Velious plz

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Originally Posted by Spitty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't think I am. You would be very hard-pressed to convince me, in this situation, that the recruitment example you gave is a viable option.

Where would he solicit unpaid labor from? Would that labor be valuable, or detrimental to the project? How much time would the existing dev pool need to spend to get the new talent up to speed and on board with how the code and Velious progression is structured? Furthermore, does the image of Project 1999 as a whole suffer if the administrator of the project itself is posting on fanboards, enthusiast forums, etc. trying to solicit free help? What is the risk involved of bringing on a batch of new programmers that may or may not have the project's best intentions in mind? What good are four new programmers when one of them irreversibly wrecks the code in order to promote their own emu server?

This is just 30 seconds of brainstorming on why outbound recruiting options simply don't work for this kind of situation. It's a bit like high-end raiding; the best guilds get there because talent approaches them for membership, not because they're spamming EC looking for bodies.

They already have volunteers. Tell them they can work on New Red after they work on Velious a bit or after its done. Will they all go for it? No, but some will. And would it be a risk letting in new people...yes, but it is a possibility. Where there is a will there is a way.