Rules For Ideas or Dev Team Requests

[Ravine]

OK, we love ideas for homebrew games, they are great. Only one problem though, posting an idea is like requesting it to be made for you. As you should know requests are against the rules, so that boots giving ideas for homebrew out the window. Second, people that post asking for people to join a development team, just please don't post. What you really mean when you post a call for a team is "I can't make my elaborate idea come to life and I need someone else to do it for me!" Again, that looks a whole lot like a request. So, please don't do that.

This is what you need to do.

First off learn to code a bit, get a working demo or something with your friends (I hope you have some) release that demo and then ask for people to help you out with it. This is basically the same for a request to a dev team.
If you cannot code, or really don't want to, wait till someone releases a demo like this and asks for a team. Post or PM them that you would like to join. You can then learn from that experiance. Once people know what you can do they will have much more respect for you. After you earn that bit of respect, you can ask for a dev team (because they know you are legit) and then work on YOUR idea.

I hope this will help lower the amount of development team requests and people posting ideas, claiming that they were not requests.

Flame all you like, doesn't bother me a bit, I see it as constructive critism.

[mannymix03]

so basically everyone just follow the no request rule and we will all be fine

[danzel]

Bump for truth.

Perhaps we need a posting guidelines sticky for this forum (and to remove/join most of the other stickies)

[mannymix03]

there is a rule of no requests in the forum.... it annoys most devs and by saying "OK, we love ideas for homebrew games," you are encouraging n00bs to be like "port hl2 please!!!!1!!!oneone!!!1! "

truth is that most of us like suggestions but when we get 20000 requests its really annoying and makes some of us want to quit the scene

[Sturmeh]

port hl2 please!!!!1!!!oneone!!!1!
not.

Mabye when i finish my 3.0ghtz cpu mod for psp... *cough*

Makes sence, if u really have a valid idea, try telling them in person, if they HINT that you are bugging them, DISSAPEAR. ( Got that danzel :P, jks. )

Yeh, so ill get that 3ghtz mod running some day, u kno with the 1tb RAID nand chip, and the um, Ethernet cable, cough and um mabye lets say i dunno, um..."

/me is promptly shot, then put down, then hung, then drowned, then electrified.

"Im not quite dead yet!!!!" - Monty Python, Holy Grail.

Now ive gone far off topic. :P