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Date Posted: 07:41:10 09/23/00 Sat
Author: Mokoshan
Subject: Re: Heirarchy!
In reply to: Jona 's message, "Re: Heirarchy!" on 23:03:48 09/22/00 Fri

> My plan is for the 'governing body' to be of some odd
> number for the sake of votes.

Aye, I agree with that...

>They will act mainly as gameplay designers --the group you >missed--,

Gameplay design is already done? Wow, you guys are fast... heheheh

>and will be the source of the concept of the game,

Just a suggestion here from experience... If you don't let those building the actual pieces of the game in on conception, you'll have either A) dissention, or B) misunderstandings. And trust me, you don't want yer programmer to misunderstand you... Its not pretty...

>and eventually almalgam all of the other groups, as well as keep things in order.

I like yer idea... However, I believe it best to make yer other groups from those who were in on the conception... If that's what you meant, then it'd work...

> The other groups are the
> important ingredients, but someone has to put them
> together to make that yummy fuzzy candybar you're
> making me think of.

Aye, but if you find me a programmer without a super ego that won't get pissy when told to do something, at least without being paid for this something, then a group just to lead and make things up will not work. The only way it would work is if the person telling the others what to do was also working, and must be working in the visible sense that the others can see the leader's work. That's the key element behind my idea. The leaders actually do the bulk of the work. Your group that I believe you want to have leading everyone else is the Research group, which should for the most part call meetings and give out information and tasks. In my group they hold a good deal of the sway, as they're the ones telling the graphics folk and programmers and such the ideals behind the game. They're there to keep everything organized and running smoothly, but can be challenged a little easier than if they were thought of as the "leaders"...
I know it sounds kinda stupid, but after I was in a group with three "leaders" who never talked to one another and told me different things and pretty much brandished that because they were on the project before I was (they were aboard for a week longer than I, but hadn't actually contributed anything other than the occasional comment on what they would like in a game), they were more important than the guy designing the avatars...

> An notion I came up with last night was to actually
> give seperate parts of each area to specific people so
> that all the facts add up. If we actually manage to
> get enough of a team in on it, I'd like to have people
> 'owning' a single race or mini-group of races, with
> the head of the project being there to make it work
> with the other races. This'll also make it easier for
> 'warring factions' to contribute without arguing with
> eachother over their ideas on a race.

I like this idea, but I don't think it should be done by races... I think it should be done by the broad tasks... The races should be assigned specifically to a Researcher, who would then advise anyone who needed to know what the collective (lower your shields and surrender your weapons... errr, sorry... heheh) group wants out of the race.

> Thanks, Moko, for the outline, and be free and all
> that.

I kinda also wouldn't mind knowing who else is on this other than Jona and Drackyn... heh

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Re: Heirarchy! -- Jona, 14:04:41 09/23/00 Sat