The same player on official and experimantal server?

niclam · 04-27-2007, 02:33 PM

It's an interesting point what you just said tak.
We have thought a couple of times about having a volunteers programme, that would allow people from outside NGD to participate into the game's development.

The main problems were also what you mentioned: legal issues and copyrights. If we are going to do this, there is no way we can pay the people back, so the licensing would be restrictive as it usually is on this kind of matters.
And last but not least, we need to have somebody on the team as the lead volunteer manager, that can organize and communicate with everyone to check for progress. There are a lot of procedures involved into the content pipeline that makes it difficult to add new stuff without having to worry about things like consistency, testing & QA, balance, etc.

Anyway, Im sure there are plenty of people willing to participate and we will surely have them on the credits so they can show off that on their CV's.
So, maybe after launch where we can hire more personnel, we could approach this.

Regards

04-27-2007, 02:33 PM	#12
niclam Legend Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,636	It's an interesting point what you just said tak. We have thought a couple of times about having a volunteers programme, that would allow people from outside NGD to participate into the game's development. The main problems were also what you mentioned: legal issues and copyrights. If we are going to do this, there is no way we can pay the people back, so the licensing would be restrictive as it usually is on this kind of matters. And last but not least, we need to have somebody on the team as the lead volunteer manager, that can organize and communicate with everyone to check for progress. There are a lot of procedures involved into the content pipeline that makes it difficult to add new stuff without having to worry about things like consistency, testing & QA, balance, etc. Anyway, Im sure there are plenty of people willing to participate and we will surely have them on the credits so they can show off that on their CV's. So, maybe after launch where we can hire more personnel, we could approach this. Regards __________________ niclam