[CONTRIBUTORS] Credits Page Updated

[Eloa]

My opinion anyone? if you dont want it, just skip past this section...

Core team i think is the main developers who worked almost non stop on this thing for weeks. I think I have included those people in that category. I do however think that there should be another category added below core team and above extended team. I think I have got a way around this for everyone to be happier. I'll work on it as soon as I get time.

[Zonx]

I just want the site and readme file to match.

I also think Quib, the project lead, should decide what's appropriate credit for each person. He's the person likely to have the best picture of who did what.

[tonyis3l33t]

Originally Posted by Zonx

I just want the site and readme file to match.

I also think Quib, the project lead, should decide what's appropriate credit for each person. He's the person likely to have the best picture of who did what.

Eloa was here next to me at the start. He observed the entire thing just like Quib. IMHO Eloa did a fine job. It's not like he is denying additions.

[Quib]

I technically wasn't around right at first; Eloa and Tony were developing custom map windows independently of eachother, then Bobble dropped by and gave some hints on using the default map window, Deathbane27 took Bobble's hints and figured out how the map window worked, then I took the idea and ran with it. At least that's how I remember it.

Just after Dolby gave us our own forum and we went from a single thread to a whole forum is when it became overwhelming to keep track of the contributors. It won't actually be that hard to sort through the maps and match up authors and people who collected data with them; names are in the corner of most of them and the thread that it spawned from will have the people associated with that map.

That being said, I do have a pretty good idea of who did what, it's just a matter of getting it all down on text file. Some sort of comment submission system to the contributors page means I could just plug stuff in as I sort through stuff.

I think the hardest part will be making sure all maps are accounted for.

Quib

[Zonx]

Originally Posted by Quib

I technically wasn't around right at first; Eloa and Tony were developing custom map windows independently of eachother...

Hehe, and I was already hacking the default map window with revised Freeport and CL POIs and icons

That's kinda my point. Early on there was alot of stuff being done independantly that wound up a part of the project. Tony, I'm not saying anyone is denying anything (not even sure how you got that impression), just saying Eloa probably doesn't have the best idea of what everyone has contributed. You guys were doing your thing, I was doing my thing. Quib came along and brought everything together.

Rather than trying to catagorize people's involvement, why not just list people and what they did? The whole "Core Team" vs. "Extended Team" thing is just asking for someone's feelings to get hurt. Seams to run counter to the whole "EQ2I Community Project" idea if yah ask me.

[Quib]

To be totally honest, what I envisioned when I made the labels core and extended team, I was hoping that PMs would be directed at the core team members, so the extended team folks wouldn't get buried. I simply set them apart because I hoped they knew enough about the map window that they could answer questions. Later, I just added people in who had contributed significantly, especially in the mapping department. Hopefully you all haven't had much trouble with it, but troubleshooting EQ2MAP PMs can be total hell. I've had a nice drop-off off in number of PMs since the auto-updater made it's debut, and people are at least reading the part where they should go to the EQ2MAP forums for help.

We probably don't need the distinction anymore. Making sure everyone knows taco-man does the auto-updater, Eloa runs the website (and taco-man, I don't actually know what each of them did), and I'm the XML nazi will help get specific questions directed at the right people. Tony is the lead mapper, and I should stop being a jerk about the map graphics and let him make the final call on all map graphics (I stopped being anal about the maps along time ago, but I figured what I just said will emphasize that). So yeah, if there's a map that doesn't look like you like, please feel free to throw up a different DDS/JPG Tony. I was stupid about the Wailing Caves maps for example, and WC (East) could definately use a cleaner version.

Beyond that, Zonx, Deathbane27 and Talyns have contributed tons of graphics, code and ideas, ger has contributed Zone Connection Overlays and very nice icon graphics, there's a few very good mappers, and an army of POI submitters.

I think that's a fair summary; getting everyone's name down where I generalized will be the trickier part.

Oh, and as for the EQ2MAP team as in who has access to these forums and upload rights; it's a two-edged sword, I'd like more people to have access to the team forum, but the more people that have unrestricted upload rights, the worse. So yeah, that's why who is on the team as far as access rights go is sticky business.

Quib

[tonyis3l33t]

heh poor quib. im pretty sure the reason you get bogged down with PM's is because you posted the files in the downloads section lol

EDIT: im redoing WC today

[diztorded]

I am just happy to hear people in game say, "I have EQ2Map... I can show you where it is."