Help!!!!

[milosh]

It seems we are in the age of abundant ideas and limited developers... we need more developers in every area! Map Dev, Bot Dev, and Web Dev are all looking for some help. You don't have to be a genius to contribute to development. It can be as simple as creating an image or making a map or as interesting as coding your own module. First hand experience is a great way to learn a language. Coding can be quite fun and development is a rewarding experience in and of itself. Help us!

What to do:

• Contact MMaverick(Bot-Dev), RiiStar(Web-Dev), or dads revenge(Map-Dev)
• Be willing to google and look through some tutorials
• Come with a giving and positive attitude
• Ask questions

What not to do:

• Think that you deserve access to everything
• Be discouraged when you don't understand something
• Join and do nothing
• Bite off more than you can chew

[Maverick]

If you want to contact me, you can also contact me via e-mail.

[Zerzera]

I decided ages ago that I wouldn't work under current heads of staff. And they did a great job detaching from the game the people who did.

[Maverick]

Luckily if you're in TW Dev you don't have to deal with staff directly. You only have to "deal" with the division leader who is specialised in the development division you're in.

[Vehicle]

I decided ages ago that I wouldn't work under current heads of staff. And they did a great job detaching from the game the people who did.

ZZ = William Ayers, gonna DDos TW.

[dads revenge]

I actually work with someone named William Ayers

[The Unliked One...]

I thought I was the map coordinator
And I can still work outside continuum so if I'm out for few weeks it doesn't mean I have given up on you all.

[Capital Knockers]

I've always said I'd help in any way I can, just need someone to show me what to do.

[HateTheFake]

I've always said I'd help in any way I can, just need someone to show me what to do.

Heh i cant code, dont know how to make maps, but teach a man to fish!

Ill help if theres anything i can do

[Fluffz]

I aways refused to work on this game because of what happened to distension (which is just a recent example). This uncoordianted mess is turning SS into a gigantic clusterfuck. Zone wise and Game wise.

Start organizing from the top to bottom for once. Until you can not assure that i see no point in helping. I have tried to find people that are interested in going a serious way with this game, but everyone is the nerd he is and refuses pull on a single string. If u want more people get priitk and staff support or since that is impossible get enough infrastructure to replace them all. This is where you start and not at some new bot that is perverted by staff immediatly.

Get Company sponsoring, write a new open and full backward compartible client/server, get it online. Than we can talk about new bot and map development. This is probably against your positive attitude rule but hell its true.

[stark]

I will be back... I have had problems and shit around here... but don't fret, I'll be back fo' sho'

[Vehicle]

For those of you who say that you need some direction/help in learning how to do these things, here are some resources you should just mess around with when you're bored:

SSME: There are other map editors out there, but this is the only one I'm familiar with. It's clean, easy to use, and fully functional. If you're completely new to the world of map editing, I would suggest downloading this and navigating to Continuum -> Zones -> SSCU Trench Wars and just open up some maps and mess around.

LVZ toolkit: Assuming you know what a .lvz file is, look at this and the readme. You can do pretty much anything with .lvz and it's not nearly as complicated as the initial read will seem.

TileEdit: I use(d) this really only as a supplement to photoshop (or any other image editor.) You can mix and mash existing tilesets (kept in .lvl files) or create your own and use this tool to ensure that your tiles are in the right place.

There are a lot of other tools out there (ship builders, skin editors, crazy map editors with advanced features) but this is the meat of creating/editing maps. I'll be glad to answer any questions anybody has in game about these resources and happy map making.

[milosh]

I aways refused to work on this game because of what happened to distension (which is just a recent example). This uncoordianted mess is turning SS into a gigantic clusterfuck. Zone wise and Game wise.

Start organizing from the top to bottom for once. Until you can not assure that i see no point in helping. I have tried to find people that are interested in going a serious way with this game, but everyone is the nerd he is and refuses pull on a single string. If u want more people get priitk and staff support or since that is impossible get enough infrastructure to replace them all. This is where you start and not at some new bot that is perverted by staff immediatly.

Get Company sponsoring, write a new open and full backward compartible client/server, get it online. Than we can talk about new bot and map development. This is probably against your positive attitude rule but hell its true.

What are you talking about with distension? We have been replacing things of the past and building a new infrastructure. Just because you aren't in the know doesn't mean it's not happening.

[Capital Knockers]

You know what I've found really annoying about this game and staff in general? For years I've made it clear that I'd like to be on staff, anyway I can. Just to help out, learn, I like this zone and want to be a bigger part of it. Yet it seems that without holding your nose 3/4s of the way up staffs ass for the better part of a year, you won't get anywhere.

I've tried contacting you guys in game, asking where to start learning. Only person that responded was dads revenge. Now at the time I'm refering to, you guys were apparently testing some shit in elim, but thats not the point. The point is, no one takes the time to actually recieve the help people are constantly offering. I don't know how to code bots or anything, but if you took the time to show me how to start, gave me the connections, and a starting point - and a goal; you'd better believe I'd learn it and be a big help.

You guys seem to forget, that as busy as you are, so are alot of other people on this game. If someone like me, who's been around a long ass time, offers to give you help (I even offered my dads help, and he's a fucking nuts programmer) jump on it! You need to devote someone entirely to finding and teaching people how to do the things you're asking for help with - not just throw us a few useless links like SSdownloads, and a map builder and then stop talking entirely. It's really annoying, and doesn't encourage people like me to keep trying to help. Really, I'm almost at the point where if I was asked to be a mod or smod tommorow I'd say no. Simply because of how long I've been ignored, it's rather insulting, to constantly offer a helping hand when you guys are asking for one, and then be ignored or not taken seriously.

P.S. Not taking a shot at you guys, I'm glad you do what you do, but what I'm saying is true not only for you guys, but everyone else before you. Staff needs to stop being like an elite private country club. There should be a whole seperate section of staff under Aquatiq to find and train people.

[Melon]

You're not popular enough to be on staff. Your nose was almost brown enough, but you just washed it off. -_-