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Hi Bryant - we in thw PFF are curently working on such a moding organization but we have a different vision on how things should be run since we did it 2 times before for different games (SWR and RTW). Anyway if you guys will like our system - it should be up in max one month - we will always be open for a mergeing or any type of cooperation.

Trust me ... to play this mod ... in your place ... I will have deleted all my drive. Its the best SW reality mod ever done.

Stellar - I again need your brain my old friend ... (as always). I need you to take my replys from abouve and mix them in one cool document on which we will continue to work and improve. This doc will be presented to the devs and to the rest of the eaw moders (leads). I estimate that we will need to work on it at least for two weeks by exchangeing ideeas and such. We have 3 categories that we need to target : Moders, developers and site admins - and we will need to make them all understand that they will have only to win by supporting such an organization. And of course we will need to pick a powerful and yet "generic-birocratic" name. Everyone is expected to join and help with their feedback and ideeas in the solidification of the doc after Stellar compiles it. So Stellar - are you willing to follow this path again like in RDB II ?

Really ?! Yeah its difficult but trust me - I've seen more difficult challenges than this one. And this will be the third organization of this type that I'm createing. It worked with the small RDB II and we had great fun and we shared the credits with all the members. It worked so well with the TTO than now I've seen that old members have tried to revive it under the name of NTO ... and with the EAW will work so well that we will make game industry history in the moding comunities domain. Even Stellar sensed that it will work excellent in the conditions we already have ... since he knows exactly how its done and how it should be run. Just trust me on this one

That's because I have deleted Eduardo's secondary account... dear Fosh!

Use the force guys I have replyed in his topic.

Well, as I was the first, or I think the first in watching his post, I couldn't resist to say that Well, well, well Eduardo you think that we don't use the Force around here ?! - I really don't want to ban you even if you are Inflatokitty or Cheeseinator ... so for now I will move this to the Bar area. And pls. make sure that "your little dark side brother" is no longer useing your PC from now one. Thank you - back to work guys - Topic loked.

The admin of PFF has decided to increase the spam control in the Petroglyph forums. Anyone who spams will have his replies deleted on the spot by any moderator - so make your reply more significant than a simple exclamation - the forums are not a place for chat - especially the General Discussion sub forum. If the member will continue to spam he will loose the ability to post. Remember that this forum is all about posting quality so all the "easy" replies should be in the Bar area and not here. May the Force be with you.

Btw - My GM was a QA Lead at Activision. Its late in the night and Ihave decided to watch over the night shift. I have a QA lead and 5 testers they are all pretty sleepy. I'm interested to know how I can increase their productivity ? Ghostly - we have an office in Montreal (Canada) - if you are near there and want to try it - let me know

Nope its a new thing / a huge "Borg" like moding organization PFF has nothing to do with it.

No we were not its just that until the 1.3 is done this one should be left up.

He he - he is probably fixing bugs and working hard as usual... me and Ismael buzz him every time to come and post .... he will eventually.

They didn't had experience in the game industry and they didn't had the best moders and the devs on their side

Well, tell me why we should PM you ? Perhaps it could be very very interesting .... He is very interesting - the best player of EAW until now from my sources.

Well you see … I’m talking from experience (TTO/RDB II) so let me explain better : The moder has anyway mod threads on all the important sites, just that now they will be under the main organization subforum on that site. Also since every enclave will have a manager then that manager will keep the updates and reply to all the questions that the moder does not have time. The sites will not accept an organization that has only one central place / they will hate it and ignore our requests. Also the moder does not need to do PR stuff running around on many forums – such a large organization will have many PR manager and a central news nexus accesable to us and or members and also to some of the officials from other sites. They will decide what nes they want to take and post on their main page if we not directly request this. Imagine this organization as a virtual publisher of mod runned by ex.moders now managers or admins and in close relation with the devs so true them the devs will also have control over the moding world. Such a powerful organization will regulate all the issues that may show up in the future ex: One dude makes a mod stealing work from our members etc. He does not want to add the credits or he lies. Such an organization that it present on many sites and has good relations with the admins will be able to request a ban for that dude on all the important EAW sites … he … who will want to mess with the Organization ?! and face banning all over the juice places. Btw the sites don’t need resources from us – they mostly need PR, news and new members. We don’t relocate members in principle but we also make sure that the site will not loose their moders or mods that will go on other places or single sites. For us it’s a question of control an communication for the sake of productivity and for them it’s a question of member&mods security plus acces to our juice stuff. I’m not interested in making one super site since I see no point in it (but we can have a central base only for moders and feedback members) my interest is Borg like / assimilation and control. 1. To control many mods / and help the mod production by prioritizeing resources. 2. Enable the devs to have the same control over the mods true us. 3. To ensure security on all our mod products on multiple sites. We don’t fragment us we assimilate them in our structure. And give them acces to the system so everyone will have to benefit from this on the long term. And it usually works if the managers of the organization don’t decide to kill each other Brutus stile – that’s why we have the devs who will ensure that this will not happen. Also a such an organization will give acces to materials from difffernet mods and ensure that the credits are cumulative etc. PS. Btw how come the RDB II as small as it was has the best mod in SWR history (Made in 6 months) beating even Warlords (SWR) and Relaoded a mod that is in work from 6-7 years ago will never go out since eaw will limit the need for it. (*my personal opinion).

Fosh - put the FAQs back if they are ready for movement back to the GD. Thanks mate....or we will keep getting our FAQs reposted here as new ones Loll

It is probably busy Big Edmond I will put Pirate on the LEC avatar if you want .... I forgot that he worked for LEC - but anyway if you thing that it will be right - you could turn back towards his desk and ask him to change his avatar. Btw how is Chris doing this days ?

Especially we don't PM the QA - since they are the very busy ... but anwyay if you post we will reply since we will assume that you have a window in time to take a break. Btw I have a question : Who is the best eaw player in QA ?!

He he he - yes you can say that .... that the resources will be drawn to the central command - but no site will allow you to have an enclave on their forums if you are not fair with them and keep their members there and maybe bring more. Basically this organization allows man power transfers (moders) between different sites and its communication network is up to date... not to mention the know-how that the organization will have from direct access to the devs. I bet that the devs will prefer to deal with a free virtual non-profit organization that they can trust and have feedback exchanges. Without a high level of control and information privacy and security, no one will risk to get to close to the moders. Some whacko can decide to sue the developers saying that his mod helps sell the game … who knows what can go rung in this world. So you will always need a filter to enable the devs to help the moders since if something rung happens and someone decides to sue, then all the infos that the moders had in the past were from the organization filter and this will also be deleted. The devs will deny so the only one left to target will be the org, which is anyway virtual.

Who's the game tester here ? i'm confused - if you are talking to me then look at my sig. Yeah I asked many questions since I was in a hurry. My PC is next to the General Manager's .... so Anyway its cool to have us back here and restart talking about our subjects. Btw we need a good XML editor - does anyone of you has one ?

You will always have separtae sites .... and diplomatic problems between them. Thios RDB II like organization will have enclave and representatives on all the EAW sites and they will not risk not haveing them (us) so it should work fine. In early 2006 the organization should be up and running.

He he he - TTO was a similar thing for RTW but it collapsed due to power struggles and now I have no time to revive it. Anyway this new Moding organization should have these goals: 1. High level management for multiple projects. 2. Information sharing. 3. Human resources sharing. 4. Powerful PR Department. 5. We will have a private and untraceable exchange of feedback between the developers and the moders. 6. Excellent access to the EAW sites main page news. 7. QA departament for all the mods. Etc. Yup we will surly have such an organization and it will virtually dominate the moding field of eaw since it will be designed to function - game industry style.

So when is the picture coming ?! We really want to see her Is she a SW fan ? What games is she playing ? Its nice to have you back How are your projects going ? I'm still at work and I avoid the GM to see me on the forum So I'm a bit short now.

Yes the cheese from the LEC forums - how is he named here ?

Hey PirateChiken - nice to see you here / I’m sorry for the misunderstanding ... we were expecting a spammer from the LEC forums to show up so our guards were on high alert and trigger happy. Anyway I have deleted the rest of the replys and I’m sorry if they deleted your posts / its kind off funny / loll / developers that were considered a danger to their own forum ... Moderator: "Acthung ! YOU ! - Halt ! ... Hands up ! Your posts are suspicious..." Developer: "Wait don't shoot ! I'm a developer !" Moderator: "Nein ! You are not ! What's the pasword ?" Developer: "What pasword ?!?! " Moderator: "Got ya ! (*opens fire) .... scratch one more !" Guys !! - PirateChiken is from the eaw QA departament - pls. before starting to do something consult this list: http://swempireatwar.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=297 PirateChiken pls. say hi from our part to Bigedmond and Lord_Scud / guys keep up the good work ! You are always welocmed here and post when you have the time / even in the Bar