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Old 06-23-2001, 04:04 AM
Tyhm Tyhm is offline
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That and the sheer bulk of things to review.
I mean, the first turn at democratic applications back when Fox was in charge, ONE person whose name I will not repeat gave 1 level with about 20 NPCWs.
Among them was, of all things, MY DANCING BOOTS.
Not only did that level take hours to review, but it contained stolen NPCs, probably all of them from scattered servers. It's bad enough I have to get 18 LAT Members to judge 34 Applications with 3 things to judge each...but I mean, people would submit 18-level quests, where each level was just the castle tileset and some baddies. Or a variation on the Magic Boomerang. Or something stolen from another playerworld. Or a bunch of Bomys. Or just their house. As it stands, there are 34*3*18 judgements to be made before this thing is over: that's 1836 repetitions of "Is this good enough? Is this good enough to make the whole application good enough?".
If I allowed 10 NPCs, Tiling/levels, or Graphics, the total would rise to 6120. And mind, this was a relatively small batch, we usually get around 80 applications.
My view of it is, if you're gonna give me this much of a headache BEFORE I hire you, are you really going to benefit the team?!?
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