted by biass — 01 Mar 2016, 18:07

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-03-01T18:00:41+02:00

It's dead because forum message boards are not efficient in storing and sharing information. The old threads get buried deep and no one wants to become a human "Google" to search a messy wiki, either.

I'd love to take a shot at mapping but screw me if I have spare time to piece everything together well.

Statistics: Posted by Morax — 01 Mar 2016, 18:00

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-03-01T13:37:24+02:00

yorick wrote:
PS: maybe a #mapping irc channel ?

The problem with that is that it would be just like the forum for mapping;

Dead.

Statistics: Posted by biass — 01 Mar 2016, 13:37

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-29T21:03:54+02:00

Mod and Mapping, Promote, Player, there 3 are free, spots are filling at the rate of average setons game. No wonder about the name anymore...

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 29 Feb 2016, 21:03

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-29T20:53:16+02:00

speed2 wrote:
I had an idea about two tabs in map vault, one for all maps and one for "featured maps" which would be collections of the really good maps. But again this requires coding, so won't happen.

I like this idea, why crawl though the map vault yourself when you can have someone else do it . In general if you have some "smallish" idea like that , but cant code it you can always open a "issue" ( in this case a suggestion) on github and hope some coder will have a look ( ofc this also depends on how difficult it is). Atleast the chances of it getting implemented are way higher then on a forum post.

Regarding the wiki stuff, i tried to create a wiki account as well (pre server change) and havent heard anything since. Admittedly i didnt pursue it any further whatsoever .

i'm not sure if there is a need for a mapping councilor, i cant think of much stuff that this councilor would do. Based on that it could be added to another councilors tasks or a new mapping/modding/coop/featured mods councilor could be made. ( if this doesnt exist already, i dont really know what the current council seats are )

PS: maybe a #mapping irc channel ?

Statistics: Posted by yorick — 29 Feb 2016, 20:53

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-29T17:49:11+02:00

Well I was going to get started with that but the wiki registration page is broken at the moment.

I can't update the "how-to" section to reference my initial tutorial on hot-build-keys, etc.

Statistics: Posted by Morax — 29 Feb 2016, 17:49

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-29T17:31:00+02:00

I'm not against it, just was curious about the ideas for this post.

I had an idea about two tabs in map vault, one for all maps and one for "featured maps" which would be collections of the really good maps. But again this requires coding, so won't happen.

Same as better What's new page where maps could be promoted better than current one post and disapear forever. Again, coding... and we know how it is with coding. If you want something done, do it yourself.

Else finishing the tutorial on wiki I rewrote and updated to fit for FAF needs... no one touched it since that...
Also some could add how to work in world machine or something for better heightmap. Rest of the editor features, like editing water and many other things that are not mentioned there.
But I guess if I don't add them, no one will since contribution to wiki is more than poor.

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 29 Feb 2016, 17:31

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-29T17:12:18+02:00

speed2 wrote:
What excatly would be a task for that councilor? Make maps? ...

EDIT: First and foremost, are you against the idea of having a mapping council? It doesn't have a 100%-guarantee to work out but Kal and I worked on the WWPC quite a bit with the other Tournament Directors. The closed group made it easier to identify individuals with useful input/feedback rather open it up to the message boards where there is always a flood of oft-over-opinionated discussion that lead no where. I firmly believe that assigning smaller groups helps progress stay stable. If people don't like the folks working on things they can voice it there.

Original post:

1) Best practices
2) Filter through custom-made maps and identify ones that should be considered for 1v1/team games
3) Maybe do vid or write tutorials on how to accomplish difficult tasks in mapping
4) PROMOTE the creation of new content give us something fresh in the community

In general, it would be someone that motivates and guides stimulation for creativity that gives us more maps to play. I was blown away by Iszh's recent creation "Anchor" and am hoping more like it are created.

I for one will be hosting team games with Anchor as much as possible moving forward. It may take awhile to fill, but it's nice to see something besides Wonder/Pyramid/Tabula/Canis/Hilly.

Statistics: Posted by Morax — 29 Feb 2016, 17:12

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-25T21:33:37+02:00

What excatly would be a task for that councilor? Make maps? ...

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 25 Feb 2016, 21:33

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-25T21:17:23+02:00

Cuddles wrote:
Well, master lee has most maps so he should chair.

Quality > quantity

I vote Lionhardt

Statistics: Posted by Morax — 25 Feb 2016, 21:17

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-25T20:28:22+02:00

Well, master lee has most maps so he should chair.

Statistics: Posted by Cuddles — 25 Feb 2016, 20:28

Re: Council of Setons Discussion

2016-02-25T16:36:01+02:00

"Mapping council"

Vote #1 biass for map cancerlor

On a serious note, not sure about other people specifically but from my experience a lot of 'mappers' keep in touch with each-other quite a bit, im not saying do not consider Morax's suggestion, im saying that maybe adding the title to that section of the community is a whole lot easier then some might think It can also be given its own section do place requests and etc, seeing that mapping thread is definitely a ghost town except for a few people updating their map threads

TL;DR Agreeing with morax^

Statistics: Posted by biass — 25 Feb 2016, 16:36