"Only" have to give  real name, accept some policies and then theres this:
"Create a profile only if you think you are talented in one of the requested positions. [...] .. you need previous experiences and portfolio. .."
Doesnt that seem deterrent to "Community involvement"? Some might think they are not good enough.

The way more important question is: Is that really needed for simple tasks?
In my previous post i suggested to invent a licence anyone could add to his work to have it donated to PS, couldnt that be an option for stuff like artwork or patches/extensions to the client/server code? Like as a first Step towards involvement. For those who are unsure if they are "good" enough or have the time to keep their promises. With a system creating low overhead for cases that "dont finish" their tasks - simple tasks of course - that could be an entry point to much deeper involvement!

Merely a license to allow PS to use donated code/art. A billboard with simple tasks that allow self-assigning with leaving the date could be enough.

Imho its too complicated to just donate some help.

Its like you have to sign a nda for fixing a typo.

I'd love a system where you could just apply for a task and have a set time to fulfill it. If you dont - its open for the next person. If you fulfil it, you'd just hand over the results for examination.


Just use the big tracker and assign feature requests/bugs to peeps who comment that they want to work on it. Just invent a ps license that allows use solely in ps. That way peeps could donate work for ps with adding that license without need to sign anything.

Ahh you did it!
Looks fantastic!

Just for the record, configuring cs with "--disable-relaytool" solves this issue for me.

(See http://www.crystalspace3d.org/forum/index.php/topic,2103.msg9058.html#msg9058)

Quote from: Aensor on February 20, 2014, 04:08:59 pm

Quote from: Bonifarzia on February 20, 2014, 03:51:07 pm

I admit I have not looked at the actual code on SVN, and you probably already came up with a good solution. Otherwise one could give less weight to low quality components in a "simple" way, maybe taking the root mean square? E.g. sqrt( (50^2 + 300^2)/2 )  ~ 215

This would just make low quality a better quality?

No, it is really just another average, which gives more weight to high quality items.

Oh right i see now. It would be somewhat a compromise of the current system and simple averaging. A real weighting per items involved in a reciepe id still favour to prevent exploits for tria.

And of course, mathscripts are not part of the public code section, so on SVN we only see the arguments 

We dont see the tuned scripts that are in effect on the official PS Server but some base is there (those youll have working when you install the server yourself) - SVN

Imho some rnd is fine BUT make it become less deviation the higher the skill - up to a very reliable amount because this encourages becoming master in a proffession,  while still allowing nice results for lower levels.

If you add rng, it should not be only lowering the quality but also shouldnt de/increase quality as much as the real processing.

How was your consensus on items only aviable in q50 in your internal discussion?

Greetings!

As calculation of results in a combine step will soon take the qualities of all ingredients of such combine into account i want to collect your thoughts and ideas on issues that might arise on this change. I personally welcome this, it adds some issues though and im not sure what would be the best way to come by them. Maybe you have some thoughts or ideas.

The main issue i am concerned about is the aviability of a variety of ingredients which are restricted to low quality.

• Animal parts are currently restricted to have q50
• Plenty of Alchemy, Herbal and Cooking ingredients are currently aviably ony at NPC Merchants in q50

Obviously a fix would be to allow high quality animal parts to be looted aswell as allowing various ingredients to be craftable off collected base materials - however until this is implemented, how could it be solved?

What came to my mind first, which would maybe be feasible anyway for better control of transforms but is not at all supported by the current system would be to allow to set values for the influence of an ingredient on the quality of the combine. This way one could set the currently not craftable ingredients to have low influence.

Example: Combining a Chain Mail Helm with a Set of steel bands - It would make sense that the steel bands have less effect on the overall quality than the Full chain mail helm.
Another obvious example: Adding common herbs in really good water should probably not result in a superior tea.

However this might be reserved for future considerations, solutions that can be easily added with low efforts should be discussed

Some ideas:

• Add some Ingredients for high prices in better quality
• Add an NPC that trades those items for similar quality i.e. "Give 3 Hop in q123 - get 6 Flour in q123" or "Give 1 Maulber Hide in q50 - get 1 Tefu Hide in q200"
• ...

Any thoughts or ideas?