SYM Prod. is recruiting BATters, LOTters, MODders, and TESTers

[simrolle 18]

Best wishes to the new team!

 

I hope this will be another one which name will stand for

high quality lots and bats!

 

simrolle

 

[simoplis_mayor 3]

oh you said you need my e-mail? ok its nfsu200404@yahoo.com also im downloading yahoo messger later too.

[SYM Productions 7]

Allright we're gonna rap it up for the testers... I think we have enough... anyone who applied before this post is in, and I might ask for more, but in the mean time, thanks for applying!

Any BATter, LOTter, MAPper, or MODder can still apply however!

 

@Vercetti: We'll be doing that, thank!

 

@Fantail: I assume everything worked out, all though if you have any questions just e-mail or PM us.

 

@Simoplis_mayor: Yeah someone else can assemble a CJ list or we can just check the sig links...

 

@DJSpin: You have been listed and the PM will be sent to you shortly...

 

@Pmiller: Well you're a pretty good BATter... how could we resist? 

 

@Simrolle:   Aww that's really nice Simrolle... thank you very much! 

 

Ok I'd like to know... does anyone mind if I PM you guys with each other's e-mails?  I wouldn't think so, but just checking...

 

- CDI_spy

[simoplis_mayor 3]

SYM ive been hearing from some of my fello members at rnp that you want to merge? is this true? but my opion is not to join up right now we both have just started so we really need to get off the ground first but mabey we could do join bats,lots, maps ect.

[Simen 1]

ok, sounds good. I will start LOTing whatever you want me to LOT when I come home to my own comp.

EDIT! Also I dont have YIM, but whoever of you has msn, send me your email and I will add you!

[Glenni 1,447]

Could i join?would be fun maybe.i can bat but i have absolutely no experience with making the lots growable plopable etc......YEAH i KNOW pretty embarrasing.....

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=bat&category=default&sortby=DatePosted&show=12&Str=Glenni

 

 heres all my bats i released .good enough?all the modding  was done by either swamper77 or Suico(one of them by barbyw from BSC).Also are u allowed to make whatever building from whatever continent?as i would liek to try recreating alot of norwegian buildings.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

hello you may pass the Gmail addy to anyone of the team members. All emails should be sent there.

 

I am not sure what your all working on so If you need anything just ask. I am still working on my LOTR Region and my LOTR bats. I will be happy to make anything. Needs to be within my memory for my Pc or My other person who I have render stuff. Otherwise anything is fine.

 

Need a lot made ask also I can whip those up in an hour.

 

Also

 

I don't use yahoo I use MSN as allmost all people whome I talk to from here or Sim Mars Team uses MSN. or windows messenger...

 

 

Also

 

I need someone to make me a Sig that will incorportate my LOTR sig as well as My Sim Mars along with this team.

 

also If anyone wants to make me a icon for the Stex will be fine also.

 

Thanks in advance

Lynks

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Got some bad news.

 

Just got some news from a family member and there is a virus alert for all windows versions from Windows 3.1 to XP...

 

Below is the full Artical. I will be offline till the update is done on my machine as I do not want a virus I would suggest the same for all windows based PC's

 

Lynks

 

 

Main page content:

Computer security experts were grappling with the threat of a new weakness in Microsoft

[pepsi71ocean 2]

I wouldn't mind,

 

i sent two mails, one back to you at SYM-Pro and the opther to that e-mail address at yahoo. the yahoo is inactive or closed. I hope you got my other one. please tell me if you did.

 

EDIT: I just heard about the system vaurnibility. and as musch as it sounds like crap it is some what true. my frien (not linked to the Phoenix Network) asked me to come and check his comp. it was a long drive like 15 min away anyways he had a new brand of spyware. i am still workin gon removing it. by hand.

 

pmiller19574
Can you giveme the link for this article? I checked the Microsoft website and it doesn't seem to exist.

 

EDIT: It is true but it only exist via WMF files. that is what i though, and Jason my friend said.  just remember this, any file besides a bmp should look small! if it is larger than others and yet small in resoulution than take heed!

 

pmiller19574: thank you for the link!

John

[Simen 1]

Virus alert? well good thing Im not on my comp then. anyways, what I am working on? well, when I get home, glenni and I are thinking about starting a project on BATing oslo buildings. so if glenni gets recruited, we would have another recreating thread!!!

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0d644d5e-7bb3-11da-ab8e-0000779e2340.html #

here is the link

 

lynks

 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Yes, I've read of this security risk. Well, there's already a fix for it, and Microsoft has announced to include an official fix in the patches that will become available the next patch day, which is due on Jan, 11.

[Glenni 1,447]

Date: 1/4/2006 5:07:47 AM Author: Simen Virus alert? well good thing Im not on my comp then. anyways, what I am working on? well, when I get home, glenni and I are thinking about starting a project on BATing oslo buildings. so if glenni gets recruited, we would have another 'recreating' thread!!!

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got news!i am recruited!hehe

[underworld 131]

@Glenni: Welcome to the team, Glenni.

@The others: So where do we go from here? Who directs the team? Who do we send our files to? Who puts some kind of structure into the group?

I know, alot of questions, but I think that a group needs some kind of structure to function properly.
What are your thoughts on this??

Underworld.

[Sc4mayor_Gabz08 5]

SYM Prod. I wanna be a tester. Cdy i'll send you an e-mail on it.

[Simen 1]

can I possibly get my STEX watermark by tomorrow?

[underworld 131]

I have a suggestion:

I have a own forum with an exchange. I can open a new section specially for SYM Prod. This can be usefull to keep different topics together. Here on simtrop, there are 3 different SYM Prod topics that i know of but they are all over the place.
My forum is very small, so we as a group can communicate easier without comments of others.

I could make a range of topics for SYM Prod. like 'ideas, requests.', 'bats in progress', bats ready for the loteditor', 'lots in progress', etc.

My exchange could be used for exchanging bats and lots between batter, lotter and modder.

We could open a thread on simtrop for our latest released bat, etc.

What do you guys think??

Underworld.

[Trackersnip 2]

I am about to upload 2 buildings after they get lotted and modded.

[Fantail 0]

I guess that would be a good idea... Ok, there is one thing that we can do, as a new team with so many members, eventually, the team is going to have to expel inactive members. But we will see who has been doing stuff. I think (IMHO) that each member should make a SYM (member's name) thread so people can find it if you are a batter.

Also, is someone doing banners?


I want to get this cleared out:

who writes the readme's? and i think we should make a standard readme template so we will have organized information like other big bat teams out there.

One that has the building name, stats like number of ocupents, stage, tileset, water/power consumed, credits... so on. I know i have no autority on this team, but this is just suggestion to the founding leaders of the team.

Finally, should releases have the title SYM so when people search SYM, they will find all bats made by our members?

O yeah, one more thing, all of these requests are just ways i think that will make our team organized, efficient, and with standards. Wouldn't it be cool if all our productions had the SYM Productions thing in the readme? or with easy to access info? Both ndex and bsc do that so we can find info quickly, and i hope that we could do that also.

Ok, i'm done.

[jessyka who? 1]

I have pretty good experience with the Lot Editor, and excellent experience with SimCity 4 itself. I could imagine I would be able to do some Lot work, along with test work. If I give you my word that I can get something done, it will be done. However, I don't always have all the time in the world, and may not be able to help out at every offer. I hope my status is needed!

[SYM Productions 7]

Hello all current members of SYM Productions!

I am currently travelling and have sent you a PM to update my status and the status of the team.

 

Jessyka, your lotting abilities are certainly welcome!  I'm travelling right now but I will be able to organize your entry to the team as soon as I come back home next week.

 

I think I will close the recruitment for now while SYM Productions gets organized, then we might reopen recruitment, depending on lacking positions.  Thank you for considering joining SYM Productions, and you will probably have the chance to eventually.

 

Members have my permission to use this thread to meet each other and discuss the organization of the team.

 

- CDI_spy , proud SYM Productions team leader

[RebaLynnTS 276]

Just wanted to say thank you for inviting me to join the team. I see I am listed as a Part-time Batter, works for me. I have no RL responsibilities to speak of (except my two cats), so I have lots of time to play around with. As many of you may know I am currently developing the LA River Project, and I am also still doing work on new U Store It - BATs/LOTs. I am also thinking of doing a series on New Orleans Architecture.

[mattb325 28,891]

Hey everyone! Great to be here

 

Fantail - I reckon the idea of getting some standard stuff is a brilliant idea - it means that the people who download SYM stuff know it's good, won't crash your game and it will do what it says it does.

 

Also, once we get that stuff happening, might be nice to have a non-postable thread (if that's possible) which just serves as an index to some base dependency files that SYM has on the STEX...I don't know if anyone's seen it, but there was a bit of an amusing tiff-war (along the lines of we love your work, please don't take this the wrong way, but..., blah, blah, blah) thread happening about dependency files for lots on another thread...

 

I know someone would have to update it for each release, so it's just a thought...

Cheers,

Matt

[Fantail 0]

Cool, so thta everyone knows who i am, i am a sophmore in high school and started batting a few weeks ago, so far i haven't released anything, but you will see one soon.

I would like to meet other Batters here on this team.

We will have to leave it up to the leaders to decide if they wanna do that, i was only making suggestions, i found that to be a good thing to have in a big team, and efficientcy is very important too. We need many modders to avoid having the problem with equinox of NDEX having when there was many BATTers and equinox as the sole modder.

And the stats of buildings have to match real life settings or maxis standards, you don't want a small house using up 50% of your power would you?

I will try to help out as much as i can if the leaders allow me to.

[mattb325 28,891]

Hey Fantail. I'm a batter...started with gmax 18th December (Sydney Australia Time - even though today is the 4th Jan in the US it is the 5th of Jan here!)

Total newbie. Took me a couple of days to figure it out, and still learning how to do stuff, but rather than load the first thing I made to STEX and cop a slamming, I posted a thread, people were good enough to stop by and help, tell me where I was going wrong, what articles to read and so on and my first upload actually went really well.

 

Mostly interested in older australian domestic buildings (from about 1820 - 1940, after that it's largely the same as other countries)

 

Rebalynn...wondered how you could churn out so much stuff...looking forward to LA river...actually (and I know I should post on your thread, but hey...)

 

I was testing some of my little R$ houses in game before release, so I had lots of filthy industry and I noticed on one of the Maxis buildings - the large copper factory I think, there is roof tank with putrid water that is also semi-translucent and would possibly tile OK. It's not a texture that's in the standard GMAX files, but I'm sure you could get hold of it somehow)

 

Also, looking forward to the New Orleans stuff - some of the old Bourbon St buildings are reminiscent of Sydney corner stores (shady lace covered verandahs).

 

Matt

[Fantail 0]

Hi, if you have any questions, i could try to answer them, i am good with working with splines, but meshes i'm kinda bad on. I know how to make a basic skyscraper or houses. I'm currently working on a building:

Btw, if this is the wrong thread for the picture, i will immediatly remove it.



I'm not finished yet, but the windows are almost finished and i'm going to fix the roof.

I don't have that much time on weekdays since i am a student with homework.

[SYM Productions 7]

Great work guys... this is a time when I'll be a bit more free so I might be posting a bit more than I thought... anyways I'm glad you're already socializing a bit, I for one will be going over to Underworld's forum to check it out...

 

- CDI_spy , proud leader of SYM Productions

[Fantail 0]

Cool, btw, have we met the other leaders of SYM? I seem to only see you cdi_spy.

i think we should chat in the ST chat, all members, well those who can at a given time.

[Glenni 1,447]

well.........

 

this is all the finsihed but not rendered stuff i have currently.

 

a corner store building

1960's office building

 

 

 

this one is actually done and rendered. but not modded or anything.

 

 

this one aint finished yet but i can finish it

 

well thats what i have for now.

 

 

[SYM Productions 7]

@Fantail: Yatagan_L is just sometimes online, and Mat_lab only visited Simtropolis, or at least the forums, just twice, and I'm almost always free but I recruited you guys so that SYM Productions could expand and I wouldn't have to work as hard at batting but things would still get released.  So I hope that once we get all this organization out of the way that I'll just become part of the team like Dusk, Equinox, and the other NDEX initiators are.

Due to the nature of our organization, everyone is on at the same time, so I would tend to say that every SYM member should register to  Underworld's forum so that we can have general planning conversations out of the public eye, as it were , and with everyone's input but without crowding the Simtropolis forums with endless organizational threads.   Than we can come up with a clear system of Simtropolis thread-making so that we can have regular batting updates for our Simtropolis fans.

 

@Glenni: That is looking absolutely fantastic!  But if you like, you can release right away anything you have finished, under your name, until we get a clear sense of our planning and organization.

 

- CDI_spy , proud leader of SYM Productions