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The Consultant Project, Part II

Started by O Senhor Leetz, December 05, 2011, 01:49:40 PM

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Nomadic

It seems that we have enough interest. What's say we start up a list Leetz. I can make a news post and we can start collecting interested people and their settings to swap if you'd like.

My setting is Mare Eternus and I'd love to review whatever setting you stick me with. :)

Mason

I think mostly I'd want to bounce ideas off of someone...have their input/take on things and even contribute original ideas. Would that be included? Or strictly "this sucks/this works" type stuff?

Nomadic

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I think mostly I'd want to bounce ideas off of someone...have their input/take on things and even contribute original ideas. Would that be included? Or strictly "this sucks/this works" type stuff?

Last time we did this it was basically a do it however you want thing. The point was just to pair interested people up so they could toss feedback and ideas at each other.

Ninja D!

I'd be interested if I could be partnered with someone like that that wanted to bounce ideas around and stuff, since I don't have a lot of content and I would need to develop it as I go.

Nomadic

Went ahead and made this official. Hope nobody minds.

Ninja D!

Any thoughts on consultant sig badges? Maybe something a little less sig-dominating than last time?

Nomadic

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Any thoughts on consultant sig badges? Maybe something a little less sig-dominating than last time?

We can certainly do something like that. What were you thinking?

Ninja D!

I'm not even sure, I just know I'm a sucker for the sig badges we did here, even though they've kind of died away.

When the new forum opened, I dumped the ones that I had, anyway, because the links were bad and they were mostly dead projects.

I just read the thread. If we're going to do it with a timeframe like that, when do we think it will happen? I'm unavailable most of next week and I know most people get spotty in their posting around Christmas and New Years. Also, I would need to get a setting thread up.

Nomadic

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I'm not even sure, I just know I'm a sucker for the sig badges we did here, even though they've kind of died away.

When the new forum opened, I dumped the ones that I had, anyway, because the links were bad and they were mostly dead projects.

I just read the thread. If we're going to do it with a timeframe like that, when do we think it will happen? I'm unavailable most of next week and I know most people get spotty in their posting around Christmas and New Years. Also, I would need to get a setting thread up.

Probably sometime within the next 1-3 weeks. Don't want to hold people up too much for this. If holidays or schedule issues prove too hard to deal with I'll probably schedule it for January 1st.

Ninja D!

That would be fine by me, as would the holidays. I just have a small window. Maybe there will be an odd number of entrants and it won't matter anyway. Mine is the lowest priority since it won't see any use for anything probably ever. It's for my own amusement and sort of a thought excerise.

Polycarp

I would like to join this project.  I feel like focusing on one person's work would be a good place for me to get back into the community, so to speak - the combined work of everyone over months is too much to catch up on.  I have a fair amount of free time right now and I feel that I can commit to this.

My issue, however, is reciprocation.  I have only one setting and it has 256 wiki articles.  I don't want to make my partner feel intimidated by the sheer amount of WORDS, particularly if my partner has a rather new setting that's comparatively easy for me to read through and comment on.  Additionally, there are some core things I don't really want criticism on, constructive or otherwise, because they're sort of set in stone at this point - I'm more interested in figuring out where to go from here, how to detail and create hooks, and how to make things more consistent rather than whether baseline things like races, cosmology and so on are coherent and interesting.

How should I address this?  I'd happily just review someone without being reviewed in turn, but that sort of messes up the system of this project.  The strength, after all, is in the mutual nature of it.  Is this project simply suited better towards people embarking on a new setting than people whose worlds are already pretty well developed?
The Clockwork Jungle (wiki | thread)
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius

Nomadic

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I would like to join this project.  I feel like focusing on one person's work would be a good place for me to get back into the community, so to speak - the combined work of everyone over months is too much to catch up on.  I have a fair amount of free time right now and I feel that I can commit to this.

My issue, however, is reciprocation.  I have only one setting and it has 256 wiki articles.  I don't want to make my partner feel intimidated by the sheer amount of WORDS, particularly if my partner has a rather new setting that's comparatively easy for me to read through and comment on.  Additionally, there are some core things I don't really want criticism on, constructive or otherwise, because they're sort of set in stone at this point - I'm more interested in figuring out where to go from here, how to detail and create hooks, and how to make things more consistent rather than whether baseline things like races, cosmology and so on are coherent and interesting.

How should I address this?  I'd happily just review someone without being reviewed in turn, but that sort of messes up the system of this project.  The strength, after all, is in the mutual nature of it.  Is this project simply suited better towards people embarking on a new setting than people whose worlds are already pretty well developed?

Just join the project in the project thread here:

http://www.thecbg.org/index.php/topic,209439

and point this out in your application post. I'll keep it in mind when I pair you up and try to put you with someone that this will work for. At minimum I will make the other person aware of what you're looking for.

Ninja D!

I think it's safe to say no one is going to tell you the Clockwork Jungle is uninteresting.