Dear thrive,

PandaVirus wrote:

I agree with a lot of the stuff that's been said on this thread but this is just my suggestion if we don't want to split the forums. For now I think we may have to put a notice up to all members of the forum about the following:
We need to lock down some parts of the forum and focus very hard on getting the microbe stage working. We need to forget some of the other segments >just for now<. The important pages like the faq will of course still remain open. (And coming from the perspective of a concept artist, only art relevant to the microbe stage should be worked on for now. Like the backgrounds to be used in the prototype, and some sample cell designs to use for the npc's etc etc).

What I'm suggesting may seem somewhat extreme to some but we may have to consider it if all people do is continually add ideas :/

Recruitment of programmers is also vital - but how we go about it is also important (we will need to discuss this in the very near future). Like Nick said a while ago, if we can show others a simple prototype of the cell stage, it'll be of great help in getting some attention from other programmers.

Also, looking back at what I just typed, this probably sounded very ironic/arrogant coming from a newcomer who has not contributed much at all and from a concept artist who has yet to post any art at all :/
For that, I sincerely apologise if it sounded like I was already making a grab for power or if I have offended you.

i aggre, but:
i doesn't want to lock other forums!
we will then be unprepared for other things!
we really doesn't ned to split, we could became like spore, scientists vs. cute and completely ruin game!

dimasciene wrote:

PandaVirus wrote:

I agree with a lot of the stuff that's been said on this thread but this is just my suggestion if we don't want to split the forums. For now I think we may have to put a notice up to all members of the forum about the following:
We need to lock down some parts of the forum and focus very hard on getting the microbe stage working. We need to forget some of the other segments >just for now<. The important pages like the faq will of course still remain open. (And coming from the perspective of a concept artist, only art relevant to the microbe stage should be worked on for now. Like the backgrounds to be used in the prototype, and some sample cell designs to use for the npc's etc etc).

What I'm suggesting may seem somewhat extreme to some but we may have to consider it if all people do is continually add ideas :/

Recruitment of programmers is also vital - but how we go about it is also important (we will need to discuss this in the very near future). Like Nick said a while ago, if we can show others a simple prototype of the cell stage, it'll be of great help in getting some attention from other programmers.

Also, looking back at what I just typed, this probably sounded very ironic/arrogant coming from a newcomer who has not contributed much at all and from a concept artist who has yet to post any art at all :/
For that, I sincerely apologise if it sounded like I was already making a grab for power or if I have offended you.

i aggre, but:
i doesn't want to lock other forums!
we will then be unprepared for other things!
we really doesn't ned to split, we could became like spore, scientists vs. cute and completely ruin game!

Ah well I never said we were splitting O_o
(Although looking back I think my suggestion for the alternative was a little too extreme haha)