--- Stephen Squires <gicker42@hotmail.com> wrote: > You're best off posting on the newsgroups and on the > mud connector. > Good builders are hard to come by, especially before > a mud is open > and has few players. Most of the builders that you > do get probably > won't even finish a zone before they quit. Post > what your mud is > all about and what you plan to do with it, and hope > that someone is > interested. Chances are though you'll have to do > most of the building > yourself until you've got a solid playerbase. Once > you've got players > They'll be interested in seeing the mud grow so they > can get better > equipment and have new areas to explore, and that's > really when you'll > start getting some builders. Until then, good luck. Another thing about builders is that you only want to hire two to three really good ones. Most of the really good ones will email you about your standings on the word "you" and the lenght of the text lines, etc. Remember to interview carefully, get all forms of contacts (aim, yim, msn, email, etc.) and keep a running database of who is immortals, and there current standings (write it down if you have to) incase of a pwipe so you can restore all there charcters. Set up default passwords for each so when you pwipe, you can go and create there charcters with there passwords so they don't think that you don't love them anymore =P Like Squires said, build some of your own zones at first. There are many win* programs out there that will let you build them useing a gui so that can speed up the process. Make sure you have your levels figured out, and the base of the code done. That way you will keep builders instead of lose them. Owe, and don't just hire people that log on, in masses, they all will quite. Check refrences and so on. I've rambled for quite a while, so I better run of and beta test some stuff. Hope it helps Zerin "The bard that is hungry while typeing emails" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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