14 Oct 11, 04:39AM
Quote:- Kill zombies. This is kick out any member of the dev team that is not doing/able-to-do their job in the crew; as it will help to take decisions and allocate resources (yes, time is a resource :))
http://sourceforge.net/projects/actionga...Repository just because for the most part, a lot of changes haven't been made recently doesn't mean you should completely kick them out. Remember that these devs are basically working for free since nobody donate and they don't run ads on the site so they aren't going to be putting in as much time as someone who is getting a salary for doing the same thing. Compared to a lot of other small games like this, AC actually has pretty active developers, so don't complain about how much they work, especially when they are working for free.
Quote:- Give stability to the project. Aka give a near-to-definitive balance to weapons, identify what you want each weapon for and maybe introduce little changes on major releases when there's evidence of a lack of balance
The recent major releases have had small changes to the weapons in terms of balance. The problem is that with weapons like the ones used in AC, very small changes go a very long way, like changing the sniper damage to 80 from 85. In general, the weapons probably will stay close to how they are right now as you can basically deal with any of them if you are good with whatever weapon you like, and the thing about the 1.1 releases is that every weapon has some purpose and depending on the map/playstyle of enemies, each one will be able to be used well (smg is still shit). Balance wise, everything for the most part is fine unless you aren't used to the release.
Quote:- Reach FPS industry standard features. Team Damage on/off (and even reverse team damage), dedicated server package, server administration tools, more user-friendly UI, box to type password for private servers, and a big large etc. You could even extend this part to 'Reach FPS eSports features standards', f.e. warm up, auto time based side switch, shoutcast view, FPS limits, and another large etc.
Friendly fire could easily be turned off, but it is part of what adds to the reason why I like AC in the first place, you can't just sit back and spam weapons, so changing that is out of the picture unless you want to create your own mod, which wouldn't be hard to do. When it comes to the ui, it's perfectly fine in all regards. Also, there are already community made mods give an easier to use ui for servers. Your 'fps eSports features standards' either won't be problems due to changes that have been made for future releases or are completely pointless in a game like this as AC is not a truly competitive game outside of a few random community run tournaments that happen from time to time (look at what happened when davi tried to make it happen).
Quote:- Build a PR (Public Relations) Department. A project needs people dedicated to care about both internal (with other AC communities / related companies) and external (other games, generalist communities, press, etc.) relationships and a voice to trust when public announcements are made
go into irc and you can talk to the devs yourself. #1 pr imo. Without a really large staff, you can't have a real pr department, so that won't happen any time soon
Quote:- Make a huge opinion poll. Discover what's worrying your fan base and what they are expecting from the dev team and the game itself, and then act in consequence of course xD
The fans are completely subjective and listening to them about everything will make everything worse as everyone has different opinions. For example, if I got my way, smg would be crazy broken, ar would be shit for anything other than flag runs, shotgun would be shit outside of really close range, and sniper would be like it was in 1.0, which would piss off a lot of people making it worse.
Quote:- Make it easier for users to contribute, for example, make a blog section dedicated to clans, so they can post their news to the overall community
The community isn't large enough for your voice not to be heard by anyone. If you have something to post about your news, just put it in the forums and a lot of people will see it including old players from old and well known clans (KH REPRESENT!!!!!!!!!!).
Quote:- Ease accessibility to the site. As multi-language interface seems to be considered as a taboo subject, I'd ask to enable Facebook Connect as soon as possible
no
Quote:- Give people a reason to stay in your site. I guess this portal is one of the main incomes of the project, more visits (and time in the site) means more incomes for the project
only good way to really generate any more income from the site would likely be through actually using ads, so no.