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Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

You proceeded to say that the easier way for somebody to know if the GDT is interested in creating a server is... by going out and helping servers.

Post where I said that, I never said that the easier way for somebody to know if the GDT is interested in creating a server is ...by going out and helping servers. I was saying that advertising wasen't a way to do it, and a better way was to just go out and help servers on their own. I dont think GDT should make a server, they wouldn't all work well together imo because they code differently. You just took what I said out of context I guess.

Read it again.

Originally Posted by sssssssssss

No. Much easier way, if youre a global developer team member, help globally develop and go on a server yourself and just ask if they need help, it takes like to energy to do that at all really. Or, look for the desperate attempts to make "hiring" threads for all the servers on these forums, since most GDT are on here a lot anyways. Each GDT member should be searching out servers to do their job. They are a team, a group even, but they don't have to magically work together all at once. Obviously some servers only need certain things.

But, like many have mentioned in and out of this thread, the two main ones that were already classic should ALREADY have been saved by GDT, Npulse and Delteria.

Nothing in there about GDT making a server, and thats my post that was including a quote from yours.

btw, lol.

[LoneAngelIbesu]

Originally Posted by sssssssssss

Nothing in there about GDT making a server, and thats my post that was including a quote from yours.

Precisely why it was COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE QUOTE AND DISCUSSION THAT I WAS HAVING.

Originally Posted by coreys

Hey, I'm GDT, and I'm agreeing with the "others." Inverness is just stubborn.

I'm agreeing with the "others" as well. We can whatever we want, despite (or even in spite) of what any single member of the GDT thinks the objective of the group is. One of the main goals of the GDT is to help struggling servers. We don't need to completely develop their servers, but I think the 'slave laborer' thing might get thrown around a little too easily.

To quote Skyld:

Originally Posted by Skyld

IThere are a couple of roles which we have already, apart from some [finer] details, decided upon:

1. Striving to provide better documentation in your field of specialisation. The wiki leaves a lot to be desired and it could be considered a GDT project to help clean it up. Scripters should help to provide high quality reference material both in the form of raw reference tables and in prose. Tutorials are also good. Graphic artists and levellers can also contribute tutorials which show how to create specific effects and reduce errors.
   
   
2. Helping those who need it. That means being in the front line when people need your help. You have been given a Global Development Team tag, please use it when you are able to. We've also set up the IRC channel on Freenode; your participation would be nice.
   
   
3. Helping with server projects. Sometimes staff from a server may call upon you for advice or even for a helping hand. If you feel a requested project is reasonable, feel free to participate. If you don't feel it's reasonable for you, suggest people who may be interested, GDT members or otherwise. The important thing is to not do too much though; the GDT are not slave labourers and shouldn't be taken for granted.

So far, just to reiterate, Delteria, Zone, and N-Pulse have been specifically mentioned. In Delteria's case, it sounds more like an outreach for full development, so that may be more of individual GDT members actually becoming Delteria staff. I don't know about Zone and N-Pulse; not much has been said. Though, some of us don't have Gold accounts, which should be taken into consideration when we discuss the GDT helping UC/Gold servers.

[coreys]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

I'm agreeing with the "others" as well. We can whatever we want, despite (or even in spite) of what any single member of the GDT thinks the objective of the group is. One of the main goals of the GDT is to help struggling servers. We don't need to completely develop their servers, but I think the 'slave laborer' thing might get thrown around a little too easily.

Yeah, that's why I think it would be better to have a set structure for doing this, in the leadership of the GDT. Soala or (preferably for him I'm sure) a group of GDT's decide what work is worth the GDT's time and it either gets handed off as assignments or GDT's can choose at will what to do from that list.