Paper Planning

orcaloverbri9

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Originally posted by Martin Turner:
Why the security? Are you expecting SIS or the CIA to raid your plugin?

I think he's more worried about some bastard coming, stealing his stuff, and releasing an identical TC before him so it looks like he copied someone else.

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Originally posted by UE_Research & Development:
Paper and secure webboards do the trick. Security and economy are reasons I don't like using paper or elaborating my ideas outside of secured FTP or personal hard drive space.

No offence intended here UE_R+D, but isn't that being a little paranoid?

Unless of course you know someone in real life who is into plug-in development and comes into your house from time to time.

Come to think of it actually, I know someone like that, but I don't think he's gonna be stealing any of my ideas somehow. It would most likely be the other way round

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**Or the real kind. I use those all the time.

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I do too. I have ton's laying around that say "WORK ON AFTERMATH".

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mrxak

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Originally posted by SpacePirate:
Is anyone else of the opinion that using looseleaf paper and stickies only makes a mess, and is bound to get lost? I mean, I use a tiny notebook, and that's pushing it. I haven't touched it, except for like one night that I got bored and wrote some stuff down.

I keep all my stuff in my pockets, then transfer them to my AMTC folder when I get a chance. Works like a charm, and I haven't lost anything yet.

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Originally posted by Andcarne:
I do too. I have ton's laying around that say "WORK ON AFTERMATH".;)

Heh.

liquid_doom

Our team has what we call the "Big Ol' Binder" which was originally filled with lots of multi-page text documents and a couple of sketches of ship designs. Everytime I drew a ship at three in the morning in the back of napkin or whatnot, into the binder it would go. Ditto with the other team members story outlines and descriptions. When we started work on the graphics and story for our TC, our graphics guy would clip whatever half-baked concept art I'd done to the computer he was working on, and put the rest back into the binder. A lot of the stuff I did that ended up in the binder was confusing or eventually dropped, but the rest of the team insists that it remain in the binder as a reminder of my shame. So having a paper trail when we started allowed us to keep track of our ideas as well as blackmail team members. It's a win-win situation.

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For my part, writing things down and sketching things out is ultimately important. It allows you to set in stone a phase of your development, and then evaluate it. It also means other people can view my work in it's entirety and draw their own conclusions - particularly with my plot work. My back-stories tend to go into a lot of depth; I find that once you can make a race's profile hold water, and you can say why they've come to the point their currently at, any further story line more-or-less writes its self.

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