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Eric Coleman
Gladiator
USA
811 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 16 2004 : 9:48:11 PM
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| What does everyone think about a "Help wanted" forum (or something) so people can post contact information, PC hardware and software specifications, so people can easily find other programmer's (and artists and musicians) with certain skills, and maybe even find beta tester's based on their equipment. |
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Sr. Guapo
Swordmaster
USA
272 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2004 : 12:04:28 AM
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Sounds interesting... What the heck, why not. 
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masterbooda
Swordmaster
277 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2004 : 04:27:01 AM
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This wouldn't have anything to do with the 12 page long debug would it....j/k...
This sounds like a really good idea to me... will help keep the news and regular forum from being hopelessly clogged with issues that only pertain to certain groups... I say go for it..
DaBooda out... |
DaBooda Team is back: http://dabooda.789mb.com/ |
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VBBR
Moderator
Brazil
617 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2004 : 10:47:49 AM
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| So why not change the whole thing? Like one forum for General Programming, General Gaming, DirectX, Optimization etc. ? |
Whatever. Who knows... |
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Eric Coleman
Gladiator
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2004 : 10:57:20 AM
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The idea is not to have a forum for different programming topics, but to have a place where programmers can find other programmers based on their abilities, skills, and available hardware.
VBgamer hardly gets any posts in the current forum, so any new specific forums will probably stay empty for a long time, and that makes the website seem really dead when it's not. |
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VBBR
Moderator
Brazil
617 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2004 : 1:17:39 PM
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Yeah, guess you're right (as always )
Hum... Then I think it will be good. Just create the "help wanted" forum; if it seems dead then just delete it. Simple, isn't it? |
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Almar
Moderator
Netherlands
192 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2004 : 4:05:09 PM
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Hi!
I need someone to make me a quake clone! :)
I need it within a week! :)
Greetz,
Newbie :)
^^ Aren't you afraid to get such things? :). I think making a forum to find other people won't exactly work out.. since they don't visit it overhere. :)
Although it did gave me the idea to maybe compile a list of many guys overhere (and lucky's) with different system specs which are willin to try a game to see if it works properly or not.. some 'volunteer tester database' :)
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VBBR
Moderator
Brazil
617 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2004 : 5:22:26 PM
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Hey, good idea.
But a quake clone is not that hard to make. I think I would go for a really-cool-mix-of-Half-Life-Starcraft-and-Final-Fantasy-XI-and-
-that-is-including-all-the-MMORPG-stuff-and-at-least-200-dedicated-servers-please.
Oh-and-I-want-it-for-tomorrow.
(the first sentence was to be all on a single line but that would mix everything up...)
Sorry, but I couln't resist to put the MMORPG part on it. |
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Edited by - VBBR on Jun 17 2004 5:23:27 PM |
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Sr. Guapo
Swordmaster
USA
272 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2004 : 11:14:55 PM
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I don't think it is for "outsourcing" (your quake/really-cool-mix-of-Half-Life-Starcraft-and-Final-
Fantasy-XI-and-that-is-including-all-the-MMORPG-stuff-
and-at-least-200-dedicated-servers) is what he meant by the forum. It is just a convinient way to post your program (that YOU wrote) and have a larger base of people try it out, rather than crashing all your friends computers ...
I think it is a good idea. It will/should make alpha and beta testing much easier if I ever get a program to that stage (I currently have about 20 or so started and uncompleted projects on my hard drive)... |
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VBBR
Moderator
Brazil
617 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2004 : 10:36:05 AM
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| I know, I was just making a bigger joke out of Almar's post. |
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messix
Squire
Australia
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Posted - Jun 21 2004 : 05:07:38 AM
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| Yeah, that actually sounds like a great idea - either the database of hardware and people or a section on the site here to find people that might be able to help with problems that everyone else is having (lol - why not both?!?!) :-) |
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ballistik
Moderator
72 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2004 : 12:37:13 PM
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| I think that'd be a great idea to have something like that, a test-bed if you will where we can submit our projects and let people tear them up... and hopefully be able to get there computer running again afterwards hehe. |
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Brykovian
Bryk the Cheese Slayer!
USA
58 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2004 : 1:51:07 PM
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Playing off ballistik's suggestiong, instead of "help wanted" ... you can call it "test bed" or something similar.
-Bryk |
www.mwgames.com |
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Eric Coleman
Gladiator
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2004 : 7:58:42 PM
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Ok, so the current idea is like this:
You submit yourself to the database, you specify your hardware and software, etc, see the post above. Also, you can specify weather you want to be listed as 1) wanting to join a programming team, 2) looking for help 3) a beta tester. And for contact options, the ability to receive individual emails only, or a receive a global email where someone posts to a request to all beta testers, etc. All global requests will be archived for other people to look at in case they only recently joined the database. Also, to stay in the database you'll need to edit your profile at least once every month or two, and you'll get en email notification that you're about to be deleted. Any other ideas or suggestions? |
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Sr. Guapo
Swordmaster
USA
272 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2004 : 8:48:20 PM
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| Sounds like a great idea. Could we keep multiple hardware profiles (2 or 3). Some of us have more than one computer with different specs... |
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Eric Coleman
Gladiator
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2004 : 9:00:48 PM
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| Yeah, I have quite a few different computers as well, and some have multiple OS's just for testing purposes. I figured a big textbox where you can write everyone down in one area should be sufficient. Or do you think I should provide seperate text boxes for CPU, RAM, Hard Drive, Joystick, etc? I'm sure I'll forget something, which is why I think a large text box would be easier. |
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