[Mobius]

Hello everyone.

Although the FSCRP is young its number of team members is very high. The problem is that many team members aren't that active and the progress of many FSCRP WIPs is being negatively affected(Warzone SCP and S:AH SCP should've been released a while ago).

The FSCRP is now a more official community project. We have a private forum and we'll soon have a badge. With this thread we'd like to form a new team of active people with different tasks so that the team can work simultaneously on multiple campaigns(modellers/texturers work on campaign X's modpack while testers work on campaign Y and FREDders work on campaign Z). Right now the official team members are me, Admiral Nelson, MP-Ryan and lostllama. We obviously are in need of more FREDders, several modellers/texturers and testers.

If you're interested, let us know by posting here or sending a PM

EDIT: There's another thing I've previously talked about. Basically we'd like to see experienced modellers/texturers and campaign designers, like IceFire, to boost the efficience of the team.


29/01/2009 Update

Me and Admiral Nelson have decided to increase the standards of recruitment. For now on, people willing to help the FSCRP out with testing, bugfixing and texturing need to show us exhaustive examples of previous work, plus noticeable interest and dedication. In other words, if you like to get the badge and internal access, you need to deserve it.

08/02/2009 Update

Here's another update. With enough "pure" testers in the team, the FSCRP's recruitment standards are slightly different now. Testers willing to join should also have the FRED skills to work solo on campaigns, if the situation requires.

20/02/2009 Update

The FSCRP is now looking for an artist able to design a nice badge for the project! The basic concept is this:

FS
CRP

...with a proper background. 

[colecampbell666]

Hai itiscanbehelptiemnowplees? kthxbai.

I'd like to help, I'm learning to model, and I can FRED pretty well.

[Mobius]

Can you create cutscenes with FRED?

[colecampbell666]

Nope. I can learn.

[rbxplayer]

I am very much interested...

1. Tester
2. Grammar Checking
3. Voice Acting (currently working on Earth Brakiri)

I will be moving to Malaysia for 3 months in June and will have a lot of free time during the week.

[colecampbell666]

I think I'm too old to VA.

[Mobius]

I don't know if we need grammar checkers, MP-Ryan and Nelson are enough for that task. Generally campaigns don't need grammar checking.

[colecampbell666]

Deep Blood does. Mobius the Italian does.

[Mobius]

Nelson and MP-Ryan can grammar check and fortunately none of my campaigns needs an SCP upgrade.

[colecampbell666]

So is there any tutorial for cutscenes?

[Mobius]

No offense, but the team needs people who already know how to do certain things...not people who're willing to learn...

[colecampbell666]

  What about the fact that I can FRED?

[Mobius]

"I can FRED" is generic. Snail claims to be a FREDder but all of his INFA missions are improved by me(they're so poor ). Do you know how to use advanced SEXPs, for example?

[colecampbell666]

Examples?

I am good with variables, for example. What else?

[Admiral Nelson]

Not so harsh, Mobius.

What we really need is someone who can do any of
1) Be assigned campaigns/missions to playtest and reliably report back mission bugs etc
2) Fix mission bugs, apply backgrounds, tweaks (add ships to escort list, fix messages, etc)
3) FRED whole missions, viz. the last three missions of Titan Rebellion.

I have had a great deal of trouble just getting proper feedback on campaigns.  That alone is a valuable contribution.

Cole, have you some missions you have FREDed to post up?

[colecampbell666]

Not really, most got lost in an HDD crash a month ago. I can make one, though. Should take about a week to make a nice one.

And I can probably do 1, 2 and 3.

[Admiral Nelson]

Okay good.  The other thing you can do besides a sample mission is to download the latest version of Pandora's Box or SAH at your discretion and post up feedback in the appropriate thread.  These campaigns are very nearly done.

[colecampbell666]

AOK. about the mission, it may take a week or two, as I have homework, and I am going on a week long trip to Montreal sans ordinateur.

[Admiral Nelson]

That's fine.  Feedback works too, if you can do that sooner.

[MP-Ryan]

Hold hold...

Keep in mind I started doing testing, grammar/spellcheck, and re-writes and ended up doing a fair bit of FRED tweaking too.  People who are familiar with FRED can certainly do things like add nameplates (look at the Warzone comments posted by Mustang; if someone can do that instead of me that'd be great), create nameplates, tweak event timing, and other basic FREDing tasks that are time-consuming but don't require an in-depth knowledge of SEXPs and FRED.

In short, I'm not turning down help where its offered.

One other thing:  If someone says they're going to be doing something but you get to it first, by all means do the task and post the results.  If people aren't doing literally everything but have some of the task load taken on by others, then things will move faster.

We can REALLY use testers.  The more, the better.  And the more detailed their feedback, the better.