Nielsen74 on 14/3/2006 at 19:31
Quote Posted by The Pixie
Some beta-testers are better than others. Have several, a mixture of players (who will spot game play problems) and DromEders (who will spot technical problems).
Accept that some will drop out.
I´m just wondering why someone offer to betatest and then "drop out" and/or not report back at all :confused: , taffers like this obviously don´t know of the time, effort and anxiety that got a mission this fare, like i sade i´m just wondering :weird:
Yandros on 14/3/2006 at 21:06
Not always. Sometimes someone volunteers to test with the best of intentions and then something comes up in real life that makes it impossible - they get sick, have a death in the family, suddenly have a lot of stress at their job - although I'm sure sometimes people also just decide they don't want to bother. I have a small circle of testers whom I use regularly and don't plan ever to use any others since I trust them all implicitly now after several years.
Bronze Griffin on 25/3/2006 at 00:47
Quote Posted by epithumia
Not sure why you'd think there's any problem with helping him. If he chooses to release another version of his mission, I do hope he gets a couple of people to run through it first.
And he shall. :)
Thelvyn on 29/7/2006 at 23:50
In regards to zip file naming and duplicate downloads, ie not knowing its the same file. I had suggested a while ago when I was still planning to write a darkloader replacement. I suggested we do a crc/md5 or something similar on mission's and you could then just compare them to see if it is the same. I had gone through my missions directory a couple of times and I still have dupes in there due to different naming conventions, versions etc.
I still end up downloading missions I already have sometimes.
I am willing to write such a (OS Agnostic with source)program or we could just use md5sum as I believe it is available for just about every platform. If linux runs on it then md5sum should be available and it is also available for windoze of course.
darthsLair on 3/10/2006 at 03:22
I wish I had been more careful and had both of My FM's beta tested before submitting them. I've learned more patience, and allow more time in the making
than I used to. I'd rather play an FM without alot of difficulty with the fuctionability of the objects, objectives, ect.
Very Excellent Post!!
R Soul on 14/10/2006 at 19:27
I'd like to suggest that after the mission is zipped, authors should open the zip and remove any Thumbs.db files, Paint Sho Pro browser files and so on. They can add a fair bit onto the file size. For some dial-up users just 1MB can be significant.
epithumia on 15/10/2006 at 17:15
What are the PSP browser files named? I agree that needless cruft should always be eliminated from mission files.
R Soul on 15/10/2006 at 17:25
pspbrwse.jbf
R Soul on 15/11/2006 at 12:22
This thread has lots of good advice for people making and submitting FMs, but now I have a request to make of those hosting FMs:
When you extract the readme files and link to them directly, please remove the email address.
I hardly ever got spam until I released my FM.
SlyFoxx on 3/1/2007 at 15:39
I would like to add a request. When you use notepad to create the read-me file, please use the return key. It's very frustrating trying to read and having to scroll and scroll. Maybe your screen is 5 feet wide but most are not.;)
