Hohoho, we have something special for you!
That’s the tagline under which the BiG World Project has been released for quite some time now. With great success, one might add. As the name suggests we aim to include as many mods as possible into one single installation. As you may know the BG modding community has been and still is very active so there’s always much work to do.
All the websites/feeds have to be canvassed for news and updates, potential changes must be examined and if necessary content has to be checked.
And all the alterations have to be incorporated into the link list, the BWP PDF documentation, the modding forums and of course all the fix-, text-, install- and setup packs.
Often we have to edit our fixes or make new ones or new conflicts or dependencies occur in all the possible constellations. And all that stuff has to be tested too.
To make things short: you get a relatively small download but there is a hell of a lot of work behind the whole thing!
Ramifications
We can’t catch up with it. At least not as we want to. There are too many bug reports to solve and updates to be included and stuff. Just too much work, especially right before a new release. Stressful times are these.
We need you!
You are tired of waiting for the new version? You know answers to questions players might have? You want to give something back to the community?
Then we’d very much like to welcome you to our team!
We should be able to provide (almost) everyone with something to do. ^^
We’re in dire need of testers. At best people with some WeiDu, Near Infinity and so on skills and who know a few mods and can provide us with (last minute) tests of mods and fixes prior to a release.
We’re in dire need of people who can fix known or self found bugs.
We need people for support work in the forums. They should be able to provide information or solve problems on their own or take in bug reports and pass them on. The modders should be informed of the bugs and/or bug fixes too of course. There’s no need for us being left with all the work.
We need people directly for the BWP manual or for proofreading. (Obviously nobody proofread this text which is an indicator of how desperate we really are!
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We need people who check the websites/feeds, gather all the news and coordinate the work or can provide us with new impulses and concepts for the whole project.
On the long run we also need translators and people with language skills, respectively. Mind you, English is not the big issue here. There are lots of other languages.
Your Opinion counts
We’d really appreciate it, if people would take the trouble on themselves to write their opinions and criticism down – which means into the forums.
A thread with opinions about mods would be nice too. Do you think a mod is not balanced right to be recommended? Are fights to hard or simply misplaced? Or is a whole mod misplaced and simply doesn’t belong in the game?
Of course your general opinions and ideas are welcomed as well.
I hope that one or two of you hear the call of greater things to accomplish and are willing to spend a little of your precious free time with this project. You – and we all together – can improve this project. And therefore lighten up somebody’s day with our work.
Thanks for reading!