[ShadowWolf_IH]

OK Pyro contacted me about getting up a Fred guild.  So first off, let's do the poll thing and see if interest warrants it, if you answer that you are interested, please respond in this thread as to your ideas for it.  Pyro and I will probably compile all of the things into a workable format and then get it happening.

[Black Wolf]

Eh? Explain what you mean, exactly?

Like a FREDders support group or summat?

[ShadowWolf_IH]

Something like that, also a resource place to get info on which fredders are working on which projects, that way you can mayhaps aproach one who isn't doing a whole slew of campaigns.  A listing of all of the fredders, maybe a forum if we can swing it, a place where we can ask and answer.  Things like that.

[Anaz]

and you can put stuff up on the minimod database so that it isn't lost forever in the storm of time! :thepimp:


(ok...I suppose I should stop p1mping the minimod database now...)

[Knight Templar]

Forums are already existing. I don't there's anyway you could get a Fredding forum when there's already fredzone( which is dead though..) and The Modding Forum.

As for guild.. you can Add me to the list as being able to Fred, but please add "Surly, Works for 7 Campaigns at the moment and will only take questions."

[silverwolf]

i'm for it kinda like a fredder yellowpages

[Black Wolf]

Oh, I get it. Seems kinda semi half pointless given that you'd be recruiting FREDders from HLP/VWatch anyway, and people looking from FREDders could recruit from the source as well, but as a sort of newbie help centre or whatever... sure, count me in. I've been FREDding for awhile (learned on FRED1), so I can help with most of the simpler problems, as well as a few of the more esoteric ones. Plus I'm fairly good at finding ways to make things work... - but I'd really only be able to help as a helper/educator as I'm fairly busy ATM.

[LtNarol]

Heh, I forsee FS2 Modding Unions around the corner.

[karajorma]

The idea seems interesting if it's used as a way to help FREDders improve our skills. It's not just newbies who need help. The old trick of the week thread from the VBB showed us that all of us had new things we could learn.
 I can`t see it being used as a pool from which to recruit FREDders from though as most of the skilled FREDders in the community are busy on their own projects.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

It will need a high powered name, like:

The Amalgamated Union of FREDers, Scripters, Campaigners and Other Professional Missions Editing Persons.

[Goober5000]

[diamondgeezer]

FREDders United in Campaigns, or FUC


But this is a good idea. Then, modelers and campaign designers could know they are recruiting a FREDder with some talent, if he's a guild member. Or is that only going to encourage elitism?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Probably, as there's would most likely be some sort of entry exam, where you a given a real life problem, and have to solve it in FRED.

No doubt there would also be some sort of obscene initiation ritual, like the Freemasons.

[GT-Keravnos]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Probably, as there's would most likely be some sort of entry exam, where you a given a real life problem, and have to solve it in FRED.

No doubt there would also be some sort of obscene initiation ritual, like the Freemasons.

Seems like I have a long way ahead of me!!!!!!

Oh, well, back to the old drawing board (NY accent!)

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Forums are already existing. I don't there's anyway you could get a Fredding forum when there's already fredzone( which is dead though..) and The Modding Forum.

As for guild.. you can Add me to the list as being able to Fred, but please add "Surly, Works for 7 Campaigns at the moment and will only take questions."

Fredzone Forums are still there, all resources are still there and website is still there. All the resources u need for fred are here:

http://ugcworld.com/fredzone

We've got it all.

[Goober5000]

How did FredZone die - did people just abandon it?

[ShadowWolf_IH]

I am not thinking of elitist or entry exams or anything like that.  Maybe the exam things would be a good idea to ascertain fredding ability level.  That way we could see who is weaker in fred and more easily determine how best to help.  Thoughts?  I was also thinking that maybe we could come up with a way to take some of the new guys under our wings, kind of like a knight teaches a squire.  We could actually give them instruction, or at the very least we could create some tutorials, the thing i liked best about the original Fred tutorial was the fact that it didn't just explain the controls, it walked you through a sample mission, so by doing it you got a grasp of the logic used in fred.  Thew tutorial for fred2 is so much more inclusive of control elemnts though.  Perhaps finding a combination to the two would be a good thing, as would an appendice to the fred tutorial for source code stuff. Maybe even something so simple as placing practical aplication  examples in in each section of the Fred 2 tutorial would be enough.  

for a name The United Frederation of Planets

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
for a name The United Frederation of Planets

That's... ... ... So bad I want to laugh, but I just can't .

[Cetanu]

Well, the Fredzone was ment for creating valid PXO missions, but Volition stopped validation...

[LtNarol]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
Maybe the exam things would be a good idea to ascertain fredding ability level.

I can see it already...

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Newbie
Newbie First Class
Pitiful Apprentice
Slightly less pitiful Apprentice
Apprentice
…
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