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Hello Members!

We are offering prizes for entries in the Game Guide. Interested? Here are the rules:
1. We offer various prizes for the completion of various portions of the Game Guide that are lacking.
2. To be eligible, the Guide section(s) you write must conform to the following:
2.a. Be formatted (HTML) similarly to the current Guide
2.b. Use FAF-specific names (such as Mice), but NEVER in singular, such as Mouse. Always use names that you see in FAF, such as Mice. This is so that we can customize the guide for other naming schemes.
2.c. Be informative on three levels:
2.c.i. To someone glancing through for general information.
2.c.ii. Provide information to the last detail on how to use a feature and what it does. Do NOT leave out any feature on the page you are working on.
2.c.iii. Do NOT have to contain strategy information. Just describe how to interact with the game, not how to play it.
3. If you submit a Guide section we have not requested, your entry will be ignored.
4. If you need a formula (for example, how much can be stored in Treasury), but don't quite know where to find it, just post a request in the Help forum, and we'll answer it in a timely fashion. Places to look before: old guide, Features, source code.
5. If we don't like your first submission, we will send it back to you with a short note on what to improve. Don't be discouraged! Just change it, and re-submit it.

<!--c1--></div><pre>                Feature                            Prize
The Map                                        Admin, 6 days
Hawks (new missions and new interface)         Admin, 6 days
Clan Forum                                     Admin, 5 days
Clans (general clan information, Open Clans)   Admin, 5 days
Attacking (new attacks, rename, declare war,   Admin, 5 days
declare peace, Experience, Food/Cash, etc.)
Clan Manage                                    Admin, 4 days
Stock Market                                   Admin, 4 days
Profiles (also the fact they are linked        Moderator, 1 week
everywhere in the game
Bounties                                       Moderator, 1 week
Messaging System                               Moderator, 1 week
Turn Use (Scout, Trade, Forage, Train          Moderator, 4 days
Write, Heal) -- one page
Must also include general things like
the output of one turn, turn cond., etc.
Clan Treasury                                  Moderator, 6 days
Main Page (new stuff, stats, colors)           Moderator, 6 days
Status Page                                    Moderator, 6 days
Clan Criers                                    Moderator, 5 days
Market (rename, commission, checkboxes,        Moderator, 4 days
condensation in turns)
Build & Demolish                               Moderator, 3 days
Manage Screen (include Leave Protection)       Moderator, 3 days
Scores page (rename, and new features)         Moderator, 3 days
Status Bar Colors, Protection Counter          Moderator, 2 days
Game Chat (include private messages)           Moderator, 2 days
Heroes                                         Moderator, 2 days
News System (condensation, online star)        Moderator, 2 days
Raffle                                         Pick Own Title
Bazaar (mostly rename + checkboxes)            Pick Own Title
Bank (mostly just rename)                      Pick Own Title
Aid (mostly rename + checkboxes)               Pick Own Title
Locations                                      Pick Own Title</pre><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->


If you win several prizes, you will get their lenghts added together!
In addition, your name will be mentioned in FAF's credits for doing any of the above.

<b>Please send entries (as HTML attachments) and questions to jbarbero+faf@gmail.com!

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Post by Shadow »

Do we actually need to include any HTML? Some would require it, but others?
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I can't think of a page that wouldn't.
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if somone has a written description thingy i can put it into a html page if you e-mail/pm me it...
e-mail address: admin@slashersgames.cjb.net (NO SPAMMING PLEASE!)
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Yes. Also make sure you use Promisance's standard (just look at the HTML of the current Guide).
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ok i can do that if somone sends me the sectuion as standard text... i would do it but i have them dreaded GCSE exams soon grr they are stressing me out *laughs*
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Yeah. Anyways you can always contribute after the exams too.
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i can and will do if all of it hasn't already been done


im off now back tomorrow time for bed *laughs* its 11:54pm here
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i wish i could do some html, so i would fix some bugs, unfortunatly i cant help..sorry
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Scorpion wrote: i wish i could do some html, so i would fix some bugs, unfortunatly i cant help..sorry
you could help by writing a section of the guide and send it to me so i can put it into the HTML game guide style if you wanted :)
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I could write a great guide.. but I have no CLUE about wrinting in html. If someone could translate my wrinting in html for me, I could give you guys an entire guide in a week. I certainly know enough about Prom games to write a good one. Any volunteers? And I wouldn't even take a reward for it.
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Slasher wrote:
Scorpion wrote: i wish i could do some html, so i would fix some bugs, unfortunatly i cant help..sorry
you could help by writing a section of the guide and send it to me so i can put it into the HTML game guide style if you wanted :)
ill what section i can take...
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Post by windhound »

hawks are ~ done

Bealtes, put up some sort of template (with image files) or somthin so we have somthin to go off of..
you said what I gave you needed work, and, well, it does.. but I donno how else that I would do that other than grab the source and edit that...

if nothin else I could go download faf source and sort though that.. *shrugs* I'll poke it later...
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Post by Veranor »

Gen. Volkov wrote: I could write a great guide.. but I have no CLUE about wrinting in html. If someone could translate my wrinting in html for me, I could give you guys an entire guide in a week. I certainly know enough about Prom games to write a good one. Any volunteers? And I wouldn't even take a reward for it.
Yes please.
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OK Vera. I'll start tomorrow. PM you the writings, and you'll transform them in html for me. Sound good?
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