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I do fully agree with you/Ping, but that is not something we can easily fix. It's up to the competitive community to step forward and contribute the content. I've seen a lot of good stuff about competitive play on the wiki (Some a bit biased, but the vast majority is really amazing stuff) but we lack the experience as a staff to deliver this content, and if we tried then it would be done poorly... The tools are there to get things rolling, we just need the right people to step forward and use them.

Even if the risk is nearly 0, it's always best to cover yourself. We're working on a way to make this the case whilst improving our current way of doing things, so nobody gets affected by this. Will be announced this week *Broken record.mp3*

I never said the contests will be in the events sub forum, I was talking about what you proposed instead. You're free to get those things going yourself. We can only provide "All things JK" if those interested in those areas actually pull their weight rather than just passing comments on the sidelines. If you'd like to contribute more content that you feel is missing, the website is completely open for you to do so as it was intended by Caelum in the first place.

You are more than welcome to advertise your CTF tournaments/sabering in our Events area, I haven't seen many competitive advertisements around here. The fact is that we're a community of mostly modders here and we are trying to encourage creativity rather than expecting it to simply come to us. In terms of the tutorials, this is how I saw it going (Which in turn encourages people to write more tutorials as you said): We'd make somewhat regular tutorial days, encouraging people to actively check the tutorials section out and question what they could contribute EVEN if they had no desire to do so in the first place. This keeps the tutorials area in peoples minds more regularly and stops it being neglected as it is right now. Now the thought is in the persons mind, they are more likely to either read or submit a tutorial of their own whenever they think of a subject and/or feel like writing. If an area remains static then the thought/memory of that feature will fade away more quickly.

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When you have that many complaints, other people do that for you

Oh I agree with the staff one, I just threw it up as a blank idea to prompt other suggestions

There are different reasons I've heard people think of JA+ being crap. Altered damages/hits from the base game"Chat room" over competitive playAdmin commands/cvarsAuthor vanishes without word randomly (Now completely gone)Author made unpopular changes to the core mod midway throughSimply for the fact it's popularSecurity leaves a lot to be desiredUpdates have gone from frequent to rare and now to noneUnwillingness to share code, find a replacement for the author and make the mod open sourceI'm sure there are plenty of others, personally I enjoy the mod but am willing to change if something better comes along (Which JA++ is doing right now )

Good points, especially about it becoming an advertisement for a server mod. How would you approach the idea of clientside mods and where would those fit? (Tutorials) Absolutely, I'm not fully aware of all of the other staffs capabilities however that is what user feedback, ratings and reporting is intended to be used for if something isn't right then I'm sure people will gladly point it out. (Awards) I think it being solely based on just modding might be a bit of a stretch. I think tutorials and other contributions should be recognized as well.

Forgot to add the poll >_> updated

What makes you think those mods might be dead? Unsure what happened to Gunslingers, last I heard they were making progress.

Will get onto that later, thanks

The second file? You'll have to be more specific than that can you give me a direct link to the page you're talking about. I checked the second tutorial down and saw no links going to Filefront

I've been thinking lately (Yes, it hurt to do so ) of ways to encourage more interaction from the community, if you could take a few moments to read below and vote, I'd appreciate it Contests I realize that contests have been done to death on other JK related websites, however they usually always provide something new. SO I'd like to propose doing a contest once every 3 months. January - Winter Contest April - Spring Contest July - Summer Contest October - Autumn Contest These can be given fancy seasonal names, I'm sure if this is well received we'll get some good suggestions These would be based on specific yet simple things such as e.g.Reskin the Saboteur model (The user would be asked to include a specific texture somewhere as well as a shader, a guide will be written to go along with the contest)Create a map of a specific size (We could provide a .map file that is simply an empty box the size of a room that needs filling to your own desire... would produce a lot of different variations and spark creativity Model a hilt (Might be a bit advanced, but hopefully someone can create a clear and easy to follow video tutorial to go with it)It would be different every time and would try to encourage creativity, rather than just being asked to "make a map" without any resources. The aim is that the user learns something new and/or submits some new content to JKHub for the community. But, what do we get for winning?This leads on to my next idea which I shared with the staff last week... which issss Awards SystemOne way to reward people for their contributions could be to give out awards for certain things. We could use the following addon to our site:http://community.invisionpower.com/files/file/5966-hq-awards/ Awards could includeFirst tutorial10 Tutorials (Submitting 10 tutorials)First file10 Files (Submitting 10 files)Recognized JK Contributor (Could be made a thing, where people vote once a month for someone to be given the award perhaps)Wiki contributor (25-50 Articles/Pages)Staff/Former StaffDonor (For those who donate 5 dollars or more perhaps)And so on. Tutorial Submission Days Much like the contests, we could have a day where we encourage people to write at least one tutorial on a subject they know about JK/JK modding. This would be pre-planned and less organized than contests in terms of specific days. I would suggest doing it rarely to avoid it becoming a thing to avoid rather than a challenge. If only 10 people wrote one tutorial, it'd be a huge contribution in a very short time... even one tutorial is great. Giving tutorials more focus is definitely a good thing I'd say. Mod Specific Tutorials What do you guys think about adding a new category to the tutorials area called Mod Specific? This could contain tutorials that only apply to certain modifications e.g. OpenJK, JA++, JA+, jaMME, Pugmod etc Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on these ideas, by all means tear them apart and/or suggest alternatives

That's like saying JA+ is crap compared to Makermod because it doesn't have the ability to build things... two different mods with different purposes

Tavion is one of the most underused female models used by skinners, yet I feel it has a lot of potential. Great work (Out of curiosity, can that backplate she wears be surfed off?)

DID WE JUST FORM "THE HUB OF ROCK"? ... Anyway, thanks everyone for your responses so far by far more than I hoped for. I'll post this on JAWA and a few other communities I'm part of to get the ball rolling.

In what way could you contribute if we got this rolling ?

Posted this in the Staff Area a couple of weeks ago, would love to hear other opinions So whilst speaking to Circa a couple of days ago I had the idea that perhaps we could make some sort of music album from groups/players across the community. The idea is simple, we gather interest from people who play certain instruments, sing and/or compose by advertising on well known communities around JK, then make them come together to work on some songs which we could sell and give to charity Obviously the logistics of this are a bit fuzzy, I've never done anything like this and I am not musically gifted as e.g. Circa is but I believe we could get something really cool put together if we tried hard, and hopefully raise some decent cash for a charity/charities. Jobs that come to mind are: Musicians/VocalistsWriters/ComposersAlbum art designers (Mine is just to spark imagination I'm sure others could come up with something better, we could hold contests maybe?)AdvertisersA few project managers to ensure everyone is workingI'd love to hear what others think

Just FYI we are now discussing this and should have something set up that hopefully appeals to everyone very soon

Which one? I'll take a look.

For example: Is this done similarly to how GMod changes the appearance of a player model ingame? And in regards to the menus, I meant.. for example the speed cvar could have a slider that the player can move when they hit the esc key. Would be a lot more user friendly than console commands/cvars

I'd just like to say, this is the first time I've heard of this mod and it's something I've been hoping to come along for a good 5-6 years now at least... this will make filming JKA videos a breeze @_@ I just looked at some of your images, can you modify a players appearance like you seem to be suggesting? (You've probably written that somewhere, so sorry for asking ) The blur on that video... good lord @_@ I plan on making Kyle Katarns Alternate Dimension Part 3 pretty soon and would love to use your mod. Is it currently all cvar based or will you have fancy menus in the future for some of this stuff?