How can I help?
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How can I help?
These are words I hear on posted on these forums, sent to my PM box and email daily, players of Vanguard very excited to help out - yet they get here and see the workload and flood of posted information, and I think their brains melt because I never hear from them again. If everyone who offered to help DID? We'd be in awesome shape come July 31, 2014. Right now, I'm not so sure.
Keep in mind, this is your game folks. SOE is taking it away, we're trying to save it. But a dozen hard workers cannot build an entire MMO in the 6 mos SOE gave us. We need DOZENS of people helping, in any way they can. You don't have to be a programmer, and you don't have to do everything on our list. Just pick one thing and do it well. That's what we need more than anything right now.
Here's a simplified list -
Collecting - request to join Collectors, head into the Live game and gather data before it closes down.
Keep in mind, this is your game folks. SOE is taking it away, we're trying to save it. But a dozen hard workers cannot build an entire MMO in the 6 mos SOE gave us. We need DOZENS of people helping, in any way they can. You don't have to be a programmer, and you don't have to do everything on our list. Just pick one thing and do it well. That's what we need more than anything right now.
Here's a simplified list -
Collecting - request to join Collectors, head into the Live game and gather data before it closes down.
- Once you become a member of this group, you can see the task list below.[/list:u]
Specific Collecting - Many posts have been made about targeting specific areas, or features of the game.- Without this, we may not be able to develop the full game.[/list:u]
The Global Run - I may sound like I am beating a dead horse, but this is probably the 2nd most critical tasks that must be performed.- Without this, we will not have a fully populated world of content.[/list:u]
Full Game Feature Outline: Here's something I requested over a month ago that only 1 person gave me partial info on. This detail will be our checklist of game features to implement even when the live game isn't there to check anymore. If you build this list WHILE you're collecting, even better. Two birds with one stone.- Without this list, we will have no idea what to implement 2 - 3 years down the line because VG:SOH Live is gone and we cannot login to check something out.
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Location Data from Chunk Files: Here's a task that started off guns blazing, but petered out and isn't being finished. Our Collectors should not have to do this too. There are plenty of peopl ehere with a client and access to these tools that can simply open a chunk file and grab 6 numbers out that we need.
Server Development: While we have some superstars writing the core server functionality, when it comes time to implement systems, the more developers we have the faster it gets done. Don't let VGOEmulator be yet-another-emu that's 1/3rd done 8 years from now. If you or someone you know can code, get them over here.
Web Development: Know PHP? I could always use a hand building the web modules or online DB Editor.
Tools Development: Know C#? Help build VGClientLauncher, VGVisualParser and any number of other tools we'll need to rapidly build this world.
Data Analysis: We still have a long way to go, and right now Xinux is doing it all himself. We started off with a bunch of people eager to break down packets, now not so much. But this task isn't as urgent as others... it will get done, as it needs to but you can help today, if analysis is your thing.
Wiki Authoring: Programming too much for you? Not really a lot of time to re-play the entire game using Collector? Can't really analyze your own breakfast? How about writing some documentation? You can post on these forums, you can write a document. Everything needs to be documented. Developers cannot do that, or there is no code being written thus we need "citizens" to help us with our documentation efforts. Docs make it easy for new devs to help; and, while you're writing about things, you'll learn too!
I had to stop... I said this was to be a simplified list but there are literally tons more things people can help with, both big and small. Don't be shy, step right up and claim a task, make it yours, and Save Vanguard with us. If you don't, the reality is this is probably the ONLY chance this game will ever be seen by anyone again - forever. Think about it. Get involved.
- Without this list, we will have no idea what to implement 2 - 3 years down the line because VG:SOH Live is gone and we cannot login to check something out.
- Without this, we will not have a fully populated world of content.[/list:u]
- Without this, we may not be able to develop the full game.[/list:u]