Attention:To Everyone that is a Daily User... You know who you are...

[jeffdamann]

I need everyones help. Yes I mean you guys, the ones whose posts I read and respond to and the ones that read and respond to mine, I.E. The daily users(maybe not daily but close enough)

We need ORGINIZATION!!! I need your help to get all projects going strong,I need your help to get all members without projects to get interested and active in some sort of project.
We all need to stick to some sort of format or plan for productivity.(Even if you only have 15 minutes a day to do this kind of stuff.)

I think maybe we should do something like this:

User A:I have 15 mins to work on my project mon-fri. I am working on X project and here are some pics of what I have done.

Now if we were in those shoes, which some of you may be, how would you go about handling this? I for one would do as follows...

I would set aside a certain time of the day when I'm sure to be home and unbusy, like maybe 10:00pm, when the time gets close, get ready to work on the project and work on it for 15 mins, I would do the same Mon-Fri and get decent results.
Now if we would all stick to this format in some sort of more dedicated way and promise to each other that we will do said things and everyone work together to achieve a common goal(which doesnt mean abandoning your project, to me our common goal is improving ff7 any way we can think of)But more so working together as one large team.

And as in ANY team there are roles to be played and work to be done.Teams do not communicate and loosely work together in the way these forums have served recently..Everyone is working very hard, we just aren't making the headway we could,don't you agree? If somehow we could make this a large team effort, with every member contributing, working at some sort of set pace(even if 15 mins a day) and reporting back with results on a somewhat regular basis.

As for inexperienced users that cannot really offer a helping hand, be willing to learn! The skills you learn here will carry with you for the rest of your life, and benefit you more than just sitting there anyway...
If you can't help because of inexperience, then instead of working on x project, spend your allotted time learning x skill....Im sure any regular member will be more than willing to help any other regular member learn anything they need to know...I know I will.

Give me some feedback and if we can get somewhere with this discussion then we will consider making a topic for what I stated above...

[sl1982]

I do not agree with your philosophy at all. Nobody should have to commit to working on a project for a certain amount of time per day. That is what people call a job. And as for the teamwork thing there is alot of stuff behind the scenes that you do not see (at least with Team Avalanche)

[DarkFang]

This may sound hypocritical if you have read my other posts, but this whole modding project is what people do in their spare time. It isn't forced upon anyone to do this at certain hours for a certain amount of time. Yes I know, we all want Final Fantasy VII to look "SUPER-COOL 1337!!!" but we just have to wait and be patient.

The only way you can make it go faster is to contribute, if you can. I'm not really good at 3D modeling, but I'm doing some stuff with Photoshop and some video editing.

[obesebear]

Your enthusiasm is great.   But telling people to set aside time to work on their hobbies isn't going to motivate anyone.   If you want people to start contributing, post some of your progress.

For example sl1982 started out with a few high definition letters here an there.  And now look, there's a whole team helping him work on his project.

Basically, start something people are interested in, then help them learn how to contribute.

[pyrozen]

well to be totally fair, i started the WMRP before sl1982 started his letters *had to sneak in a little jab *

however, the majority of stable TA members are commited to seeing this through in their own areas of expertise. I WILL finish the WMRP, as well as begin on doing the battle scenes, which a few members have actually started already. As far as large scale projects go, TA has got our stuff together. Once all textures are available and modifiable by PNGs, even novice users can begin to contribute their own variations on the game. TA is in unknown territory(Aali as well) and i don't see to many people going ahead with other large scale projects such as this.

I think the forums as a whole are going very well, we just need a bit of n00b-direction. Alot of users are just hit-and-run people who want mods, can't get them to work and post endless threads about it. I'm glad to say it seems like that forums are growing, even a tiny bit, and that is fantastic for a game well over 10+ years old.

The next step would be story modification, and there are a few programs coming to fruition that i think will enable this. As long as we can keep going the direction we are going in, i only see good things happening.

we go too far and make something badass and get a C&D letter.

lee

[sl1982]

well to be totally fair, i started the WMRP before sl1982 started his letters *had to sneak in a little jab *

however, the majority of stable TA members are commited to seeing this through in their own areas of expertise. I WILL finish the WMRP, as well as begin on doing the battle scenes, which a few members have actually started already. As far as large scale projects go, TA has got our stuff together. Once all textures are available and modifiable by PNGs, even novice users can begin to contribute their own variations on the game. TA is in unknown territory(Aali as well) and i don't see to many people going ahead with other large scale projects such as this.

I think the forums as a whole are going very well, we just need a bit of n00b-direction. Alot of users are just hit-and-run people who want mods, can't get them to work and post endless threads about it. I'm glad to say it seems like that forums are growing, even a tiny bit, and that is fantastic for a game well over 10+ years old.

The next step would be story modification, and there are a few programs coming to fruition that i think will enable this. As long as we can keep going the direction we are going in, i only see good things happening.

we go too far and make something badass and get a C&D letter.

lee

Yeah but did you start a mod the day after you joined? *can jab back  *

[jeffdamann]

well to be totally fair, i started the WMRP before sl1982 started his letters *had to sneak in a little jab *

however, the majority of stable TA members are commited to seeing this through in their own areas of expertise. I WILL finish the WMRP, as well as begin on doing the battle scenes, which a few members have actually started already. As far as large scale projects go, TA has got our stuff together. Once all textures are available and modifiable by PNGs, even novice users can begin to contribute their own variations on the game. TA is in unknown territory(Aali as well) and i don't see to many people going ahead with other large scale projects such as this.

I think the forums as a whole are going very well, we just need a bit of n00b-direction. Alot of users are just hit-and-run people who want mods, can't get them to work and post endless threads about it. I'm glad to say it seems like that forums are growing, even a tiny bit, and that is fantastic for a game well over 10+ years old.

The next step would be story modification, and there are a few programs coming to fruition that i think will enable this. As long as we can keep going the direction we are going in, i only see good things happening.

we go too far and make something badass and get a C&D letter.

lee

I don't see that many newbies here, but then again I rarely ever go into the tech support forum, only when there are no other new posts in other forums. But as for TA, of course they are on track, no one ever said anything to the contrary.

What I was calling for is greater organization of the users(like me) who are just poking around here and there, fiddling with this, fiddling with that, and instead get to doing something productive.

And I never said force someone to participate, I was implying that anyone who wanted to join me in posting and starting to get organized in this thread before a thread was made somewhere else, to simply reply.When everyone that wants to help out here but doesnt know exactly what to do to gets organized, then a thread could be made somewhere else, or we could all work with TA, it was just an idea.

[Jaitsu]

well to be totally fair, i started the WMRP before sl1982 started his letters *had to sneak in a little jab *

however, the majority of stable TA members are commited to seeing this through in their own areas of expertise. I WILL finish the WMRP, as well as begin on doing the battle scenes, which a few members have actually started already. As far as large scale projects go, TA has got our stuff together. Once all textures are available and modifiable by PNGs, even novice users can begin to contribute their own variations on the game. TA is in unknown territory(Aali as well) and i don't see to many people going ahead with other large scale projects such as this.

I think the forums as a whole are going very well, we just need a bit of n00b-direction. Alot of users are just hit-and-run people who want mods, can't get them to work and post endless threads about it. I'm glad to say it seems like that forums are growing, even a tiny bit, and that is fantastic for a game well over 10+ years old.

The next step would be story modification, and there are a few programs coming to fruition that i think will enable this. As long as we can keep going the direction we are going in, i only see good things happening.

we go too far and make something badass and get a C&D letter.

lee

I don't see that many newbies here

O.O your right, you really haven't been keeping up to date in tech support *shudders*

[jeffdamann]

Well I guess your posts were not in vain, I was wondering why you posted where are all these newbies coming from, but I'll cruise on over there and try to help you guys out over there.