Official PR Magazine

[ghoststorm11]

Do it twice a year. This could be a powerful recruiting tool....

[T.Nightingale]

I agree its a great idea but its alot of work.
You can use it as recruiting, advertisement, revenue.
And you can make it downloadable as a pdf and produce it to subscribers you just have to have a manufacturer and a provider in each country and it can get mailed out. Chuck it in some game stores. Again shouldn't be big or expensive just lots of free interesting stuff great pics and many pages about stories from the front.

[Tahanatos]

Well I would be up for it writing reports on clanwars and creating other articles.

You can sign me up for it.

BTW in which format would the magazine come. Printed would be ridiculous. How about PDF?

[dtacs]

You need to set the leadership of this before you get going.

You're going to need to have people who know how to use programs like illustrator to develop the pages and people with PS knowledge to actually make headers and whatnot. On top of this you'll need someone to proof read it and an editor who can run it past the devs (or the PR management team) to make sure that you're not sending out the wrong message. Someone to manage the actual pages will be needed as well as it can't just be a dogs breakfast.

If you want to do this unofficially first thing you'll want to do is get a recruitment/discussion thread for suggestions and whatnot, to avoid cluttering the forums just get a free one up on one of those free forum websites.

I suggest those who are interested in the project get on vent or something and start brainstorming some ideas. Don't just wait for someone to step up otherwise all of this discussion will be worth nothing.

[Tahanatos]

Well leadership to they guy who got the idea?!
And I thought a magazine for a mod would have to be free anyway, because asking money for something that u wrote about something that is free and required a lot more time than your writing doesnt seem fair.

And I think in the age of the Internet it should not be that hard to create a good looking Magazine and in case photoshop skills are needed one could always ask u dtacs right?

[stealth420]

not to mention the centerfold of the haji prostitutes : )

[Tahanatos]

Originally Posted by stealth420

not to mention the centerfold of the haji prostitutes : )

centerfold? NOW WE ARE TALKING

[Bringerof_D]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]AfterDune

^_^


(there's a hidden ninja in this post! )

I WANT! for 2012...what? if it's going to be the last year might as well see it off with an awesome calender!

as for the magazine idea, sounds cool but again gonna be lots of work. maybe twice a year. both will have stories from the front, in game screenshots, video links, etc. once in January or February to showcase upcoming works along with upcoming events. and one in October or November to talk about the advances made this past year, the events and results of said events being the main feature. a definite must would be a BUGS ALERT section where the page backgrounds are screenies of hilarious bugs with stories of the bug happenings in the text.

[dtacs]

Originally Posted by Tahanatos

Well leadership to they guy who got the idea?!
And I thought a magazine for a mod would have to be free anyway, because asking money for something that u wrote about something that is free and required a lot more time than your writing doesnt seem fair.

And I think in the age of the Internet it should not be that hard to create a good looking Magazine and in case photoshop skills are needed one could always ask u dtacs right?

I'm not as good as other people on the forums.

It would have to be free, and I suggest it being bi-annual (2 per year) or bi-monthly. And there is no way that it would be payed for, would be a 100% free download pdf file. There isn't a release of PR often so it couldn't be monthly really as there isn't enough content to put in.

The only regular columns that could be put in (that I can think of) are

• Tales from the front
• Server review
• Guides on how to play with a kit or squad lead etc.
• Dev interview (psychicks ones could be put in perhaps?)
• Screenshot
• Model/WIP asset updates

Then there are actual articles which could be stuff like the changing face of how PR is played from rushing to just noobs running around to coordinated assaults, a PR timeline or whatever and major changes (from past to present) the list goes on really, all depends on peoples creativity and writing ability.

Its an alright idea, but it is reinventing the wheel (forums) somewhat.

[Tahanatos]

Yeah of course a lot of this stuff can bve found in the forums, but the Magazine could do two things with it:
1. summarize: there are 1 billion threats on how people liked the changes in 0.9 and till now there is no place where critic and praise are combined

2. most fourm posting is done by just typing the stuff that comes into peoples minds at the time and when someone takes the time to wrap all of it up he can reflectr on the issue much better.

On top of that the magazin could do stuff the forums dont deliver yet like game reports on clanwars and interviews With DEVs CONs and Clanleaders