OFFICAL : New people in new jobs.

[Jamski]

Comrades, it seems that every few days Kody has to remind us that he simply can't control the whole Hive on his own. We need people to cover the following jobs to assist his planning.

THESE JOBS ARE NOT HARD TO DO AND YOU DON'T EVEN NEED A CALCULATOR!

A new Marshal is needed in the continuing absence of Roko to direct millitary/probe movements. I suggest either Octavian, Vev or the Chairman himself, but anyone can volunteer. If we don't get one, millitary units WILL NOT BE MOVED!

A deputy to Kody is required so he can go on holiday sometimes. He has been trying to instruct me, Micha and Vev in the secrets of his planning, but again, anyone can do it. Apply now for the position of DEPUTY TURN PLANNER/PLAYER!

I also suggest that HongHu expand her intelligence activities to include the Pirates, as we now have full infilteration. Of course others are welcome to appy for the position, but we may want to rely on HongHu.

Job 4 : The Chairman's position should be exercised more for diplomatic purposes. He is the one who should conduct official negotiations with our pacted brethren in the Drones and Pirates, in discussion with the rest of the team, as he sees fit.

Anyone who wants to do ANYTHING will be welcome to do it - we are getting desperate.

If noone puts their names forward we may have to shut down Kody Central Planning and play in a MUCH less effecient manner. We are leading the the moment, thanks to Kody really, and as the game progresses and we get more bases and more units and meet more factions, we can't expect Kody to continue to do it all. If noone else volunteers, then I'll take over and you WON'T LIKE THAT AT ALL

-Jam

[Snowflake]

What's the job benefit?

[Jamski]

A feeling of satisfaction and the undying love, respect and gratitude of Kody for ever.

-Jam

[Snowflake]

Are you implying that he doesn't have those nice feelings toward all of his comrades right now?

[dacole]

Ok I am realitivley new here but I am willing to help I could do the troop/probe movements if needed. Rest I don't think I know enough to do really. Email is dacole@wfubmc.edu. Hotmail is dcole78@hotmail.com. I am a graduate student in real life so may not be on msn often but will be able to talk when I am!

Glory to the hive!

[Googlie]

dacole ......

of the Spatan Chronicles fame???

Googlie

[dacole]

Man you actually remember me My god!! Bows down and kisses the feet of Googlie I can not believe the great God remembers me...my writeing was terrible and I didn't stay nearly as long as I wanted to but yes that was me! This humble comrade is deeply grateful the great God googlie remembers him!

[Jamski]

Coooooool, that was some good reading man We have (had) a Hive story running too, if you wanna ressurrect it.

-Jam

[Voltaire]

This really has gone too far, we need people to participate in more than just occasionally posting spam on the forums. I am as guilty of this as the rest of you, I do converse, as all of us on MSN do, with Comrade Kody about decisions, but he ends up doing all the work.

First and foremost, to get this matter sorted out myself, Vev, HongHu, Jamski, Micha, Octavian, as well as any other active members (forgive me if I failed to mention you) must take on greater administrative responsibilities. From now on when we have a turn-chat the responsibility of posting the turn update should not fall to Comrade Kody (he does more than enough work as it is planning the turns). Jamski, I, or any other present member (in case of our absence) will post the turn update. Run the necessary polls. And other mundane tasks like that. (I know some of you have already been doing this, and I thank you on behalf of Comrade Kody, but we need to do more).

Secondly we must also be actively involved in the planning process. We must decide on the military unit movements, in light of the absence of our Marshal. Until we can find someone to replace him we will make these decisions during a MSN chat well before the turn is actually posted.

Lastly, and I think most importantly, we need to make the in-game domestic decisions as a group. Comrade Kody has been doing all the planning, and he has done a magnificent job, because of this we feel it is best left in his hands, and maybe this indeed is true. But the fact remains that the process it time consuming and to leave it all to one person. Therefore we need a division of labor, we really need people to take on the science planning, terraforming, construction, etc. positions and make plans independently for those. If we divide up tasks like that we can get a lot accomplished in relatively little time (in comparison to what it takes Comrade Kody to plan the entire turn all by himself).

[Octavian X]

I *could* take a role on the CMC, assuming that I had a screenshot posted with each turn. Remember, I don't actually even have a working copy of SMAC...

[Jamski]

Well we can start with at least having a weekly meeting at a regular time. That will help.

-Jam

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Octavian X
I *could* take a role on the CMC, assuming that I had a screenshot posted with each turn. Remember, I don't actually even have a working copy of SMAC...

You could learn from how the Drones do it:

Buster starts a new thread every turn, and in pre-turn planning posts an overall screenshot, one of every base and the map (so big now that it has to be broken down into segments) then invites discussion

Players without SMAX can thus add their wisdom, a concensus is reached, Buster fine-tunes it based on his gaming experience, and then plays the turn.

That's why the Drones play their turns so quickly - the 'down-time' between turns is filled with next-turn planning

Of course, that takes efffort too (and is easier at CGN 'cos you don't have to go through the upload then [img] route - you can just add attachments to any post)

G.

[Jamski]

This is kind of what we do though, except the screenshot goes in the same thread always... but we could change perhaps?

John, Chairman V, what do you guys think? Can we learn from the Drones example?

-Jam

[Kody]

Sounds like a good way to do it. Although it would be nice if someone else organised the screenshot posting. I dislike the way it's done at apolyton.

Another thing. Saving the screenshots as gifs actually gives better fine detail then jpeg and is smaller. The only difference is the color is worse, however for planning purposes we're after detail rather than pictures looking nice.

[Micha]

Comrade Micha reports for duty! *salutes*

I´d like to continue my turnplanning training, since there´s still much left to learn. Comrade Kody, could you set a certain GMT time for this? As you are the one with limited time ressources, this is the best way to coordinate our online times

Unfortunately I was not able to get online during the past two days. I apologize for that.

For the drone type of planning:
Although not very effective for the five-year-planning, the tactical aspects of unit movements can be managed well by using the drone´s way. I have troubles posting true-colour screenshots (I lack adequate graphic programs) so this job should be done by better equipped Hive personnel

- Micha